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 ...

KEY POINTS A 35-year-old woman was admitted to a community hospital for sepsis caused by Streptococcus pyogenes bacteremia, ...

A prospective single-center study has found a correlation between levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) measured at the time of diagnosis of inflammatory polyarthritis (IP) and death from ...

In macrophages, DNAse II degrades DNA from engulfed apoptotic cells; results from a mouse study by Kawane et al. suggest that deficiency of this enzyme or failure to completely degrade engulfed ...

An older individual with inflammatory polyarthritis usually falls into one of two categories. The first consists of patients with well-established long-standing disease, whose course is often ...