Abstract：
:The pathogenesis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is not completely understood. However, an excessive regional inflammation, sensitization of primary somatosensory afferents, and sensitization of spinal neurons are considered to have a role in the pathogenesis of RSD. The underlying pathophysiology relating the clinical picture may help to determine the pharmacotherapeutic approach for an individual patient. Scintigraphy using radiolabelled human polyclonal non-specific immunoglobulin (HIG) has been recognized as a useful tool for the localization of inflammatory disorders. Thirty-six consecutive RSD patients associated with hemiplegia were included in this study. All the patients in this study had three phases bone scan and Tc-99m HIG scintigraphy. On admission, of 36 patients with positive bone scan, 30 had positive Tc-99m HIG scan. All the patients were symptomatic at the time of bone scanning. On the contrary, 24 out of 36 patients subsequently became asymptomatic at an 8-month re-evaluation period. Tc-99m HIG scintigraphy is a non-invasive complementary method for the determination of ongoing inflammatory reactions which also aids the clinicians to predict the response to anti-inflammatory therapy at the very early phase of RSD associated with hemiplegia. This preliminary study may be a source of inspiration for further studies with larger series and longer follow-up .
journal_name
Rheumatol Intjournal_title
Rheumatology internationalauthors
Okudan B,Celik Cdoi
10.1007/s00296-005-0009-zsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-03-01 00:00:00pages
404-8issue
5eissn
0172-8172issn
1437-160Xjournal_volume
26pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Secondary amyloidosis is a well-known complication of certain familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). We presented three Turkish patients with FMF and biopsy proven amyloidosis. These patients were treated with colchicine 1.5 mg/day. They have experienced five to six peritonitis attacks with fever within 1 year. On admiss...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-006-0188-2
更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To investigate the effects of TNF-alpha -308, -238 promoter polymorphisms on TNF-alpha transcription in B27 positive Chinese patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The possible relationship between polymorphisms, MHC antigens, and quantitative TNF-alpha mRNA expression were evaluated. Single nucleotide polymorphis...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-008-0671-z
更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study investigated the prevalence of antibody against annexin II (A2) in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It also explored the role of this antibody in thrombosis. Purified recombinant A2 was used in ELISA to measure the levels of IgG anti-A2 antibody in 101 AP...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-010-1379-4
更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, progressive, debilitating disease that demands continuous therapy with multiple medications. Noncompliance with disease-modifying drugs may cause disease flares, preventable functional impairment, unnecessary treatment changes, and loss of health care resources. The aim of the c...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-011-2162-x
更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Chondrocyte structure and function under the influence of two gold-containing therapeutic agents, aurothioglucose and triethylphosphine gold, were studied in a monolayer culture system for cultivating lapine articular chondrocytes. The functional parameters investigated were chondrocyte proliferation and the incorpora...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00541144
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease. Of the numerous organ manifestations, involvement of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract (GIT) appears to be the most frequent with regard to the clinical symptoms. However, as the frequency and clinical relevance of GI involvement in p...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-011-1988-6
更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:While carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy presented at rheumatologic consultation, its ulcerative variant is rarely described. We report of a case of severe bilateral medial nerve palsy, presented to us for diagnosis of chronic digital ulcers which had been suspected to be rheumatolog...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-009-1229-4
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a disease characterized by bone loss, increased levels of serotonin have been reported. Recent studies have demonstrated a role for circulating serotonin as a regulator of osteoblastogenesis, inhibiting bone formation. Thus, we measured serum serotonin levels (SSL) in a Portuguese sample ...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-017-3836-9
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To date, numerous genetic and epigenetic studies have been performed and provided a crucial step forward in our understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases. However, most of the recent advances in the treatment of rheumatic diseases including biological therapies are not based on or even discrepant from th...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s00296-018-4026-0
更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is an important preventable infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). To determine the risk of TB in patients with RA by comparing with those with non-specific back pain (NSBP), and to identify the risk factors in the RA group. Medical data were retrieved from a centralized electronic dat...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-020-04583-8
更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a disease characterized by inflammation, vascular abnormalities and fibrosis. The role of Rho/Rho-kinase pathway was demonstrated in the pathogenesis of fibrosis, inflammation and vascular abnormalities. This study was aimed to investigate the relation between SSc and Rho/Rho-kinase gene po...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1007/s00296-015-3400-4
更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Several chronic inflammatory disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, are associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) as a result of accelerated atherosclerosis. However, the data on CAD risk of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), one of the most common chronic inflamm...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi：10.1007/s00296-016-3557-5
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Wells' syndrome is a multifaceted dermatosis with a wide morphological spectrum, ranging from characteristic cellulitis-like erythema and papula to an unusual presentation of vesicles and pustules. The most important elements for diagnosis are erythemal plaques and histological picture of eosinophilic infiltration of ...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-011-1809-y
更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The American Rheumatism Association (ARA) clinical criteria have been tested in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), progressive systemic sclerosis, polyarteritis nodosa and polymyositis/dermatomyositis. Hospital admissions from a defined population over the same period were studied. Increased weighting of the scores f...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00541261
