Circulating soluble E-selectin in early rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective five year study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The heteropolymer technology was developed to remove pathogens from the circulation. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the safety and tolerability of a single administration and to establish proof of principle for ETI-104 in normal healthy volunteers (NHV) and patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) METHODS: ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Iking-Konert C,Stocks S,Weinsberg F,Engelbrecht R,Bleck E,Perniok A,Fischer-Betz R,Pincus S,Nardone L,Schneider M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nutritional assessment of 50 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) showed evidence of malnutrition in 13 (26%), while all 50 control subjects had normal nutritional status. Of the anthropometric measurements the body-mass index and triceps skinfold thickness values in men and women were significantly reduced in RA...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Helliwell M,Coombes EJ,Moody BJ,Batstone GF,Robertson JC

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article gives a short overview of the development and characteristics of the OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis MRI scoring system (RAMRIS), followed by an introduction to the use of the EULAR-OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis MRI reference image atlas. With this atlas, MRIs of wrist and metacarpophalangeal joints of patien...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Østergaard M,Edmonds J,McQueen F,Peterfy C,Lassere M,Ejbjerg B,Bird P,Emery P,Genant H,Conaghan P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the significance of complement activation in patients with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). METHODS:Thirty-six patients with primary APS, 42 control patients with non-systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) connective tissue diseases, and 36 healthy volunteers were analysed retrospectively....

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Oku K,Atsumi T,Bohgaki M,Amengual O,Kataoka H,Horita T,Yasuda S,Koike T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To forecast, on the basis of the past and present position of rheumatologists in Europe, the competence needed in the future to secure and promote the specialty within the healthcare network. METHODS:Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes/European Board of Rheumatology (UEMS/EBR) questionnaire on (a) tr...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Amor B

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the cost of illness in an incidence based cohort of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. METHODS:Direct costs (healthcare and non-healthcare costs) and indirect costs (productivity loss due to sick leave and work disability) were measured in 215 JIA patients, assessed on an average of 17 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Minden K,Niewerth M,Listing J,Biedermann T,Schöntube M,Zink A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the ability of ultrasound (US) to detect the presence and change of Achilles erosions in spondyloarthritis (SpA). METHODS:A blind prospective two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) US study of Achilles enthesis erosions in early SpA was undertaken. US examinations were performed at basel...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Miguel E,Falcao S,Castillo C,Plasencia C,García M,Branco JC,Martín-Mola E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common monogenic autoinflammatory disease (AID) worldwide. The disease is caused by mutations in the MEFV gene encoding the inflammasome sensor Pyrin. Clinical diagnosis of FMF is complicated by overlap in symptoms with other diseases, and interpre...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Van Gorp H,Huang L,Saavedra P,Vuylsteke M,Asaoka T,Prencipe G,Insalaco A,Ogunjimi B,Jeyaratnam J,Cataldo I,Jacques P,Vermaelen K,Dullaers M,Joos R,Sabato V,Stella A,Frenkel J,De Benedetti F,Dehoorne J,Haerynck F,C

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and two rural patients and 100 urban patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthrosis and 203 age and sex matched controls were visited in their homes to evaluate their problems, needs, and expectations. Although one would expect disability to affect the mobility of a person, it was found that rural p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Cornelissen PG,Rasker JJ,Valkenburg HA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterise renal tissue metabolic pathway gene expression in different forms of glomerulonephritis. METHODS:Patients with nephrotic syndrome (NS), antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and healthy living donors (LD) were studied. Clinically ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Grayson PC,Eddy S,Taroni JN,Lightfoot YL,Mariani L,Parikh H,Lindenmeyer MT,Ju W,Greene CS,Godfrey B,Cohen CD,Krischer J,Kretzler M,Merkel PA,Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium, the European Renal cDNA Bank cohort, and th

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell activation and cellular immune responses are modulated by interleukin 2 (IL2) through binding to its corresponding cell surface receptor. Three forms of the receptor are recognised based on IL2 binding affinity. The high affinity receptor is a heterotrimer composed of alpha, beta, and gamma(c)-polypeptide chain...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Morris JC,Waldmann TA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To score systemic activity at diagnosis and correlate baseline activity with survival in a large cohort of patients with primary Sjögren syndrome (SS). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We include 1045 consecutive patients who fulfilled the 2002 classification criteria for primary SS. The clinical and immunological chara...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Brito-Zerón P,Kostov B,Solans R,Fraile G,Suárez-Cuervo C,Casanovas A,Rascón FJ,Qanneta R,Pérez-Alvarez R,Ripoll M,Akasbi M,Pinilla B,Bosch JA,Nava-Mateos J,Díaz-López B,Morera-Morales ML,Gheitasi H,Retamozo S,Ramos-Ca

