Value of MRI in diagnostics and evaluation of myositis.

abstract：:Methotrexate has become a standard therapy for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. This review summarizes the recent literature on low-dose methotrexate in the rheumatologic illnesses. The effect of methotrexate on in vivo rheumatoid factor production and suppression of ex vivo leukotriene B4 generation is reviewed...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Grosflam J,Weinblatt ME

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first part of this article draws together descriptive studies on the direct medical costs of osteoporosis. The second part is devoted to economic evaluation of 1) osteoporosis treatment on the basis of clinical criteria and 2) preventive strategies, some of them including bone mineral density screening. These anal...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Joel ME,Le Gales C

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Much has been documented in recent years on the possible involvement of angiogenesis in osteoarthritis. An understanding of the various regulatory mechanisms controlling blood vessel growth in the joint should lead to novel therapeutics, which selectively inhibit undesirable angiogenesis. Here, we sum...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Ashraf S,Walsh DA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory arthritides treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors frequently undergo orthopedic procedures. These patients may be at risk for serious postoperative infections as antitumor necrosis factor agents may be associated with impaired immunity ...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Pappas DA,Giles JT

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past 2 years, four papers describing new research studies and three papers reviewing the literature were published. These seven papers address longstanding issues, including 1) the presence or absence of cognitive impairment in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 2) the prevalence of such impairment within ...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Bleiberg J,Bunning R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myositis-overlap syndromes are characterized by a heterogeneous group of clinical syndromes of which many are closely linked with specific autoantibodies. Clinical and laboratory-based research into this fascinating group of syndromes have given us clues in elucidating the role of immunogenetic, environmental influenc...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Ioannou Y,Sultan S,Isenberg DA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Blau syndrome is a monogenic disease resulting from mutations in nucleotide oligomerization domain 2 (NOD2) and is phenotypically characterized by granulomatous polyarthritis and uveitis. Not only there has been significant progress in disease characterization but also the biological pathways associat...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Rose CD,Martin TM,Wouters CH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behçet's disease and Takayasu's disease in children are uncommon and may have an insidious course leading to a delayed diagnosis. Both diseases usually occur in late childhood, although disease onset in the first year of life has been reported. Compared with adults, Behçet's disease in children appears to be character...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Martini A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilic infiltration into skeletal muscle, although rare, has been described in a diverse group of conditions. It most commonly occurs in parasitic infection as focal eosinophilic myositis but can be a feature of systemic hypereosinophilic conditions such as eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome and idiopathic hypereosin...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Pickering MC,Walport MJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the past year information has accumulated on the role of infections in the pathogenesis of vasculitis. Superantigens play an important role in the stimulation of the immune system. Behçet's syndrome is a vasculitis that affects children as well as adults. Recently published childhood studies highlight the impor...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Ozen S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy is characterized by the production of autoantibodies to various cellular constituents. These autoantibodies closely correlate with certain clinical conditions and prognosis of disease. This review examines recent progress in myositis-specific autoantibodies, particular...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Mimori T,Imura Y,Nakashima R,Yoshifuji H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This article summarizes the current evidence on the management of primary and secondary central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis. RECENT FINDINGS:Two recent retrospective cohort studies have described the treatment and outcomes of patients with adult primary central nervous system vasculitis (PCNSV). ...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Salvarani C,Pipitone N,Hunder GG

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review focuses on proteinase 3 (PR3), the preferred target of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) in Wegener's granulomatosis. Deciphering the molecular associations that PR3 can make with its cognate partners might help to understand its pathophysiological significance in Wegener's gra...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Witko-Sarsat V,Reuter N,Mouthon L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Incorporation of the patients' perspective in clinical research is critical to ensure that outcomes measured reflect those, which matter most to patients. This review summarizes recent efforts to include the patients' perspective in the development of outcome measures and the importance of encouraging...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Hsiao B,Fraenkel L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To provide an update on the genetics and immunologic basis of autoinflammatory bone disorders including chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis including the monogenic forms of the disease. RECENT FINDINGS:Ongoing research in murine, canine and human models of sterile bone inflammation has solidif...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Sharma M,Ferguson PJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of similar findings in diverse study populations using different study designs provides important evidence for causal inferences regarding risk factors reported in epidemiologic studies. Risk factors for knee osteoarthritis have been substantiated in a number of cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort stud...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Kwoh CK

