We reviewed published literature regarding the use of yoga for managing rheumatoid arthritis to determine whether adequate evidence exists to suggest its usefulness as a therapy. A search for previous studies involving yoga and rheumatoid arthritis in PubMed yielded eight reports. These studies reported the benefits of yoga in the physical and mental health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis...

Recent clinical studies of rheumatoid arthritis reveal that therapeutic intervention early in rheumatoid arthritis leads to less joint damage, indicating the importance of early diagnosis of RA for improvement of prognosis. According to the data of our "Early Arthritis Prospective Cohort", we have found that early arthritis patients, described as undifferentiated arthritis, progress to rheumato...

Because of our longitudinal studies of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in young adults'06'210211 we have been asked to compare the findings in males with Reiter's syndrome (RS) with those in patients with seronegative RA or arthritis of unknown diagnosis. Patients and methods We present the results of a preliminary analysis of the cases of 38 younger males first diagnosed as having arthritis be...

PURPOSE To correlate the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies and rheumatoid factor (RF) with ocular symptoms typical of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS The records of 451 patients who had been examined by an ophthalmologist and tested for anti-CCP antibodies over a 3-year period at the Mayo Clinic were reviewed. Records of 255 patients with titers of anti-CC...

Autoimmune diseases are diseases associated with dysfunction of the human immune system, which perceives its own tissues as foreign and damaging it. Such diseases are called systemic, because, as a rule, affects the whole system or even the entire body. The incidence of autoimmune rheumatic diseases and their prevalence is sufficiently large in the world. The most common among the adult populat...

BACKGROUND Internalised stigma is theorized to be the internalisation and legitimisation of stereotypes of the diagnosis held in society and has not been quantified within patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. This study aimed to: validate a modified version of a measure of internalised stigma, (the Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness scale, ISMI) for use in a group of patients diagnosed with r...

Rheumatoid arthritis, a systemic inflammatory disease, may induce pulmonary manifestations. We describe a case of longstanding RA presenting with eosinophilic pneumonia. Rare case reports of tissue eosinophilia involving isolated organs in the setting of rheumatoid arthritis exist in the literature. It has been shown that the production of proinflammatory cytokines activates different cell grou...

Autoimmune diseases are diseases associated with dysfunction of the human immune system, which perceives its own tissues as foreign and damaging it. Such diseases are called systemic, because, as a rule, affects the whole system or even the entire body. The incidence of autoimmune rheumatic diseases and their prevalence is sufficiently large in the world. The most common among the adult populat...

Several excellent reviews have recently been published on the significance of autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (1-4). Here we: (i) review selected longitudinal studies examining the predictive utility of autoantibodies in early arthritis and early RA cohorts; (ii) assess the relevance of autoantibodies as an independent parameter for prediction and prognostication of RA; and (iii) de...

vitamin d3 has a role in many autoimmune diseases and appears to play a function in controlling rheumatoid arthritis (ra). the aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between serum level of vitamin d and ra disease activity score. the serum level of vitamin d in 75 ra patients referred to the rheumatology clinic of rasoul-akram hospital was measured. patients were classified into low,...