[Antidesoxyribonuclease B-titer in persons of different ages and sex and comparative studies of antistreptolysin titers].

abstract：:This article gives a comprehensive overview of diffuse interstitial lung diseases especially those associated with connective tissue diseases. Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) represent a heterogeneous group of diseases of very different and partially unknown etiologies. Therefore, an exact classification of the ILD i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Koller HK,Burghuber OC

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractalkine (CX3CL1), so far the only member of the CX3C class of chemokines, and its receptor, CX3CR1, are strongly expressed in the chronically inflamed synovial tissue of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Due to the specific binding of Fractalkine to its receptor, many proinflammatory reactions involved in t...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Blaschke S,Müller GA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoreactivity plays a major role in the pathogenesis of RA. The rheumatoid factor has been and still is for now more than 50 years the only autoreactivity that is clinically applied in the diagnosis of RA. This well reflects the current way of thinking that a single antigen or a single cause drives an individual into...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Bläss S,Engel JM,Burmester GR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central problem of persons with chronic polyarthritis is the necessary adaptation to deteriorating health in everyday activities. Difficulties and burdens of this adaptation are parts of the study undertaken in the Unna Model, which was part of the research on "Local Services for CP-Patients". In the first part two ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Grunow-Lutter V,Grunow D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nephrotoxicity of methotrexate (MTX) is a phenomenon which is observed in high-dose therapy for treatment of malignant diseases. Even low-dose MTX therapy for treatment of rheumatic diseases is claimed to cause impairment in renal function. The necessity to adapt the dosage of MTX therapy for renal function disord...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Fiehn C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoid osteomas are painful bone tumors that usually occur in childhood or adolescence. Despite the small size of the bony lesions osteoid osteomas can cause persistent pain. Pathogenesis has not been completely understood. Remission usually occurs within several months to years. Therefore surgical therapy is not ind...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Hedrich CM,Fiebig B,Sallmann S,Bruck N,Thielemann F,Hahn G,Heubner G,Gahr M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular manifestations of systemic vasculitides are extraordinarily pleomorph and have been described for many decades. In the introduction the special interaction of the immune system and the eye is outlined. Thereafter diagnostic procedures of patients suffering from systemic vasculitides are shown from an ophthalmol...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Nölle B

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic aneurysm and dissection are rare complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The incidence, etiology, risk factors, and outcomes of this entity were largely unknown.The study materials were based on the publications of aortic aneurysm or dissection due to SLE published between 2000 and 2017.A total of ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Yuan SM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the efficacy of the immunomodulator Bestatin, which has been successfully applied in Japan, in a preliminary open study in ten patients with classical or definite rheumatoid arthritis. Patients whose arthritis was characterized by a low humoral activity showed a partial remission of the disease after six mon...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Meske S,Vogt P,Maly FE,Seitz M,Müller W

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic inflammatory joint disease with a prevalence of up to 1 % in the adult population. OBJECTIVE:This study describes the prevalence of RA diagnoses in outpatient health insurance claims data, based on different case definitions and stratified by age, sex and...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Hense S,Luque Ramos A,Callhoff J,Albrecht K,Zink A,Hoffmann F

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New strategies including the blockade of TNFalpha showed excellent therapeutic effects even in so far refractory rheumatic diseases. Moreover, these approaches provided us with important informations about the pathogenic role of the mediators involved and distinct autoimmune cellular subsets. Here, we discuss recent d...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Feist E,Burmester GR,Dörner T

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuro-endocrine immune mechanisms play an important immunomodulatory role for rheumatic diseases as evidenced by long-recognized effects of glucocorticoids, gender, pregnancy, hemiparalysis, and stress on various clinical and epidemiological aspects. Recently, some regulatory pathways have been identified between the ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Straub RH,Schaible HG,Wahle M,Schedlowski M,Neeck G,Buttgereit F

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized tendomyopathy (fibromyalgia) is characterized by the characteristic picture of multilocular pain symptoms, severe pressure-type pain in the tendon insertions and muscles, vitality deficiency, sleep disturbance and other vegetative disorders as well as functional complaints and is often also characteriz...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Brückle W,Lautenschläger J,Müller W

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the hormonal perturbations in FMS patients we injected sixteen FMS patients and seventeen controls a cocktail of the hypothalamic releasing hormones: Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH), and Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Riedel W,Layka H,Neeck G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfasalazine was used as second line agent in 15 children with different forms of rheumatoid arthritis. In 9 cases amelioration could be achieved with respect to clinical symptoms as well as laboratory parameters. Thus, sulfasalazine can be recommended as basic medication also in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Suschke HJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because it is a systemic disorder, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is known to predispose affected individuals to other organ manifestations as well as arthritic problems. The serious complications include pericarditis, pulmonary and cutaneous nodules, episcleritis, and rheumatoid vasculitis. Of late, a significantly increa...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Whelan P

