The shape of the distal femur: a palaeopathological comparison of eburnated and non-eburnated femora.

abstract：:The case is described of a patient with scleromyxoedema with features typical of systemic sclerosis. The features were so characteristic that the disease was misdiagnosed as systemic sclerosis. A brief review of the association of the two diseases is given. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verma UN,Singh RR,Misra R,Naik S,Agarwal SS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) with serious haemorrhagic complications of anticoagulant treatment in an attempt to establish risk factors for bleeding. METHODS:Patients with APS who were attending our lupus unit and who presented with se...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Castellino G,Cuadrado MJ,Godfrey T,Khamashta MA,Hughes GR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease with unknown aetiology. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an environmental factor associated with SLE. EBV maintains latency in B cells with frequent reactivation measured by antibodies against viral capsid antigen (VCA) and early antigen (EA). In ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jog NR,Young KA,Munroe ME,Harmon MT,Guthridge JM,Kelly JA,Kamen DL,Gilkeson GS,Weisman MH,Karp DR,Gaffney PM,Harley JB,Wallace DJ,Norris JM,James JA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare individually tailored, based on trimestrial biological parameter monitoring, to fixed-schedule rituximab reinfusion for remission maintenance of antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAVs). METHODS:Patients with newly diagnosed or relapsing granulomatosis with polyangii...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Charles P,Terrier B,Perrodeau É,Cohen P,Faguer S,Huart A,Hamidou M,Agard C,Bonnotte B,Samson M,Karras A,Jourde-Chiche N,Lifermann F,Gobert P,Hanrotel-Saliou C,Godmer P,Martin-Silva N,Pugnet G,Matignon M,Aumaitre O,

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A recent genome-wide association study in European systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients identified three loci (PSORS1C1, TNIP1 and RHOB) as novel genetic risk factors for the disease. The aim of this study was to replicate the previously mentioned findings in a large multicentre independent SSc cohort of Cauc...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bossini-Castillo L,Martin JE,Broen J,Simeon CP,Beretta L,Gorlova OY,Vonk MC,Ortego-Centeno N,Espinosa G,Carreira P,García de la Peña P,Oreiro N,Román-Ivorra JA,Castillo MJ,González-Gay MA,Sáez-Comet L,Castellví I,Schuer

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies are a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis and are believed to play a role in disease pathogenesis. These antibodies are typically detected in ELISA with citrullinated peptides (eg, CCP2) or proteins as antige...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ioan-Facsinay A,el-Bannoudi H,Scherer HU,van der Woude D,Ménard HA,Lora M,Trouw LA,Huizinga TW,Toes RE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether type II collagen (CII) is recognised by oligoclonally expanded synovial T cells of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 15 RA patients were stimulated with CII in vitro. T cell clones expanded by such stimulation were compared ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Sekine T,Kato T,Masuko-Hongo K,Nakamura H,Yoshino S,Nishioka K,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an in vitro system of cell migration from glass capillary tubes, the nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory agents sodium salicylate, aspirin, ibuprofen, phenylbutazone, and indomethacin were shown to inhibit the migration of human peripheral leucocytes in a dose-related manner. This drug action was not confined to one...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Brown KA,Collins AJ

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the stability and the degree of variation of antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) results over time in a large cohort of well evaluated aPL positive patients; and to analyse factors contributing to aPL variation and the validity of aPL in a real world setting in which aPL tests are done in multiple la...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Erkan D,Derksen WJ,Kaplan V,Sammaritano L,Pierangeli SS,Roubey R,Lockshin MD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if a new inhibitor, esculetin (EST), can block resorption of cartilage. METHODS:Interleukin 1alpha (IL1alpha, 0.04-5 ng/ml) and oncostatin M (OSM, 0.4-50 ng/ml) were used to stimulate the release of proteoglycan and collagen from bovine nasal cartilage and human articular cartilage in explant cu...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Elliott S,Rowan AD,Carrère S,Koshy P,Catterall JB,Cawston TE

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare arterial haemodynamics in adults with long-term juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) to that of healthy controls, and explore the influence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors and disease characteristics on arterial haemodynamics plus coronary artery calcification. METHODS:87 JIA patients (m...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Aulie HA,Selvaag AM,Günther A,Lilleby V,Molberg Ø,Hartmann A,Holdaas H,Flatø B

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are described with severe and progressive rheumatoid arthritis in whom methotrexate was reintroduced despite previous methotrexate related pneumonitis. In both patients a marked improvement in disease control occurred without a recurrence of the pneumonitis. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Cook NJ,Carroll GJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method is described which allows sequential monitoring of the endocytic activity of blood and synovial fluid cells from rheumatoid arthritis patients undergoing therapy with levamisole. Evidence of immediate (24 hours) and long-term (5-7 weeks) cellular phagocytic enhancement is presented. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wynne KM,Dieppe PA,Scott J,Huskisson EC

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether methotrexate or tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) affect osteophyte formation in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS:41 patients with PsA were examined for the presence of osteophytes and erosions at the metacarpophalangeal joints by high-resolution micro-CT imagin...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Finzel S,Kraus S,Schmidt S,Hueber A,Rech J,Engelke K,Englbrecht M,Schett G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To elaborate a clinical practice decision tree for the choice of the first disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) for untreated rheumatoid arthritis of less than six months' duration. METHODS:Four steps were employed: (1) review of published reports on DMARD efficacy against rheumatoid arthritis; (2) i...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Le Loët X,Berthelot JM,Cantagrel A,Combe B,De Bandt M,Fautrel B,Flipo RM,Lioté F,Maillefert JF,Meyer O,Saraux A,Wendling D,Guillemin F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double blind, single observer, 48 week study the effects of sulphasalazine (2 g daily) and hydroxychloroquine (400 mg daily months 0-6, thereafter 200 mg daily) were compared in 60 patients with definite or classical rheumatoid arthritis. They had not been treated previously with second line drugs. The onset of r...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Nuver-Zwart IH,van Riel PL,van de Putte LB,Gribnau FW

