Relationship of serum TWEAK level to cytokine level, disease activity, and response to anti-TNF treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

abstract：:The relative value of nine spinal and thoracic mobility measurements was investigated in 73 male patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The value of a test was obtained by the relative ranks of validity, reliability and sensitivity to change. Validity was determined as age-adjusted correlation of the test result w...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Viitanen JV,Kautiainen H,Suni J,Kokko ML,Lehtinen K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of glycosaminoglycan polysulphate as medication for osteoarthritis was studied in an experimental model of osteoarthritis induced by periodic immobilization of rabbit knees. In a pilot experiment with 5 weeks of continuous immobilization there were indistinct differences between treated and control groups. ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Vanharanta H

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:A patient with familial Pelger-Huet (PH) anomaly, which accompanied tuberculosis, and acute polyarthritis is described. Investigations surrounding this case suggests that the immunological abnormalities may be associated with the PH anomaly and the tuberculosis, and that the complications may be related to the develop...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Suzuki N,Yasutake T,Ushiyama O,Hiida M,Ohta A,Yamaguchi M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the synovial fluids and sera of patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and to identify the IL-6-secreting cells. METHODS:Serum, synovial fluid, synovial tissue, and articular cartilage samples were collected from 49 OA patients with end-stage knee or hip OA who und...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Doss F,Menard J,Hauschild M,Kreutzer HJ,Mittlmeier T,Müller-Steinhardt M,Müller B

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free, total, and peptide hydroxyproline levels were determined in synovial fluid obtained from the knee joints of 60 patients with theumatoid arthritis (RA), and 26 patients with degenerative joint disease. In addition, in 160 synovial fluid samples obtained from 121 patients including 50 with degenerative joint disea...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Wize J,Sopata I,Gietka J,Jakubowski S,Kruze D

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of gold-induced enterocolitis in a 69-year-old female with rheumatoid arthritis who had received the new gold compound by oral administration (Auranofin (AF) for 4 weeks) is reported. Mild diarrhoea is a commonly described side effect accompanying AF, but in this case a severe colitis developed. The course of t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Jarner D,Nielsen AM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protracted febrile myalgia (PFM) is a rare form of vasculitic disease that affects patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Mutation analysis performed in 15 patients who suffered from this disorder showed that 9 of the 15 patients were homozygous for M694V. FMF in these 9 patients was associated with more se...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Sidi G,Shinar Y,Livneh A,Langevitz P,Pras M,Pras E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in 1,287 persons living in densely populated areas and 1, 287 persons living in thinly populated areas, matched as to sex, age, occupation and geographical area, was compared. The patient material was obtained in an epidemiological survey of rheumatoid arthritis (ARA definition) ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hellgren L

更新日期：1987-01-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In 2010, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) proposed new criteria for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) in the context of objections to components of the criteria of 1990. The new criteria consider the Widespread Pain Index (WPI) and the Symptom Severity Score (SSS). This study evaluated the implica...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Egloff N,von Känel R,Müller V,Egle UT,Kokinogenis G,Lederbogen S,Durrer B,Stauber S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present randomized controlled trial compared arthrocentesis of the effusive knee followed by corticosteroid injection performed by the conventional anatomic landmark palpation-guided technique to the same procedure performed with ultrasound (US) needle guidance. METHODS:Sixty-four palpably effusive knees...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Sibbitt WL Jr,Kettwich LG,Band PA,Chavez-Chiang NR,DeLea SL,Haseler LJ,Bankhurst AD

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the fluorescence polarization of 1.6-diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene, the membrane fluidity of lymphocytes obtained from rheumatoid arthritis patients was measured during 12 months of auranofin treatment. Significant differences in fluorescence polarization values were observed following auranofin treatment. The cor...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Beccerica E,Piergiacomi G,Curatola G,Ferretti G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight patients (age 27-73 years) with unilateral hip pain, restricted movement of the hip joint and radiologically no or only slight osteoarthrosis were studied in a double-blind controlled clinical trial. Twenty-one patients received active treatment with hip joint distension arthrography and 17 received place...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Høilund-Carlsen PF,Meinicke J,Christiansen B,Karle AK,Stage P,Uhrenholdt A

