Secretory pattern of GH, TSH, thyroid hormones, ACTH, cortisol, FSH, and LH in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome following systemic injection of the relevant hypothalamic-releasing hormones.

abstract：:30 patients with hepatitis, 50 patients with gynecological diseases, and 100 with urological diseases were investigated with regards to lumbago to find out whether there is a correlation between the internal disease and the signs of low back pain. The patients were compared with a control group of 33 healthy people. T...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Tilscher H,Bogner G,Landsiedl F

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a classic systemic autoimmune disease. Standard treatment consists of chronic therapy with antimalarials, glucocorticoids and immunosuppressive/cytotoxic drugs, which is associated with considerable side effects. In contrast, immunoablation of autoreactive immunologic memory follo...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Alexander T,Arnold R,Hiepe F

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors：

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid vasculitis usually occurs on the background of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis, although in rare cases the patients can be seronegative. We report a woman with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid vasculitis who developed toxic epidermal necrolysis involving most of her body surface area, whi...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Chowdhury AC,Misra DP,Patro PS,Agarwal V

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The choice between outpatient and inpatient care is currently undergoing major changes within the German health care system with the amendment of § 116b SGB V. This study investigates what proportion of hitherto inpatient rheumatologic care could potentially be given on an outpatient basis. METHODS:The anal...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Rath T,Bokern E,Sefo-Bukow E,Büscher G,Lüngen M,Rubbert-Roth A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the group of inflammatory rheumatic diseases, spondyloarthropathy is the most common diagnosis after rheumatoid arthritis. Its prevalence was long underestimated. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and undifferentiated spondyloathropathy (uSpA) are the most common subgroups in western countries. There are still diffic...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Haibel H,Rudwaleit M,Braun J,Sieper J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 60 year old patient with peripheral neuropathy, neurogenic muscular atrophy, skin ulcers, arthritis and weakness. Detection of cryoglobulins in association with typical clinical symptoms, exclusion of hepatitis C and any other disease led to a rare diagnosis: essential cryoglobulinemic vasculitis. The c...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Strunk J,Taborski U,Neeck G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pressure load is critical for vascular wall alteration. Systolic blood pressure was measured by Doppler sonography in the finger and arm arteries of 24 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and compared to a control group (n = 22) of nearly the same age. The transmitter frequency of the ultrasound probe was 9.6 MHz. ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Beste KW

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OM 8930, a bacterial product with immunostimulatory capacities, was studied for its efficacy in the long-term treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Ten (10) patients with active seropositive rheumatoid arthritis were treated intermittently for six months with the agent and were evaluated according to clinical, labor...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Rosenthal M,Plattner S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health services research in rheumatology investigates the healthcare needs, the quality of care and trends in healthcare for patients with musculoskeletal disorders. Using rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as an example, key results of health services research during the last 25 years are summarized. There are currently appro...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Zink A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated monocytes/macrophages secrete monokines, regulatory proteins which are capable of initiating and maintaining immune processes as well as having an effect on other non immunocompetent cells. In rheumatoid arthritis the monokine Interleukin-1 (IL-1) was detected in the synovial fluid. IL-1 activates immunocomp...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Hermann E,Müller W

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behçet's disease (BD) is a recurrent, multisystemic, inflammatory blood vessel disorder that can result in mouth, genital, and skin ulcers; arthritis; and eye and intestinal inflammation. We describe a 21-year-old Korean female patient with intestinal BD refractory to conventional medical treatment and biologic drugs....

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Kim HJ,Kim KT,Lee SG,Kim Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporomandibular joint affections in rheumatic disease are described. They were seen in inflamed joint diseases, mostly in rheumatoid arthritis, and less so in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis, and collagen vascular disease. In osteoarthrosis, the temporoma...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Wörth WD,Keller B,Graber G,Müller W

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reduce the prognostically relevant time interval between the initial manifestation of a rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease and diagnosis as well as the consecutive initiation of an appropriate treatment, several rheumatological centers in Germany have improved the access to initial rheumatologic evaluat...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Benesova K,Lorenz HM,Lion V,Voigt A,Krause A,Sander O,Schneider M,Feuchtenberger M,Nigg A,Leipe J,Briem S,Tiessen E,Haas F,Rihl M,Meyer-Olson D,Baraliakos X,Braun J,Schwarting A,Dreher M,Witte T,Assmann G,Hoeper

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory myopathies are as a rule rare diseases of skeletal muscle. In the majority of cases noninfective autoimmunological reactions are assumed. Only few diseases have an infectious origin. From a myopathological point of view, polymyositis must be selected from interstitial nodular myositis. The most important ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Pongratz D

