The rationale for the current boom in anti-TNFalpha treatment. Is there an effective means to define therapeutic targets for drugs that provide all the benefits of anti-TNFalpha and minimise hazards?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the long term effectiveness of intravenous immunoglobulin and plasmapheresis associated with prednisone and cyclophosphamide in Churg-Strauss syndrome. SUBJECTS:and methods: We studied 18 subjects with new onset Churg-Strauss syndrome. All received the "standard" treatment based on prednisone (1 mg/...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Danieli MG,Cappelli M,Malcangi G,Logullo F,Salvi A,Danieli G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using clinical, radiological, and morbid anatomical data about patients with arthritis of the hip and their femoral heads resected during total hip replacement, an attempt has been made first, to classify patients and femoral heads by a cluster analysis technique, and secondly and more realistically, to use existing c...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Byers PD,Roper BA,Glennie B

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous infection of C3H mice with viable Mycoplasma pulmonis organisms protected them from arthritis induced by intravenous inoculation of these organisms, whether or not their initial arthritis had resolved at the time of challenge. Although spleen cells obtained from such animals conferred resistance to acute ar...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Taylor G,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) treatments (given for rheumatological manifestations) in reducing uveitis flares in patients with spondylarthropathy in daily practice. METHODS:A retrospective observational study of all patients with spondylarthropathy with at least one uveitis f...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Guignard S,Gossec L,Salliot C,Ruyssen-Witrand A,Luc M,Duclos M,Dougados M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the occurrence and clinical characteristics of reactive arthritis (ReA) after an outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotype O:3 infection. METHODS:From 15 October to 6 November 1998, a widespread outbreak of Y pseudotuberculosis serotype O:3 occurred in Finland. A questionnaire on musculos...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hannu T,Mattila L,Nuorti JP,Ruutu P,Mikkola J,Siitonen A,Leirisalo-Repo M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles of mavrilimumab, a human monoclonal antibody targeting the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor-α, in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-e...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Burmester GR,Feist E,Sleeman MA,Wang B,White B,Magrini F

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circulating levels of sialic acid (N-acetylneuraminic acid) and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) were measured in 69 patients with spinal disorders of orthopaedic interest (ankylosing spondylitis 17, osteofluorosis 6, idiopathic backache 10, osteoarthrosis 16, osteoporosis 20). The serum GAG levels showed no statisticall...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Susheela AK,Das TK,Khurana JS,Jayaswal A,Dave PK

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the proposed mechanisms of vascular damage in connective tissue disease is the direct action of a cytotoxic serum factor inducing endothelial cell damage. The nature of this serum factor is unclear, but has been suggested to be a lipoprotein. Sera from patients with (1) systemic necrotising arteritis (polyarter...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Blake DR,Winyard P,Scott DG,Brailsford S,Blann A,Lunec J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the long term prognosis in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). METHODS:Forty five of 70 patients who had participated in a three week trial six years earlier completed again the same questionnaires used previously. RESULTS:Most symptoms had remained stable. Pain had increased, but some aspects of q...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Baumgartner E,Finckh A,Cedraschi C,Vischer TL

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that the attachment of synovial fibroblasts to laminin (LM)-111 in the presence of transforming growth factor-beta induces significant expression of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3. Here we go on to investigate the regulation of additional MMPs and their specific tissue inhibitors of matrix p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Warstat K,Pap T,Klein G,Gay S,Aicher WK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the efficacy and safety of peficitinib, an oral Janus kinase inhibitor, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:In this double-blind phase III study, patients with RA and an inadequate response to prior disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) were randomised to peficitinib...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tanaka Y,Takeuchi T,Tanaka S,Kawakami A,Iwasaki M,Song YW,Chen YH,Wei JC,Lee SH,Rokuda M,Izutsu H,Ushijima S,Kaneko Y,Akazawa R,Shiomi T,Yamada E

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of systemic sclerosis with sympathetic and parasympathetic neuropathy and detail autonomic testing in six further patients. Of these six patients, three showed early parasympathetic damage. None of the patients had evidence of peripheral neuropathy, and there was no correlation between the presence ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Sonnex C,Paice E,White AG

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 study compared monotherapy with sirukumab, an anti-interleukin-6 cytokine monoclonal antibody, with adalimumab monotherapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Biologic-naïve patients with active RA who were inadequate responders or were i...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Taylor PC,Schiff MH,Wang Q,Jiang Y,Zhuang Y,Kurrasch R,Daga S,Rao R,Tak PP,Hsu B

