The study involved 120 patients aged 36.9±12.3 years with arthritis in a reagent divided into
three groups according to trigger factors. The clinical picture of the disease and the joint …

Our previous experiments have shown that intraarticular injections of sodium iodoacetate or
phenylbutazone into the knee joint of animals (hens) induce degeneration of the articular …

The comparative evaluation of modern imaging methods gives evidence of great
opportunities of both MRT and US in the detection of structural alterations of joints at …

The first report of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has not been firmly established, although a
description of arthritis that resembles RA appeared in the first century AD. Paintings from the …

The aim of this study was to evaluate a method for the quantification of cartilage erosions
and osteophyte sizes in a murine model of osteoarthritis (OA). Mice in which OA was …

Chronic diseases are the most frequent representatives in the general structure of joint
diseases. The aim of the work was to determine the staging of joint lesions in dynamics, the …

The plain film remains the cornerstone in the diagnosis of arthritis. Between this and an
accurate clinical assessment, the correct diagnosis of arthritis is made in the majority of …

Osteoarthritis as well as rheumatoid arthritis lead to chronical progressive destruction of
diseased joints. As aggressive new treatments need to be evaluated, plenty of (semi-) …

MY PART in this symposium is to help to lay out for you the purely medical aspects of this
problem of chronic rheumatism. In that way I shall avoid the surgical and orthopedic aspects …

Electron microscope studies of the articular cartilages removed in the course of the
operation on 6 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were carried out. The processes of …