Synovectomy is surgery to remove part or all of the synovium, a layer of connective tissue that lines the inside of your joints. The synovium releases fluid and nutrients to keep your joints healthy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After passage of the ACA, hand surgery wait times grew for non-urban patients and decreased for urban patients.

Pannus is an abnormal, extra layer of tissue in your joints that can cause pain, swelling, and damage to your bones, cartilage, and other tissue. It most often results from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can affect the knees by causing the immune system to attack the synovial membrane, leading to inflammation and potential damage to cartilage and ligaments. Symptoms of RA in ...

Dr. Matthew Squire answers the question: 'Debridement/Lavage For Rheumatoid?' — -- Question: What is debridement or lavage (via arthroscopic surgery) and when is it best used to treat pain ...

LRTI stands for ligament reconstruction and tendon interposition. It’s a type of surgery for treating arthritis of the thumb, a common type of arthritis in the hand. Joints are formed where two bones ...

Complications were significantly associated with low height, high-dose prednisolone use, and progression of cervical spine lesions in early disease stages of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A small study ...

The risk of orthopedic surgery has declined for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over the course of decades, but the same trend has not occurred for patients with psoriatic arthritis. While ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Before newer, more effective drugs became available for treating rheumatoid arthritis, more than half of patients with the condition required orthopedic surgery, including ...

If you’re severely — or morbidly — obese and have rheumatoid arthritis, weight-loss surgery may greatly improve your symptoms, and there’s even a good chance that it may cause the disease to go into ...