Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic autoimmune disorder that predominantly affects females of childbearing age and is involved with inflammation in multiple organ systems. SLE can ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with inflammatory polyarthritis who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen do not appear to have an excess risk of dying from ...

Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis (MRH) is a rare systemic disorder that manifests predominantly as severe, erosive polyarthritis and distinctive papulonodular skin lesions. The condition is ...

Canine immune-mediated polyarthritis and steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA) are inflammatory disorders that predominantly affect young to middle-aged dogs. Immune-mediated polyarthritis is ...

Diagnosis of RA follows the 1987 American Rheumatism Association criteria. Criteria for RA diagnosis are shown in Table 1. Rheumatoid factor is felt to be less useful in diagnosing RA in this ...