Pisetsky on Digital Infarcts and Rheumatoid Vasculitis Save

"As scholars of disease have noted, RA today appears to be a less severe disease than it was when I started my career in the 1970s. Then, patients routinely ‘went up in smoke’ and rapidly became crippled, wasting away in a state we called ‘burnt out’. Life expectancy with advanced RA could approach that of a malignancy but now, in some studies, patients with RA do as well as the general population....."