Rheumatology | European Federation of Internal Medicine

Rheumatology (Greek ρεύμα, rheuma, river) is a sub-specialty in internal medicine and pediatrics, devoted to diagnosis and therapyof rheumatic diseases. Clinicians who specialize in rheumatology are called rheumatologists. Rheumatologists deal mainly with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitis, and heritable connective tissue disorders.

Anti-TNFs linked to lower heart attack risk in RA patients

Posted on: 02/05/2014 - 17:35

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – A new analysis of data from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Registers’ Rheumatoid Arthritis Register confirms that anti–tumor necrosis factor treatment decreases...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

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OA-related walking disability on par with diabetes as CVD risk factor

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 21:20

PARIS – Greater walking disability is an independent predictor of all-cause death and major cardiovascular events in patients with symptomatic hip or knee osteoarthritis, according to a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Intraoperative wound anesthetic cut chronic pain after hip replacement

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 19:05

PARIS – Adding local anesthetic to the wound during total hip replacement surgery for osteoarthritis reduced chronic pain, according to a double-blind, randomized controlled trial. At 12 months...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

PCPs waffle in referrals for total joint replacement

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 18:15

PARIS – Primary care physicians are only moderately confident about which patients to refer for total hip or knee replacement, according to cross-sectional survey of 218 physicians. One-quarter...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Men have more major complications after hip, knee replacement

Posted on: 25/04/2014 - 22:05

PARIS – After total hip or knee replacement, men are at higher risk than women for heart attack, infection, and revision surgery, according to a large database analysis. The elevated risk was...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Sprifermin injections showed some benefits for cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis

Posted on: 17/04/2014 - 19:09

In patients with knee osteoarthritis, intra-articular injections of 100 micrograms sprifermin led to significant benefits in measures of lateral femorotibial cartilage loss and joint space narrowing...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Stopping biologics in RA remission remains uncertain

Posted on: 15/04/2014 - 14:00

Once a rheumatoid arthritis patient maintains relatively long-term remission on a regimen that combines a synthetic and a biologic disease-modifying drug, temptation mounts to try withdrawing one of...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Chinese herbal remedy found noninferior to methotrexate in RA patients

Posted on: 14/04/2014 - 23:30

A traditional Chinese herbal remedy used to treat joint pain, fever, edema, and local inflammation was found noninferior to methotrexate for controlling active rheumatoid arthritis in an open-label,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Practice pearls for treating opiate dependence

Posted on: 12/04/2014 - 20:24

ORLANDO — What should you do when you have a patient who is opiate dependent, but is hospitalized for an unrelated medical reason? What should you do at discharge? And how effective are the available...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Current smoking strongly predicts rheumatoid arthritis radiographic progression

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 19:30

Current smoking at the time of early rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis was a strong risk factor for rapid radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis, according to <link...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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