What is the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis? How it will solve.? How to diagnosis these disease?

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Hi lybrate user, rheumatoid arthritis (ra) mainly presents as pain, morning stiffness & deformity (at advanced stage) of joints involved. Joints may vary from person to person such as small joints to big joints. There are few basic & few advanced test. Basic tests include ra factor (which may or may not be positive, if it is positive it is called seropositive ra, if negative its called seronegative ra), crp (which is raised in most of inflammatory disease), xray of involved joints & advanced test is anti ccp (which is more specific than ra factor, but even this test can not have 100 % specificity). We clinician put diagnosis depending upon history, symtoms, clinical presentation, positivity of ra factor or anticcp. Hope it helps.

Manish Raj · Accepted Answer

Hi lybrate user, rheumatoid arthritis (ra) mainly presents as pain, morning stiffness & deformity (at advanced stage) of joints involved. Joints may vary from person to person such as small joints to big joints. There are few basic & few advanced test. Basic tests include ra factor (which may or may not be positive, if it is positive it is called seropositive ra, if negative its called seronegative ra), crp (which is raised in most of inflammatory disease), xray of involved joints & advanced test is anti ccp (which is more specific than ra factor, but even this test can not have 100 % specificity). We clinician put diagnosis depending upon history, symtoms, clinical presentation, positivity of ra factor or anticcp. Hope it helps.