To address the controversy, Kevin Chung and colleagues enrolled 163 rheumatoid arthritis patients with ... Patients with more-severe hand deformities at baseline, however, still had more-severe ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorder that typically affects the joints in your hands and feet ... in bone erosion and joint deformity. Although no proper treatment ...

Both these entities have overlapping clinical features, especially when PMR presents with peripheral arthritis in ... However, classical rheumatoid hand deformities of the proximal interphalangeal ...

The classic signs of rheumatoid ... arthritis causes joint pain, swelling, and stiffness, often starting in smaller joints like the hands or feet. Symptoms can progress to joint deformity and ...