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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease with a predilection for large and small joints and with great destructive potential. Treatment should be started as early as possible to obtain the best results, including remission. Topics: analgesics and anti-inflammatories physiotherapy and exercise oral corticosteroids and injections medications that induce remission of the disease, including biologicals and other agents that modulate the immune system surgeries Dr. Ieda Laurindo has a Master's and a PhD from USP in Rheumatology, focusing on rheumatoid arthritis and inflammation. She was President of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology from 2008 to 2010. She is a member of the rheumatoid arthritis committee of the same Society and Coordinator of BiobadaBrasil - Brazilian Registry for Monitoring Biological Therapies in Rheumatic Diseases.