Prognosis of osteoarthritis

Article Abstract:

Various factors predict the progress of osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis causes loss of mobility, reduced quality of life, and increased use of health care and may contribute to decreased survival. Increasing age was a general factor for increased osteoarthritis. Finding calcium apatite crystals in joint fluid associated with progressive hand osteoarthritis as did a positive 99mTc bone scan. Women and patients with more symptoms were at greater risk for progressive hip osteoarthritis. Overweight, greater number of joints involved, worsening symptoms, presence of Heberden's nodes, and abnormal 99mTc bone scan have all been associated with progressive knee osteoarthritis.

Prognosis

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Instruments to assess osteoarthritis - current status and future needs

Article Abstract:

The medical and research community needs an improved and more standardized set of guidelines in evaluating the progression of osteoarthritis (OA). Goals to achieve by the year 2000 are to develop an internationally accepted set of measurement guidelines for all types of OA, improve the use of imaging techniques to evaluate OA disease progression, and to develop specific criteria for evaluating OA of the knee and hand. Other goals are to clarify the definition of success or failure in treatment and to define how the health status and the number of patients affects the value of a study. These guidelines should be available in a number of languages.

Diagnosis

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Bristol International Symposium on Osteoarthritis

Article Abstract:

Highlights of a one-day conference on the basic definitions, benchmarks of disease, and current and future treatment options associated with osteoarthritis (OA) research are presented. Speakers and participants agreed that OA is a joint disease that results in a biological ripple effect throughout the joints of the body. OA can be triggered by a number of different factors but basically involves tissue breakdown initiated by enzymes. Disease progress can be monitored either by scans or tissue sampling. Treatments may include pain medication, surgery, or special orthopedic devices.

Conferences, meetings and seminars

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