Rheumatoid Arthritis: Current Treatments and Future Outlook

An autoimmune condition called rheumatoid arthritis (RA) results in long-term harm to a patient's bones and tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory illness that not only damages joints but, in certain cases, can cause complications that damage other systems like the skin, blood vessels, and eyes. Modern therapies for RA include application of drugs, surgery and physical treatments aiming to eliminate the activity of RA and improve patient’s living quality with the disease. Despite the rapid growth in people’s knowledge about RA in the past few decades, much of RA’s pathogenesis remains unknown and RA is often incurable. This article summarized some current therapies applied to treat the illness RA with evaluations of the efficacy and side-effects of each treatment involved, looking forward to providing the better theoretical foundation and information about the disease; also discussed the importance of developing new therapies involving different types of medicine as well as distinctive treatments for RA patients of different genders and backgrounds in the future.