Polymorphisms of the mannose binding lectin gene in patients with Sjögren's syndrome.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review case histories of patients in whom fibrosis played a significant role in the pathogenesis of their disease, and to determine whether intravenous gammaglobulin (IVIg) contributed to the regression of their fibrotic condition. METHODS:Eight patients with excess fibrotic reaction in the course of div...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Amital H,Rewald E,Levy Y,Bar-Dayan Y,Manthorpe R,Engervall P,Sherer Y,Langevitz P,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess pooled golimumab safety up to year 3 of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) trials. METHODS:Golimumab 50 and 100 mg, administered subcutaneously (SC) every 4 weeks (q4wk), were assessed in patients with active RA (methotrexate-naïve, methotrexate-exp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kay J,Fleischmann R,Keystone E,Hsia EC,Hsu B,Mack M,Goldstein N,Braun J,Kavanaugh A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the impact of tocilizumab (TCZ), a humanised monoclonal anti-interleukin-6 receptor antibody, on antibody response following administration of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23). METHODS:A total of 190 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) received PPV23. Patients were c...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mori S,Ueki Y,Akeda Y,Hirakata N,Oribe M,Shiohira Y,Hidaka T,Oishi K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) are the most predictive factor for the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the recognition of citrullinated epitopes changes during disease onset or progression, by studying the fine specificity of ACPA in serum samples coll...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van der Woude D,Rantapää-Dahlqvist S,Ioan-Facsinay A,Onnekink C,Schwarte CM,Verpoort KN,Drijfhout JW,Huizinga TW,Toes RE,Pruijn GJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of acute stress on inflammatory, haemostatic, rheological, and haemodynamic activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in comparison with patients with osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS:21 patients with RA and 10 with OA underwent a brief mental stress task while standing. Inflammat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Veldhuijzen van Zanten JJ,Ring C,Carroll D,Kitas GD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After in vitro incubation with 3H-thymidine, the proliferation of synovial lining cells and fibroblasts was investigated in surgically-removed articular tissue. Under normal conditions, in nonrheumatoid arthritis and in osteoarthrosis, low proliferation rates for both cell types were observed. In rheumatoid arthritis,...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mohr W,Beneke G,Mohing W

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus capsid antigen (EBVCA) were examined in 41 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 26 patients with primary sicca syndrome, and 26 healthy subjects of similar age and sex. IgG antibody titres to EBVCA and CMV were similar in all three groups, apart from a tri...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Venables PJ,Ross MG,Charles PJ,Melsom RD,Griffiths PD,Maini RN

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the elastic properties of the ascending aorta in untreated patients with giant cell arteritis compared with age and sex matched normal controls. METHODS:Distensibility of the ascending aorta and aortic strain were measured in 22 patients with a recent diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (documen...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Margos PN,Moyssakis IE,Tzioufas AG,Zintzaras E,Moutsopoulos HM

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To define the mechanisms whereby methotrexate (MTX) manifests its effects in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS:T and B cells from peripheral blood and rheumatoid synovial tissues, synovial adherent cells, and the human fibrosarcoma cell line HT1080 and its mutant (defective in an enzyme in the nucl...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Nakajima A,Hakoda M,Yamanaka H,Kamatani N,Kashiwazaki S

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship of the polymorphic enhancer HS1,2 central to the 3' enhancer complex regulatory region (IgH3'EC) of the immunoglobulin heavy chain genes with systemic sclerosis (SSc) disease and compare it with HLA-DR and DQ associations. METHODS:A total of 116 patients with SSc were classifi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Frezza D,Giambra V,Tolusso B,De Santis M,Bosello S,Vettori S,Triolo G,Valentini G,Ferraccioli G

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with sickle cell disease presented with joint pain and early x-ray evidence of articular cartilage loss. Both later developed increasingly destructive arthritis with chronic synovitis identified in synovial biopsies. One patient developed demonstrable aseptic necrosis. Destructive arthropathy is much less...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Schumacher HR,Dorwart BB,Bond J,Alavi A,Miller W

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare median nerve conduction velocity measured using a new, portable electroneurometer with measurements made using conventional hospital nerve conduction apparatus. METHODS:Twenty five patients were studied who were consecutively referred to a hospital neurophysiology department with a clinical diagno...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dunne CA,Thompson PW,Cole J,Dunning J,Martyn CN,Coggon D,Cooper C

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a comparative study of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and immune complexes in the serum of 43 patients with systemic sclerosis (SS) ANA were detected by indirect immunofluorescence on Hep 2 cells and/or double immunodiffusion in 90% of patients, while immune complex assays were positive in 32% of patients. The immune...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： French MA,Harrison G,Penning CA,Cunningham J,Hughes P,Rowell NR

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To localise and characterise follicular dendritic cells (FDC) present in autoimmune lesions of primary Sjögren syndrome. METHODS:Cryostat sections of labial salivary glands from 15 patients with primary Sjögren syndrome were examined by an indirect immunoperoxidase technique and monoclonal antibodies to a pa...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Aziz KE,McCluskey PJ,Wakefield D