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of fasting for 7 days were investigated in 13 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in comparison with a control regimen in a cross-over trial. The effects of fasting on clinical performance and blood neutrophil functions were studied. During fasting, with a mean weight loss of 5.1 kg, clinical inflammat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Udén AM,Trang L,Venizelos N,Palmblad J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the association between the occurrence of peripheral arthritis and of acute anterior uveitis during the course of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS:Retrospective clinical follow up by both chart review and direct patient interview was performed on 271 individuals comprised of 222 local white and ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Maksymowych WP,Chou CT,Russell AS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the contributions towards hyperuricaemia of known risk factors, focusing on fractional (renal) clearance of urate (FCU) and variation in the ATP-binding cassette transporter, sub-family G 2 (ABCG2) gene. METHODS:The contributions of age, sex, ancestry, Q141K genotype for ABCG2, FCU, sugar-swee...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kannangara DR,Phipps-Green AJ,Dalbeth N,Stamp LK,Williams KM,Graham GG,Day RO,Merriman TR

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between progression of knee osteoarthritis and progression of osteoarthritis at sites distant from the knee is unclear because of a lack of multisite longitudinal progression data. OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between radiological progression of knee osteoarthritis and osteoarthritis...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hassett G,Hart DJ,Doyle DV,March L,Spector TD

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To see if a group course delivered by rheumatology teams using cognitive-behavioural approaches, plus usual care, reduced RA fatigue impact more than usual care alone. METHODS:Multicentre, 2-year randomised controlled trial in RA adults (fatigue severity>6/10, no recent major medication changes). RAFT (Redu...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hewlett S,Almeida C,Ambler N,Blair PS,Choy EH,Dures E,Hammond A,Hollingworth W,Kadir B,Kirwan JR,Plummer Z,Rooke C,Thorn J,Turner N,Pollock J,RAFT Study Group.

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:We have compared the distribution of histocompatibility antigens of 22 Turkish and 14 British patients with Behçet's disease with those of their respective controls. There was a strong association of B5, specifically its Bw51 split, with the disease. A modest increase in the incidence of HLA B27 was noted in British p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Yazici H,Chamberlain MA,Schreuder I,D'Amaro J,Muftuoglu M

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients were studied after jejunoileal bypass (JIB) surgery. Seven developed arthritis and six did not. Circulating immune complexes containing IgG and IgA were detected in the sera of patients with and without arthritis. IgA complexes were shown to contain secretory component, a protein predominantly associ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Clegg DO,Zone JJ,Samuelson CO Jr,Ward JR

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：:Two British secondary schools (one a specialist music school) were surveyed to assess the prevalence of upper limb pain among specialist music students compared with students in a regular school setting. Female students tended to report pain more often than male students, but for both significantly higher prevalence w...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fry HJ,Rowley GL

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:It has been proposed that the process of hypoxic-reperfusion injury contributes to the persistence of synovitis in the inflamed human joint. The generation of pathological, exercise induced, intra-articular pressure leading to occlusion of the synovial microcirculation is central to this mechanism. However, acute trau...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Merry P,Williams R,Cox N,King JB,Blake DR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To show whether intra-articular steroid injections are effective in osteoarthritis; to determine factors that predict response; and to determine whether injection has a beneficial effect on muscle strength. METHODS:Double blind, placebo controlled, crossover study in 59 patients with symptomatic osteoarthri...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones A,Doherty M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of septic, histoplasmal monoarthritis of the knee in a leukaemic patient is described. Ketoconazole therapy failed to eliminate the infection, but after histoplasmosis was diagnosed prolonged therapy with amphotericin B was curative. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones PG,Rolston K,Hopfer RL

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the associations between overweight measures in childhood and knee pain, stiffness and dysfunction among adults 25 years later. METHODS:Subjects broadly representative of the Australian population (n=449, aged 31-41 years, female 48%) were selected from the Australian Schools Health and Fitness S...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Antony B,Jones G,Venn A,Cicuttini F,March L,Blizzard L,Dwyer T,Cross M,Ding C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress in RA synovial tissue can cause DNA damage and suppress the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) system in cultured synoviocytes. This mechanism includes two enzyme complexes, hMutSalpha (hMSH2/hMSH6) and hMutSbeta (hMSH2/hMSH3). OBJECTIVE:To examine the expression and distribution of MMR enzymes in s...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Simelyte E,Boyle DL,Firestein GS

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) blockers on the presence of liver fibrosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) treated with methotrexate (MTX). METHODS:Participants were consecutive patients with RA and PsA who had undergone MTX treatment...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Seitz M,Reichenbach S,Möller B,Zwahlen M,Villiger PM,Dufour JF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00