Rheumatism and Arthritis: Review of American and English Literature of Recent Years: (Fourteenth Rheumatism Review)

Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Giant‐cell Arteritis and Blindness: A Review and Case Report

“…Polymyalgia rheumatica is a chronic disease of two to four years' duration which occurs in older people, especially women, and is characterized by muscular pain predominantly of the girdle area, malaise, slight fever, sweating, and elevation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. The syndrome, frequently reported in European literature, has been described under the names of anarthritic rheumatoid disease, periarthrosis humeroscapularis, periextra‐articular rheumatism, myalgic syndrome of the aged with systemic reaction, pseudopolyarthrite rhizomélique, and giant‐cell arteritis of the aged (1, 2).…”

“…On January 15, 1965, a left temporal artery biopsy was performed and showed giant‐cell arteritis with mononuclear infiltration but no necrosis (Fig. 1) 2 .…”

Personality patterns of rheumatoid arthritic patients

“…That is, his sample was composed of males averaging 29.6 years of age, whereas most surveys indicate that a majority of rheumatoid arthritic patients are female and the incidence of the disease rises with advancing years to a peak in the fifth or sixth decade of life. 20 It was, therefore, judged valuable to obtain similar MMPI data from a group of rheumatoid arthritics more closely approximating the epidemiological findings with regard to age and sex distribution.…”