After RA has been diagnosed and an initial evaluation performed, treatment should begin.

Goals of
therapy include minimizing joint pain and swelling, preventing deformity (such as ulnar deviation)
and radiographic damage (such as erosions), maintaining quality of life (personal and work), and
controlling extra-articular manifestations. Diseasemodifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are the
mainstay of RA therapy. (Platini, 2018)

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