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is a need to identify effective treatments for rheumatic diseases, and while genetic studies have been successful it is unclear which genes contribute to the disease. Using our existing Capture Hi-C data on three rheumatic diseases, we can identify potential causal genes which are targets for existing ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Martin P,Ding J,Duffus K,Gaddi VP,McGovern A,Ray-Jones H,Yarwood A,Worthington J,Barton A,Orozco G

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Development of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is the major adverse outcome of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) affecting both morbidity and mortality. Preliminary evidence suggested that, although not deregulated compared with sicca controls, miR200b-5p levels are decreased in the minor salivary glands (MSGs) of SS pat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kapsogeorgou EK,Papageorgiou A,Protogerou AD,Voulgarelis M,Tzioufas AG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgM rheumatoid factor (RF) was measured in the sera of 48 rheumatoid patients and of 48 age and sex-matched normal controls by the Rose-Waaler and latex agglutination tests, a rate nephelometer, and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Good correlation was obtained between all assays. The rate nephelometer as...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bampton JL,Cawston TE,Kyle MV,Hazleman BL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT)/pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor/visfatin exerts multiple functions and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. To gain insight into its role in arthritis and given that NAMPT is identified as a novel mediator of innate immunity, we ad...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Présumey J,Courties G,Louis-Plence P,Escriou V,Scherman D,Pers YM,Yssel H,Pène J,Kyburz D,Gay S,Jorgensen C,Apparailly F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) specificity for aPL-related events was evaluated in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS:A study was carried out on 105 patients affected with SLE comparing the prevalence of lupus anticoagulant (LA) and IgG and IgM anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) between patients with...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ghirardello A,Doria A,Ruffatti A,Rigoli AM,Vesco P,Calligaro A,Gambari PF

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess survival and identify predictors of survival in patients with systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) who participated in the Scleroderma Lung Studies (SLS) I and II. METHODS:SLS I randomised 158 patients with SSc-ILD to 1  year of oral cyclophosphamide (CYC) vs placebo. SLS II rando...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Volkmann ER,Tashkin DP,Sim M,Li N,Goldmuntz E,Keyes-Elstein L,Pinckney A,Furst DE,Clements PJ,Khanna D,Steen V,Schraufnagel DE,Arami S,Hsu V,Roth MD,Elashoff RM,Sullivan KM,SLS I and SLS II study groups.

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (GCSF) is important in mobilising neutrophils from the bone marrow but also has a range of proinflammatory effects. We therefore decided to investigate the role of GCSF in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) vasculitis. METHODS:We measured GCSF levels in the seru...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Freeley SJ,Coughlan AM,Popat RJ,Dunn-Walters DK,Robson MG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is described of a 57 year old woman with polyarthritis fulfilling the 1987 revised criteria of the American Rheumatism Association for rheumatoid arthritis, accompanied by clinical carrier state infection of HTLV-I. Anti-HTLV-I IgM antibodies were detected by western blot analysis in her synovial fluid and se...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ijichi S,Matsuda T,Maruyama I,Izumihara T,Kojima K,Niimura T,Maruyama Y,Sonoda S,Yoshida A,Osame M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recent study from our laboratory showed that induction of the multidrug resistance related drug efflux pump ABCG2 contributed to acquired resistance of human T cells to the disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) sulfasalazine (SSZ). OBJECTIVES:To investigate the duration of SSZ resistance and ABCG2 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van der Heijden J,de Jong MC,Dijkmans BA,Lems WF,Oerlemans R,Kathmann I,Scheffer GL,Scheper RJ,Assaraf YG,Jansen G

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immunity to cartilage proteoglycans may be responsible for sustaining chronic inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis. This hypothesis was examined by measuring peripheral blood and synovial fluid mononuclear cell proliferation in five preparations of human cartilage proteoglycan monomer in vitro. Peripheral b...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jobanputra P,Choy EH,Kingsley GH,Sieper J,Palacios-Boix AA,Heinegård D,Panayi GS

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of anergy and its relationship to malnutrition was investigated in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and in controls. A generalised reduction in delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity to 7 recall antigens were found in 104 RA patients compared with 67 controls. No measured of the disease was capable of ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Emery P,Panayi G,Symmons D,Brown G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although natural regulatory T cells (nTregs) can suppress osteoclastogenesis, the role of TGF-β-induced CD4+Foxp3+ Tregs (iTregs) in osteoclastogenesis remains unknown. OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of iTregs on osteoclastogenesis in vitro and on bone erosion in vivo in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA)...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kong N,Lan Q,Su W,Chen M,Wang J,Yang Z,Park R,Dagliyan G,Conti PS,Brand D,Liu Z,Stohl W,Zou H,Zheng SG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel explanation for the natural history of joint destruction in the early phase of ankylosing spondylitis is proposed on the basis of the clinical history, x-ray appearance, operative findings, and histopathology of a young patient believed to be suffering from the peripheral form of this disease. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pasion EG,Goodfellow JW

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Target trial emulation is an intuitive design framework that encourages investigators to formulate their comparative effectiveness research (CER) question as a hypothetical randomised controlled trial (RCT). Our aim was to systematically review CER studies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to provide examples of ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Zhao SS,Lyu H,Solomon DH,Yoshida K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00