Case 12-2023: A 44-Year-Old Woman with Muscle Weakness and Myalgia
A 44-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis was evaluated because of proximal muscle weakness and myalgia. She had difficulty raising her arms above her head. Diagnostic tests were performed.
A woman living with osteoarthritis: A case report
Osteoarthritis is a common condition that is typically associated with older adults. Other causes of osteoarthritis, such as those cases resulting from childhood Perthes disease, can affect younger people and frequently have a major impact on the lives of those affected. This case report describes the experiences of one patient with osteoarthritis, using examples of her poetry to illustrate ...
Case 19-2024: A 46-Year-Old Man with Arthritis and Rash
Presentation of Case Dr. Christopher V. Radcliffe (Medicine): A 46-year-old man was evaluated in the rheumatology clinic of this hospital because of arthritis and rash.
Case series: Monoarticular rheumatoid arthritis
Objective. Monoarticular presentation of rheumatoid arthritis is infrequent and has been previously reported to involve large joints such as the hip and knee joints. Here we report a case series of four patients presenting to the University of Michigan in 2015 with monoarticular rheumatoid arthritis, one with small and three with large joint ...
Case Study: Patient With RA Develops Dangerous Symptoms
In 2009, he was diagnosed with seropositive and erosive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associated with Sjögren's syndrome; the RA was being managed with methotrexate (25 mg/week). Physical examination ...
Case Studies
Case Study #1. You are seeing Betty, a 65-year-old woman, for the first time. Her reason for scheduling this appointment was to ask for advice regarding ibuprofen or glucosamine with chondroitin to help with "arthritis pain" in both her hands.
Case Study: Treatment-Resistant RA With Surprising Progression
One study found that with or without involvement of other joints, shoulder arthritis affected 12.6% of RA patients, with associated symptoms more commonly observed in patients over age 60. In a ...
Case Report: Hip osteoarthritis: patients with complex comorbidities
The outcomes of this case study suggest that patients with hip osteoarthritis and complex morbidity are able to exercise at higher levels than many health professionals would think, as long as they are assessed and supervised appropriately.
Case Study: 106-Year-Old Woman Suddenly Develops Rheumatoid Arthritis
Given the case report patient's age of 106, treatment decisions were complicated by the presence of comorbidities, even though her condition showed significant improvement using DMARDs, Al-Obaidi ...
Risk factors of knee osteoarthritis: A case-control study
Background and Objective: Knee osteoarthritis is one of the most common rheumatologic problems. To investigate risk factors related to the knee osteoarthritis a case-control study was performed using cases diagnosed in the Community Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD) study, stage I.
Case Study 2: Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Case Overview and ...
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Case 871 --Clinical Immunopathology Case
Case 871 -- A 30-year-old woman with intermittent joint pain in her wrists and ankles. Contributed by Michelle Stram, MD, ScM and Bruce Rabin, MD, PhD. CLINICAL HISTORY. A 30-year-old woman presented to her GP with complaints of intermittently occurring joint pain in her wrists and ankles. Further questioning revealed that she had been ...
Gout in a 15-year-old boy with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a case study
In this case, an obese 15-year-old male was diagnosed with gout, a disease common in adults but virtually ignored in the field of pediatrics. The presence of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) complicated and delayed the consideration of this second diagnosis.
Case report: a man with untreated rheumatoid arthritis
Background Glomerular involvement in rheumatoid arthritis has been known to be associated with treatment side effects from medications and secondary amyloidosis. However, limited basic science and clinical studies have been performed to address the potential disease specific immune-mediated mechanisms causing secondary glomerular pathology, its various types of presentation, and the potential ...
Case Report: A Psoriatic Arthritis Patient with Dactylitis & Enthesitis
Enthesitis is associated with worse disease & radiographic damage in psoriatic arthritis. We diagnosed her with PsA on the basis of inflammatory joint pain, a current history of psoriasis, nail dystrophy typical of psoriasis, negative rheumatoid factor and dactylitis. She had a total score of 5 per the Classification Criteria for Psoriatic ...
