About Rheumatoid Arthiritis General İnformation

What is rheumatoid arthritis?

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), immune system, joints counter-attacked the chronic and disability, which can cause an autoimmune hastalıktır.1, two systemic disease is the body and internal organs can hold, but the RA is typically the hands, wrists and feet, knees, hips and shoulders effects .1,2

RA progression (progressive) is known as a disease. Tendons over time, life, joint and bone damage in RA increases and cause pain olur.1 not be controlled in the majority of patients leads to irreversible joint damage. Disease and the level of joint damage, depending on the amount of cooking, cleaning to do, such as personal care adversely affects the ability to perform daily tasks, in some cases of severe disability and loss of power can lead to action. Rate of progression of the disease from person to person may changing.

In RA patients, joint swelling and stiffness in addition to fatigue, high fever and weight loss in people with RA also görülebilir.1 kısalması3 life, and coronary artery hastalığı4 enfeksiyon5 risk is greater.
What causes rheumatoid arthritis?

Birlikte1 RA is unknown reasons, genetic factors are thought to play a role. For example, individuals with HLA-DR genes are more likely than others to the disease görülmektedir.1

Environmental factors also play a role in the development of RA. Seen more frequently in women than in men with RA are women-specific effects of hormones in the progression of the disease may be indicated. Among other environmental risk factors, smoking and some bacteria or virus infections bulunmaktadır.2

How is RA diagnosed?

Related to the diagnosis of RA patients, physicians, patients, some symptoms are investigated. Most of the RA patients, swelling and / or painful joints, flu-like symptoms, morning stiffness, and often the hands and feet or more as a doctor with complaints of swelling in the joint income. Of joint swelling (synovitis), although thought to be symmetrical, typically used (dominant) hand is more affected.

The most important symptoms to help recognize the patient's daily activities while their ability to use his hands is the change in the negative. For example, become impossible to fasten buttons, or cup, a cup to hold things such as getting hard.