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The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis symptoms of pain, mainly to the performance of the symptoms usually occur in patients with several types of the following:
1. The initial patient will feel tired, very tired, the spirit of good, poor appetite, weight loss, body aches, joint discomfort and other systemic symptoms.
2. Joints appear red, swollen, hot, pain, joint stiffness and has a symmetry around the joint organizations such as the ligaments, tendons and muscles would have the same symptoms. Serious illness will be joint damage, deformation of multiple lesions.
3. The emergence of a more joint pain, joint swelling. Joints will produce small nodules, joint swelling for up to six weeks or more.
4. Joint pain, joint swelling of the hands and feet mainly the small joints, such as the metacarpophalangeal (metatarsophalangeal) joints, proximal interphalangeal (toes) joints, as well as the wrist, elbow, knee and ankle joints more common.
5. The morning getting up, stiff joints in particular, often require the activities of 30 minutes, it gets better, this situation will continue for more than six weeks.
6. 80% of patients with rheumatoid factor blood test will be positive.
7. X-rays of the typical changes in the joints of early osteoporosis often occurs around the phenomenon of late invasive hip synovial membrane can be seen arising from within the hollow, or even severe deformation of the joints structure.
In other words, the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis demonstrated by in fact set by American College of Rheumatology 1987 criteria for judging is extremely similar, precisely because these symptoms arise, in order to allow doctors to diagnose whether the patient really suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. The emergence of these symptoms may be only a warning, does not mean that really suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, but the people were not that be complacent, because these clinical symptoms are an important basis for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.
The main cause of rheumatoid arthritis reffer to: 2010-01-13
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