Paradigm Shifting to Early Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Early diagnosis and treatment outcomes

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory progressive disease which in the absence of appropriate treatment can lead to joint destruction and disability. Prognosis of RA may be predicted based on the presence of some clinical and laboratory evidences.New criteria for classification of RA provides opportunity for earlier treatment. Initiation of treatment particularly by combination of DMARDs...

rheumatoid arthritis: early diagnosis and treatment outcomes

rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is an inflammatory progressive disease which in the absence of appropriate treatment can lead to joint destruction and disability. prognosis of ra may be predicted based on the presence of some clinical and laboratory evidences.new criteria for classification of ra provides opportunity for earlier treatment. initiation of treatment particularly by combination of dmards...

Treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis

Glucocorticoid treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis.

Glucocorticoids (GCs) have been an invaluable tool in the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for decades, with a focus mainly on symptom management. In addition, several studies in the last 15 years have shown that GCs are also disease-modifying in patients with RA - which implies that they inhibit radiographic progression. These effects seem to be especially important in the ...

Combination treatment strategies in early rheumatoid arthritis.

Combinations of disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are increasingly being used in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) when long term results with sequential DMARD monotherapy are disappointing. Combination DMARD therapy may be more effective than monotherapy, and has no additional short term adverse events. The evidence for using combination DMARD therapy is still weak, ho...