Rheumatoid arthritis evaluated by locomotion score. A population study.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of TNF blocking therapy on synovial immune activity in rat adjuvant arthritis (AA) by measuring mRNA expression of key macrophage and T cell cytokines during PEG sTNF-RI treatment (10mg/kg) on days 8, 10 and 12. METHODS:Paw volume was assessed every 3-4 days. Ankles were removed fo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Bush KA,Walker JS,Frazier J,Kirkham BW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the prevalence of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with different forms of connective tissue disease (CTD) using non-invasive procedures including high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and to evaluate the relationship between the imaging and functional status of the patients. METHO...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Afeltra A,Zennaro D,Garzia P,Gigante A,Vadacca M,Ruggiero A,Dardes N,Navajas MF,Zobel BB,Amoroso A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare bone mass (BMD) in women with fibromyalgia (FM) with healthy females, and to evaluate whether self-reported pain and lack of functional capacity correlate to reduced BMD in FM patients. METHODS:Thirty-one FM patients (20 pre- and 11 postmenopausal) and fourty-one healthy women (30 pre- and 10 post...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Jensen B,Wittrup IH,Bliddal H,Danneskiold-Samsøe B,Faber J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG subclass distribution of anti-RNP antibodies was determined in sera from 34 patients. The antibodies were mainly of the complement-fixing IgG1 subclass with minor contributions of IgG3 and IgG4 antibodies. Selected sera contained IgG2 (non-complement fixing) anti-RNP antibodies and may possibly identify a subg...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Hammarström L,Heigl Z,Smith CI

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of piroxicam and D-penicillamine on T lymphocytes, NK cell activity and rheumatoid factor production as well as clinical parameters were studied in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The level of total rheumatoid factor fell during treatment with D-penicillamine (p less than 0.02) and there was a positive...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Thoen J,Helgetveit K,Førre O,Haile Y,Kåss E

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the correlation between antiphosphatidylethanolamine antibodies (aPE) and some antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL)-related clinical manifestations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS:Patients with SLE (n=217) were tested for the presence of aPE, anticardiolipin antibodies (...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Balada E,Ordi-Ros J,Paredes F,Villarreal J,Mauri M,Vilardell-Tarrés M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several different sets of diagnostic criteria of rheumatoid arthritis in children are in practical use. The criteria most widely applied are discussed here, especially with regard to clinical studies. Reasons are presented for the selection of criteria used in the present controlled clinical studies on rheumatic child...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Kvien TK,Høyeraal HM,Kåss E

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YKL-40, also called human cartilage glycoprotein-39, is a major secretory protein of human chondrocytes in cell culture. YKL-40 mRNA is expressed by cartilage from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, but is not detectable in normal human cartilage. The aim was to investigate the distribution of YKL-40 in osteoarthriti...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Volck B,Ostergaard K,Johansen JS,Garbarsch C,Price PA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To describe the frequency and predisposing factors of aortic structural disease among patients with biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis (GCA). Method: A retrospective review identified all patients with biopsy-proven GCA from 1998 to 2013 with aortic imaging. Kaplan-Meier methods were used to estimate cumula...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Koster MJ,Crowson CS,Labarca C,Warrington KJ

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The reproducibility of clinical tests for skin extensibility and consistency, essential for differentiating between types of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and benign joint hypermobility syndrome (BJHS), is unknown. Paraclinical methods may provide objective differential diagnostic methods. METHODS:Six EDS, 1...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Remvig L,Duhn PH,Ullman S,Kobayasi T,Hansen B,Juul-Kristensen B,Jurvelin JS,Arokoski J

