03.12.2022

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive destructive and inflammatory joint lesion in children that developed before the age of 16 and is combined with extra–articular pathology. The articular form of the disease is manifested by edema, deformation, contracture of large and small joints of the extremities, the cervical spine; the systemic form is accompanied by…

Libman-Sacks Endocarditis

Libman-Sacks endocarditis is a lesion of the endocardium (the inner lining of the heart and valves) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In most cases, it proceeds asymptomatically or with an extremely erased clinical picture. Sometimes there may be palpitations, pain in the heart, subfebrile fever. The diagnosis is made on the basis of clinical and…