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old female patient with rheumatoid arthritis was diagnosed with Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PcP) following therapy with methotrexate and prednisone. Although bactrim treatment was initiated and PcP was not detected by a control bronchoalveolar lavage, the patient died. The precise cause of death remains...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Bertisch B,Ruef C

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sequential study the pathogenesis of chronic polyarthritis occurring spontaneously in MRL mice was analysed by light microscopy. A total of 128 MRL mice of both substrains (MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr and +/+) and different age groups was studied. In 50 lpr/lpr mice, tinctorial and histochemical methods were applied for the i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Hewicker M,Garcés LH,Kromschröder E,Trautwein G

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the information gained from anamnesis which points to a psychogenetic cause of rheumatic complaints. These symptoms are part of the diagnostically important criteria which must be supplemented still further by means of a personal discussion with the patient. A great deal depends on the skill of th...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Mathies H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of synovitis was studied in 64 rabbits with experimentally produced allergic arthritis and in 30 rabbits with experimentally produced non-allergic arthritis. The results are compared with the morphological changes of the synovial membrane in rheumatoid arthritis, especially in early stages, known from ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Püschel W

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and electron microscopic investigations of joint cartilage in 13 cases of septic arthritis revealed sites of cartilaginous matrix infiltrated with polymorphonuclear granulocytes. This finding confirms rather unknown morphological works done by investigators on this diseases in the late 19th and beginning of the ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Gauger M,Mohr W

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1978 a 63-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis received D-penicillamine (D-PA) in a daily dose of 250-500 mg (mean 300 mg/d). In 1982 the patient complained of diplopia for several days, the ophthalmological and neurological examinations three days later were normal. In July 1983 she developed a myasthenic s...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Kolarz G,Maida EM

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alopecia universalis is an advanced form of alopecia areata, characterized by complete loss of hair on all hair-bearing areas. It is currently believed to be an autoimmune disorder. The development of alopecia during treatment with tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors is a rarely observed adverse event. This...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Ostojic P,Pavlov-Dolijanovic S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 36-year old man with Behçet's disease (BS) for 16 years had low back pain and stiffness in the cervical and lumbar spine. He was diagnosed as having ankylosing spondylitis (AS). In this report we wish to emphasize the clinically occult co-existence of AS in BS and revelation of AS after a long time of BS...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Cimen OB,Sahin G,Biçer A,Erdoğan C

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rheumatic diseases, radiation synovectomy is a reliable method. Meanwhile, radiation synovectomy is an outpatient therapy. In addition, combination with arthroscopic synovectomy is an increasing therapeutic modality. In comparison to the hitherto inpatient modality, a greater lymphatic emigration of the radionuclid...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Klett R,Puille M,Matter HP,Steiner D,Stürz H,Bauer R

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient developed systemic rash, lung edema, electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities and fulminant hepatitis with partial liver failure 4 weeks after the start of sulfasalazine treatment. Peripheral T-cell activation, a positive PCR test for human herpesvirus (HHV) 6 as well as eosinophilia in bronchial lavage ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Pirklbauer M,Gruber J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the introduction of biologic treatment in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), disease activity and treatment modalities have changed substantially. The current provision and developments in recent years are analyzed with annual data from the National Database of the Collaborative Arthritis Centers in Germany. ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Albrecht K,Huscher D,Eidner T,Kleinert S,Späthling-Mestekemper S,Bischoff S,Zink A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their anti-inflammatory effects and their capacity to affect the synthesis of most cytokines and the Th1/Th2 balance, endogenous glucocorticoids contribute to control the basal operation of immune cells. Immune processes result in the production of cytokines, such as IL-1, IL-2, IL-6, IL-11, IL-12, TNF-alpha, a...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Besedovsky HO,del Rey A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:42 patients with definite or classic rheumatoid arthritis were treated with an enzyme mixture (Wobenzym) for 6 weeks. Circulating immune complexes were investigated with a Clq-solid phase RIA in weekly intervals and also rheumatoid factors were determined together with other routine laboratory tests. The condition of ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Steffen C,Smolen J,Miehlke K,Hörger I,Menzel J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rheumatoid arthritis is found in approximately 2 % of the total population in Europe and the peak incidence of the disease is during the fourth and fifth decades of life. In approximately 15 % the first symptoms of the disease occur at the level of the foot and ankle. If the early stage-dependent therapy wit...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Thomas M,Jordan M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic sclerosis is a rare rheumatologic disease that is characterised by skin and organ fibrosis as well as vascular changes and the occurrence of specific autoantibodies. It has a high morbidity and mortality while its manifestations show significant heterogeneity in patients. Thus, diagnosis and follow-up of pati...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Becker MO,Distler O,Maurer B

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00