Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease associated with severe morbidity and functional decline caused by inflammation of connective tissue, primarily in the synovial joints.
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Medical-surgical nursing is a nursing specialty area concerned with the care of adult patients in a broad range of settings. The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses is a specialty nursing organization dedicated to nurturing medical-surgical nurses as they advance their careers.
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent articular disease in adults 65 yr of age and older. OA has been known by many names, including degenerative joint disease (DJD), degenerative arthritis, or hypertrophic arthritis.
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Total hip arthroplasty Total hip arthroplasty (THA) involves surgical resection of the hip joint and its replacement with an endoprosthesis. THA may be necessary for conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, avascular necrosis (AVN), hip fracture, developmental hip dysplasia, and benign or malignant bone tumors. Because conservativetreatments usually fail to decrease the […]
A fracture is a break in continuity of a bone. It occurs when stress is placed on the bone that exceeds its biologic loading capacity. Most commonly the stress is the result of trauma. Pathologic fractures can occur when the bone’s decreased loading capacity cannot tolerate even normal stress, as with osteoporosis.
Amputation, the removal of part or all of a limb through bone, is now less commonly performed as an orthopedic surgical intervention than it was before advances in antibiotic therapy, treatment for musculoskeletal neoplasms, and microsurgery/ limb salvage techniques.
Thrombocytopenia is a relatively common coagulation disorder that results from a decreased number of platelets. It can be congenital or acquired, and it is classified according to cause.
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a nonspecific, chronic inflammatory disease of the mucosa and submucosa of the colon. Generally the disease begins in the rectum and sigmoid colon, but it can extend proximally and uninterrupted as far as the cecum.
Peptic ulcers are erosions of the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract mucosa, potentially extending through the muscularis mucosa and into the muscularis propria.
The pancreas serves both endocrine (hormonal) and exocrine (nonhormonal) functions.
Viral hepatitis may be caused by one of five viruses that are capable of infecting the liver: hepatitis A (HAV), B (HBV), C (HCV), D or delta (HDV), or E (HEV). HDV is not a stand-alone hepatitis. HDV does not exist outside the presence of HBV. A sixth virus, hepatitis G (HGV), has been isolated in a few cases of hepatitis caused by other viruses of the five common strains.
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