Inflammatory arthropathy: A review of rheumatoid arthritis in older patients

Geriatrics

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 32-35

  Kerr, Leslie Dubin ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly onset disease; Inflammation disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; AURANOFIN; AUROTHIOGLUCOSE; AUROTHIOMALATE; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETANERCEPT; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE SULFATE; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SALICYLIC ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

AGING; APPETITE; ARTHROPATHY; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDEMA; FATIGUE; GOUT; HAND; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LYMPHOMA; MALAISE; MORBIDITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PSEUDOGOUT; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; RIGIDITY; SYMPTOM; SYNOVITIS; TOXICITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS;

EID: 5444244870     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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