Patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome treated for two months with evening primrose oil.

abstract：:Perinatal outcome in infants of women with rheumatic disease notified between 1967 95 to the Medical Birth Registry of Norway was compared to women without such disease. Logistic regression provided odds ratios for associations between rheumatic disease and perinatal outcome for 3 time periods: 1967-76, 1977-86, and 1...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Skomsvoll JF,Ostensen M,Irgens LM,Baste V

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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 changes in MR-determined synovial membrane volume, early synovial enhancement, and cartilage and bone erosions after osmic acid knee synovectomy were studied. Gadolinium-DTPA enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 18 knees with persistent arthritis was performed before and 1 month after treatment. The synovi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Ostergaard M,Stoltenberg M,Gideon P,Wieslander S,Sonne-Holm S,Kryger P,Sonne M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption was investigated during phagocytosis by leukocytes in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus and scleroderma. Compared with the situation in normal persons, the mean oxygen consumption in the total patient group was ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Kvarstein B,Blichfeldt P

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Erosion healing in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is difficult to demonstrate. This extension study aimed to determine whether 2 years of teriparatide (TPTD) produces erosion healing. Method: Subjects in a previous 12 month randomized controlled trial of TPTD in RA were invited to receive 12 additional months of...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Duryea J,Gravallese EM,Wortman JR,Xu C,Lu B,Kay J,Solomon DH

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To compare the impact on quality of life (QoL) of omeprazole and misoprostol during healing, and omeprazole, misoprostol, and placebo during maintenance treatment in chronic NSAID users with NSAID-associated gastroduodenal lesions. METHODS:Validated baseline and follow-up QoL questionnaires were completed by...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Yeomans N,Wilson I,Långström G,Hawkey C,Naesdal J,Walan A,Wiklund I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) frequently causes temporomandibular joint (TMJ) inflammation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of orofacial pain and temporomandibular dysfunction in patients with JIA and controls. METHODS. Forty-one patients with JIA and 41 age- and sex-matched healthy ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Leksell E,Ernberg M,Magnusson B,Hedenberg-Magnusson B

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole blood cell culture has great advantage over isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cell culture, because it needs only small amounts of blood and is fast to perform. The current report focuses on the measurement of IL-6 and TNF alpha produced by peripheral blood monocytes of patients with systemic lupus erythemat...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Swaak AJ,van den Brink HG,Aarden LA

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:106 women and 38 men suffering from definite or classical rheumatoid arthritis underwent a pulmonary function test. The results were correlated to the duration and various clinical activity parameters of the disease. Pulmonary diffusion capacity was found to be reduced compared with the predicted values (p less than 0...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Oxholm P,Madsen EB,Manthorpe R,Rasmussen FV

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：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：:The prognostically important signs and symptoms in the early stage of rheumatoid arthritis were studied in 136 patients selected and treated in Moscow and in 139 patients in Heinola, Finland. The follow-up time was 3 years. The outcome was poor in patients with early signs of radiological destruction in the joints, wi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Isomäki H,Martio J,Sarna S,Kiviniemi P,Akimova T,Ievleva L,Mylov N,Trofimova T

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Eight patients with a radiological diagnosis of Osteitis condensans ilii (OCI) had clinical features similar to those of 8 patients with sacro-iliitis (SI). The X-ray appearances may be very difficult to differentiate on standard films and discrimination between the two conditions has to be made from a combination of ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Withrington RH,Sturge RA,Mitchell N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of bilateral temporomandibular joint (TMJ) ankylosis in a Chinese male patient with ankylosing spondylitis is presented. A review of the literature emphasizes the rarity of this arthro-pathology in ankylosing spondylitis. The importance in the recognition of this complication by clinical examination supplemente...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Chow TK,Ng WL,Tam CK,Kung N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement activation products, C9 and C3-containing circulating immune complexes (CIC), were evaluated in plasma and synovial fluid (SF) from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis. C3 activation products and the fluid phase terminal complement complex were considerably elevated in SF from RA pati...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Olmez U,Garred P,Mollnes TE,Harboe M,Berntzen HB,Munthe E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess whether subclinical inflammatory changes are present on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and arthralgia. METHOD:In this pilot study, painful hand joints [metacarpophalangeal (MCP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), and/or distal interphalangeal (DIP)...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Brakenhoff LK,Stomp W,van Gaalen FA,Hommes DW,Bloem JL,van der Heijde DM,Fidder HH,Reijnierse M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation between psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis can be clinically difficult if there is no manifest psoriasis of skin or nail. In order to clarify this diagnostic problem, the amino acid patterns in seventy-five psoriatic and non-psoriatic nails have been studied. Using gas--liquid chromatogra...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Greaves MS,Fieller NR,Moll JM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In psoriatic spondylitis, the complication of cervical cord compression with myelopathy is rare. We present a case of psoriatic spondylitis causing cervical myelopathy which required surgical intervention, and review the literature of reported neurological complications in psoriatic spondylitis. ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Akagi S,Saito T,Kato I,Ogawa R

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Ultrasound detects effusion and synovial proliferation caused by synovitis. The study was undertaken to evaluate the signs of synovitis in patients with primary Sjögren's Syndrome (SS). Joint effusion was detected and synovial thickness was measured in the suprapatellar synovial bursa. Results have been compared with ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Iagnocco A,Coari G,Palombi G,Valesini G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the influence of -308 tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) promoter polymorphism and circulating TNFalpha levels in the clinical response to adalimumab treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Eighty-one patients with active RA were genotyped for the -308 TNFalpha polym...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Cuchacovich M,Soto L,Edwardes M,Gutierrez M,Llanos C,Pacheco D,Sabugo F,Alamo M,Fuentealba C,Villanueva L,Gatica H,Schiattino I,Salazaro L,Catalan D,Valenzuela O,Salazar-Onfray F,Aguillón JC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if calprotectin is predictive for outcome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Fifty six RA in-patients with variable disease duration were prospectively followed for five years. Clinical and laboratory data were collected to assess disease activity. Health Assessment Questionnair...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Madland TM,Hordvik M,Haga HJ,Jonsson R,Brun JG

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied HLA antigens in 105 unrelated American Caucasian patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 70 of them with familial disease. HLA-DR4 was observed in 71% of familial RA, 63% of non-familial RA, and 27% of normal controls, confirming the already well-established association between HLA-DR4 and both familial an...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Khan MA,Wolfe F,Kleinheksel SM,Molta C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disease. Pyrin has anti-inflammatory activity in the regulation of inflammasomes and is encoded by the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene. MEFV gene mutations trigger the inflammatory cascade and cause familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). A relationship between various rheu...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

authors： Sever F,Kobak S,Goksel Ö,Goksel T,Orman M,Berdeli A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00