Rheumatoid arthritis.

Autor: Buchanan WW; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada., Kean CA; Medicine Rheumatology, Haldimand War Memorial Hospital, Dunnville, Canada., Kean WF; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada. wfkean@gmail.com.; McMaster University, Haldimand War Memorial Hospital, 400 Broad Street, Dunnville, ON, N1A 2P7, Canada. wfkean@gmail.com., Rainsford KD; Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Inflammopharmacology [Inflammopharmacology] 2024 Feb; Vol. 32 (1), pp. 3-11. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 17.
DOI: 10.1007/s10787-023-01221-0
Abstrakt: It is difficult to determine from ancient writings, old human specimens, and from Art over the centuries, as to when Rheumatoid Arthritis first appeared. It may be a relatively modern condition, as it was reasonably well described in the seventeenth century. Augustin Jacob Landre-Beauvais (1772-1840), University of Paris is credited, with the first clear description of the disease in his thesis. In 1859 Sir Alfred Baring Garrod (1819-1907), the "father of rheumatology", gave the disease its current name which was finally adapted in Britain by the Ministry of Health in 1922. Some forms of Juvenile Arthritis are related to adult Rheumatoid Arthritis (aka Still's disease). If untreated Rheumatoid arthritis can result in severe destructive joint damage and often there are associated severe systemic complications. Disease modifying agents have benefited the disease management, but it was the discovery of the anti TNF-alpha agents in the 1990s, and subsequently many additional Biologic agents, which have greatly changed the clinical outcome in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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