Spondyloarthritis: a strong predictor of early coronary artery bypass grafting.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study mortality from infections and accuracy of pre-mortem diagnoses in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) autopsied during a 40-year period. METHODS:We investigated infectious causes of death, findings at autopsy, and clinicians' estimation of cause of death in 369 consecutively autopsied RA and 371...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Koivuniemi R,Leirisalo-Repo M,Suomalainen R,Piirainen H,Paimela L

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of spondyloarthropathies (SpA) in an adult population in Marche, a region located in central Italy. METHODS:A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted on a target adult population of 20 882. Questionnaires were sent to a random sample of 3664 individuals aged 18 years a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： De Angelis R,Salaffi F,Grassi W

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the molecular and biochemical profile of skeletal muscle mitochondria of patients with isolated polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We included patients with a recent diagnosis of PMR and as control healthy individuals submitted to orthopedic surgery. Skeletal muscle was obtaine...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Miró O,Jarreta D,Casademont J,Barrientos A,Rodríguez B,Gómez M,Nunes V,Urbano-Márquez A,Cardellach F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SA 96 (N-(2-mercapto-2-methylpropanoyl)-L-cysteine) is a new sulfhydryl compound having a relatively similar chemical structure to Tiopronin and D-penicillamine. An open trial of SA 96 treatment (300 mg/day after meals for 16 weeks) was carried out in 11 patients with definite or classical rheumatoid arthritis and wit...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Ishikawa K,Sakaguchi M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that synoviocytes and extracellular matrices exhibit distinct patterns of carbohydrate expression. Their biological relevance is however not known. The purpose of the present study was to find out whether human synovial tissue would also show a specific receptor pattern for complex sugar molecul...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Zschäbitz A,Gabius HJ,Stofft E,Reichel W

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The human urate transporter 1 (URAT1, encoded by SLC22A12) was recently identified as the major absorptive urate transporter protein in the kidney responsible for regulating blood urate levels. The present study was designed to investigate the rs893006 polymorphism (GG, GT, and TT) in SLC22A12 in a total of ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Guan M,Zhang J,Chen Y,Liu W,Kong N,Zou H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of cryoglobulinemia and C4 deficiency was found in one family. Twelve subjects were examined, most of them being asymptomatic. Cryoglobulins were found in 9 members and its type was defined in 6 of them, 3 having mixed IgM-IgG and 3 having monoclonal IgM cryoglobulins. The concentration of the third co...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Berliner S,Weinberger A,Zamir R,Hazaz B,Pinkhas J

更新日期：1984-01-01 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:We aimed to investigate the possible effects of vimentin (Vim) and citrullinated Vim (cVim) on proliferation capacity, pro-inflammatory cytokine secretion, and the expression of peptidylarginine deiminase type 4 (PADI4) and receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL) in cultured fibroblast-li...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Fan LY,He DY,Wang Q,Zong M,Zhang H,Yang L,Sun LS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of low-dose oral methotrexate (MTX) as treatment for patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) resistant to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). METHODS:The subjects were four patients with KD, aged 8 months to 8 years old, who showed persistent disease after treatment with high-dose IVIG (2 g...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Ahn SY,Kim DS

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：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：:The ARA and the New York diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis were studied in 411 patients with a recent inflammatory joint disease (100 with RA, 311 with other disease) in order to evaluate their value in distinguishing progressive rheumatoid arthritis from other joint diseases. Rheumatoid factor, symmetrical...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Kaarela K,Hämeenkorpi R,Isomäki H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is evidence that fat tissue may influence the response to therapy in patients with arthritis. The aim of this study was to assess whether the body mass index (BMI) affects rates of clinical remission in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α biological ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Iannone F,Fanizzi R,Scioscia C,Anelli MG,Lapadula G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sets out to determine predictors of marital and sexual satisfaction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their spouses. Fifty-nine patients and their spouses completed questionnaires independent from each other. Multiple correlations with marital and sexual satisfaction were computed for demograph...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： van Lankveld W,Ruiterkamp G,Näring G,de Rooij DJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effect of dialysable leucocyte extract (DLE) on pro- and anti-inflammatory profiles in a rat model of osteoarthritis (OA). METHOD:Forty-eight male Wistar rats were divided into three groups: normal rats without treatment, OA rats treated with placebo, and OA rats treated with DLE. After trea...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Acosta P,Pérez N,Pérez E,Correa B,Pérez C,Gómez C,Sánchez V,Pérez DG

