Antiphosphatidylethanolamine antibodies contribute to the diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective was to prospectively evaluate the short as well as the long-term effects of intensive physiotherapy in a stable, sunny and warm climate on physical function and health related quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondylarthropathies (SpA). METHODS:Ninety-three Swedish...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hafström I,Hallengren M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of 113 knees of 72 patients treated with intra-articular injection of osmic acid for chronic exudative synovitis caused by various rheumatic diseases is reported. Certain cases presented abnormal radiological opacities, statistically more frequent after the injection of 200 mg than after 100 mg of osmic acid (...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Boussina I,Lagier R,Ott H,Fallet GH

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiological examinations of the temporomandibular joints are not so often performed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, greater abnormalities of the mandibular head and neck may be evaluated at cervical radiography. With a new method, where the perpendicular distance from the palato-occipital line to...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Redlund-Johnell I

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linné and Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages, two botanists and physicians of the mideighteenth century, proposed systems for the classification of diseases. Their medical works have been examined for passages suggestive of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). References to gouty arthritis dominated in Linné's works. Sauvages des...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hansen SE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of PAF-acether (PAF), its specific degrading enzyme acetylhydrolase, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) concentrations in blood and synovial fluid (SF) from patients with active RA. The variations of the mediators were also evaluated after corticosteroid perfusions in 7 ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hilliquin P,Houbaba H,Aissa J,Benveniste J,Menkes CJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vascular endothelial function and common carotid artery intima-medial thickness (CCA-IMT) are well-established surrogate markers for early atherosclerotic disease, which accounts for 30-40% of excess mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Our aim was to investigate whether long-term treatment with ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Sidiropoulos PI,Siakka P,Pagonidis K,Raptopoulou A,Kritikos H,Tsetis D,Boumpas DT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report mortality and disability due to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2015. METHOD:Using the results of GBD 2015, we present rates and trends in prevalence, mortality, years ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Kiadaliri AA,Kristensen LE,Englund M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to study the long-term effect (2 years) of different training programs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The method was a randomized trial with 75 patients participating. The measured variables included morning stiffness, a pain score, number of swollen joints, a health assessment score, a funct...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hansen TM,Hansen G,Langgaard AM,Rasmussen JO

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation between four radiologists in the evaluation of hand, wrist, and foot radiographs of rheumatoid arthritis was examined. The recognition of individual radiologic changes varied considerably as judged by the findings of the different observers. Erosion and joint space narrowing were interpreted more uniform...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Larsen A,Edgren J,Harju E,Laasonen L,Reitamo T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Chronic inflammation, as determined by persistently elevated acute-phase reactants in attack-free periods, can occasionally be observed in patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and is suggested to be a risk factor for the development of amyloidosis. We aimed to investigate the underlying causes ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Varan O,Kucuk H,Babaoglu H,Tecer D,Atas N,Bilici Salman R,Satıs H,Ozturk MA,Haznedaroglu S,Goker B,Tufan A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effects of physiologically relevant concentrations of multimeric adiponectin isoforms and leptin on the function of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHOD:FLS, isolated from the synovial tissue of 21 RA patients, were stimulated for 24 h with ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Kontny E,Janicka I,Skalska U,Maśliński W

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess 12-month changes in nutritional status and quality of life (QoL) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients requiring home parenteral nutrition (HPN). METHOD:We conducted a retrospective, single-centre database analysis of SSc patients regarding a 12-month period of HPN at an interdisciplinary Universit...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Stanga Z,Aeberhard C,Schärer P,Kocher A,Adler S,Villiger PM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shoulder muscle performance was tested in 8 working ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients and compared with 10 healthy male referents. The AS patients were all in a non-active state and had no shoulder symptoms. Electromyographic fatigue development in the descending part of the trapezius muscle was significantly faste...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hagberg M,Hagner IM,Bjelle A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With improved disease survival, arterial thromboembolism has become an important cause of morbidity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A number of conventional and non-conventional risk factors are associated with accelerated atherosclerosis. Regular surveillance and control of traditional risk facto...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Mok CC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplicate platelet survival studies were carried out on 10 patients with SLE. At the time of the first study 5 of them (group I) were untreated and the remaining 5 (group II) were receiving corticosteroid (CS) therapy. The second study was performed while group I patients received CS and group II patients CS + azathio...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Kutti J,Bergström AL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic inflammatory response to abrasion particles from total hip replacement (THR) is believed to cause osteolysis and to contribute to prosthetic loosening. The expression of interleukin-11(IL-11) and its major cellular sources in the interface and pseudocapsular tissues obtained from total hip revisions perfor...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Xu JW,Li TF,Partsch G,Ceponis A,Santavirta S,Konttinen YT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid synovial tissue cell proliferation was studied by incubating fresh synovial tissue samples with [3H]-thymidine in vitro. The samples were collected at operation from 7 rheumatoid patients. It was found that 0.9-4.9% of the total cell population, excluding the synovial lining cells, became labelled. ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Nykänen PJ,Jyväsjärvi SH,Pätiälä HV

