Background: Chikungunya fever is an emerging global infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes that manifests as an acute febrile illness with joint pain and can lead to chronic arthritis. The ...

Joint effusion (ih-FYOO-zuhn) is swelling in a joint due to fluid moving into the soft tissues surrounding the joint. The body makes many different fluids, including blood, lymph (part of the body's ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. State volcanologists observed lava effusion and collapse on the Mi-isi gully of the Mayon Volcano on Wednesday night ...

Chronic joint swelling in children usually requires differential diagnosis for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Hemophilic arthropathy, despite its rarity, may be an important differential entity, ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. State volcanologists observed on late Wednesday evening lava effusion, Pyroclastic Density Currents (PDC) and minor ...

Dr. Erin H. Yang (Medicine): A 91-year-old man was evaluated in the orthopedic surgery clinic of this hospital because of left knee pain. The patient had been in his usual state of health, residing in ...

Infrapatellar fat pad glucocorticoid injections were ineffective for pain relief and joint effusion in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Injecting infrapatellar fat pad steroids does not ...

Abstract: Objective: Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) effectively treats end-stage hip and knee joint diseases, improving patients' quality of life. However, 1-2% of TJA patients develop prosthetic ...

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and steroids (see Corticosteroid Therapy) can be useful for acute pain relief in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In osteoarthritis, studies have ...

Septic arthritis (also known as infectious arthritis) is characterized by inflammation of a joint because of an infection. This type of arthritis occurs when bacteria, viruses, or fungi invade a joint ...