...1. Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis means inflammation of the joint, it is one of the most prevalent type of autoimmune arthritis in the world. It can infects any one , no matter how is the age , although it is more common in women more than men. The worthy news is that the advances of rheumatoid arthritis treatment made it possible to stop or slow the worsening of joint damage. In additional there are actual treatments which relieve pain and reduce inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis. The report will include Definition, Symptoms, causes and risk factors, Diagnosis, complication of rheumatoid arthritis , finally, cure and treatment. 2. Body I. Definition (RA) Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which the body immune system which ordinarily secures it is wellbeing by assaulting outside substances like microorganisms and infections incorrectly attacks the joints. which makes irritation to the tissue that lines within the joints which is the synovium to thicken, achieving swelling and pain in and around the joints. The synovium...
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...Autoimmune Diseases Your body's immune system protects you from disease and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts of the body. These diseases tend to run in families. Women - particularly African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American women - have a higher risk for some autoimmune diseases. The diseases may also have flare-ups, when they get worse, and remissions, when they all but disappear. The diseases do not usually go away, but symptoms can be treated. Multiple Sclerosis Is a disease affecting nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing problems with muscle movement,balance and vision. Every nrve fibre in the brain and spinal cord is surrounded by a layer of protein called myelin which protects the nerve and helps electrical signals from the brain travel to the rest of the body. In MS, the myelin becomes damaged. This disrupts the transfer the transfer of these nerve signals,causing a wide range of potential symptoms such as: * numbness and tingling * blurring of vision * problems with mobility and balance * muscle weakness and tightness * MS can damage nerve fibres in your brain and spinal cord, which can cause muscles to contract tightly and painfully (spasm). Your muscles may also become stiff and resistant to movement, which is known as spasticity. * Neuropathic pain – caused by damage to the nerve fibres in...
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...The cause of the disorder Jasmine Ray Westwood (MA) Rough Draft Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a long-term form of inflammatory arthritis of the joints in addition to surrounding tissues. This can also affect the organs. This is resulting in painful immobility, in the fingers, wrists, feet, and ankles. The immune system is designed towards protecting our well-being by attacking foreign cells like viruses and bacteria. Instead it attacks the body’s own tissues, a thin membrane that lines the joints. RA is a chronic disease meaning it can’t be cured. In some individuals the disorder is continuously active and gets worse over time. Others have long periods of remission. The cause of the disorder The cause of RA is still unknown. Infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi have long been suspected, none has been proven as the cause. What happen is the white blood cells over react to stimuli inside the body. Instead of protecting the body like it normally do from disease or infection, the immune system attacks and destroys the body’s tissues that are healthy. This chronic inflammatory condition that also effects other tissue. Autoimmune diseases often run in families many may develop different type of autoimmune disease. This genetic difference puts related family members at an increased risk for one or more autoimmune diseases. RA often improves during pregnancy. Certain proteins passed between the mother and unborn child may be responsible...
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...Rheumatoid arthritis is the topic of my informative article, because my grandfather suffered from this disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that can cause chronic inflammation of the body’s joints and other symptoms. It is important for the public to know about this disease, how to prevent it, and how it can be treated. Rheumatoid arthritis is defined as an autoimmune disorder. This means that the immune system attacks body tissues, especially the small joints. Chronic inflammation can occur that may lead to deformities and corrosion of the joints, cartridge, and ligaments. Other body tissues and organs such as the eyes and blood vessels can also be affected. Common symptoms include stiffness, joint swelling, soreness, and rheumatoid nodules. This disease commonly leads to disability in its sufferers, and can even lead to heart disease....