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To compare the prognosis of subacromial impingement (SAI) stage II treated conservatively or with subacromial decompression. METHODS:A follow-up study after 4-8 years in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 90 adult cases with SAI treated in a Danish hospital from 1996 to 2000 with graded physiotherapy ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Haahr JP,Andersen JH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of C-reactive protein (CRP) elevation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the pretreatment stage was assessed with reference to other laboratory data obtained simultaneously. Sixteen of 31 cases were CRP-positive, and the CR-positive group contained significantly more cases with uri...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Inoue T,Kanayama Y,Katoh N,Ohe A,Amatsu K,Okamura M,Horiguchi T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is thought that glucocorticosteroids impair the clearance of immune complexes by the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS). We studied the effect of a five day course of prednisone (1 mg/kg body weight per day) on MPS function in 10 healthy volunteers, using soluble radiolabeled aggregates of human immunoglobulin G as...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Halma C,Daha MR,Evers-Schouten JH,Pauwels EK,van Es LA

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy of adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA) taking concomitant methotrexate (MTX) by calculating the number needed to treat (NNT) using three different methods. METHODS:A systematic literature search of the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Kristensen LE,Christensen R,Bliddal H,Geborek P,Danneskiold-Samsøe B,Saxne T

更新日期：2007-11-01 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 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：OBJECTIVES:Progressive destruction of synovial joint cartilage and bone occurs in pathological conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) because of the overproduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and activation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB). Through the screening of NF-κB inhibitors by a luciferase reporter gen...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Liu Q,Zhao J,Tan R,Zhou H,Lin Z,Zheng M,Romas E,Xu J,Sims NA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Calcium hydroxyapatite (HA) is reported to be the major constituent of soft tissue calcinosis in patients with scleroderma (systemic sclerosis, SSc). Mechanical stress and local tissue hypoxia are thought to be important in the pathogenesis of SSc calcinosis. We sought to analyse spontaneously draining mater...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hsu VM,Emge T,Schlesinger N

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: To study associations between different anthropometric measures and incident gout, and to find the best predictive measure. Method: We used the baseline investigation from the Malmö Diet and Cancer study, excluding cases of prevalent gout (n = 28 081). Cox regression for each anthropometric measurement was...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Wändell P,Andreasson A,Hagström H,Kapetanovic MC,Carlsson AC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and serositis. Typical attacks of FMF last 3 to 5 days. Fever and myalgia are not always improved by colchicine therapy and sometimes require steroid therapy. We present two cases of severe prolonged febrile myalgia where steroid therapy...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Odabas AR,Cetinkaya R,Selcuk Y,Kaya H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 41-year-old man diagnosed with Still's disease. Multiple disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) therapies failed to induce disease remission or to prevent progressive joint destruction. The man presented with active arthritis and classical Still's rash accompanied by fever. Anti-tumour n...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Thonhofer R,Soleiman A,Kriessmayr M,Thonhofer U,Wipfler E,Gaugg M,Eder S,Erlacher L

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether HLA-DR alleles are associated with the development and clinical features of systemic sclerosis (SSc) in Koreans. METHODS:Seventy-nine patients (74 women and five men; 45 diffuse types and 34 limited types; mean age at diagnosis 43.9 years) fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Joung CI,Jun JB,Chung WT,Song GG,Choe JY,Chang HK,Yoo DH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study was done to determine whether the new SCORE (Simple Calculated Osteoporosis Risk Estimation) index might reduce the utilization of bone mineral density (BMD) measurement. METHODS:989 consecutive patients who were referred by a range of physicians for BMD assessments at one of two clinics had a SCO...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Russell AS,Morrison RT

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the expression of bcl-2, p53, and caspase 3, and measure the Ki-67 proliferation index as well as DNA content and DNA fragmentation in a case of diffuse pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) of the knee with aggressive clinical behaviour. METHODS:Expression of p53, Bcl-2 and Ki-67 was investig...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Berger I,Paessler HH,Weckauf H,Ehemann V,Helmchen B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00