Rheumatoid nodules located in the penis of a methotrexate-treated patient with rheumatoid arthritis.

abstract：:The difference between mofebutazone and phenylbutazone is shown by means of toxicological, pharmacological and pharmacokinetic studies as well as by the protein binding. In spite of a certain chemical similarity both substances differ distinctly. Mofebutazone is approx. 5-6 times less toxic than phenylbutazone but its...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Loew D,Schuster O,Knoell HE,Graul EH

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory myopathies are as a rule rare diseases of skeletal muscle. In the majority of cases noninfective autoimmunological reactions are assumed. Only few diseases have an infectious origin. From a myopathological point of view, polymyositis must be selected from interstitial nodular myositis. The most important ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Pongratz D

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a shortened life expectancy. Most premature deaths are caused by cardiovascular (CV) events; therefore it is of importance to consider the increased CV risk when treating RA patients. Traditional CV risk factors cannot fully explain the increased risk but the common underst...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Pieringer H,Hoppe UC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmitting a substantial amount of basic knowledge in Rheumatology to all medical students is essential for the future medical care of patients with rheumatic diseases for two reasons: on the one hand, future general practitioners will need to master the patterns of rheumatic diseases to recognize them fast enough i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Aringer M,Baerwald C,Bergner R,Feuchtenberger M,Gebhardt C,Hagen M,Keyßer G,Lorenz HM,Witte T

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Facing increasing health-related costs and limited health care resources, the assessment of cost effectiveness (CE) of medical procedures is also gaining considerable importance in the field of rheumatology. Since high annual therapy costs of 17,000-21,000 Euro are related to the employment of TNF-alpha blocking agent...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Merkesdal S,Ruof J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various rheumatic symptoms can occur in association with malignancies and are termed the so-called paraneoplastic arthropathy. The clinical picture is often similar to primary inflammatory rheumatic diseases. At present there exist no epidemiological data on this disease entity. The case of a patient with tibial pain ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Lange U,Bachmann G,Müller-Ladner U

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a twenty-nine year old female patient with progressive systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) (PSS) and an impressing involvement of the intestine (disturbance of the oesophageal motility, pseudo-obstruction, malabsorption) a spontaneous, asymptomatic pneumoperitoneum is observed. Perforation or pneumatosis cystoides int...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Lang B,Meske S,Billmann P,Vaith P,Peter HH

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The goal of the present study was to investigate the osteogenic potential of ligament fibroblasts from patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ligament fibroblasts were isolated from tissues harvested from AS patients and patients with aseptic necrosis of the femoral head (ANFH) who...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Yang M,Yuan H,Miao M,Xu W

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histopathological synovitis score evaluates in a graded approach, as is largely usual for diagnostic histopathological scores, the immunological and inflammatory changes caused by synovitis. A synovitis score of between 1 and ≤ 4 is classified as low-grade (osteoarthritis-related synovitis, post-traumatic synoviti...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Krenn V,Perino G,Rüther W,Krenn VT,Huber M,Hügle T,Najm A,Müller S,Boettner F,Pessler F,Waldstein W,Kriegsmann J,Häupl T,Wienert S,Krukemeyer MG,Sesselmann S,Tikhilov R,Morawietz L

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rheumatic diseases, radiation synovectomy is a reliable method. Meanwhile, radiation synovectomy is an outpatient therapy. In addition, combination with arthroscopic synovectomy is an increasing therapeutic modality. In comparison to the hitherto inpatient modality, a greater lymphatic emigration of the radionuclid...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Klett R,Puille M,Matter HP,Steiner D,Stürz H,Bauer R

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and healthy controls, isolated by a ficoll density gradient, were incubated with different concentrations of histamine, cimetidine and diphenhydramine (DPH) and simultaneously stimulated with phytohemagglutinine (PHA). In compariso...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Manger BJ,Stix R,Platzer E,Hess B,Kalden JR