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...Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. Rhematiod arthritis can also cause inflammation of the tissue around the joints, as well as other organs in the body. Autoimmune diseases are illnesses which occur when the body tissues are mistakenly attacked by its own immune system. The immune system is a complex organization of cells and antibodies designed normally to "seek and destroy" invaders of the body, particularly infections. Patients with these diseases have antibodies in their blood which target their own body tissues, where they can be associated with inflammation. Because it can affect multiple other organs of the body, rheumatoid arthritis is referred to as a systemic illness and is sometimes called rheumatoid disease. While rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic illness, meaning it can last for years, patients may experience long periods without symptoms. Typically, however, rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive illness that has the potential to cause joint destruction and functional disability. A joint is where two bones meet to allow movement of body parts. Arthritis means join inflammation. The join inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis causes swelling, pain ,stiffness, and redness in the joints. The inflammation of rheumatoid disease can also occur in tissues around the joints, such as the tendons, ligaments, and muscles. In some patienst with rheumatoid arthritis, chronic inflammation leads to the destruction of the...
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...chronic disease is one lasting 3 months or more, by the definition of the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics. Chronic Diseases generally cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. Chronic diseases tend to become more common with age. The leading chronic diseases in developed countries include arthritis, cardiovascular disease such as breast and colon cancer, diabetes, epilepsy and seizures, obesity and oral health problems. For the purpose of this paper the primary focus is going to be on arthritis to be more concise Rheumatoid Arthritis. Topics to be covered include a brief summary of chronic illness with a concise account of what Rheumatoid Arthritis is and its treatments...
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...joints is Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disorder. An autoimmune disorder is defined as a condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s healthy tissues. Rheumatoid Arthritis is not only painful it is often debilitating. This painful disorder is caused from the synovial membrane of a joint becomes inflamed and thickened. Once this occurs damage to the articular cartilage occurs, which leads to fibrous tissue to infiltrate, interfering with joint movements. The 72 year old patient reports symptoms that occur in the same joints on both sides of the body and are worse when she first wakes up, which is symptoms of Rheumatoid arthritis. Symptoms of Rheumatoid arthritis include: - Fever - Weight Loss - Tender, warm, swollen joints - Morning stiffness - Fatigue - Pain and swelling can occur in the same joints on both sides of your body. The doctor will perform a physical exam checking the joints for redness, warmth and swelling. Checking the patients muscle strength and reflexes can also help determine if the she is suffering from this condition. Other test such as blood tests can be performed on the patient but can be difficult to diagnose during the early stages of this disorder because the early signs and symptoms mimic may other diseases. Blood tests that that check the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, patients with rheumatoid arthritis tend to have and elevated sedimentation rate, and tests that look for rheumatoid...
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...different types of Arthritis. Some of these types are caused by infections, some by injury, some by aging, and some by entirely unknown causes. Infectious arthritis may follow influenza, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, syphilis or gonorrhea. Arthritis of an unknown cause is common and Rheumatoid arthritis is the worst form. Chronic arthritis is common. It has three main forms: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gout. Osteoarthritis is an inflammatory condition of one or more joints the main symptoms of arthritis are joint pain and stiffness, which typically worsen with age. This is the most common form of arthritis. This disease is known as a degenerative joint disease. It affects about 80% of all Americans. The pain is caused by the degeneration of the joint. The damage to the cartilage occurs as the disease progresses and degenerates and may form some bony spurs at the end of the bones. The bones may grind against each other. Cartilage normally serves as a shock-absorbing cushion between the bones. When it breaks down it results in bones rubbing directly against one another during movement. This friction between the bones causes the bone to thicken, and spurs develop .As time goes on; these abrasions can cause permanent joint damage. Osteoarthritis is most common in the knees, hips, hands and spine. Rheumatoid arthritis is the worst form arthritis. It is a chronic autoimmune disease which affects the connective tissue and joints. This disease is very progressive...
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...Rheumatoid Arthritis is a progressive autoimmune disease. The cause is not known. It is an incurable disease. This disease has flareups and remissions stages. Different factors can cause the flare ups such as stress or environmental factors. The affected joints do not have to be symmetrical. Lots of different joints all over the body can be affected. Mostly the smaller joints, such as the knees, feet, hands which has warmth, erythema and swelling. An autoimmune disease means the body is attacking itself. If the body doesn’t recognize itself the immune system starts to attack the lining of the joints or what is called the Synovial membrane when the immune system is in overactive state. When the body attacks itself it damages the connective tissue. This...
