Consensus statement on blocking the effects of interleukin-6 and in particular by interleukin-6 receptor inhibition in rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To carry out a critical appraisal of the literature in an attempt to assess the current value of synovial fluid (SF) analysis in the diagnosis of joint disease. METHODS:A literature search was undertaken using the Medline, Biomed, Bids, Pubmed, and Embase electronic databases using the keywords: synovial flu...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Swan A,Amer H,Dieppe P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is associated with high morbidity and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Citrullinated proteins are observed in RA lung tissues; however, the association of specific anticitrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA) with ILD in RA is unknown. METHODS:RA patients underwent mult...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Giles JT,Danoff SK,Sokolove J,Wagner CA,Winchester R,Pappas DA,Siegelman S,Connors G,Robinson WH,Bathon JM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody production in response to the primary immunogen bacteriophage phi X174 was investigated in 14 patients with previous yersinia arthritis (YA) and in 15 controls. HLA-B27 occurred in 10 patients with YA and in three controls. After primary and secondary immunisation the antibody responses were essentially simil...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bucknall R,Leirisalo-Repo M,Laitinen O,Jones JV

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cellular infiltrate and expression of cytokines, chemokines, and cell adhesion molecules as a result of therapeutic interventions in rheumatoid arthritis can be demonstrated in the synovial membrane. However, before synovial tissue analysis can be used as an outcome measure in such studies, standardisation ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Smith MD,Baeten D,Ulfgren AK,McInnes IB,Fitzgerald O,Bresnihan B,Tak PP,Veale D,OMERACT synovial special interests group.

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is less common among men than women, and sex hormones have been suggested to play a part in the pathogenesis. Lower levels of testosterone have been demonstrated in men with RA, but it is not known if these changes precede the disease. METHODS:In a nested case-control study, using ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pikwer M,Giwercman A,Bergström U,Nilsson JÅ,Jacobsson LT,Turesson C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The CNS manifestations of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) can mimic multiple sclerosis both clinically and radiologically. OBJECTIVE:To compare evoked potential studies in APS patients and patients with multiple sclerosis with similar neurological disability. METHODS:30 APS patients with CNS manifestat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Paran D,Chapman J,Korczyn AD,Elkayam O,Hilkevich O,Groozman GB,Levartovsky D,Litinsky I,Caspi D,Segev Y,Drory VE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46 year old man presented with a growing mass over his wrist. Erosions of the triquetrum and hamate were present radiographically. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a solid mass arising from the extensor carpi ulnaris tendon, which was T(1) hypointense and isointense, T(2) hypointense, and bloomed on gradient ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Peh WC,Shek TW,Ip WY

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current management of autoimmunity involves the administration of immunosuppressive drugs coupled to symptomatic and functional interventions such as anti-inflammatory therapies and hormone replacement. Given the chronic nature of autoimmunity, however, the ideal therapeutic strategy would be to reinduce self-tole...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mosanya CH,Isaacs JD

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that the attachment of synovial fibroblasts to laminin (LM)-111 in the presence of transforming growth factor-beta induces significant expression of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3. Here we go on to investigate the regulation of additional MMPs and their specific tissue inhibitors of matrix p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Warstat K,Pap T,Klein G,Gay S,Aicher WK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the significance of complement activation in patients with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). METHODS:Thirty-six patients with primary APS, 42 control patients with non-systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) connective tissue diseases, and 36 healthy volunteers were analysed retrospectively....

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Oku K,Atsumi T,Bohgaki M,Amengual O,Kataoka H,Horita T,Yasuda S,Koike T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the incremental diagnostic value of spine MRI evaluated separately from and combined with sacroiliac joint (SIJ) MRI in non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) compared with SIJ MRI alone. METHODS:The study sample comprised two independent cohorts A/B of 130 consecutive patients aged ≤5...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Weber U,Zubler V,Zhao Z,Lambert RG,Chan SM,Pedersen SJ,Østergaard M,Rufibach K,Maksymowych WP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is thought to play an important role in systemic sclerosis (SSc) pathogenesis. It was found to be upregulated in the serum and in the affected skin of scleroderma patients. However, its involvement in scleroderma lung disease is not clear. This study aimed to evaluat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： De Santis M,Bosello SL,Capoluongo E,Inzitari R,Peluso G,Lulli P,Zizzo G,Bocci M,Tolusso B,Zuppi C,Castagnola M,Ferraccioli G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) accompanies infiltration and activation of monocytes in inflamed joints. We investigated dominant alterations of RA monocytes in bone marrow (BM), blood and inflamed joints. METHODS:CD14+ cells from BM and peripheral blood (PB) of patients with RA and osteoarthritis (OA) were profil...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Smiljanovic B,Radzikowska A,Kuca-Warnawin E,Kurowska W,Grün JR,Stuhlmüller B,Bonin M,Schulte-Wrede U,Sörensen T,Kyogoku C,Bruns A,Hermann S,Ohrndorf S,Aupperle K,Backhaus M,Burmester GR,Radbruch A,Grützkau A,Maslinski

