To the clinical characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (infectious nonspecific polyarthritis), due to its high prevalence and severity of the course, occupies a prominent place in the clinic of internal diseases. Advances in the study of the etiology and pathogenesis of this disease have led recently to the development of fairly effective therapeutic measures (therapy with salicylates, pyrazolone drugs, resoquine, corticosteroids, ACTH, gold preparations; antibacterial therapy; physiotherapeutic and balneological procedures, corrective operations, etc.). The rational use of these methods of treatment requires accurate and detailed diagnostics from the doctor, taking into account the type of arthritis, its clinical course, stage and phase, localization and pathomorphological forms of the inflammatory process in the joints, the functional state of the articular apparatus, and the nature of extra-articular lesions.