ARTHRITIS REUMATOIDE

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	ARTHRITIS REUMATOIDE
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ARTHRITIS REUMATOIDE

Reumatoide arthritis

Chronic disease of the joints, characterized by the affectation of muscles, sinews and cartilages.

Sometimes the Vista and the blood vessels are affected.

It is three times commonest in women than in men, ages between 20 and 60 years, with a point of greater incidence between the 35 and 45 years.

Causes

Stranger, but of origin probably autoinmune.

Signs and symptoms

The most characteristic symptoms are:

Reddening, pain, heat and hardening and deformation of anyone of the joints of the hands, hip, elbows, feet or knees, of symmetrical way and beginning by the small joints of the hands.

Tenth of temperature.

Matinal Entumecimiento of the joints, that is yielding with the activity.

Appearance of nodules under the skin and deformations in the joints.

Fatigue.

Factors of risk

Familiar or personal history of reumatoide arthritis or other diseases autoinmunes.

Woman between 20-50 years.

Prevention

Concrete measures do not exist, when the unknown the last cause.

Diagnosis and treatment

Diagnosis

Analytical sanguineous.

Radiology.

Artroscopia with taking of biopsies in exceptional cases.

Treatment

Nocturnal gloves to keep the heat.

To deal the pain with dry or humid heat.

Hard mattress or positioning of a table upon somier (or well-known somieres of laminae or "bodyguard").

Physical exercise forced, except there is tenth of fever, then to keep rest until it lowers.

The fisioterapia can help to improve the general state.

To sleep 10-12 hours and not to get tired too much.

Medication

Nonesteroideos antinflamatorios drugs, aspirin and other salicylates, gold salts and inmunosupresores, always by prescription and low Straits facultative control, by the indirect effect of these medicines.

The cortisone is effective in short periods, to calm the pain, but it produces greater indirect effect and it does not come up with the degeneration of the joints.

Complications

Alterations of the vision.

Permanent deformities in extremities.

Digestive problems by the medication.

Prognosis

The disease can be light or burdens.

He is incurable, but the diminution of the pain and the prevention discapacidades it can be possible with a precocious diagnosis and a suitable treatment.

A 75% of the patients in treatment improvement of very considerable form. Between a 5-10% it does not do it in spite of him.

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