Referral of chronic arthritics.

Emotional reactions of rheumatoid arthritics to ACTH.

i H E IMPORTANT RELATION between rheumatoid arthritis and the emotional life of the patient has been widely reported. Little has been written, however, regarding the emotional reactions of arthritics undergoing ACTH therapy. This paper reports a study of the personality pattern of these patients before treatment with ACTH and the changes in these patterns during treatment and after withdrawal o...

Dermal connective tissue permeability in rheumatoid arthritics.

Previous studies indicate that the transfer of proteins and other substances between synovial fluid and blood is more extensive for rheumatoid arthritics than for normal persons (Harris, Millard, and Banerjee, 1958; Platt, Holley, and Pigman, 1957; Michelazzi, 1943). The protein concentration in synovial fluid is also higher for rheumatoid arthritics than for healthy individuals (Platt and othe...

Chronic kidney disease: screening, follow-up and referral.

The intrafamilial transmission of rheumatoid arthritis. IV. Recalled parent-child relations by rheumatoid arthritics and controls.

THE PURPOSE of this report is to describe how persons having rheumatoid arthritis differ from unaffected controls in their recall of early parent+hild relations. The hypotheses examined in this study were mainly derived from research presented in several major reviews [l-3], as well as from case reports [4-61. Cross-reference to research articles shows that findings specifically describing pare...

The comparative incidence of malignant disease in rheumatoid arthritics exposed to different treatment regimens.

Cytotoxic drugs are effective in disease suppression and affect the immune system. The correlation between these is poor, in many patients, at the dosage used in man. This may partly explain why the large increased risk of neoplasia, initially predicted, has not been shown to follow the use of cytotoxic therapy. The cause of death in patients with rheumatoid arthritis has been assessed both by ...