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To characterise activation of the type I interferon (IFN) pathway in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic scleroderma (SSc) and to evaluate the potential to develop a molecular diagnostic tool from the peripheral bloo...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Higgs BW,Liu Z,White B,Zhu W,White WI,Morehouse C,Brohawn P,Kiener PA,Richman L,Fiorentino D,Greenberg SA,Jallal B,Yao Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the feasibility of assessing patellofemoral osteoarthritis using the 'skyline' view and to compare its reproducibility with the standard lateral view. METHODS:Fifty patients attending a rheumatology outpatient department with osteoarthritis of the knee had standard radiographs taken of both kne...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones AC,Ledingham J,McAlindon T,Regan M,Hart D,MacMillan PJ,Doherty M

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Classification criteria are biased towards classifying long-standing disease. We compared the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR)-2019, Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC)-2012 and ACR-1997 criteria in an early (median 48 months) systemic l...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Adamichou C,Nikolopoulos D,Genitsaridi I,Bortoluzzi A,Fanouriakis A,Papastefanakis E,Kalogiannaki E,Gergianaki I,Sidiropoulos P,Boumpas DT,Bertsias GK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible contribution of immunological mechanisms in the development of Libman-Sacks endocarditis was studied in 2 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who underwent aortic valve replacement. Sections of verrucous lesions, stained with haematoxylin and eosin, showed three apparently distinct zones: an outer ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Shapiro RF,Gamble CN,Wiesner KB,Castles JJ,Wolf AW,Hurley EJ,Salel AF

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) therapy may be associated with opportunistic infections (OIs). OBJECTIVE:To describe the spectrum of non-tuberculosis OIs associated with anti-TNF therapy and identify their risk factors. METHODS:A 3-year national French registry (RATIO) collected all cases of OI in patien...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Salmon-Ceron D,Tubach F,Lortholary O,Chosidow O,Bretagne S,Nicolas N,Cuillerier E,Fautrel B,Michelet C,Morel J,Puéchal X,Wendling D,Lemann M,Ravaud P,Mariette X,RATIO group.

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is reported of a 27 year old woman who had mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) associated with chronic active hepatitis and thyroiditis. Although hepatomegaly is sometimes observed in MCTD, only four cases of MCTD and chronic active hepatitis have been described. It is thought that this is the first report...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tomsic M,Ferlan-Marolt V,Kveder T,Hojker S,Rozman B

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between the basal and stimulated gastric acid secretion, plasma gastrin, and the gastric microflora was examined in 45 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Sixteen patients (36%) had basal achlorhydria, and of these, 10 (22%) had achlorhydria or hypochlorhydria after stimulation with pentagastrin. The peak...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Henriksson K,Uvnäs-Moberg K,Nord CE,Johansson C,Gullberg R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regression of small rheumatoid nodules was noted in four patients after starting sulphasalazine therapy. This coincided with an improvement in synovitis and also falls in erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C reactive protein (CRP). The relation between the nodule regression and the sulphasalazine therapy is ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Englert HJ,Hughes GR,Walport MJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the diagnostic value of beta 2 microglobulin in parotid saliva, its concentration in relation to salivary flow was determined in 29 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome and in 30 normal controls. The specific secretion rate of beta 2 microglobulin was calculated. METHODS:Parotid saliva samp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van der Geest SA,Markusse HM,Swaak AJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:In order to evaluate the incidence and aetiology of hypergastrinaemia 53 patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis were examined for gastric acid secretion, fasting serum gastrin concentration, circulating parietal cell antibodies, and some parameters of the activity of inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis. The ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Witte TJ,Geerdink PJ,Lamers CB,Boerbooms AM,van der Korst JK

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper looks at the problem confronting a doctor evaluating a patient with anticentromere antibody who does not have evidence of disease along the spectrum from CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, oesophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia) to progressive systemic sclerosis. Of 33 people with anti...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Goldman JA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the predictive value of discordance between (1) tender and swollen joint count and (2) patient's and evaluator's global assessment on remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS:From the prospective, multicentre Norwegian-Disease-Modifying Antirh...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Michelsen B,Kristianslund EK,Hammer HB,Fagerli KM,Lie E,Wierød A,Kalstad S,Rødevand E,Krøll F,Haugeberg G,Kvien TK

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 13 questions to which 173 rheumatic outpatients most frequently wished to know the answer were made the basis of a structured interview. Two lengths of interview were conducted in a controlled trial (short being of 2 minutes' duration, long ranging from 4 to 11 minutes). Sixty patients referred directly from their...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wright V,Hopkins R,Burton K

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported of polytenosynovitis in a 31-year-old male during the course of a severe bacteraemic illness caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b. The clinical presentation was similar to tenosynovitis caused by bacterial or viral agents. As the management of the H. influenzae tenosynovitis would differ from tha...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bansal S,Magnussen CR,Napodano RJ

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The PTPN22 gene has been widely confirmed as a susceptibility gene for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of Northern European descent. The aim of the current study was to explore the role of variants spanning the PTPN22 gene in determining susceptibility to and outcome of inflammatory polyarthritis (I...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Naseem H,Thomson W,Silman A,Worthington J,Symmons D,Barton A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00