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study documents prospectively the Knee Society knee- and function score of 28 patients with rheumatoid arthritis with 34 PFC unconstrained total knee arthroplasties from preoperative values on at yearly intervals. The average follow-up period was 3.4 years (range 2-5.5 y). At last follow-up over 80% of the knees ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： König A,Janssen E,Scheidler M,Gohlke F

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health services research in rheumatology investigates the healthcare needs, the quality of care and trends in healthcare for patients with musculoskeletal disorders. Using rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as an example, key results of health services research during the last 25 years are summarized. There are currently appro...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Zink A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the information gained from anamnesis which points to a psychogenetic cause of rheumatic complaints. These symptoms are part of the diagnostically important criteria which must be supplemented still further by means of a personal discussion with the patient. A great deal depends on the skill of th...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Mathies H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of early diagnostic (ED) criteria comprising clinical data, ESR, radiological spinal signs, and the risk factor HLA B27 was evaluated after 5 and 10 years in a follow-up of 54 patients with an initial diagnosis of possible ankylosing spondylitis (AS). After 10 years 32 patients (59%) had developed definite AS ac...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Mau W,Zeidler H,Mau R,Majewski A,Freyschmidt J,Stangel W,Deicher H

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a classic systemic autoimmune disease. Standard treatment consists of chronic therapy with antimalarials, glucocorticoids and immunosuppressive/cytotoxic drugs, which is associated with considerable side effects. In contrast, immunoablation of autoreactive immunologic memory follo...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Alexander T,Arnold R,Hiepe F

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease. In addition to known risk factors e.g. genetics, age and hormonal status it has been suggested that chronic-repetitive micro- and substantial (macro-) injury may play an important pathogenetic role. In a longitudinal case-study we examined Judo-players for clinical and ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Strasser P,Hauser M,Häuselmann HJ,Michel BA,Frei A,Stucki G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commonly-used serological methods for the determination of Yersinia antibodies are based on the presence of agglutinins, which are frequently absent or of low titer when arthritis begins. Stool cultures are usually negative at that time, so many Yersinia infections are underdiagnosed. On the other hand, significant ag...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Grasedyck K,Heesemann J

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliable data on the course and treatment of pediatric COVID-19 ("corona virus disease 2019") in immunosuppressed patients with rheumatic diseases are missing. AIM:Delineation of individual strategies of the members of the Society for Pediatric Rheumatology (GKJR) in cases of COVID-19. METHODS:In May 2020 ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Janda A,Schuetz C,Heeg M,Minden K,Hedrich CM,Kallinich T,Hinze C,Schulz A,Speth F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) results from loss of immunological tolerance. Regulatory T‑cells (Treg) are major gatekeepers of peripheral tolerance by suppression of autoreactive lymphocytes. Defects in Treg function are therefore possible pathogenetic mechanisms of SLE. Despite this fact published work about num...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Ohl K,Tenbrock K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the rheumatic diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) reveals the highest frequency of central nervous symptoms. Psychiatric abnormalities are present in over 90% of the patients, if very mild cognitive impairment is included. The psychiatric syndromes listed by the American College of Rheumatologists encom...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Haupt M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune hemolysis is a rare complication of systemic rheumatic diseases. We report on a 68-year-old female patient with established, long-standing rheumatoid arthritis, who complained of progressive weakness and worsening of her arthralgia under therapy with leflunomide. Physical and laboratory examination revealed...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Lehmann P,Hartung W,Ehrenstein B,Schölmerich J,Fleck M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system is regulated by a variety of mechanisms that prevent overwhelming immune responses and a break in tolerance. There have been indications for some time that populations of B cells are also a part of this network and able to exert regulatory functions. Here we summarize current knowledge on this previo...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Tretter T,Lorenz HM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this review is to critically analyze the evidence of therapeutic ultrasound between 0.8 and 3 MHz for treating musculoskeletal diseases. Relevant randomized, controlled, clinical trials and systematic reviews published on this topic have been taken into consideration.There was evidence of effectiveness for ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Ebenbichler G

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper concerns a radiological and postmortem study of an 81-year-old woman with diffuse intervertebral osteochondrosis (T12-L1 severe erosion) in association with generalized osteoarthritis and articular chondrocalcinosis. Varying degrees of cartilage plate flaws with cartilaginous Schmorl's nodes and vertebral p...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Lagier R,Mac Gee W

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00