Rheumatoid arthritis

This monograph correlates basic observations of rheumatoid arthritis with clinical aspects of the disease process and current treatment therapies. Covers the history of rheumatoid arthritis, demography and epidemiology, initiating and sustaining factors, immunogenetics, initiations of the immune response in synovium, rheumatoid factors and autoimmunity, autocrine and paracrine control of rheumatoid inflammation, acute inflammation and synovial fluid, synovial cells and their transformation, the dynamics of joint destruction, articular and extra-articular manifestations, clinical and radiographic diagnosis, and prognosis.