更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The objective of the study is to assess the disease course and associated healthcare costs in a cohort of established rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in Turkey. The study cohort consisted of 75 RA patients from our outpatient clinic who took part in a previous multicenter study assessing RA-related healthcare costs...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-020-04574-9
更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare health related quality of life (HRQoL) and assess functional and psychological status in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), fibromyalgia syndrome (FS) patients and controls (each 30 subjects). Demographic characteristics, pain and sleep disturbance by Visual Analog Scale, depression by Bec...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-008-0551-6
更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists are among the most effective therapies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), yet not all patients show a response. Using meta-analysis, this present study was designed to investigate whether or not the TNF-alpha promoter -308 A/G polymorphism is associated with responsiveness to anti-T...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析
doi：10.1007/s00296-006-0175-7
更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Healthy human sexuality is integral to a well-lived life. Recent studies reported that sexual problems were common in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in relation to the consequences of the illness such as pain, stiffness of the spine and depression. Twenty-three female patients with AS and 27 healthy female ...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-011-2340-x
更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The objectives of the study were to evaluate the prevalence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and the probability of the development of clinically overt connective tissue diseases. Four hundred and fifty FM patients were compared to 129 healthy matched blood donors. ANA testing was per...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-007-0413-7
更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Routine assessment of patient index data 3 (RAPID3) is a simple, valid and reliable tool designed to measure disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA causes significant disability and diminishes health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). The aim of this study was to investigate how RAPID3 is relat...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-019-04258-z
更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The distribution of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) in rheumatoid synovium has been investigated. Ten rheumatoid synovia were compared with seven normal synovia and a range of other tissues, using one polyclonal and six monoclonal antibodies. A common staining pattern was obtained with five reagents. Absence ...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00290246
更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Crystalglobulinemia is an extremely rare pathology that is associated in most cases with plasma cell dyscrasia, mainly multiple myeloma. In most cases, it may be the manifestation of incipient gammopathy or it manifests shortly after diagnosis. We report a patient with ischemic lesions of thrombotic origin in lower li...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s00296-020-04620-6
更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An abnormal immune response towards the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been documented in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). To investigate whether these findings are due to the transformation event caused by EBV, RA blood mononuclear cells and monocyte-enriched preparations were incubated with two different EBV s...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00271873
更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To investigate whether anti-inflammatory effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor simvastatin (SMV) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is mediated by Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR-2) signal via inhibiting activation of RhoA, a small Rho GTPase that plays an important role in inflammatory responses. Peripheral blood monocytes from...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-010-1510-6
更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare autoimmune disease of unknown etiology. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have demonstrated association between genetic variants of IL12B and IL6 and TA. Since TA has been reported with ethnic heterogeneity, we sought to investigate whether the single-nucleotide-polymorphisms (SN...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1007/s00296-016-3648-3
更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Reduction in jaw opening is a neglected symptom of giant cell arteritis (GCA) in clinical practice and in the scientific literature. We describe the case of a 71-year-old woman with GCA who was misdiagnosed as occipital neuritis and craniomandibular dysfunction because of headaches in the occipital region and reductio...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-010-1690-0
更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The thiol status of patients with rheumatoid arthritis is significantly different from that of controls. Plasma thiol levels are lower, albumin thiol reactivity is altered and intracellular thiol levels measured after hemoglobin precipitation are increased. These variations correlate with other indices of disease seve...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00541162
更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Activation of opioid receptors on peripheral sensory nerve terminals by opioid peptides that are produced and released from immune cells can result in inhibition of inflammatory pain. This study tests the hypothesis that postoperative pain is attenuated endogenously through a local sympathetic neurotransmitter-activat...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1007/s00296-010-1489-z
更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Knee osteoarthritis is a common disease in the elderly population worldwide. The alleviation of the symptoms associated with this disease can be achieved with physical exercise that induces a cascade of molecular and cellular processes. Of the neurotrophins, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) appears to be the m...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00296-013-2786-0
更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis, resulting in substantial disability and economic burden worldwide. While its exact pathogenesis remains elusive, both in vitro and human population-based studies have merged to support the hypothesis that TGF-β/BMP-mediated signalling pathways play a role in th...
journal_title：Rheumatology international
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s00296-015-3251-z
更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00