Case Study: Bilateral Total Hip Arthritis in 66 yr. Old Male
A case study of Management of bilateral Hip Arthritis from the doctors at Complete Orthopedics, with multiple locations in NY.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Case Study
Rheumatoid arthritis: Differentiating between forms of crippling arthritis. Emma, a 32-year-old with existing foot and hand pain, visits her healthcare provider after hand pain, neck stiffness, and worsening fatigue over the last three months. Emma's healthcare provider conducts a full clinical history and physical examination and decides to ...
Educational case: Osteoarthritis
The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology.
Rheumatoid arthritis: a case study
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic, progressively deteriorating, connective tissue disease characterized by inflammation of the synovial membrane of the joints, pain, immobility, and fatigue. Exacerbations of RA are frequently associated with periods of physical and/or emotional stress. It is estimated that 1 in every 100 persons ...
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: A Case Study
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. : A Case Study. PDF to Text Batch Convert Multiple Files Software - Please purchase personal license. ORTHOPEDIC NURSING 0029-6465/98 $8.00 + .00 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS A Case Study Leslie A. Hartzheim, RN, MSN, NP, and Gay L. Goss, PhD, RNC, WHNp, CNS A previously healthy 36-year-old married, female elementary school ...
Case study: management and counselling of a patient with rheumatoid
Case study: management and counselling of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis Exploring questions to be considered when managing a patient with rheumatoid arthritis.
New-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis in Pregnancy: A Case Report
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is extremely uncommon during pregnancy. The alterations in the immune system that occur to support the developing fetus make the onset of RA during this period unlikely. In this case report, we describe a 26-year-old pregnant woman who presented with bilateral symmetrical pain in her hands, wrists, and ankles at 24 ...
Final Diagnosis -- Case 871
Final Diagnosis -- Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory, autoimmune disease of unknown etiology which primarily affects synovial joints.1 The flagship feature of RA is persistent symmetric polyarthritis beginning in the joints of the hands and feet. Extra-articular manifestations of RA in the skin, heart ...
HESI Case Study: Rheumatoid Arthritis with Joint Arthroplasty
HESI Case Study: Rheumatoid Arthritis with Joint Arthroplasty Learn with flashcards, games, and more — for free.
Challenges in implementing treat-to-target in rheumatoid arthritis: a
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most prevalent rheumatic immune-mediated diseases, affects 0.5-1% of the worldwide population, and causes considerable impact on the quality of life of individuals [1, 2].Moreover, RA is associated with high morbidity and increased mortality, thus posing a significant economic burden to society [].Over the past two decades, the treatment of RA patients ...
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A 44-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis was evaluated because of proximal muscle weakness and myalgia. She had difficulty raising her arms above her head. Diagnostic tests were performed.
Osteoarthritis is a common condition that is typically associated with older adults. Other causes of osteoarthritis, such as those cases resulting from childhood Perthes disease, can affect younger people and frequently have a major impact on the lives of those affected. This case report describes the experiences of one patient with osteoarthritis, using examples of her poetry to illustrate ...
Presentation of Case Dr. Christopher V. Radcliffe (Medicine): A 46-year-old man was evaluated in the rheumatology clinic of this hospital because of arthritis and rash.
Objective. Monoarticular presentation of rheumatoid arthritis is infrequent and has been previously reported to involve large joints such as the hip and knee joints. Here we report a case series of four patients presenting to the University of Michigan in 2015 with monoarticular rheumatoid arthritis, one with small and three with large joint ...
In 2009, he was diagnosed with seropositive and erosive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associated with Sjögren's syndrome; the RA was being managed with methotrexate (25 mg/week). Physical examination ...
Case Study #1. You are seeing Betty, a 65-year-old woman, for the first time. Her reason for scheduling this appointment was to ask for advice regarding ibuprofen or glucosamine with chondroitin to help with "arthritis pain" in both her hands.
One study found that with or without involvement of other joints, shoulder arthritis affected 12.6% of RA patients, with associated symptoms more commonly observed in patients over age 60. In a ...
