Gout must be regarded as a systemic and chronic disease with potentially serious sequelae. Hyperuricemia is probably an independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, at least in high-risk indiv...
Viral arthritis are very frequent and usually self limited to a few weeks. The most common pathophysiological mechanism is immune complexes deposit and not a direct invasion of the synovium. The typic...
Rheumatoid arthritis occurs frequently in women in childbearing years. With the improvement of the treatments, more patients with rheumatoid arthritis consider a pregnancy. Close co-operation between ...
Reactive arthritis is a disease closely related to the presence of the HLA-B27 antigen and characterized by sterile joint inflammation secondary to infection. Arthritis is only one of the clinical man...
The sheep antibody repertoire was assessed by sequence analysis of Vlambda Vkappa and V(H) cDNA clones. In fetuses, all immunoglobulin chains were essentially in germline configuration, although limit...
Gout is a chronic disease, clearly progressing in incidence and prevalence, which threaten to pose a real problem of public health in the near future. Gout is to be understood for as the progression i...
What should be known in order to practice safely a joint aspiration and/or infiltration is summarized in the following article. This summary includes various aspects, such as the indications and contr...
Inflammatory back pain is more than just inflammatory pain, but a set of symptoms which presence must evoke a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis. However, it is insufficient by itself for a diagnosis...