Clinical and biological characteristics of Ureaplasma urealyticum induced polyarthritis in a patient with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the performance of the American-European Consensus Group (AECG) and the newly proposed American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) in a well-characterised sicca cohort, given ongoing efforts to resolve discrepancies and weaknesses in the systems. METH...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rasmussen A,Ice JA,Li H,Grundahl K,Kelly JA,Radfar L,Stone DU,Hefner KS,Anaya JM,Rohrer M,Gopalakrishnan R,Houston GD,Lewis DM,Chodosh J,Harley JB,Hughes P,Maier-Moore JS,Montgomery CG,Rhodus NL,Farris AD,Segal BM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether occurrence, characteristics, and progression of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are associated with polymorphism of the mannose binding lectin (MBL) gene and with serum MBL concentration. METHODS:Codon 54 MBL gene polymorphism of 147 patients with SLE and 160 healthy controls was dete...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Takahashi R,Tsutsumi A,Ohtani K,Muraki Y,Goto D,Matsumoto I,Wakamiya N,Sumida T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comprehensive multisystem clinical assessment using the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity score (BVAS) is widely used in therapeutic studies of systemic vasculitis. Extensive use suggested a need to revise the instrument. The previous version of BVAS has been revised, according to usage and reviewed by an exper...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mukhtyar C,Lee R,Brown D,Carruthers D,Dasgupta B,Dubey S,Flossmann O,Hall C,Hollywood J,Jayne D,Jones R,Lanyon P,Muir A,Scott D,Young L,Luqmani RA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the risk of septic arthritis (SA) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) therapy. METHODS:Using data from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register, a prospective observational study, the authors compared the risk of SA between 11 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Galloway JB,Hyrich KL,Mercer LK,Dixon WG,Ustianowski AP,Helbert M,Watson KD,Lunt M,Symmons DP,BSR Biologics Register.

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Oral glucosamine preparations are widely used as a treatment for osteoarthritis, purportedly functioning by a variety of mechanisms suggested by results of in vitro experiments, and generally using glucosamine concentrations well in excess of 100 micromol/l. OBJECTIVE:To use high performance liquid chromato...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Biggee BA,Blinn CM,McAlindon TE,Nuite M,Silbert JE

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of monotherapy with adalimumab in patients with RA for whom previous DMARD treatment has failed. METHODS:In a 26 week, double blind, placebo controlled, phase III trial, 544 patients with RA were randomised to monotherapy with adalimumab 20 mg every other week, 20 mg weekl...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van de Putte LB,Atkins C,Malaise M,Sany J,Russell AS,van Riel PL,Settas L,Bijlsma JW,Todesco S,Dougados M,Nash P,Emery P,Walter N,Kaul M,Fischkoff S,Kupper H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The balance between interferon gamma (IFN gamma) and interleukin 4 (IL4) producing T cells (T1 and T2 cells) seems to be of importance in many (auto)immune disorders. In general, T1 cell activity is important in cellular immunity whereas T2 cell activity plays a part in humoral responses. T1 cell activity pr...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verhoef CM,van Roon JA,Vianen ME,Bruijnzeel-Koomen CA,Lafeber FP,Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defined antinuclear antibodies (ANA), such as antibodies to Ro/SS-A, La/SS-B, Sm, and nRNP, are often present in serum samples from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or other connective tissue diseases (CTD). Most data on associations between the presence of these antibodies and defined disease features...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Swaak AJ,Huysen V,Smeenk RJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A key clinical paradox in osteoarthritis (OA), a prevalent age-related joint disorder characterised by cartilage degeneration and debilitating pain, is that the severity of joint pain does not strictly correlate with radiographic and histological defects in joint tissues. Here, we determined whether protein ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kc R,Li X,Kroin JS,Liu Z,Chen D,Xiao G,Levine B,Li J,Hamilton JL,van Wijnen AJ,Piel M,Shelly DA,Brass D,Kolb E,Im HJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analysis of salivary variables has frequently been proposed as a diagnostic tool for Sjögren's syndrome (SS). Because univocal salivary reference values are lacking, it is currently rather difficult to use sialometry and sialochemistry for diagnosing SS unless major changes have occurred in salivary secretio...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kalk WW,Vissink A,Stegenga B,Bootsma H,Nieuw Amerongen AV,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic vasculitides are multisystem disorders with considerable mortality and morbidity and frequent relapses. In the absence of reliable serological markers, accurate clinical tools are required to assess disease activity and damage for treatment decisions, and for the performance of clinical trials. This artic...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Flossmann O,Bacon P,de Groot K,Jayne D,Rasmussen N,Seo P,Westman K,Luqmani R

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Arthro-osteitis at the anterior chest wall was found in 12 (9.4%) out of 128 consecutive patients with pustulosis palmaris et plantaris. This finding indicates that the concomitance of arthro-osteitis with PPP is not incidental but is based on some common aetiological factor. We propose a term ;pustulotic arthro-ostei...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Sonozaki H,Kawashima M,Hongo O,Yaoita H,Ikeno M,Matsuura M,Okai K,Azuma A

