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Correspondence
Protective effect of gold rings and rheumatoid arthritis
  1. HORAŢIU D BOLOŞIU
  1. Department of Rheumatology, Medical Clinic II, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj, Str. Clinicilor 2–4, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.57.5.323

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      I found the article of Mulherin and colleagues1regarding a presumably protective effect of gold rings against articular erosions in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) very interesting, but it surely raises more problems than it can solve.

      A few years ago we published a similar observation2 that contradicts the hypothesis that the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint of the left ring finger would have remained less affected by the disease because of lymphatic drainage of the gold from the ring worn distally to it.

      Our case was a …

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