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of cyclosporine A (CsA) in combination with methotrexate (MTX) or hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Fourteen patients with active RA who had failed to respond adequately to injectable MTX and 14 who had failed to respond to oral HCQ h...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Salaffi F,Carotti M,Cervini C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish by ultrasonography (US) the frequency of calcaneal entheses involvement in erosive osteoarthritis (EOA), nodal osteoarthritis (NOA), RA and PsA, and to compare these results in order to aid clinicians in the differential diagnosis among these diseases. A comparison between US results and radiogra...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Falsetti P,Frediani B,Fioravanti A,Acciai C,Baldi F,Filippou G,Marcolongo R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fc-receptors for IgG (Fc gamma R) are important triggers of effector function in macrophages. We have investigated the distribution of cells bearing Fc gamma R I, Fc gamma R II, and Fc gamma R III in 14 synovia and 3 nodules from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, using monoclonal antibodies on serial cryostat sectio...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Bröker BM,Edwards JC,Fanger MW,Lydyard PM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to establish the benefit of an additional hypothetical laboratory criterion for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), comprising positivity for antikeratin antibody (AKA) and/or antiperinuclear factor (APF). The tests were applied to a series of 308 hospital patients with various recent-onset inflammator...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： von Essen R,Kurki P,Isomäki H,Okubo S,Kautiainen H,Aho K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The results of previous studies on the association between bone mineral density (BMD) and chronic spinal syndromes have been contradictory. Therefore, we studied relative BMD measured by the metacarpal index (MCI) and its associations with chronic neck and low-back syndromes and diffuse idiopathic skeletal h...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Haara MM,Arokoski JP,Kröger H,Kärkkäinen A,Manninen P,Knekt P,Impivaara O,Heliövaara M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate changes in whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WBMRI) inflammatory and structural lesions in most joints and entheses in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with adalimumab. METHODS:WBMRI was obtained at weeks 0, 6, 16, and 52 in a 52 week follow-up study of 37 RA patients start...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Axelsen MB,Eshed I,Østergaard M,Hetland ML,Møller JM,Jensen DV,Krintel SB,Hansen MS,Terslev L,Klarlund M,Poggenborg RP,Balding L,Pedersen SJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological and emotional status was assessed in 36 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with the General Health Questionnaire-30 (GHQ-30) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) questionnaires. The two tests were found to measure different aspects of psychological functioning. More than 5...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Waterloo K,Omdal R,Husby G,Mellgren SI

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our previous study identified rs559946, a human urate transporter 1 (hURAT1) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), as being significantly associated with risk of primary hyperuricaemia (HUA) in a Han Chinese population. In the current study we aimed to identify the genetic effects of rs559946 on gout suscept...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Li C,Yu Q,Han L,Wang C,Chu N,Liu S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus infection commonly presents as sepsis or wound infection. A case of alcoholic liver cirrhosis developed acute left heel pain and swelling 2 days after ingesting raw fish. Two sets of blood cultures indicated V. vulnificus. HLA-B27 was negative. Ultrasonography revealed left Achilles tendinitis. Fluid...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Yang CH,Shie SS,Yu KH,Jan Wu YJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled cross over study on the effect of fasting on cyclic nucleotide and catecholamine excretion was carried out in 12 female RA patients. They were hospitalized during a control and fasting period. The fasting period started with 3 days of habituation to hospital conditions, followed by 7 days of total fasting...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Trang LE,Lövgren O,Norlund AE,Horn R,Walaas O

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Pain is a common and distressing feature of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Pain interference (PI) is underexplored in long-term conditions such as JIA. The aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with PI in young adults with JIA. Methods: All consecutive JIA patients aged 18-30 years i...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Rebane K,Orenius T,Ristolainen L,Relas H,Kautiainen H,Luosujärvi R,Säilä H,Aalto K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure serum levels of antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP antibodies) and serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) in patients with early joint inflammation, and to study the correlation of these two tests with clinical measurements. METHODS:Adult patients with recent-onset...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Söderlin MK,Kastbom A,Kautiainen H,Leirisalo-Repo M,Strandberg G,Skogh T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is reported in whom, at the time of diagnosis, the number of lymphocytes in peripheral blood and bone marrow was normal. Lymphocytic infiltration typical of PMR was detected in renal and muscle biopsy specimens, and a liver fine-needle aspirate contained an abnormal lymphocy...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： von Knorring J,Selroos O

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00