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients with classical or definite rheumatoid disease (RD) with foot pain and radiologically demonstrated erosions were studied electrodiagnostically to ascertain the frequency of the tarsal tunnel syndrome and peripheral neuropathy. Four patients (13.3%) had evidence of the tarsal tunnel syndrome. The electri...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： McGuigan L,Burke D,Fleming A

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study aimed to evaluate the use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with (68)Ga-PRGD2 as the tracer for imaging of synovial angiogenesis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Twenty untreated active patients with RA underwent (68)Ga-PRGD2 PET/CT and (18)F-FDG PET/C...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Zhu Z,Yin Y,Zheng K,Li F,Chen X,Zhang F,Zhang X

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) are the hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Protein citrullination is believed to drive autoantigen selection in RA. Nonetheless, several autoantigens in RA are targeted as native (unmodified) proteins. Here, the study of hnRNP A2/B1 (RA33) provides a framewor...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Konig MF,Giles JT,Nigrovic PA,Andrade F

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the value of advanced imaging techniques in the detection of hand osteoarthritis (OA) and hand OA progression. METHODS:PubMed/Medline and Embase were searched until April 2012 for studies on imaging of hand OA that presented quantitative data on validity, reliability or responsiveness. Articles pre...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Saltzherr MS,Selles RW,Bierma-Zeinstra SM,Muradin GS,Coert JH,van Neck JW,Luime JJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess and characterise the risk of bladder cancer, and its relation to cyclophosphamide, in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis. METHODS:In the population based, nationwide Swedish Inpatient Register a cohort of 1065 patients with Wegener's granulomatosis, 1969-95, was identified. Through linkage with...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Knight A,Askling J,Granath F,Sparen P,Ekbom A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register (BSRBR) has collected data on adverse events including pregnancies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy. The purpose of this report is to summarise the pregnancy outcomes in women treated with ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verstappen SM,King Y,Watson KD,Symmons DP,Hyrich KL,BSRBR Control Centre Consortium, BSR Biologics Register.

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Genetic variation at the type II deiodinase (D2) gene (DIO2) was previously identified as osteoarthritis (OA) risk factor. To investigate mechanisms possibly underlying this association, we assessed D2 protein in healthy and OA-affected cartilage and investigated allelic balance of the OA risk polymorphism rs...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bos SD,Bovée JV,Duijnisveld BJ,Raine EV,van Dalen WJ,Ramos YF,van der Breggen R,Nelissen RG,Slagboom PE,Loughlin J,Meulenbelt I

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 29 524 hospitalised medical patients monitored in a drug surveillance programme 1835 (6.2%) received the xanthine oxidase inhibitor allopurinol. After the exclusion of skin reactions adverse effects were attributed to this drug in 33 (1.8%) patients, the most frequent being haematological abnormalities (11 patients...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： McInnes GT,Lawson DH,Jick H

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overdiagnosis is a term coined by experts in cancer screening to point to indolent cancers detected by screening that would have never led to manifest health problems. Overdiagnosis leads to unnecessary medical care (overtreatment), anxiety and cost. In rheumatology overdiagnosis and overtreatment are hardly discussed...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Landewé RBM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of observations have led to the hypothesis that normal intestinal microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis may harbour, for genetic reasons, bacteria with cell walls capable of inducing arthritis. Differences occur between bacterial species, and even between strains of a single species, because some c...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Toivanen P

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:No consensus has previously been formed regarding the types and presentations of infectious pathogens to be considered as 'opportunistic infections' (OIs) within the setting of biologic therapy. We systematically reviewed published literature reporting OIs in the setting of biologic therapy for inflammatory diseases. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Winthrop KL,Novosad SA,Baddley JW,Calabrese L,Chiller T,Polgreen P,Bartalesi F,Lipman M,Mariette X,Lortholary O,Weinblatt ME,Saag M,Smolen J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An abnormal CD4+ T cell subset related to inflammation exposure (inflammation-related cells, IRC) has been identified in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients with inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases were used to examine the relationship between inflammation and this T cell subset in vivo. METHODS:Bloo...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Burgoyne CH,Field SL,Brown AK,Hensor EM,English A,Bingham SL,Verburg R,Fearon U,Lawson CA,Hamlin PJ,Straszynski L,Veale D,Conaghan P,Hull MA,van Laar JM,Tennant A,Emery P,Isaacs JD,Ponchel F

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite the lower prevalence of obesity (a known risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA)), the prevalence of lateral tibiofemoral OA is higher in Chinese communities compared with Caucasian communities. One potential explanation is the difference in knee alignment between the two populations. We measured various ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Harvey WF,Niu J,Zhang Y,McCree PI,Felson DT,Nevitt M,Xu L,Aliabadi P,Hunter DJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00