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：:Eight patients with SLE were found on clinical and roentgenological grounds or by respiratory function tests to have evidence of lung involvement. Great discrepancies were noted between clinical findings and the results of the respiratory function tests on the one hand and lacking or discrete radiological changes on t...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Görlitz N,Berzon R,Rössner B,Wessel G,Jäckel R

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "German Society of Rheumatology" was founded in Bad Neuenahr in the Federal Republic of Germany In 1947. The society perceived itself as the successor to the "German Society for the Abatement of Rheumatism". The primary aim of the society was close cooperation with other German-speaking rheumatological societies i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Hewelt T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug treatment in the polymorbid elderly should focus on the more important symptoms. Pharmacokinetic differences should be considered, e.g. a reduced volume of distribution and decreased liver and renal function. Special alterations in the pharmacodynamics with respect to the central nervous system and other organs a...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Breithaupt H

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 36-year old man with Behçet's disease (BS) for 16 years had low back pain and stiffness in the cervical and lumbar spine. He was diagnosed as having ankylosing spondylitis (AS). In this report we wish to emphasize the clinically occult co-existence of AS in BS and revelation of AS after a long time of BS...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Cimen OB,Sahin G,Biçer A,Erdoğan C

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients suffering from chronic rheumatoid arthritis were selected for the present study. Plasma levels of stress hormones like catecholamines and cortisol were found to be elevated. At the same time reduction in percentage of E-rosette forming lymphocytes and an elevation in levels of major serum immunoglobu...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Kumar R,Singh LM,Vaidya MP

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with various kinds of intestinal illnesses sometimes suffer not only abdominal symptoms, but also joint involvement, leading to a reduction in quality of life. Diseases leading to inflammatory joint involvement such as inflammatory bowel disease, Whipple's disease or surgical intestinal bypass, are classified...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Ronneberger M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three patients with rheumatoid arthritis and relevant anemia (hemoglobin < 11 g/dl) received recombinant erythropoietin (epo) in a therapy study; 90% were responders. A positive correlation of the total epo dose and the amelioration of parameters of red cell line and a negative correlation of the effect of epo ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Rave O,Wienands K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the oxicams, a special group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, to the sister chromatid exchange (SCE) was determined on human lymphocytes in vitro and in vivo. The analysis of SCE is a sensitive parameter indicating chromosomal damage. The cytogenetic examinations of Lornoxicam, Tenoxicam, and...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Kullich W,Hermann J,Klein G

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old female patient had load-dependent pain of the left knee. MRI showed an osteochondral defect of the medial condyle based on extensive osteonecrosis of the femoral and tibial bone. An association with a prior steroid treatment after cervical injury is most likely. ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Steinhagen J,Rüther W

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：: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：:Musculoskeletal ultrasonography (US) is an established and validated imaging technique in rheumatology. Ultrasonography is able to directly visualize soft tissue pathologies such as synovial tissue changes. Pathological findings in superficial cartilage, bone lesions and synovial tissue changes in the context of rheum...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Tamborrini G,Backhaus M,Schmidt W,Ziswiler HR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psoriatic onycho-pachydermo-periostitis is a rare manifestation of psoriatic arthritis. It is characterized by the trias of psoriatic onychosis, tender soft tissue thickening, and osteoperiostitis of the distal phalanges in the absence of distal interphalangeal arthritis. Recommendations for the treatment of...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Anders HJ,Sanden S,Krüger K

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Fabry's disease is a hereditary lipid storage disease with deposition of ceramides in nearly all tissues. The lipid deposition in the skin and the synovial compartments causes an enlargement of the skin, the joint capsules and the tendon sheaths, which are recognizable by low KV radiography. The bones of the hand main...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Fischer E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatology training is reorganized with the implementation of the revision of the training regulations for German physicians (MWBO) to become a specialist in internal medicine and rheumatology. This article focusses on novel aspects including far-reaching waiver of reference numbers, the professionally recommended t...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie

authors： Fleck M,Berliner MN,Krause A

更新日期：2020-11-30 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