Rheumatoid arthritis surgical therapy

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:

Indications

• The mainstay of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis is medical therapy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with following conditions:
• Severe pain at rest and with function
• Failure of medical therapy
• Radiographic findings of end-stage arthritis

Surgery

Various surgery options are:

• Tenosynovectomy: Used to repair the ruptured tendon.
• Arthroscopic or open synovectomy: Used to excise inflamed tendon.
• Joint fusion
• Small joint implant arthroplasty
• Total joint replacement of deformed joint