Intracardiac thrombus and pulmonary aneurysms in an adolescent with Behçet disease.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the longitudinal practice patterns of prophylaxis of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). Patients diagnosed with PMR were collected retrospectively in two rheumatology departments. In addition to demographic and diagnostic criteria, th...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Naranjo A,López R,García-Magallón B,Cáceres L,Francisco F,Jiménez-Palop M,Ojeda-Bruno S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life expectancy in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) remains lower compared to the general population, due to various comoborbidities. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the main contributor to premature mortality. Conventional and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have considerably impro...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Mavrogeni SI,Sfikakis PP,Dimitroulas T,Koutsogeorgopoulou L,Katsifis G,Markousis-Mavrogenis G,Kolovou G,Kitas GD

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to determine left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) structure, function and mechanics, as well as heart rate variability (HRV), and their relationship, in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). The study included 41 SSc patients and 30 age-matched healthy volunteers. All the patients underwent clin...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Zlatanovic M,Tadic M,Celic V,Ivanovic B,Stevanovic A,Damjanov N

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate variability (HRV) is a useful tool for the detection of sympathetic-parasympathetic balance in the autonomic nervous system. Autonomic nervous system involvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has rarely been studied and has shown conflicting results. Our purpose was to determine if HRV showed c...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Evrengül H,Dursunoglu D,Cobankara V,Polat B,Seleci D,Kabukçu S,Kaftan A,Semiz E,Kilic M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of patients with diffuse connective tissue diseases (CTDs) complicated by pneumomediastinum and identify the risk factors associated with increased mortality in these patients. Twenty-eight patients with CTD-associated pneumomediastinum, who were admitted to our...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Zhang L,Shen M,Zhang F,Tang F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) showed significantly (P < 0.01) increased numbers of granulocytes in their peripheral blood compared with normal donors and patients with osteoarthritis, and this finding correlated with interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein levels and active joint score. Then, 17 patients with R...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Fujimori J,Yoshino S,Koiwa M,Hirai H,Shiga H,Hayama N,Iino Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics, associated disorders, and the most common sites of stress fractures in rheumatological patients. Over a 3-year period, 35 patients with 44 stress fractures were prospectively recruited from an outpatient rheumatological department (32 postmenopau...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Peris P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Takayasu's arteritis (TA) varies greatly among world populations, and little is known about this disease in Eastern Mediterranean Arab populations. We conducted a retrospective chart review of patients diagnosed with TA from 1996 to 2008 at a single large referral center in Jordan. Eight patients (se...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Mustafa KN,Hadidy A,Sweiss NJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to citrullinated proteins and rheumatoid factor (RF) are widely used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the antibodies to citrullinated proteins appear to be the most specific markers of the disease. The objective was to compare the diagnostic performance of the anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Aflaky E,Shenavandeh S,Ashraf MJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to detect the frequency of inflammatory cervical spine changes and characteristic features such as resorption in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with arthritis mutilans (AM) hand deformity. The series included 23 patients with AM hand deformity who fulfilled the 1987 American Rheumatism Associa...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Laiho K,Belt E,Kauppi M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and tolerability of aceclofenac (100 mg bid; n = 109), a new non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent, was compared to that of indomethacin (50 mg bid; n = 110) in a multi-centre, 12-week, randomized, double-blind clinical trial in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The efficacy of aceclofenac, on the basis...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Kornasoff D,Maisenbacher J,Bowdler J,Raber A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials have long been important synthesis tools for guiding evidence-based medicine. More recently, network meta-analyses, an extension of traditional meta-analyses enabling the comparison of multiple interventions, use new statistical methods to incorporate clinical ...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Catalá-López F,Tobías A,Cameron C,Moher D,Hutton B

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients are at a higher risk of systemic inflammatory sequelae, leading to microalbuminuria, cardiovascular (CVD) and neuropsychiatric (NPD) disease. Our aim is to present the existing literature about the relationship between CVD, kidney and NPD in PsA. The literature evaluation of PsA reve...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Markousis-Mavrogenis G,Nurmohamed MT,Koutsogeorgopoulou L,Dimitroulas T,Katsifis G,Vartela V,Mitsikostas D,Kolovou G,Tektonidou M,Voulgari P,Sfikakis PP,Kitas GD,Mavrogeni SI

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to assess the clinical significance of Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6) in the diagnosis and severity of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in a French cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS:Serum KL-6 concentrations were measured with chemiluminescent enzyme immunoassay (CLEIA) in 75 ...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Benyamine A,Heim X,Resseguier N,Bertin D,Gomez C,Ebbo M,Harlé JR,Kaplanski G,Rossi P,Bardin N,Granel B

