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  2. Knee arthritis - Wikipedia

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    Arthritis of the knee is typically a particularly debilitating form of arthritis. [1] The knee may become affected by almost any form of arthritis. [2] The word arthritis refers to inflammation of the joints. [3][4] Types of arthritis include those related to wear and tear of cartilage, such as osteoarthritis, to those associated with ...

  3. Disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug - Wikipedia

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    A disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug (DMOAD) is a disease-modifying drug that would inhibit or even reverse the progression of osteoarthritis. [1] Since the main hallmark of osteoarthritis is cartilage loss, a typical DMOAD would prevent the loss of cartilage and potentially regenerate it. Other DMOADs may attempt to help repair adjacent ...

  4. Wrist osteoarthritis - Wikipedia

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    Wrist osteoarthritis. Wrist osteoarthritis is gradual loss of articular cartilage and hypertrophic bone changes (osteophytes). While in many joints this is part of normal aging (senescence), in the wrist osteoarthritis usually occurs over years to decades after scapholunate interosseous ligament rupture or an unhealed fracture of the scaphoid.

  5. Trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis - Wikipedia

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    Trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis (TMC OA) is, also known as osteoarthritis at the base of the thumb, thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis, basilar (or basal) joint arthritis, or as rhizarthrosis. [3][1][2] This joint is formed by the trapezium bone of the wrist and the metacarpal bone of the thumb. This is one of the joints where most humans ...

  6. Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug - Wikipedia

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    Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) comprise a category of otherwise unrelated disease-modifying drugs defined by their use in rheumatoid arthritis to slow down disease progression. [1][2] The term is often used in contrast to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (which refers to agents that treat the inflammation, but not the ...

  7. Gene therapy for osteoarthritis - Wikipedia

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    Gene therapy for osteoarthritis. Gene therapy for osteoarthritis is the application of gene therapy to treat osteoarthritis (OA). Unlike pharmacological treatments which are administered locally or systemically as a series of interventions, gene therapy aims to establish sustained therapeutic effect after a single, local injection. [1]