Protective Effect of Traumatic Lesions on Rheumatoid Arthritis

Effect of Islamic Fasting on the Severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory peripheral polyarthritis with unclear etiology. RA usually leads to joint deformity and cartilage destruction in joints of RA patients. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Islamic fasting on RA (rheumatoid arthritis) severity. Methods: A total number of 28 RA patients in an obser...

Effects of Rheumatoid Arthritis on the Larynx

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to compare the videolaryngostroboscopic findings between patients with rheumatoid arthritis and vocally healthy controls.   Materials and Methods: This case-control descriptive study was performed on 113 people, including 50 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 63 controls. The participants were subjected to videolaryngost...

Protective effect of gold rings and rheumatoid arthritis.

I found the article of Mulherin and colleagues regarding a presumably protective eVect of gold rings against articular erosions in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) very interesting, but it surely raises more problems than it can solve. A few years ago we published a similar observation that contradicts the hypothesis that the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint of the left ring finger would have remained ...

Heel lesions of rheumatoid arthritis.

Two lesions affecting the heel in rheumatoid arthritis have received little or no attention of recent years: one involves the plantar surface of the calcaneus and the calcaneal spur, and the other the synovial bursa between the insertion of the Achilles tendon into the calcaneus and the calcaneus itself. This note is designed primarily to draw attention to the sub-Achilles lesion, since it may ...

Tendon Lesions in Rheumatoid Arthritis.