Arthralgia
Research News and Information

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Quantifying the impact of transient joint symptoms, chronic joint symptoms, and arthritis: a population-based approach.

13 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and co-occurrence of self-reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis, chronic joint symptoms (pain, aching, stiffness, or swelling on most days for a month), and transient joint symptoms (pain, aching, stiffness, or ... Read more...

Association between the use of serotonin receptor 2A-blocking antidepressants and joint disorders.

13 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: There are case reports about antidepressants causing arthritis and arthralgia, and the majority of these reports deal with atypical antidepressants, which are serotonin receptor 2A (5-HT(2A))-blocking substances. The aim of this study was ... Read more...

Diagnostic utility of cytokine biomarkers in the evaluation of acute knee pain.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of clinically important meniscal tears of the knee remains challenging, and it is unknown why only some injuries become painful. The role of inflammatory cytokines in generating pain following meniscal injury remains ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Arthralgia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Quantifying the impact of transient joint symptoms, chronic joint symptoms, and arthritis: a population-based approach. 13 Oct 2009
• Association between the use of serotonin receptor 2A-blocking antidepressants and joint disorders. 13 Oct 2009
• Diagnostic utility of cytokine biomarkers in the evaluation of acute knee pain. 29 Sep 2009
• The peripheral antinociceptive effects of endomorphin-1 and kynurenic acid in the rat inflamed joint model. 29 Sep 2009
• Interventions and knee pain. When knee pain is not osteoarthritis. 27 Sep 2009
• Unrecognised scurvy. 15 Sep 2009
• Does the weather really matter? A cohort study of influences of weather and solar conditions on daily variations of joint pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 13 Sep 2009
• Magnetic resonance imaging-based cartilage loss in painful contralateral knees with and without radiographic joint space narrowing: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. 13 Sep 2009
• OARSI/OMERACT criteria of being considered a candidate for total joint replacement in knee/hip osteoarthritis as an endpoint in clinical trials evaluating potential disease modifying osteoarthritic drugs. 30 Aug 2009
• Echinacea/sage or chlorhexidine/lidocaine for treating acute sore throats: a randomized double-blind trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Autoantibodies, polymorphisms in the serotonin pathway, and human leukocyte antigen class II alleles in chronic fatigue syndrome: are they associated with age at onset and specific symptoms? 30 Aug 2009
• Scintigraphic assessment of the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints of horses with joint pain. 30 Aug 2009
• The link between structural damage and pain in a genetic model of osteoarthritis and intervertebral disc degeneration: a joint misadventure. 30 Aug 2009
• Decreased physical function and increased pain sensitivity in mice deficient for type IX collagen. 30 Aug 2009
• Total shoulder replacement in rheumatoid disease: a 16- to 23-year follow-up. 30 Aug 2009
• [Rheumatoid arthritis] 26 Aug 2009
• [45-year-old woman with joint pain and suspected Lyme arthritis] 26 Aug 2009
• [Rheumatic diseases in 2009: the conflict between medical progress and reality] 26 Aug 2009
• Association between radiographic features of knee osteoarthritis and pain: results from two cohort studies. 19 Aug 2009
• Pain and radiographic damage in osteoarthritis. 19 Aug 2009

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Arthralgia'

Definition: Pain in the joint.

Descriptor UI: D018771

Alternative terms: Arthralgia; Arthralgias; Joint Pain; Joint Pains; Pain, Joint; Pains, Joint; Polyarthralgia; Polyarthralgias;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C05.550.091; C23.888.646.130; F02.830.816.444.350; G11.561.600.810.444.350;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: non-inflamm joint pain: do not confuse with ARTHRITIS which is inflamm; term used more in foreign lit than in Amer; coord IM with specific joint (IM)