Doctors use synovial fluid analysis, or synovial joint analysis, to help diagnose the cause of joint pain and to rule out infection. Common causes of joint pain include rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ...

Hemarthrosis is a condition characterized by an artery bleeding in a joint cavity where two bones meet. It's common following an injury or in people who suffer from bleeding disorders like hemophilia.

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease which commonly impacts the knees, hands, hips, neck and lower back. This is the first of two stories describing recent progress in understanding the ...

First author K Elsaid (University of Rhode Island) and colleagues initially studied the phenomenon in animals and then in patients. In the first set of studies, they examined the correlation between ...

I have a patient with recurrent attacks of acute arthritis of the knee that last for about 1 week and then subside spontaneously. Joint aspiration shows inflammatory change with no crystal but a very ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Synovial fluid absolute neutrophil count had a sensitivity of 88.4% for detecting periprosthetic joint infection ...

Synovial cysts are small, fluid-filled lumps that tend to form on the lower spine. These cysts are not cancerous and may not cause any symptoms. However, they can sometimes lead to problems such as ...

Dr. Ho Sang Jung and his research team from the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), in collaboration with Seoul St. Mary's ...

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease caused by the breakdown of cartilage that afflicts more than 35 million adults in the U.S. The exact mechanism of cartilage breakdown in osteoarthritis ...

Cartilage is filled with fluid -- about 80% of the volume of the cartilage tissue -- that plays the essential roles of supporting weight and lubricating joint surfaces. Loss of this fluid, called ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Synovial fluid samples with 2 to 3 days of transport had a marginally higher mean rate of culture positivity.