Monday, 28 November 2022

Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Mimickers: A Review| Chapter 6 | Current Innovations in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 9

 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is ultimate common chronic angering arthritis associated with significant depression and physical disability in large number of sufferers. It has a wide clinical range, which varies from temperate joint symptoms to severe inflammation superior to joint damage with or without meaningful number of extra-articular manifestations. However, diagnosis of RA mainly relies on clinical performance but blood investigations and joint depict have significant supporting role in making the disease.  There are lots of clinical environments that may have similar performance like RA, which should without flaw be ruled out before labeling individual as having RA to avoid extravagant exposure to toxic DMARD medicine. Apart from these mimicking conditions, there are sure situations such as nonconforming presentations of RA; irrational steroid prescriptions disguising the clinical signs of RA, coexisting corpulence, which make the disease troublesome leading to unacceptable delay in the initiation of specific cure. The narratives of this review search out highlight these mimickers and their characteristic features distinctive them from RA, which grant permission help the clinicians to deal with RA patients in more effective manner and ruling out different affliction conditions carrying the related presentation. We understand that information of these conditions and their presentation, disease, and management may eventually improve patient outcomes.

Author(s) Details:

Vikram Singh Tanwar,
Department of Internal Medicine, SHKM Government Medical College, Nalhar, India.

Anjali Saini,
Dr. Kothari Eye Hospital, Udaipur, India.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CIMMS-V9/article/view/8783

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