The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

 

Volume 70 Number 1
January 2003
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Inflammatory Arthritis in the Elderly 23-26

Leslie Dubin Kerr, M.D.

Address correspondence to Leslie Dubin Kerr, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, Division of Rheumatology, Box 1244, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029.

This work is based on a presentation at the Geriatric Medicine Update and Board Review at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY on October 5–8, 2001.

ABSTRACT

The three most common inflammatory arthritic conditions affecting the elderly are reviewed, along with current information about the various treatments.

KEYWORDS

Elderly, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout.


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