Correlation and sex differences between ankle and knee cartilage morphology determined by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging.

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：BACKGROUND:Several inflammatory conditions are associated with an increased risk of lymphoma. The specific features of inflammation that mediate this risk are unknown. There are few studies on whether ankylosing spondylitis increases the risk of lymphoma. Besides inflammation-lymphoma aetiology, information on risk of ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Askling J,Klareskog L,Blomqvist P,Fored M,Feltelius N

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with Portuguese familial amyloid polyneuropathy who developed haemarthroses secondary to pathological fractures is described. Amyloid material was demonstrated on bone biopsy and confirmed immunohistochemically to be transthyretin (prealbumin). Although amyloid deposits in bone have been described in other t...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Allard SA,King RH,Thomas PK,Bourke BE

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：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：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is highly prevalent in Malaysia, which has a mixed population of Malays, Chinese, and Indians. A quantitative enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine anticardiolipin antibody (aCL) levels (total immunoglobulin, IgG, and IgM) in 200 patients with SLE (164 Chine...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones HW,Ireland R,Senaldi G,Wang F,Khamashta M,Bellingham AJ,Veerapan K,Hughes GR,Vergani D

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that a single injection of bacterial antigen in oil into a footpad of rats of 5 strains induced different clinical forms of adjuvant disease in the individual rat strains. Rats were injected with 300 micrograms heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 50 microliters paraffin. Inflammatory lesion...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Muir VY,Dumonde DC

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal serositis is not a widely recognised aspect of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Indeed, ascites in SLE is said to occur only when complicated by the nephrotic syndrome, congestive cardiac failure, or hepatic cirrhosis. We describe two patients who developed ascites that could be attributed to none of the...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mier A,Weir W

更新日期：1985-11-01 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：:The effect of transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) on proteoglycan synthesis and degradation in anatomically intact articular cartilage of murine patellae was studied. Exogenously added TGF beta up to a concentration of 200 pmol/l had no effect on proteoglycan synthesis in intact articular cartilage. Neutralisat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van der Kraan PM,Vitters EL,van den Berg WB

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing age at onset has been associated with worse outcome in rheumatoid arthritis, although there are few data from unselected inception cohorts. HYPOTHESIS:Increasing age is associated with a higher risk of erosions at presentation, and this increase is not explained by age-related disease confounders...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bukhari M,Lunt M,Barton A,Bunn D,Silman A,Symmons D

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three aspects of polymorphonuclear leucocyte (PMN) function were studied in 19 patients with Behçet's syndrome (BS). By 2 different techniques directed motility was found to be increased. This increase was largely due to the subgroup of patients with ocular involvement. Counts of absolute numbers of cells migrating hi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fordham JN,Davies PG,Kirk A,Currey HL

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy and safety of golimumab over 104 weeks in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis. METHODS:At baseline, patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (n=356) were randomly assigned (1:1.8:1.8) to subcutaneous injections of placebo (group 1), golimumab 50 mg (group 2) or golimumab 100...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Braun J,Deodhar A,Inman RD,van der Heijde D,Mack M,Xu S,Hsu B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of certolizumab pegol (CZP) on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to interpret these results using number needed to treat (NNT), and associations between PRO responses and longer term outcomes. METHODS:A total of 619 patients with active RA were randomised...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Strand V,Smolen JS,van Vollenhoven RF,Mease P,Burmester GR,Hiepe F,Khanna D,Nikaï E,Coteur G,Schiff M

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a clinically heterogeneous disease with limited reliable diagnostic biomarkers. We investigated whether gene methylation could meet sensitivity and specificity criteria for a robust biomarker. METHODS:IFI44L promoter methylation was examined using DNA samples from a disc...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Zhao M,Zhou Y,Zhu B,Wan M,Jiang T,Tan Q,Liu Y,Jiang J,Luo S,Tan Y,Wu H,Renauer P,Del Mar Ayala Gutiérrez M,Castillo Palma MJ,Ortega Castro R,Fernández-Roldán C,Raya E,Faria R,Carvalho C,Alarcón-Riquelme ME,Xiang Z

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare levels of disability of people with and without hip and knee arthroplasty in a random national sample. METHODS:In 1999 a screening questionnaire to classify people into groups of increasing probabilities of disability was sent to 417 500 people; response rate 86%. The study population was obtaine...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Boutron I,Poiraudeau S,Ravaud JF,Baron G,Revel M,Nizard R,Dougados M,Ravaud P

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Today, patients' functioning is a central issue in medicine. Concepts, classifications, and measurements of functioning and health, such as the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) are of prime importance in clinical practice, teaching, and research. This report compares the content...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Stucki G,Cieza A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine if neutrophils isolated from the blood and synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis had patterns of receptor expression resembling those of blood neutrophils from controls which had been activated and primed in vitro. METHODS:Fluorescence activated cell sor...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Watson F,Robinson JJ,Phelan M,Bucknall RC,Edwards SW

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Statins offer significant cardiovascular benefits. Their use, however, influences immune regulation, which may potentially facilitate autoimmunity, eventually resulting in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA).The authors studied whether statin use was associated with an increased risk of dev...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Jong HJ,Klungel OH,van Dijk L,Vandebriel RJ,Leufkens HG,van der Laan JW,Cohen Tervaert JW,van Loveren H

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dendritic cells orchestrate pivotal immunological processes mediated by the production of cytokines and chemokines. OBJECTIVE:To assess whether neutralisation of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) during maturation of dendritic cells affects their phenotype and behaviour, which might explain the benef...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van Lieshout AW,Barrera P,Smeets RL,Pesman GJ,van Riel PL,van den Berg WB,Radstake TR

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The zinc-ZIP8-MTF1 axis induces metallothionein (MT) expression and is a catabolic regulator of experimental osteoarthritis (OA) in mice. The main aim of the current study was to explore the roles and underlying molecular mechanisms of MTs in OA pathogenesis. METHODS:Experimental OA in mice was induced by de...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Won Y,Shin Y,Chun CH,Cho Y,Ha CW,Kim JH,Chun JS

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified regular thermal patterns over normal knee, ankle, and elbow joints and demonstrate how synovitis affecting these joints may be identified by alteration or loss of the thermal pattern. Sixty healthy volunteers were thermographed on a total of 190 occasions, and 614 out of 618 joints conformed to the ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Salisbury RS,Parr G,De Silva M,Hazleman BL,Page-Thomas DP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop evidence-based EULAR recommendations for cardiovascular (CV) risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS:A multidisciplinary expert committee was convened as a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for Clinica...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Peters MJ,Symmons DP,McCarey D,Dijkmans BA,Nicola P,Kvien TK,McInnes IB,Haentzschel H,Gonzalez-Gay MA,Provan S,Semb A,Sidiropoulos P,Kitas G,Smulders YM,Soubrier M,Szekanecz Z,Sattar N,Nurmohamed MT

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62 year old woman taking L-tryptophan developed eosinophilic fasciitis shortly after starting an exercise class. She received prednisone without benefit but improved after azathioprine treatment was started and L-tryptophan was discontinued. As products containing L-tryptophan have recently been implicated in develo...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hamilton ME

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study long term utility of early, continual, and serial use of disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in clinical setting. METHODS:A total of 135 patients with early RA were treated according to the "sawtooth" strategy and prospectively followed up to 15 years. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Sokka T,Hannonen P

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Physical function in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has reversible and irreversible components, and is typically assessed by the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ). Since irreversible components are expected to increase with longer duration of RA and reduce the ability for improvement in physi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Aletaha D,Strand V,Smolen JS,Ward MM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00