Submaximal exercise testing in the assessment of interstitial lung disease secondary to systemic sclerosis: reproducibility and correlations of the 6-min walk test.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon (IFN) beta displays anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive activity and has been considered for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Information about the effects of this molecule on joint cells is scarce, however. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of IFNbeta on the production of inter...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Palmer G,Mezin F,Juge-Aubry CE,Plater-Zyberk C,Gabay C,Guerne PA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs), which predominate in inflammatory synovial fluid, can degrade cartilage. This was measured by a novel in vitro model; PMNs were incubated for up to one hour with 2 or 3 microns sections of cartilage and the glycosaminoglycan loss determined by microdensitometry after alcian blue st...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Moore AR,Iwamura H,Larbre JP,Scott DL,Willoughby DA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infectious polyarthritis caused by Ureaplasma urealyticum in a patient with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia is described. The patient developed a symmetrical, destructive polyarthritis and tenosynovitis associated with a markedly depressed synovial fluid glucose concentration and characteristic soft ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lehmer RR,Andrews BS,Robertson JA,Stanbridge EJ,de la Maza L,Friou GJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress in understanding mechanisms of disease are necessary to usher in major changes in treatment. A new era in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and related chronic autoimmune/inflammatory diseases is now beginning, with a variety of anti-TNFalpha treatments licensed for use in both RA and Crohn's disease. The rationale f...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Feldmann M,Bondeson J,Brennan FM,Foxwell BM,Maini RN

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the second update of the Assessment in SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) consensus statement on the use of anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agents in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). A major change from the previous recommendations is that patients fulfilling the ASAS...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van der Heijde D,Sieper J,Maksymowych WP,Dougados M,Burgos-Vargas R,Landewé R,Rudwaleit M,Braun J,Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society.

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum C2 activity was measured in 135 individuals drawn from a panel of 418 tissue-typed blood donors. The study group included all donors with HLA antigens A10 and B18. Heterozygote C2 deficiency (C2Dhet) was defined by reference to the range of C2 activity in previously studied obligate heterozygotes. Five donors we...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rynes RI,Britten AF,Pickering RJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and widespread joint and periarticular calcinosis related to self-medication with vitamin D, which was aggravated by oral phosphate therapy prescribed for her hypercalcaemia. Hydroxyapatite was shown in the synovial fluid from affected joints. The role played by tissue i...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Butler RC,Dieppe PA,Keat AC

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis of the hands is a prevalent musculoskeletal disease with a considerable effect on patients' lives, but knowledge and research results in the field of hand osteoarthritis are limited. Therefore, the Disease Characteristics in Hand OA (DICHOA) initiative was founded in early 2005 with the aim of...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kloppenburg M,Stamm T,Watt I,Kainberger F,Cawston TE,Birrell FN,Petersson IF,Saxne T,Kvien TK,Slatkowsky-Christensen B,Dougados M,Gossec L,Breedveld FC,Smolen JS

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:With the tools available currently, confirming the diagnosis of inclusion body myositis (IBM) can be difficult. Many patients are initially misdiagnosed with polymyositis (PM). In this observational study at a UK adult neuromuscular centre, we investigated whether amyloid positron emission tomography could d...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lilleker JB,Hodgson R,Roberts M,Herholz K,Howard J,Hinz R,Chinoy H

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for evaluating the progress of patients with back pain. Various symptoms were scored on analogue scales and spinal motion was measured by various techniques. These data were integrated to make subjective and objective indices respectively. Reasonable reproducibility of the measurements was obtain...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Million R,Nilsen KH,Jayson MI,Baker RD

更新日期：1981-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The International League of Associations for Rheumatology classification criteria define systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) by the presence of fever, rash and chronic arthritis. Recent initiatives to revise current criteria recognise that a lack of arthritis complicates making the diagnosis early,...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gohar F,McArdle A,Jones M,Callan N,Hernandez B,Kessel C,Miranda-Garcia M,Lavric M,Holzinger D,Pretzer C,Lainka E,Vastert SJ,de Roock S,FitzGerald O,Pennington SR,Foell D

