(n.) Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(3) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(4) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
(5) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(6) Immune arthritis in sensitized rabbits was induced by intraarticular injection of bovine serum albumin.
(7) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(8) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(9) Type II includes the Sjögren's syndrome, rhumatoid arthritis, primary biliary cirrhosis, scleroderma and autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(10) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) The baseline serum hyaluronate (HA) concentration from samples obtained five to seven hours after mobilization of the patient was quantified using a radiometric 125I-HA binding method in 58 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and compared with several clinical and laboratory parameters by means of stepwise multiple linear regression.
(12) There was no association between testicular dysfunction and the presence of extra-articular features of rheumatoid arthritis.
(13) This experimental study shows that vitamin A in high doses has an adjuvant effect, that is aggravating considerably the immunologic arthritis induced in the Wistar rat.
(14) There are general problems with the ways in which coping has been conceptualized and measured by researchers evaluating stress and coping, and there are problems more specific to the ways coping concepts and measures have been used to study patients with arthritis.
(15) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(16) The average was 64 points for patients who had rheumatoid arthritis and 83 points for those who had another diagnosis.
(17) We speculate that intestinal injury may also induce or perpetuate arthritis by systemic distribution of inflammatory mediators produced by intestinal immune effector cells.
(18) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
(19) Four episodes each of myasthenia gravis and pemphigus occurred in our patients; both were reported rarely in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(20) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Bursitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of a bursa.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common cause of acute pain in the nontraumatized shoulder is calcific tendonitis or bursitis readily identified by plain film radiography.
(2) An operation for chronic prepatellar bursitis is described in which only the posterior wall of the bursa is excised, thus preserving, undamaged, healthy and normally sensitive skin.
(3) Causes of shoulder pain include supraspinatus tendinitis (the most common), bicipital tendinitis, impingement syndromes, supraspinatus rupture, subacromial bursitis, arthritis, frozen shoulder, and various conditions that refer pain to the shoulder.
(4) The effectiveness of immunity was studied following a mixed vaccination with live vaccines against infectious bronchitis (strains H120 and H52), Newcastle disease (strain La Sota), and infectious bursitis (strain Th75Vn82).
(5) Fifteen cases of acute gouty bursitis were seen among 136 crystal-proved cases of gout.
(6) The symptoms of carpal boss may result from an overlying ganglion or bursitis, an exterior tendon slipping over this bony prominence, or from osteoarthritic changes at this site.
(7) The histologic morphologic lesion diagnosis for Cryptosporidium sp.-infected bursas most often was marked diffuse chronic-active superficial purulent protozoal bursitis with mucosal epithelial hyperplasia.
(8) An operation for chronic olecranon bursitis is described and the results of 11 cases reviewed.
(9) Tenoxicam administered orally, rectally or parenterally is an effective analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent for the symptomatic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and various rheumatic conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, sciatica, back pain and gouty arthritis.
(10) Bursitis, salpingitis, and ovario-bursal adhesions were the most prevalent abnormalities.
(11) The most frequent injuries were prepatellar bursitis, lateral and medial sprains, and lateral and medial meniscal tears.
(12) These problems include: painful trochanteric bursitis, displacement of trochanter, non-union of trochanter, broken wires and, an increase in dislocation rate (12% as compared to 4%).
(13) Twelve patients continued to have symptoms months or years after the infection, particularly those with preexisting chronic bursitis, or those who kneeled at work.
(14) Trochanteric bursitis is a common complication of lumbosacral strain, frequently mimicking radiculopathy.
(15) Concerning insurance medical reports on posttraumatic bursitis the histological findings hold an important position.
(16) Two virus strains which had been suspected to be the etiological agents of infectious bursitis (Gumboro disease) and of inclusion body hepatitis of chickens were characterized by their morphology, their peptide composition and the segmented genome of their double-stranded RNA to be typical reoviruses.
(17) Septic arthritis recurred in seven patients, osteomyelitis in three and pyomyositis and bursitis each occurred in one patient.
(18) Bursitis A bursa was located on the inferior surface of the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis brevis.
(19) Iliopsoas bursitis is the classical manifestation of synovial cysts of the hip.
(20) Because metal implants do not induce formation of adventitious bursa, pain over an uncomplicated implant is not likely to be due to a bursitis.