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Rheumatism often has joint lesions and symptoms, which can be as high as 70-80%, and about 50% only has comprehensive inflammatory manifestations such as pain, redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction. Most involve multiple joints. The size of the joints involved varies with the disease.
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Heterogeneity means that there are different subtypes of the same disease. Due to different genetic background, etiology and mechanism, the types, symptoms, severity and treatment response of clinical manifestations are also different.
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Rheumatism is a multi-system disease, and many diseases have overlapping pathology and similar symptoms, such as MCTD.
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There are many antibodies and immune complexes (CIC) in serum, which can be deposited in tissues (skin, synovium) or organs (kidney, liver) to cause diseases.
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Raynaud's phenomenon often appears in such diseases as systemic lupus erythematosus and MCTD. Jinan Hospital is a comprehensive large hospital with complete specialties and strong technical force. There are neurology, vascular medicine, endocrinology, respiratory medicine, nephrology, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics and other specialties. The hospital has continuously increased the construction of medical facilities, and in recent years, it has invested tens of millions of yuan to configure 133 famous brand advanced equipment. There are many professional experts in the orthopedics department of the hospital, who are very accomplished in treating rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar hyperosteogeny, lumbar spondylosis, cervical spondylosis, femoral head necrosis, scoliosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, mouse hand and other diseases.