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate quantitatively the mRNA expression levels of YKL-40, an established marker of rheumatoid and osteoarthritic cartilage degeneration in synovial fluid and serum, and a closely related molecule YKL-39, in articular chondrocytes. METHODS:cDNA array and online quantitative polymerase chain reaction...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Knorr T,Obermayr F,Bartnik E,Zien A,Aigner T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the long-term effect of bariatric surgery on the incidence of gout and hyperuricaemia in participants of the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study. METHODS:This report includes 1982 subjects who underwent bariatric surgery and 1999 obese controls from the SOS study, a prospective intervention trial d...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Maglio C,Peltonen M,Neovius M,Jacobson P,Jacobsson L,Rudin A,Carlsson LM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to determine whether late apoptotic cell material directly induces autoantibodies characteristic of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to investigate the innate recognition pathways involved. METHODS:B6, B6.MyD88(-/-), B6.TLR7(-/-) and B6.TLR9(-/-) mice were subcutaneou...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pan ZJ,Maier S,Schwarz K,Azbill J,Akira S,Uematsu S,Farris AD

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between body mass index (BMI) and osteoarthritis (OA) leading to total hip (THR) or knee (TKR) joint replacement. METHODS:Case-control study design. All patients still living in Iceland who had had a THR or TKR resulting from OA before the end of 2002 were invited to participate. F...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Franklin J,Ingvarsson T,Englund M,Lohmander LS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the potential clinical benefit of a combination therapy. METHODS:205 patients fulfilling the ACR criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), not treated with disease modifying antirheumatoid drugs previously, with an early (< or = 1 year duration), active (Disease Activity Score (DAS) > 3.0), rhe...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dougados M,Combe B,Cantagrel A,Goupille P,Olive P,Schattenkirchner M,Meusser S,Paimela L,Rau R,Zeidler H,Leirisalo-Repo M,Peldan K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of acute monarthritis secondary to asymptomatic renal cell carcinoma are described. This association has not previously been reported. The patients were initially thought to have a septic arthritis, but hot spots were seen on isotope bone scans and biopsy samples showed secondary neoplasms, which were later ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Chakravarty KK,Webley M

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The PTPN22 gene has been widely confirmed as a susceptibility gene for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of Northern European descent. The aim of the current study was to explore the role of variants spanning the PTPN22 gene in determining susceptibility to and outcome of inflammatory polyarthritis (I...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Naseem H,Thomson W,Silman A,Worthington J,Symmons D,Barton A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Factors contributing to the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) remain largely unknown although are likely to include both environmental and genetic components. Studies on murine lupus have indicated a role for an antibody that blocks binding of cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated-4 (CTLA-4) to B...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Heward J,Gordon C,Allahabadia A,Barnett AH,Franklyn JA,Gough SC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The severity of joint destruction is highly variable between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. The majority of its heritability is still unexplained. Several autoimmune diseases share genetic risk variants that may also influence disease progression. We aimed to identify genetic risk factors for the severi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Rooy DP,Zhernakova A,Tsonaka R,Willemze A,Kurreeman BA,Trynka G,van Toorn L,Toes RE,Huizinga TW,Houwing-Duistermaat JJ,Gregersen PK,van der Helm-van Mil AH

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the inflammatory response in giant cell arteritis (GCA) by characterising the DNA methylation pattern within the temporal artery microenvironment. METHODS:Twelve patients with non-equivocal histological evidence for GCA and 12 age-matched, sex-matched and ethnicity-matched controls with normal...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Coit P,De Lott LB,Nan B,Elner VM,Sawalha AH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although natural regulatory T cells (nTregs) can suppress osteoclastogenesis, the role of TGF-β-induced CD4+Foxp3+ Tregs (iTregs) in osteoclastogenesis remains unknown. OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of iTregs on osteoclastogenesis in vitro and on bone erosion in vivo in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA)...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kong N,Lan Q,Su W,Chen M,Wang J,Yang Z,Park R,Dagliyan G,Conti PS,Brand D,Liu Z,Stohl W,Zou H,Zheng SG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet serotonin concentrations were measured in 43 patients with systemic sclerosis, in 11 patients with primary Raynaud's phenomenon, and in 38 normal controls. Patients with the CREST variant (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, oesophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia) had significantly lower platele...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Klimiuk PS,Grennan A,Weinkove C,Jayson MI

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterise optimal screening strategies for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) prior to the initiation of anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy. METHODS:Patients in 62 German rheumatology centres were evaluated for LTBI. Each patient was screened with a tuberculin skin test (TST) and one form of an int...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kleinert S,Tony HP,Krueger K,Detert J,Mielke F,Rockwitz K,Schwenke R,Burmester GR,Diel R,Feuchtenberger M,Kneitz C

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00