Arthritis

Arthritis
Definition:
Arthritis is inflammation of one or more joints, which results in pain, swelling, and limited movement.
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Arthritis: Inflammation of a joint. When joints are inflamed they can develop stiffness, warmth, swelling, redness and pain. There are over 100 types of arthritis.
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Arthritis pain can be frustrating. And so is sorting through your pain relief options. To help you figure out the best means of relieving your arthritis pain, Gene Hunder, M.D.
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ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS - A systemic disease, seen more commonly in women which affects connective tissue, particularly the synovial tissue within joints.
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Arthritis, gout: Joint inflammation caused by uric acid crystal deposits in the joint space. An attack is usually extremely painful. The uric acid crystals are deposited in the joint fluid (synovial fluid) and joint lining (synovial lining).
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Arthritis
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painful inflammation of a joint or joints of the body, usually producing heat and redness. There are many kinds of arthritis. In its various forms, arthritis disables more people than any other chronic disorder.
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Arthritis affects each person differently. It may attack one or more joints suddenly or gradually and may be constant and progressive or seem to come and go.
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Arthritis, itself a group of more than 100 different diseases, is one category of rheumatic diseases.
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Arthritis can occur in males and females of all ages. About 37 million people in America have arthritis of some kind, which is almost 1 out of every 7 people. In people over 55 years of age, women are more likely to suffer from osteoarthritis.
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Arthritis Arthritis Basics
What is Psoriatic Arthritis?
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Arthritis Foundation. Types of surgery. 2002.
University of Washington Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. Basics of surgery for arthritis. No date given.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Total Joint Replacement. 2000.
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RA; Arthritis - rheumatoid
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
The cause of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is unknown. However, RA involves an attack on the body by its own immune cells (auto-immune disease). Different cases may have different causes.
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Arthritis
Dr Rob Hicks
If you think arthritis is something only old people suffer with, think again. Of the estimated 8 million arthritis sufferers in the UK, about 1 million are under 50-years-old, and almost 15,000 are children.
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Psoriatic Arthritis Overview
Psoriatic arthritis is a specific condition in which a person has both psoriasis and arthritis. Psoriasis is a common condition. A person with psoriasis generally has patches of raised red skin with scales.
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Arthritis and Sexuality
How does arthritis affect sexuality?
Arthritis is a chronic illness that causes joint pain, inflammation or redness of joints, and fever. It can change the way you feel about yourself. It may increase your dependence on others.
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Arthritis, Juvenile Rheumatoid
JRA is the most common type of childhood arthritis. The illness commonly strikes children between the ages of two and four years. For unknown reasons, JRA is more common in girls than in boys.
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Arthritis mutilans - This is the most severe and rarest form of psoriatic arthritis. In this form, the fingers shorten because of destruction of the joints and nearby bones.
Some people have symptoms of more than one type of psoriatic arthritis.
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Arthritis is a common complaint of ageing, but it can also affect younger people. This section covers risk factors, treatment and prevention.
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Osteoarthritis affects movable synovial joints. In these joints, the ends of the bones are covered with cartilage, a durable substance that allows the bones to glide over each other with minimal friction and absorbs force applied to the joints.
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Osteoarthritis is most common in older people. Although you cannot cure arthritis, there are many treatments that can help with your pain and make it easier for you to move. And you can do things to keep the damage from getting worse.
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Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic inflammation of the joints that occurs in some people with a chronic skin and nail condition known as psoriasis. Psoriasis causes flare-ups of raised patches of skin covered with silvery scales.
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Psoriatic arthritis
Definition
Psoriatic arthritis is a form of arthritic joint disease associated with the chronic skin scaling and fingernail changes seen in psoriasis.
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Arthritis is the inflammation and swelling of a joint, and it may result from several underlying conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis or, more commonly, osteoarthritis.
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Arthritis is a general term for a number of painful conditions of the joints and bones.3 It means 'inflammation of the joints'.
What is osteoarthritis?
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Arthritis. About 80 percent of people with HSP have pain and swelling in their joints, usually in the knees and ankles, less frequently in the elbows and wrists.
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Osteoarthritis may develop later in life. This complication may be minimized with early recognition and proper treatment of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease.
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- osteoarthritis: recommended starting dose, 12.5mg once daily; maximum recommended dose, 50mg once daily
- acute pain and primary dysmenorrhea: recommended initial dose, 50mg; subsequent doses, 50mg once daily as needed.
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A form of arthritis caused by deposits of uric acid crystals in the joints, usually the feet, hands and, especially, the big toe.
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Rheumatoid arthritis
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Among the disorders that often improve with corticosteroid treatment are asthma , allergic rhinitis , eczema and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Bovine (cow) cartilage and shark cartilage have been investigated as treatments for cancer, psoriasis, arthritis, and a number of other medical conditions for more than 30 years.
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Medications that cause bone loss: - The long-term use of glucocorticoids (medications prescribed for a wide range of diseases, including arthritis, asthma, Crohn's disease, lupus, and other diseases of the lungs, kidneys, and liver) can lead to a ...
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These include glucocorticoids which are used to control diseases such as arthritis and asthma, some antiseizure drugs, certain sleeping pills, some hormones used to treat endometriosis, and some cancer drugs.
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A substance that is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and is being studied in the treatment of cancer. Anakinra blocks the action of interleukin 1 (IL-1). It belongs to the family of drugs called interleukin receptor antagonists.
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Other causes include injury to the jaw, stress, poorly fitting dentures, and arthritis. The condition is sometimes the result of a ""bite'' problem in which your upper and lower jaw are not lined up correctly.
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For this cellular type, this mechanisms might be elicited during arthritis but they are also involved in normal processes of tissue morphogenesis and remodeling (implantation, bone morphogenesis, mammary gland involution) and also in pathological ...
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In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved Celecoxib, previously approved for the treatment of individuals with arthritis, to be used in conjunction with the usual therapy for individuals with FAP.
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