Review and facts about osteoarthritis

Osteophytes of the cervical spine

Spondylophytes or osteophytes of the cervical spine are bony outgrowths (from Greek osteon - bone and phyton - outgrowth) that can form on any of the seven cervical vertebrae by endochondral ossification, that is, ossification of cartilage.

Marginal osteophytes of the hip joint

Often during radiography of the pelvic bones, marginal osteophytes of the hip joint are detected. These are specific pathologic growths on the articular surface where the bone is covered with cartilage.

Osteophytes of the lumbar spine

Polyosteoarthritis of the joints

Osteoarthritis, or polyosteoarthritis of the joints, is a lesion of multiple mobile joints - both intervertebral and peripheral, small and large.

Osteoarthritis of the ankle.

Disease of the joint articulating the bones of the lower leg and foot, associated with its dystrophic changes and bone and cartilage degeneration, is defined as osteoarthritis or osteoarthritis of the ankle joint.

Osteoarthritis, arterial hypertension and obesity: the problem of comorbidity

In patients with osteoarthritis (OA) in combination with metabolic syndrome (MS), significant disturbances in lipid metabolism and an increase in the activity of oxidative stress were found, which contributed to the degradation of connective tissue structures of the body.

Osteoarthritis: What should the patient know?

Human joints are wonderful anatomical formations. What man-made device can exist and work for decades and decades? To better evaluate the work of such a wonderful device as joints, consider the following facts. If a person's body weight is 50 kg, with each step his knee joint bears a load of more than 150 kg.

Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis

There are a number of common factors that predispose to the development of both osteoarthritis and osteoporosis: female gender, old age, genetic predisposition (familial aggregation of the type I collagen gene, etc.), deficiency of estrogens and vitamin D, etc.

Articular cartilage repair and growth factors in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis

Thanks to the progress of biotechnology, in particular cloning technology, the list of growth factors that, being anabolic factors, play an important but not fully understood role in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis has recently been intensively expanded.

Effect of exercise on osteoarthritis

The popularity of jogging among many people around the world has recently drawn attention to long-distance running as a risk factor for osteoarthritis.