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-B27 is virtually absent in most of the sub-Saharan Africa populations, and ankylosing spondylitis is rare; only a few patients have been reported from central and southern Africa. HLA-B27 was present in only one of 17 patients (6%). The disease shows clinical features that are similar to those observed in white HL...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Mijiyawa M,Oniankitan O,Khan MA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankylosing spondylitis and IgA nephropathy share some immunologic features, eg, elevated serum IgA and IgA-immune complex levels. These entities are frequently found as being associated. IgA and IgA immune complex catabolism involves asialoglycoprotein receptors and specific IgA Fc receptors (FcalphaR or CD89) on tiss...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Montenegro V,Monteiro RC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Parasitic worms have evolved strategies to manipulate the host immune system, some of which may lead to a reduction in inflammation. Characterisation of the ways in which these organisms mediate an anti-inflammatory response and identification of parasite-derived molecules involved in immune modulatio...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Cooke A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Arthritogenic alphaviruses are globally distributed mosquito-borne RNA viruses causing epidemics of polyarthritis/arthralgia, with disease emerging or reemerging and increasingly being reported in travelers. This article summarizes the current knowledge of these diseases, focusing on recent developmen...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Suhrbier A,La Linn M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Majority of patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) report use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies before and even after the diagnosis, due to perceived efficacy and wide-spread belief that these modalities lack side effects. In this review, we describe the available scient...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Danve A,Deodhar AA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a form of primary vasculitis characterized by allergy and angiitis. In the organ systems involved (lung, heart, peripheral nervous system, and so forth), eosinophilic infiltration can be found. Eosinophilia and normochromic normocytic anemia are leading laboratory findings together with...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Gross WL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus is a prototypic autoimmune disease characterized by antinuclear antibodies (ANAs), including pathogenic specificities to DNA. As shown by recent research, ANA production is a genetically determined process in which self antigens drive B and T cells that have escaped the normal mechanisms o...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Pisetsky DS

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a recently described fibroinflammatory condition that can affect nearly any organ. Our knowledge of this condition--its manifestations, diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment--is expanding rapidly. RECENT FINDINGS:This review highlights the most recent developments in...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Wallace ZS,Stone JH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept suggesting the involvement of the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been demonstrated by several clinical trials targeting TNF-alpha. In addition to reduction of pain and swelling, a dramatic effect of TNF blocking therapies on t...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Graninger WB,Smolen JS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased bone remodeling in women after menopause induces an imbalance between bone resorption and formation, leading to decreased bone mass, altered bone microarchitecture, and increased fracture risk. Current antiosteoporotic drugs decrease bone remodeling or increase bone formation. Strontium ranelate (Protelo...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Marie PJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Across the world, osteoarthritis is the most commonly occurring musculoskeletal disease of the elderly, affecting more than 25% of the population older than 60 years of age. By far the single greatest risk factor for the development of osteoarthritis is age, but a mechanism to explain this relation ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Verzijl N,Bank RA,TeKoppele JM,DeGroot J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, Lyme disease is the most common arthropod-borne infection. The majority of cases are reported from the Northeast, the Midwest, and California, which are areas with established foci of Borrelia burgdorferi. Advances in the understanding of the epidemiology of Ixodes ticks, the established vector f...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Evans J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The present review focuses on the new therapeutic opportunities offered by the combination of biological drugs, mainly Rituximab, with direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs). RECENT FINDINGS:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is known to be the etiologic agent in the majority of patients with mixed cryoglobuline...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Roccatello D,Fenoglio R,Sciascia S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW:To define gout conditions and hyperuricemia. RECENT FINDINGS:Gout is defined as an arthritic condition resulting from the deposition of monosodium urate (MSU) crystals in and/or around joints, following long-standing hyperuricemia. Several recent ultrasound studies disclosed MSU deposits in a lar...

journal_title：Current opinion in rheumatology

authors： Bardin T,Richette P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00