Just as in the case of other diseases, in gout the primary and/or secondary prophylaxis may be suggested as well as the treatment of the disease in its acute phase and the basic one. The fact to be mentioned is that no ...

In patients with ankylosing spondilitis (AS), the mobility of the rib cage can be considerably decreased because of the involvement of the facet and the costochondral joints. The purpose of our study is to assess the ...

Complex treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in the early stage is not enough elucidated in the literature also are not conclusive data of the kynesitherapy role in the treatment of OA. Patients with osteoarthritis, ...

Special literature analysis with addition of data from medical database PubMed offered the possibility of determination of imaging modifications characteristic for hand and finger osteoarthritis with simultaneous evidence ...

Significant improvement on the ACR criteria (> 50) at the end of the study was observed in most patients treated with methotrexate, leflunomide and Wobenzym. This is confirmed by a statistically and clinically significant ...

While the standard X-ray is the classic landmark in the diagnosis and structural lesions in AS, recently the experts have given more weight to modern imaging techniques and especially to MRI in recent criteria and ...

Early initiation of the DMARD treatment leads to improvement of the clinical and radiological outcome. Obtaining sustained remissions or low activity of the disease, is also more easily achieved by early applying treatment. ...