Prognostic significance of complement alleles Bf and C4 in early rheumatoid arthritis.

abstract：:Behçet's disease is a systemic vasculitic syndrome with unknown etiology. The aim of the present study was to compare the Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and cytotoxin associated gene-A status in patients with Behçet's disease. Ninety-one patients with Behçet's disease and 83 age- and sex-matched persons with or wi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Apan TZ,Gürsel R,Dolgun A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this blinded, randomised, multicentre study was to compare the tolerability of aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen in common pain resulting from musculoskeletal conditions (MSC) in general practice with patients with other non-MSC pain conditions. Patients took aspirin, paracetamol (both up to 3g daily) or i...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Le Parc JM,Van Ganse E,Moore N,Wall R,Schneid H,Verrière F

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulse prednisolone hemisuccinate therapy (500 mg given intravenously on three occasions over two weeks) has been combined with either intramuscular sodium aurothiomalate or azathioprine in an assessment of 30 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Significant improvement in a variety of clinical and biochemical assessmen...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Häntzschel H,Otto W,Arnold S,Seidel W,Krüger W,Winiecki P,Bird HA,Dixon JS,Astbury G,Wright V

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatic diseases do not usually cluster in time and space. It has been proposed that environmental exposures may initiate autoimmune responses. We describe a cluster of rheumatic diseases among a group of health center employees who began to complain of symptoms typically related to moldy houses, including mucocutan...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Luosujärvi RA,Husman TM,Seuri M,Pietikäinen MA,Pollari P,Pelkonen J,Hujakka HT,Kaipiainen-Seppänen OA,Aho K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to determine whether placebo treatment in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is effective for fibromyalgia and to identify possible determinants of the magnitude of any such placebo effect. A systematic literature search was undertaken for RCTs in people with fibromyalgia that included a p...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chen X,Zou K,Abdullah N,Whiteside N,Sarmanova A,Doherty M,Zhang W

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the current work is to report our preliminary experience with the mizoribine (MZR) intermittent pulse protocol for induction therapy for newly diagnosed pediatric-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Five consecutive patients who were newly diagnosed as having SLE with biopsy-proven lupus nephrit...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tanaka H,Tsugawa K,Oki E,Suzuki K,Ito E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a young male with recent onset of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in whom the remarkable severity of the disease led to additional investigations. The only significant finding was mediastinal lymphadenopathy, without lung involvement. Biopsy of the mediastinal lymph node revealed pathological findings typical of s...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Markovits D,Schapira D,Wiener A,Nahir AM

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic autoimmune disorder. Renal involvement has the worst prognosis. However, renal cortical necrosis is extremely unusual in SLE. In this case report, we describe the autopsy findings in a young female patient with SLE presenting with renal failure. At autopsy, there w...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Uppin MS,Rajasekhar L,Swetha H,Srinivasan VR,Prayaga AK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory arthropathy, associated with skin and/or nail psoriasis and other possible systemic features. In the last years, PsA therapy has been revolutionized by the increasing knowledge in the pathogenetic mechanisms of the disease, involving dysfunction and oversecretion of multipl...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Costa L,Caso F,Cantarini L,Del Puente A,Scarpa R,Atteno M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to determine the main demographic, epidemiological, clinical characteristics, and outcome in patients with various types of brucellar monoarticular involvement. Retrospectively, we analyzed medical histories of 331 patients with brucellar monoarticular involvement who were treated at the infec...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bosilkovski M,Zezoski M,Siskova D,Miskova S,Kotevska V,Labacevski N

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (IRPF) is a rare condition of unknown aetiology characterized by chronic non-specific inflammation of the retroperitoneum. The aim of this study is to describe, for the first time, the features of Spanish patients with IRPF. In this retrospective study, a clinical description was pe...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Fernández-Codina A,Martínez-Valle F,Castro-Marrero J,Detorres I,Vilardell-Tarrés M,Ordi-Ros J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate whether corticosteroid use is the etiological agent in acute pancreatitis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, or whether it is related to the underlying connective tissue disorder. Hospital admissions at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital between 1982 and 2002 that ca...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Derk CT,DeHoratius RJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) Development and validation of a composite ultrasound score (cUSS) for the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). (2) To predict treatment response after local corticosteroid injection. METHODS:Wrists of CTS patients and controls were evaluated with high-resolution ultrasound and cross-sectional area...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Goswami RP,Sit H,Chatterjee M,Lahiri D,Sircar G,Ghosh P

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The association between hyperuricemia and insulin resistance (IR) has been demonstrated by many studies, but the traditional IR indexes are too impractical to be used in clinical practice for the recognition of the IR state in individuals with hyperuricemia. Therefore, we aimed to further investigate the asso...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Liu XZ,Xu X,Zhu JQ,Zhao DB