The outcomes of this case study suggest that patients with hip osteoarthritis and complex morbidity are able to exercise at higher levels than many health professionals would think, as long as they are assessed and supervised appropriately.
Given the case report patient's age of 106, treatment decisions were complicated by the presence of comorbidities, even though her condition showed significant improvement using DMARDs, Al-Obaidi ...
Background and Objective: Knee osteoarthritis is one of the most common rheumatologic problems. To investigate risk factors related to the knee osteoarthritis a case-control study was performed using cases diagnosed in the Community Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD) study, stage I.
HCPLive is a comprehensive clinical news and information portal that provides physicians with up-to-date specialty and disease-specific resources designed to help them provide better care to patients. At HCPLive, you will find breaking news, video interviews with physician experts, in-depth conference coverage, finance and practice management updates, insight and analysis from physician ...
Case 871 -- A 30-year-old woman with intermittent joint pain in her wrists and ankles. Contributed by Michelle Stram, MD, ScM and Bruce Rabin, MD, PhD. CLINICAL HISTORY. A 30-year-old woman presented to her GP with complaints of intermittently occurring joint pain in her wrists and ankles. Further questioning revealed that she had been ...
In this case, an obese 15-year-old male was diagnosed with gout, a disease common in adults but virtually ignored in the field of pediatrics. The presence of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) complicated and delayed the consideration of this second diagnosis.
Background Glomerular involvement in rheumatoid arthritis has been known to be associated with treatment side effects from medications and secondary amyloidosis. However, limited basic science and clinical studies have been performed to address the potential disease specific immune-mediated mechanisms causing secondary glomerular pathology, its various types of presentation, and the potential ...
Enthesitis is associated with worse disease & radiographic damage in psoriatic arthritis. We diagnosed her with PsA on the basis of inflammatory joint pain, a current history of psoriasis, nail dystrophy typical of psoriasis, negative rheumatoid factor and dactylitis. She had a total score of 5 per the Classification Criteria for Psoriatic ...
A case study of Management of bilateral Hip Arthritis from the doctors at Complete Orthopedics, with multiple locations in NY.
Rheumatoid arthritis: Differentiating between forms of crippling arthritis. Emma, a 32-year-old with existing foot and hand pain, visits her healthcare provider after hand pain, neck stiffness, and worsening fatigue over the last three months. Emma's healthcare provider conducts a full clinical history and physical examination and decides to ...
The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic, progressively deteriorating, connective tissue disease characterized by inflammation of the synovial membrane of the joints, pain, immobility, and fatigue. Exacerbations of RA are frequently associated with periods of physical and/or emotional stress. It is estimated that 1 in every 100 persons ...
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. : A Case Study. PDF to Text Batch Convert Multiple Files Software - Please purchase personal license. ORTHOPEDIC NURSING 0029-6465/98 $8.00 + .00 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS A Case Study Leslie A. Hartzheim, RN, MSN, NP, and Gay L. Goss, PhD, RNC, WHNp, CNS A previously healthy 36-year-old married, female elementary school ...
Case study: management and counselling of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis Exploring questions to be considered when managing a patient with rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is extremely uncommon during pregnancy. The alterations in the immune system that occur to support the developing fetus make the onset of RA during this period unlikely. In this case report, we describe a 26-year-old pregnant woman who presented with bilateral symmetrical pain in her hands, wrists, and ankles at 24 ...
Final Diagnosis -- Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory, autoimmune disease of unknown etiology which primarily affects synovial joints.1 The flagship feature of RA is persistent symmetric polyarthritis beginning in the joints of the hands and feet. Extra-articular manifestations of RA in the skin, heart ...
HESI Case Study: Rheumatoid Arthritis with Joint Arthroplasty Learn with flashcards, games, and more — for free.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most prevalent rheumatic immune-mediated diseases, affects 0.5-1% of the worldwide population, and causes considerable impact on the quality of life of individuals [1, 2].Moreover, RA is associated with high morbidity and increased mortality, thus posing a significant economic burden to society [].Over the past two decades, the treatment of RA patients ...