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare responsiveness of the Harris Hip Score with generic measures (that is, the Short Form-36 (SF-36), and a test of walking speed and pain during walking) in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip. METHOD:The first 75 cases within the population of a randomised clinical trial on manual therapy a...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hoeksma HL,Van Den Ende CH,Ronday HK,Heering A,Breedveld FC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the activation of NF-kappaB in the carrageenan rat air pouch model of inflammation in a time course experiment, and the effect of dexamethasone on NF-kappaB activation. METHODS:Air pouch tissue treated with carrageenan (inflamed tissue) was obtained from rats killed at days 1, 2, 3, 6, 14, 21,...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ellis L,Gilston V,Soo CC,Morris CJ,Kidd BL,Winyard PG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immunity to cartilage proteoglycans may be responsible for sustaining chronic inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis. This hypothesis was examined by measuring peripheral blood and synovial fluid mononuclear cell proliferation in five preparations of human cartilage proteoglycan monomer in vitro. Peripheral b...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jobanputra P,Choy EH,Kingsley GH,Sieper J,Palacios-Boix AA,Heinegård D,Panayi GS

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiological development from normal bone of geodes and subsequent fractures in phalanges of two adjacent fingers is described in a patient with classical rheumatoid arthritis. Presentation was as a septic, discharging focus, but infection was excluded; the pathology is described. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lowthian PJ,Calin A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the imaging-detected mechanism of reduction of structural joint damage progression by tocilizumab (TCZ) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using MRI. METHODS:In a substudy of a randomised, double-blind, phase 3b study (ACT-RAY) of biologic-naïve patients with RA who were methotrexate (MTX)...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Conaghan PG,Peterfy C,Olech E,Kaine J,Ridley D,Dicarlo J,Friedman J,Devenport J,Troum O

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overdiagnosis is a term coined by experts in cancer screening to point to indolent cancers detected by screening that would have never led to manifest health problems. Overdiagnosis leads to unnecessary medical care (overtreatment), anxiety and cost. In rheumatology overdiagnosis and overtreatment are hardly discussed...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Landewé RBM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRD) who had COVID-19 disease; to compare patients who required hospital admission with those who did not and assess risk factors for hospital admission related to COVID-19. METHODS:An observational longitudinal study was conducted durin...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Freites Nuñez DD,Leon L,Mucientes A,Rodriguez-Rodriguez L,Font Urgelles J,Madrid García A,Colomer JI,Jover JA,Fernandez-Gutierrez B,Abasolo L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is an intracellular protozoan infection that can lead to cutaneous, mucocutaneous, visceral or systemic manifestations depending on the parasite species and virulence and on the host immune response. It is endemic in countries of Europe (Mediterranean basin), Asia, Africa, Central and South America, but ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bogdan C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Infectious agents like parvovirus have been implicated as exogenous factors that could trigger onset of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A number of case reports describing a SLE-like presentation of acute human parvovirus B19 infection have been published, but no systematic investigation of the actual se...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bengtsson A,Widell A,Elmstâhl S,Sturfelt G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Interferon regulatory factor 5 (IRF5) is a member of the IRF family of transcription factors, which regulate the production of proinflammatory cytokines. Polymorphisms in the IRF5 gene have been associated with susceptibility to systemic lupus erythaematosus (SLE) in Caucasian and Asian populations, but thei...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Shimane K,Kochi Y,Yamada R,Okada Y,Suzuki A,Miyatake A,Kubo M,Nakamura Y,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel, constitutively expressed and secreted interleukin 18 (IL18) binding protein (IL18BP) neutralises IL18. IL18BP shares many characteristics with soluble cytokine receptors of the IL1 family in that the protein exhibits specificity for IL18, belongs to the immunoglobulin-like class of receptors and has limited a...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dinarello CA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To systematically evaluate the association between MRI findings (cartilage defects, bone marrow lesions (BML), osteophytes, meniscal lesion, effusion/synovitis, ligamentous abnormalities, subchondral cysts and bone attrition) and pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) in order to establish the relevan...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Yusuf E,Kortekaas MC,Watt I,Huizinga TW,Kloppenburg M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of two gold(I) compounds on stability of lysosomes in vitro was studied. Lysosomes from homogenates of rat kidney cortex were isolated by differential centrifugation. These lysosomes were incubated at 37 degrees C with widely varied concentrations of sodium aurothiomalate and sodium aurothiosulphate for 5, ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Graabaek PM,Pedersen SM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is reported of a 27 year old woman who had mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) associated with chronic active hepatitis and thyroiditis. Although hepatomegaly is sometimes observed in MCTD, only four cases of MCTD and chronic active hepatitis have been described. It is thought that this is the first report...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tomsic M,Ferlan-Marolt V,Kveder T,Hojker S,Rozman B

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:Biological therapies directed at proinflammatory cytokines have irrevocably changed the landscape of treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other autoimmune diseases. With the advances in our knowledge in cytokine signalling, the question emerges whether targeting intracellular signalling might also be a safe and ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： O'Shea JJ,Kontzias A,Yamaoka K,Tanaka Y,Laurence A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II genes is almost exclusively regulated by the class II transactivator. A promoter polymorphism (-168A/G, rs3087456) in the MHC2TA gene was associated with increased susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and myocardial infarctio...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Martínez A,Sánchez-Lopez M,Varadé J,Mas A,Martín MC,de Las Heras V,Arroyo R,Mendoza JL,Díaz-Rubio M,Fernández-Gutiérrez B,de la Concha EG,Urcelay E

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00