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...Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder. This autoimmune disorder causes the immune system in your body to attack the tissues around the lined synovial membrane of your joints. Currently, there is no known cause of rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers are trying to determine if one’s genes, environmental factors, or a specific virus or bacteria causes rheumatoid arthritis. A person can have certain symptoms that can lead to a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Two of the common symptoms are the one’s joints are swollen and are stiff throughout the day. Bumps under one’s skin, in which the bump is actually tissue, is also another common symptom. Fatigue, fever, and weight loss are three other symptoms that people with rheumatoid arthritis have, but the patients do not always associate those symptoms with having rheumatoid arthritis. Even though there is no cure for rheumatoid arthritis, there are several medications that can be taken to help alleviate the symptoms....
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...Definition Arthritis is inflammation of your joints. Various forms of arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, can affect most organs and cause extensive symptoms. The term arthritis includes countless rheumatic diseases and conditions. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that targets the lining of joints. It transpires when the protective cartilage on the ends of the bones to diminish and weaken. The most common type of arthritis is osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is the tissue that protects the ends of bones where joints are family. While osteoarthritis can harm many joints in the body, it typically affects joints in the spine, hands, knees and hips. ****Prevalence Health Impact Arthritis can limit mobility and make...
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...Bridget Acosta Anatomy and Physiology RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS * INTRODUCTION Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease that exerts its greatest impact on those joints of the body that are lined with synovium, a specialized tissue responsible for maintaining the nutrition and lubrication of the joint. The distribution of joints affected (synovial joints) is characteristic. It typically affects the small joints of the hands and the feet, and usually both sides equally in a symmetrical distribution, though any synovial joint can be affected. In patients with established and aggressive disease, most joints will be affected over time. Joint inflammation is characterized by redness, warmth, swelling, and pain within the joint. In addition to affecting the joints, rheumatoid arthritis may occasionally affect the skin, eyes, lungs, heart, blood, or nerves. * SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS The initial trigger for RA is unknown. There is evidence to suggest abnormalities in components of the immune system that lead to the body developing abnormal immune and inflammatory reactions, particularly in joints. These changes may precede the symptomatic onset of RA by many years. Whatever sets the pathology in motion results in a large increase in blood flow to the joint (giving heat and sometimes redness), proliferation of the synovial membrane with an increase in synovial fluid (swelling), and pain (due to stretching of pain receptors in the soft tissues around, and the bone...
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...Affects of Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Affects in Women vs. Men Alexa Graves Blue Valley High School Abstract Affects of Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Affects in Women vs. Men Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disease that affects the body in many different ways. It can cause joint inflammation, stiffness & pain, and muscle weakness.Many people around the world suffer from this disease and it's more common in women than in men. The reason for this is unknown, but researchers are looking into it and have some ideas. A few of the symptoms include: pain from inflammation, tenderness in the joints, and loss of muscle mass. The pain from this can be due to the lack of physical activity that patients with RA have. Researchers...
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...Rheumatoid Arthritis, also known as RA, is an autoimmune disease of the joints that affects more than 1 million Americans, as reported by the Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. It’s classified as an autoimmune disease because it’s caused by the cells that line the joints, known as the Synovial cells. This influx of immune cells in the joints results in inflammation that can lead to pain, stiffness and a loss of function. Symptoms of RA include joint pain, swelling, and stiffness, general physical symptoms such as fatigue and muscle pain, complications from advanced Ra include joint damage leading to deformity and limited range of motion. Other symptoms include weakness, flu-like symptoms, and worse joint stiffness after sleeping or prolonged...
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...various reasons comparable to infections, autoimmune illnesses, inflammatory conditions and degenerative ailments. Damage-related joint soreness: persistent joint suffering can be as a result of a stressful injury prior to now. Some individuals may even expertise continuous joint agony since of an injury for the leisure of their lives. Some injuries that may cause affliction within the joints are: severe bruising Dislocation or separation of a joint Sprain of a ligament Overuse of the joint or repetitive action of a specific...
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