The destruction of the lumbar spine in association with rheumatoid arthritis rarely is severe enough to cause paraplegia.
They don't as far as we know, The cause Of rheumatoid arthritis is still not known.
rheumatoid arthritis can cause inflammation in the muscles of the heart and can do the the same in the lining of the lungs leading to pleurisy. The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis crop up in several places in the body at at the same time.
No Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in its own right and is not a reaction to TB.
No. However rhuematoid arthritis can cause heart damage.
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It is more like the other way around Rheumatoid arthritis is one of a considerable number of disease that can cause thrombocytosis.
Rheumatoid Vasculitis (RV) is one of the unusual complication of longstanding, severe rheumatoid arthritis. The active vasculitis associated with rheumatoid disease occurs in about 1% of this patient population. Nerve damage can cause foot or wrist drop, "mononeuritis multiplex".
We don't know, at this point in time we do not yet know the cause of Rheumatoid arthritis.
Yes, and some doctors misdiagnose Rheumatoid Arthritis as Multiple Myeloma!