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, the progression of the disease is characterized by stress oxidative, inflammation, and elevated levels of cholesterol. In mevalonate kinase deficiency, an auto-inflammatory disease, the correlation between inflammation and cholesterol levels is oppos...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Girardelli M,Bianco AM,Marcuzzi A,Crovella S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha 1-antitrypsin (A1AT) is the most abundant proteinase inhibitor in plasma and the main inhibitor of Proteinase 3, the target antigen of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) that predominant in Wegeners' granulomatosis. Α1AT deficiency correlated with ANCA-associated vasculitis. This study explores the tr...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Mota A,Sahebghadam Lotfi A,Jamshidi AR,Najavand S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old child was first admitted for persistent fever of 15-day duration and suspected meningitis. Kawasaki syndrome was lately diagnosed upon the recognition of an extensive diffuse coronary artery damage characterized by medium-sized aneurysms of the epicardial vessels. An eccentric thrombus along the inferior ...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： De Rosa G,Cefalo MG,Marano R,Piastra M,Delogu AB,Rigante D

更新日期：2012-03-01 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

authors： Wilkinson LS,Edwards JC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Spain, the QUANTUM project has been promoted to reduce variability in clinical practice and improve the care and quality of life of people with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) by accrediting PsA units throughout the Spanish national health system. To present the results of this approach which sought to ensure an optimum ...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： García EI,Guilabert M,Queiro R,Carrillo I,Mira JJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis that can involve the nervous system, including the cranial nerves. Central nervous system findings, especially irritability, lethargy, and aseptic meningitis, occur in 1-30 % of KD patients (1). Cranial nerve palsies are seen rarely, and abducens nerve palsy has been repo...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Emiroglu M,Alkan G,Kartal A,Cimen D

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to evaluate the relative importance of the 20 functions assessed by patients to produce the Health Assessment Questionnaire's Disability Index (HAQ-DI). A systematic sample of 242 rheumatoid arthritis patients was drawn. Altogether 179 subjects returned acceptably filled questionnaire including perceived r...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Tuominen R,Möttönen T,Suominen C,Vahlberg T,Tuominen S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease with protean manifestation. Arthritis is one of the most common manifestations seen in SLE. Anti-CCP Ab is a recently described autoantibody that has been claimed as a most sensitive and specific marker for the diagnosis of RA. Study was performed to see whether an...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Singh U,Singh S,Singh NK,Verma PK,Singh S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using different monoclonal antibodies, we performed an immunofluorescent technique on labial salivary glands in order to investigate the immunological phenomena involved in Sjögren's syndrome (SS). An aberrant expression of HLA-DR molecules was detected on cytoplasm of epithelial labial salivary cells in 9 out of 19 (...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Caretto A,Ostuni PA,Chieco-Bianchi F,Pedini B,Spadaccino AC,Bagnasco M,Todesco S,Betterle C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of male idiopathic osteoporosis are little known. We evaluated bone mineral loss by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and determined its cortical or trabecular nature in a cohort of men with idiopathic osteoporosis with fractures. Thirty-nine men (mean age 60 ± 13 years), with negative investigations for...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Laroche M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonography (US) and power Doppler sonography (PDS) was used to investigate causes of new onset of shoulder pain and sites of shoulder inflammation in 157 shoulders of 99 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). US detected effusion and/or synovitis in 92/157 glenohumeral joints, subdeltoid bursitis in 56/157 shou...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Stegbauer J,Rump LC,Weiner SM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary osteoarthritis (OA) is a multifactorial disease with several genetics factors involved. The COL2A1 gene is of particular interest because it encodes for the most abundant protein in articular cartilage. The aim was to evaluate the association of COL2A1 gene polymorphism with OA of the knee in Mexican Mestizo p...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Gálvez-Rosas A,González-Huerta C,Borgonio-Cuadra VM,Duarte-Salazár C,Lara-Alvarado L,de los Angeles Soria-Bastida M,Cortés-González S,Ramón-Gallegos E,Miranda-Duarte A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report our experience and hypothesis on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with vasculitis who are simultaneously diagnosed with serum-positive cytomegalovirus (CMV) immunoglobulin (Ig)M antibodies and negative CMV DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It remains unknown how to treat this kind of "phantom" CMV ...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Katsanos KH,Kostoula A,Katopodis KP,Siamopoulos KC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：KEY MESSAGES:There is a relative lack of confidence among GPs in the assessment and management of IBP vs. mechanical back pain. A simple screening tool for SpA, applicable in primary care urgently needs to be developed. It is reasonable for patients with symptoms suggestive of inflammatory back pain to be referred to s...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Adizie T,Elamanchi S,Prabu A,Pace AV,Laxminarayan R,Barkham N

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study aimed to determine the patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) cut-off for the patient reported outcome measure shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI), and evaluate predictors of PASS achievement following standard shoulder care. Patients with shoulder pain, referred for shoulder ultrasound ...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Tran G,Dube B,Kingsbury SR,Tennant A,Conaghan PG,Hensor EMA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are an unusual cause of osteomyelitis in immunocompetent children. Diagnosis is often difficult due to the paucity of clinical symptoms and a subtle course of the disease. NTM comprise a group of about 91 identified species of environmental mycobacteria that cause infections most fre...

journal_title：Rheumatology international

authors： Breda L,de Michele G,Nozzi M,De Sanctis S,Di Marzio D,Chiarelli F

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00