Early arthritisCategoria : reumatologia Data : 31 ottobre 2010 Autore : admin Intestazione : In presenza di forte sospetto di Artrite Reumatoide precoce occorre inviare il paziente allo specialista per confermare la diagnosi e iniziare subito il trattamento con farmaci di fondo al fine di prevenire le lesioni articolari che si sviluppano nei primi anni di malattia. Testo : La distruzione articolare e la mortalità prematura sono le maggiori complicanze dell’AR. (1-4) Nei pazienti maggiormente compromessi la sopravvivenza è simile ad altre malattie più gravi. (5) Cosa dicono le Linee Guida? a cura di Clementino Stefanetti Bibliografia 1. Wolfe F, Mitchell DM, Sibley JT, et al. The mortality of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 1994;37:481-494. 2. Kremers HM, Crowson CS, Nicola PJ, et al. Increased unrecognized coronary heart disease and sudden deaths in rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based cohort study. Arthritis Rheum. 2005;52:402-411. 3. Gonzalez A, Kremers HM, Crowson CS, et al. Do cardiovascular risk factors confer the same risk for cardiovascular outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients as in non-rheumatoid arthritis patients? Ann Rheum Dis. 2008;67:64-69. 4. Dhawan SS, Quyyumi AA. Rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disease. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2008;10:128-133. 5. Pincus T. Combination therapy with multiple disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis: a preventive strategy. Ann Intern Med. 1999 Nov 16;131(10):768-74. http://www.annals.org/content/131/10/768.full.pdf 6. Finckh A. Long-term impact of early treatment on radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis: A meta-analysis. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Dec 15;55(6):864-72. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/113490677/PDFSTART 7. van Aken J. The Leiden Early Arthritis Clinic. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2003 Sep-Oct;21(5 Suppl 31):S100-5. 8. Visser H. How to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis early: a prediction model for persistent (erosive) arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2002 Feb;46(2):357-65. http://goo.gl/l9TR 9. Nishimura K. Meta-analysis: diagnostic accuracy of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody and rheumatoid factor for rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Intern Med. 2007 Jun 5;146(11):797-808. http://www.annals.org/content/146/11/797.full.pdf 10. EULAR recommendations for the management of early arthritis: report of a task force of the European Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT). Ann Rheum Dis. 2007 Jan;66(1):34-45. Epub 2006 Jan 5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1798412/pdf/34.pdf 11. Linee Guida Australia 2009. http://goo.gl/lx2Z 12. Linee Guida SIGN 2000. http://goo.gl/d96q Altri articoli pubblicati sul sito sul tema |