Subclinical gut inflammation in spondyloarthropathy patients is associated with upregulation of the E-cadherin/catenin complex.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the prevalence of microalbuminuria, urinary albumin excretion (UAE) between 20-200 micrograms/min, in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients without clinical renal disease, and to discover if this could predict the development of renal disease. METHODS:This study made six monthly measure...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Batlle-Gualda E,Martínez AC,Guerra RA,Pascual E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty two patients with ankylosing spondylitis were investigated with a set of pulmonary function tests and the results compared with those for a control population. The patients had no complaints about lung symptoms and their chest radiographs were normal. The main pathological findings were reduced lung volumes, a ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Feltelius N,Hedenström H,Hillerdal G,Hällgren R

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Qualitative differences in synovitis between the cartilage-pannus junction (CPJ) region and the adjoining suprapatellar pouch (SPP) have been reported in rheumatoid arthritis and the spondyloarthropathies. OBJECTIVE:To determine if the distribution of synovitis is the same in osteoarthritis (OA) using sensi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rhodes LA,Conaghan PG,Radjenovic A,Grainger AJ,Emery P,McGonagle D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult human articular cartilage has been maintained in organ culture for 8 days, and the culture medium, which was changed on alternate days, was pooled. Normal and rheumatoid cartilage was obtained from patients and 4 types of culture were prepared: (1) cartilage alone; (2) cartilage + D-penicillamine; (3) cartilage ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jacoby RK

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucopenia appears to be a more frequent complication of sulphasalazine treatment in rheumatoid arthritis than in inflammatory bowel disease and poses a management problem. In this study leucopenia was found in 20 patients, 14 of whom were participating in prospective studies (252 patients), giving an incidence of 5.6...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Marabani M,Madhok R,Capell HA,Hunter JA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To define pulmonary involvement on high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the thorax in lifelong non-smoking rheumatoid arthritis patients and to relate the results to pulmonary function, bronchial reactivity, and a variety of clinical and serological factors. METHODS:Twenty lifelong non-smoking RA p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hassan WU,Keaney NP,Holland CD,Kelly CA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of anticardiolipin antibodies was evaluated in 70 children with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), in 25 adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis, in 42 healthy children and in 40 adult controls. Thirty seven (53%) patients with JCA were positive for IgG or IgM anticardiolipin antibodies, or both, and 30...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Caporali R,Ravelli A,De Gennaro F,Neirotti G,Montecucco C,Martini A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess sensory function in skin overlying the joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, in relation to the pain and tenderness which commonly arises in structures not directly involved in the inflammatory process. METHODS:An intradermal injection of capsaicin 0.05 microgram in 10 microliters was made ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jolliffe VA,Anand P,Kidd BL

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:For our understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it is important to elucidate the mechanisms underlying early stages of synovitis. Here, synovial cytokine production was investigated in patients with very early arthritis. METHODS:Synovial biopsies were obtained from pat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Yeo L,Adlard N,Biehl M,Juarez M,Smallie T,Snow M,Buckley CD,Raza K,Filer A,Scheel-Toellner D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the amount of joint cartilage in healthy, middle aged men is stable or changes over time, and what factors may influence this. METHODS:In a cohort study, 28 healthy men (70% of the original cohort; mean (SD) age, 51.9 (12.8) years) had baseline knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of th...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hanna F,Ebeling PR,Wang Y,O'Sullivan R,Davis S,Wluka AE,Cicuttini FM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prostaglandin E (PGE) level in the knee joint fluid was determined by radioimmunoassay before and after anti-inflammatory therapy with flurbiprofen in 8 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 4 patients with osteoarthritis (OA). The level of PGE in RA joint fluids before the anti-inflammatory treatment was 9....

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tokunaga M,Ohuchi K,Yoshizawa S,Tsurufuji S,Rikimaru A,Wakamatsu E

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether preradiographic lesions in knees at risk for osteoarthritis are incidental versus disease is unclear. We hypothesised, in persons without but at higher risk for knee osteoarthritis, that: 12-48 month MRI lesion status worsening is associated with 12-48 month incident radiographic osteoarthritis (obje...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Sharma L,Nevitt M,Hochberg M,Guermazi A,Roemer FW,Crema M,Eaton C,Jackson R,Kwoh K,Cauley J,Almagor O,Chmiel JS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To improve the understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by identifying novel, disease specific autoantibodies. METHODS:Total protein preparations from synovial membranes were separated electrophoretically and immunoblotted. Sera from RA patients were screened for predominant immunoreact...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bläss S,Specker C,Lakomek HJ,Schneider EM,Schwochau M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the prevalence and incidence of systemic sclerosis (SSc) in southern Sweden. METHODS:In Skåne, the southernmost region of Sweden (total population 1.2 million), healthcare provided is registered in the Skåne Healthcare Register. We identified all Skåne residents who had received an International...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Andréasson K,Saxne T,Bergknut C,Hesselstrand R,Englund M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A prospective, open study of corticosteroid hip injection (CHI) was performed to determine if different radiological patterns of arthritis vary in their response. METHODS:Forty five patients (15 with rheumatoid arthritis, 27 with osteoarthritis, and three with anklyosing spondylitis) underwent hip injection...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Plant MJ,Borg AA,Dziedzic K,Saklatvala J,Dawes PT

