Pathogenesis, clinical symptoms and therapy of rheumatoid arthritis -- Osteoporosis in rheumatoid arthritis in elderly patients -- Biological therapy of rheumatoid arthritis -- Systemic lupus erythematosus -- Sjögren’s syndrome -- Systemic scleroderma -- Vasculitis -- Polymyalgia rheumatic and giant cell arteritis -- Aortal aneurysm as a lethal complication of giant cell arteritis -- Relapsing polychondritis -- RS3PE – a disease or a syndrome? -- Clinical and laboratory features of paraneoplastic rheumatic syndromes -- Osteoarthritis -- Arthropathy in hemochromatosis -- Diabetic Charcot's neurogenic osteoarthropathy -- Changes of musculoskeletal system in metabolic syndrome -- Clinical symptoms in gouty arthritis -- X-ray and ultrasound picture of chondrocalcinosis -- Alkaptonuria and ochronosis -- Metabolic osteopathy in celiac disease manifested in elderly patients -- Celiac disease in elderly patients -- Bone and joint involvement in celiac disease -- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis -- Senile osteoporosis -- Nutrition and osteoporosis -- Neck and shoulder pain -- Vertebrogenic diseases -- Pain -- Pharmacotherapy of rheumatic diseases -- Drug-induced rheumatic syndromes -- Rehabilitation in rheumatic diseases -- Surgical treatment of the consequences of rheumatic diseases -- Paget’s disease of bone -- Involutional osteoporosis: sarcopenia, frailty syndrome and falls -- Systemic enzyme therapy in complex treatment of degenerative rheumatic diseases in the elderly patients.