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upper lobe fibrobullous disease is a well-known finding in advanced stages of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). In this report, we present a 57-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with a right apical cavitary lesion after coming to us with the complaint of haemoptysis. The patient underwent upper lobe segmentectomy and...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Pamuk ON,Harmandar O,Tosun B,Yörük Y,Cakir N

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate pre-clinical esophageal involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) by high-resolution impedance manometry (HRiM), its associations with disease features including lung involvement, and its predictivity of esophageal symptoms overtime. Charts of 45 asymptomatic (no heartburn/regurgitation/dy...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Vettori S,Tolone S,Capocotta D,Chieffo R,Giacco V,Valentini G,Docimo L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to investigate the possible effects of thioredoxin 1 (Trx1) on the proliferation and apoptosis of rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes (RA-FLSs) and elucidate the possible mechanisms involved. We investigated the distribution and expression of Trx1 in synovial tissues from RA and osteoarthritis (...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Lu T,Zong M,Fan S,Lu Y,Yu S,Fan L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to understand the patient experience of musculoskeletal imaging tests for investigation of inflammatory arthritis and factors that contribute to this experience. We conducted a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 33 patients who had a recent peripheral joint musculoskel...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bourke S,Taylor WJ,Doyle AJ,Gott M,Dalbeth N

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determine the effect of daily low divided or single daily dose of prednisone on the longitudinal change in the number of tender and swollen joints and HAQ scores in African Americans (AA) with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the Consortium for the Longitudinal Evaluation of African Americans with Early Rheumatoid...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Conn DL,Tiliakos A,Bao G,Liu S,Li S,Easley KA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for lupus and Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) criteria are designed to classify disease. However, they have become widely used as diagnostic criteria in clinical situations. Patients may be labelled as systemic lupus erythema...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Flynn A,Gilhooley E,O'Shea F,Wynne B

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bath ankylosing spondylitis metrology index (BASMI; range 0-10) has gained widespread use in daily clinical practice as an objective measure of spinal stiffness not only in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) but also in patients with other spondylarthropathies (SpA). We examined intra-rater and inter-rater ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Madsen OR,Hansen LB,Rytter A,Suetta C,Egsmose C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very recently, several studies have convincingly demonstrated the role of infection in the development of the antiphospholipid syndrome. Cross antibody-mediated reactivity due to molecular mimicry between endothelial glycoproteins and microbial products was considered as an important pathogenic mechanism. However, ano...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Rozin AP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetabular protrusion (PA) as measured by a line crossing method was studied in 73 patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and its frequency found to be 12% (9/73), presenting bilaterally in 5 cases and unilaterally in 4. All patients had some other forms of radiological damage and the presence of PA was pre...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gusis SE,Maldonado Cocco JA,Rivero EM,Babini JC,Gagliardi SA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although total hip replacement (THR) has been proven to be effective, the effect of THR on employment in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in Chinese population is still unknown. We aimed to demonstrate whether or not patients with AS returned to work following THR and factors associated with the work ability after THR. We ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： He C,He X,Tong W,Zheng W,Zhang T,Zhao J,Xu W

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study are to assess the risk of asymptomatic cranial neuropathy among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and find any association with disease activity and antiribosomal P antibodies. This study is a case-control study including 60 female patients and 30 healthy female controls. Di...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gaber W,Ezzat Y,El Fayoumy NM,Helmy H,Mohey AM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the function of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in patients suffering from psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis vulgaris the release of beta-glucuronidase, elastase and cytoplasmic lactate dehydrogenase was investigated. The life of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in rheumatoid and psoriatic ar...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Mikulíková D,Stancíková M,Trnavský K,Vlcek F

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 54 year old female whose successful treatment of cerebral lupus with rituximab was complicated by the development of streptococcus intermedius, on valves damaged by Libman-Sacks endocarditis more than 20 years previously. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Armstrong D,Wright S,McVeigh C,Finch M

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to determine the prevalence and clinical significance of anti-CCP isotype IgA in a population of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). Sixty-two patients diagnosed according to the USA-European classification criteria for pSS were examined two to four times during a 60.4-month follow-up, and ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Haga HJ,Andersen DT,Peen E

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate in systemic sclerosis (SSc) retrospectively the effect of Bosentan and Sildenafil and their combination on Raynaud's phenomenon (RP), function, and capillaroscopic patterns. One hundred and twenty-three SSc patients (mean age ± sd, 57.69 ± 14.07 years) were retrospectively evaluat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bellando-Randone S,Lepri G,Bruni C,Blagojevic J,Radicati A,Cometi L,De Paulis A,Matucci-Cerinic M,Guiducci S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with a mild disease course could be identified early in the phase of the disease, therapy with less aggressive and probably less toxic antirheumatic drugs seems to be rational. The aim of this study was to investigate which factors at baseline could predict a clinical response (Am...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： van den Borne BE,Landewé RB,Rietveld JH,Goei The HS,Griep EN,Breedveld FC,Dijkmans BA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00