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:The subclass distribution of IgG and IgA plasma cells, and in IgG and IgA rheumatoid factor (RF) producing cells was studied in sections of synovial tissue from seropositive RA and various types of seronegative arthritis, including ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, and Reiter's syndrome. The study was perfo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Mellbye OJ,Vartdal F,Pahle J,Mollnes TE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Reactive arthritis (ReA) is a sterile joint inflammation triggered by a remote infection and associated with human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-B27. Its pathogenesis is unknown, but abnormal response to microbial structures or endogenous inflammatory mediators may be involved. We studied responses in leucocyte si...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Alanärä T,Aittomäki S,Kuuliala K,Kuuliala A,Siitonen S,Leirisalo-Repo M,Repo H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aims of this study were to measure the levels of interleukin (IL)-33 and ST2 and T-helper (Th)2-associated cytokines (IL-13, IL-4, IL-5) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and examine the correlation of serum cytokine levels with disease activity and laboratory parameters. METHOD:Serum IL-33,...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Li GX,Wang S,Duan ZH,Zeng Z,Pan FM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of copper in inflammatory rheumatic diseases, serum copper, serum ceruloplasmin concentration, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and radio-copper studies were performed in 11 male patients with ankylosing spondylitis, in 12 female patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in 7 normal male subjects. The oc...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Aiginger P,Kolarz G,Willvonseder R

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：: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：:Case 1. A 20-year-old woman presented 4 weeks post-partum with widespread symmetrical inflammatory polyarthropathy with marked synovitis. Investigations revealed grossly raised CRP with negative immunology screen. A few days before presentation she saw her general practitioner with left-sided mastitis, which then deve...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Al-Allaf AW,Pullar T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) parameter that best differentiates healthy persons and patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to investigated responsiveness to treatment of various MRI parameters. METHOD:Conventional MRI and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI of the hand were p...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Axelsen MB,Ejbjerg BJ,Hetland ML,Skjødt H,Majgaard O,Lauridsen UB,Hørslev-Petersen K,Boesen M,Kubassova O,Bliddal H,Østergaard M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one patients with different connective tissue diseases in either active or clinically inactive phase were studied to detect the incidence of chronic or subclinical consumption coagulopathy in these forms. Every patient received intravenously 20 mu Ci of [125I] fibrinogen and the clearance of the labeled fibrinog...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Canesi BA,Banfi F,Rossi AF,Sinigaglia L

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:To compare the clinical and bacteriological features of recurrent tonsillitis between patients with and without juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS:A total of 122 participants, aged 2-18 years, were consecutively recruited into four groups: (i) JIA and recurrent tonsillitis; (ii) JIA; (iii) recurre...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Astrauskiene D,Bernotiene E,Bytautiene J,Sakalinskas V,Panaviene V,Venaliene J,Lesinskas E

更新日期：2009-01-01 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 evaluate the influence of geographic variation on the risk of digital ulcer (DU) development in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. METHODS:This cross-sectional, multicentre study evaluated patients with SSc from centres located in different geographic regions of Brazil (subtropical and tropical climate zo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Souza E,Muller CS,Horimoto A,Rezende RA,Guimarães I,Mariz HA,Dantas AT,Da Costa IP,Del-Rio A,Sekiyama J,Kahwage CB,Kayser C

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate chromosome damage, by means of micronucleus frequency, in dermal fibroblasts from affected and non-affected skin from systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and from controls. METHODS:Primary fibroblast cultures were obtained by biopsy from affected and non-affected skin from SSc patients. Control fib...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Martins EP,Fuzzi HT,Kayser C,Alarcon RT,Rocha MG,Chauffaille ML,Andrade LE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of indomethacin and naproxen on collagen metabolism was studied in arthritic animals after an injection of [3H]-proline, both the specific and total radioactivity of [3H]-hydroxyproline being determined in skin collagen fractions and in urine. It was found that collagen synthesis and conversion of soluble t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Arumugham R,Bose SM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the symptoms of NSAID-associated gastroduodenal bleeding, 94 patients (median age 71 years, range 19-90), were included in a prospective, clinical trial where hematemesis or melena from gastroduodenal ulceration or haemorrhagic/erosive gastritis were the inclusion criteria. NSAID use within one month was stud...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Aabakken L,Weberg R,Lygren I,Eidsvoll B,Stray N,Osnes M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiographs of hands and feet were obtained from 125 consecutive patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the degree of destruction was assessed numerically on a 200-point scale using Larsen's standard radiographs as reference. The method is shown to possess a satisfactory degree of reproducibility. In 96 of these ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Wollheim FA,Pettersson H,Saxne T,Sjöblom KG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00