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:227 patients with psoriasis and various forms of arthritis have been kept under review. Psoriasis and inflammatory arthropathy was present in 168 patients, of whom 94 have been followed up for more than 10 years. An arthritis indistinguishable from rheumatoid disease was present in 78%, distal joint arthritis in 16-6%...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Roberts ME,Wright V,Hill AG,Mehra AC

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Entheseal fibrocartilage (EF) derangement is hypothesised to be pivotal to the pathogenesis of spondyloarthritis. Ultrasound is useful for visualisation of the enthesis but its role in EF visualisation is uncertain. This work aimed to demonstrate face and content validity of ultrasound for EF visualisation b...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Aydin SZ,Bas E,Basci O,Filippucci E,Wakefield RJ,Celikel C,Karahan M,Atagunduz P,Benjamin M,Direskeneli H,McGonagle D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish the prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in ankylosing spondylitis (AS), 79 AS patients underwent detailed medical screening, including sigmoidoscopic and roentgenological examination, 48 had gastrointestinal symptoms and the others did not. In 3 patients a diagnosis of Crohn's disease was made which ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Meuwissen SG,Dekker-Saeys BJ,Agenant D,Tytgat GN

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:To study the ability of low-cost low-field dedicated extremity magnetic resonance imaging (E-MRI) to assess and predict erosive joint damage in the wrist and metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS:24 previously untreated patients with rheumatoid arthritis with j...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lindegaard HM,Vallø J,Hørslev-Petersen K,Junker P,Østergaard M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association of a recently described classification of Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 shared epitope alleles with rheumatoid factors (RF) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) production and radiological severity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Patients with RA (n = 962) wer...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mewar D,Marinou I,Coote AL,Moore DJ,Akil M,Smillie D,Dickson MC,Binks MH,Montgomery DS,Wilson AG

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterise activation of the type I interferon (IFN) pathway in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic scleroderma (SSc) and to evaluate the potential to develop a molecular diagnostic tool from the peripheral bloo...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Higgs BW,Liu Z,White B,Zhu W,White WI,Morehouse C,Brohawn P,Kiener PA,Richman L,Fiorentino D,Greenberg SA,Jallal B,Yao Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess associations between joint-specific hand symptoms and self-reported and performance-based functional status. METHODS:Participants were from the population-based Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. Symptoms in the distal interphalangeal (DIP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), first carpometacarpa...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Elliott AL,Kraus VB,Fang F,Renner JB,Schwartz TA,Salazar A,Huguenin T,Hochberg MC,Helmick CG,Jordan JM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of canakinumab to treat patients with colchicine-resistant familial Mediterranean fever (crFMF) during Epoch 4 (weeks 41 to 113) of the CLUSTER study. METHODS:Patients received open-label canakinumab 150 or 300 mg, every 4 or 8 weeks during a 72-week period. We ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ozen S,Ben-Cherit E,Foeldvari I,Amarilyo G,Ozdogan H,Vanderschueren S,Marzan K,Kahlenberg JM,Dekker E,De Benedetti F,Koné-Paut I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse fibronectin (FN) gene polymorphisms in type II mixed cryoglobulinemic syndrome (MCsn), an immune-complex mediated systemic vasculitis linked to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and characterised by rheumatoid factor (RF) positive B-cell proliferation at high risk for the progression into non-Hodgk...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fabris M,Quartuccio L,Salvin S,Pozzato G,De Re V,Mazzaro C,Ferri C,Baldini C,De Vita S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:to evaluate the effects of adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab on disease activity, functional ability and quality of life and the medication costs in a naturalistic design. METHODS:All patients from the Dutch Rheumatoid Arthritis Monitoring (DREAM) register starting on tumour necrosis factor (TNF)alpha-blocking...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kievit W,Adang EM,Fransen J,Kuper HH,van de Laar MA,Jansen TL,De Gendt CM,De Rooij DJ,Brus HL,Van Oijen PC,Van Riel PC

更新日期：2008-09-01 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:Annual echocardiography screening is widely used in scleroderma, but the utility of longitudinal assessment is unknown. We evaluated whether change in right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) was a risk factor for mortality and development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in a cohort of scleroderma...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Shah AA,Chung SE,Wigley FM,Wise RA,Hummers LK

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On exposure to sucrose or neutral polysaccharides, cell cultures from human synovium showed cytoplasmic vacuolation, increased numbers of lysosomes, and ultrastructural changes simulating those described in rheumatoid synovial intima and similarly treated embryonic caritlage and bone. These changes were accompanied by...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Marshall JL,Fraser JR,Muirden KD

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data are presented which indicate a critical role for interleukin (IL)-18 in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The T cells and macrophages invading the synovium or in the synovial fluid are the chief cellular targets of IL-18 in RA. Neutrophils, dendritic cells and endothelial cells may also be cellular mediators of I...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dai SM,Shan ZZ,Xu H,Nishioka K

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate if the increased concentrations of stromelysin (MMP-3) found in the synovial fluid (SF) of patients with various arthritides reflect the concentrations in the circulation. METHODS:Using a double antibody ELISA, we have measured proMMP-3 concentrations in sera from these patient groups and in o...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Taylor DJ,Cheung NT,Dawes PT

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00