الفهرس 
Review of Literature
Clinical pictures of neuromuscular disorders in RheumatoidOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory disease that chiefly synovial membranes of multiple joints in the body with many extra-articular features including central and peripheral nervous systems involvement.It is the most common inflammatory arthritis, affecting about 1%of the general population worldwide and over 10% of population obove 65 years old. The peak incidence of disease onset is between ages of 25 and 55 years old. Woman are affected three times more than men.The neuropathies associated with rheumatoid arthritis are as follow :1- vasculitis neuropathy in less than 10 percent.2- Distal axonal polyneuropathy in majority of cases.3- Trigeminal sensory neuropathy.4- Entrapment or compression neuropathies, especially carpal tunnel syndrome.The aim of this work was to study the electrophysiological changes in rheumatoid arthritis patients and correlates them with disease activity parameters.This study was carried out on thirty patients with rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed according to the American rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification rheumatoid arthritis (92) and the duration of the disease was more than 6 months. They divided into two groups.