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Sjögren's syndrome alone (Ss), Sjögren's syndrome with rheumatoid arthritis (Ss-RA), and Sjögren's syndrome with Raynaud's phenomenon (Ss-RP) were typed for the HLA DR and MT antigens. Ss-RA patients had higher frequencies of HLA DR4 than did Ss patients. HLA-DR4 was also increased in frequency in patien...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mann DL,Moutsopoulos HM

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare disease requiring multicentre collaboration to reveal comprehensive details of disease-related causes for morbidity and mortality. METHODS:The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Scleroderma Trials and Research (EUSTAR) group initiated a database to prospectively ga...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Meier FM,Frommer KW,Dinser R,Walker UA,Czirjak L,Denton CP,Allanore Y,Distler O,Riemekasten G,Valentini G,Müller-Ladner U,EUSTAR Co-authors.

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart disease is a rare but important complication of polymyositis. Diagnosis of myocardial disease is usually based on non-specific clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic data. This paper reports a case of polymyositis with myocardial disease diagnosed by myocardial imaging with radiolabelled antibody ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Le Guludec D,Lhote F,Weinmann P,Royer I,Jarrousse B,Caillat-Vigneron N,Guillevin L,Moretti JL

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the association between silica exposure, separately as well as combined with smoking, and the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with or without the presence of antibodies against citrullinated peptide antigens (ACPA). METHODS:This Swedish population based case-control study analysed 577 i...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Stolt P,Yahya A,Bengtsson C,Källberg H,Rönnelid J,Lundberg I,Klareskog L,Alfredsson L,EIRA Study Group.

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify new susceptibility loci for Behçet's disease (BD), we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using DNA pooling. METHODS:Two replicate pools of 292 Iranian BD cases and of 294 age- and sex-matched controls were allelotyped in quadruplicate on the Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Xavier JM,Shahram F,Sousa I,Davatchi F,Matos M,Abdollahi BS,Sobral J,Nadji A,Oliveira M,Ghaderibarim F,Shafiee NM,Oliveira SA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunogenicity of aTNFs is one of the mechanisms behind treatment failure. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of anti-drug antibodies (ADA) on drug response to infliximab, adalimumab and etanercept, and the effect of immunosuppression on ADA detection, in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Spondyloarthritis, P...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Garcês S,Demengeot J,Benito-Garcia E

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Gout, the most common inflammatory arthritis, is associated with premature mortality. Whether this mortality gap has improved over time, as observed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), is unknown. METHODS:Using an electronic medical record database representative of the UK general population, we identified inciden...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fisher MC,Rai SK,Lu N,Zhang Y,Choi HK

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse the functional response of p53 in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASF) in vitro and in vivo and to investigate whether activation of p53 modulates the destructive process of RASF. METHODS:RASF and controls grown on chamber slides were either directly examined with DO7 anti-p53 antibodi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Seemayer CA,Kuchen S,Neidhart M,Kuenzler P,Rihosková V,Neumann E,Pruschy M,Aicher WK,Müller-Ladner U,Gay RE,Michel BA,Firestein GS,Gay S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a prospective observational study, we investigated whether patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) had higher indices of endothelial damage and dysfunction than healthy controls and whether improved disease control was associated with improvement in these indices. METHODS:Twenty-seven pat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Parker B,Al-Husain A,Pemberton P,Yates AP,Ho P,Gorodkin R,Teh LS,Alexander MY,Bruce IN

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case presented is of a patient with migratory polyarthritis and serological evidence of a recent streptococcal infection, consistent with the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever, who in addition had multisystem disease manifestations. This case supports the concept that the sequelae of streptococcal infection can e...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Livneh A,Sharma K,Sewell KL,Keiser HD

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, an American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) collaboration developed new classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the diagnostic and discriminative ability of these new criteria compared with the 1987 ACR criteria and the ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Britsemmer K,Ursum J,Gerritsen M,van Tuyl LH,van Schaardenburg D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21-year-old woman developed persistent polyarthritis indistinguishable from rheumatoid arthritis after rubella. The arthritis persisted for approximately 30 months and was associated with high levels of antibody to rubella virus and with rheumatoid factor. The antibody titres declined pari passu with clinical improv...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： McCormick JN,Duthie JJ,Gerber H,Hart H,Baker S,Marmion BP

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess productivity costs incurred by rheumatoid arthritis, comprising paid as well as household productivity costs, from a societal perspective, using different methods. METHODS:A questionnaire on productivity, including items of the Health and Labour Questionnaire, was completed by 576 patients with rhe...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verstappen SM,Boonen A,Verkleij H,Bijlsma JW,Buskens E,Jacobs JW,Utrecht Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effects of smoking on cartilage loss and pain at the knee in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS:159 men with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis who participated in a 30-month, prospective, natural history study of knee osteoarthritis were examined. The more symptomatic knee was imaged ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Amin S,Niu J,Guermazi A,Grigoryan M,Hunter DJ,Clancy M,LaValley MP,Genant HK,Felson DT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the one year period prevalence of falls by age and sex in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and the influence of concurrent medical treatment and disability on the occurrence of falls in this group. METHODS:A consecutive series of rheumatoid patients aged 35 years and over, attending hospital ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Armstrong C,Swarbrick CM,Pye SR,O'Neill TW

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00