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to clarify factors related to the pathogenesis of experimental osteoarthritis, biochemical alterations were studied in articular soft tissues of adult rabbits through the immobilization of the knee of the hind leg in extension for 3, 7, 11, 18, 35 or 56 days. The medial collateral ligament and medial meni...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Eronen I,Videman T,Kurppa K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by the obliteration of arterioles and a reduced capillary density in various tissues. In SSc, atrophic alterations of the choroid have been suggested based on morphological data acquired by optical coherence tomography (OCT). In this study, we aimed ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Ranjbar M,Rothe M,Klapa S,Lange T,Prasuhn M,Grisanti S,Riemekasten G,Humrich JY

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degrees of anaemia and microcytosis in 100 patients with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) were analysed according to the pattern of disease and its activity. Microcytosis was common (40% of patients had a mean corpuscular volume (MCV) of less than 75 fl), sometimes severe (MCV less than 65 fl in 14 patients), and ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Harvey AR,Pippard MJ,Ansell BM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of osmium tetroxide, which is used in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, was histologically and electronmicroscopically examined in the normal synovial membrane of the rabbit. The animals were albino rabbits, and they were 20 altogether. 0.3 ml. of 1% OsO(4) solution was injected, i.a., in the right knee. T...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Möttönen M,Pantio M,Nevalainen T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether high-frequency ultrasound (US) yielding separate assessments of intima and media thickness gives additional information about the vascular morphology compared with the total common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CCA-IMT). METHODS:Using a 22 MHz US instrument, we determined the ne...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Leonard D,Akhter T,Nordmark G,Rönnblom L,Naessen T

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To compare prognosis parameters and arterial site involvement in Takayasu arteritis (TA) patients with disease onset at age ≤ 18 and ≥ 21 years. METHODS:Sixty-two TA patients [American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and European League Against Rheumatism/Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (EULAR/PreS) ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Jales-Neto LH,Levy-Neto M,Bonfa E,de Carvalho JF,Pereira RM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for bone lesions typical of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the wrist joints of healthy individuals. METHODS:Thirty-one symptomless healthy persons (13/18 men/women), mean age 49 years (range 32-64 years), were included. MRI scans and radiographs of both wrists ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Palosaari K,Vuotila J,Soini I,Kaarela K,Kautiainen H,Hakala M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the risk of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) between patients with and without ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHOD:This retrospective cohort study identified all patients with AS aged ≥ 18 years newly diagnosed from 2000 to 2009, registered in the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Chou CH,Lin MC,Peng CL,Wu YC,Sung FC,Kao CH,Liu SH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysozyme (LZM) concentrations in synovial fluid were determined in patients with seropositive and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and in patients whose arthritic exudates had been caused by Reiter's disease, a Yersinia enterocolitica infection, osteoarthritis, or trauma. Patients with rheumatoid disease had sig...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Klockars M,Pettersson T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the feasibility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided high power focused ultrasound (FUS) to perform synovectomy noninvasively. METHODS:Five New Zealand white male rabbit knees with experimentally induced arthritis underwent MRI-guided thermal surgery by high power (60 W/10 s) sonication....

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Foldes K,Hynynen K,Shortkroff S,Winalski CS,Collucci V,Koskinen SK,McDannold N,Jolesz F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Over the past few years researchers have suggested that vitamin D plays a diverse role in autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We sought to determine the prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency in a cohort of non-supplemented female SLE patients from the Mediterranean reg...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Muñoz-Ortego J,Torrente-Segarra V,Prieto-Alhambra D,Salman-Monte TC,Carbonell-Abello J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of clinical, immunological and HLA-D region antigen features was made between 22 patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and 118 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), scleroderma or primary Sjögren's syndrome. The MCTD patients had hypergammaglobulinemia more often than did those ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hämeenkorpi R,Ruuska P,Forsberg S,Tiilikainen R,Mäkitalo R,Hakala M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00