Proteomic analysis of plasma identifies the Toll-like receptor agonists S100A8/A9 as a novel possible marker for systemic sclerosis phenotype.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2001, the European League Against Rheumatism developed and disseminated the first guidelines for musculoskeletal (MS) ultrasound (US) in rheumatology. Fifteen years later, the dramatic expansion of new data on MSUS in the literature coupled with technological developments in US imaging has necessitated an...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Möller I,Janta I,Backhaus M,Ohrndorf S,Bong DA,Martinoli C,Filippucci E,Sconfienza LM,Terslev L,Damjanov N,Hammer HB,Sudol-Szopinska I,Grassi W,Balint P,Bruyn GAW,D'Agostino MA,Hollander D,Siddle HJ,Supp G,Schmidt W

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the prevalence and incidence of systemic sclerosis (SSc) in southern Sweden. METHODS:In Skåne, the southernmost region of Sweden (total population 1.2 million), healthcare provided is registered in the Skåne Healthcare Register. We identified all Skåne residents who had received an International...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Andréasson K,Saxne T,Bergknut C,Hesselstrand R,Englund M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis are currently successfully treated with infliximab (anti-tumour necrosis factor); however, about 30% of the patients do not respond to infliximab. One of the postulated hypotheses of not responding is the fast clearance of infliximab due to the development of inflixima...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van der Laken CJ,Voskuyl AE,Roos JC,Stigter van Walsum M,de Groot ER,Wolbink G,Dijkmans BA,Aarden LA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of bilateral shoulder-hand syndrome and symmetrical arthralgia are described in patients with tubo-ovarian carcinoma. Swelling and contracture of the hands continued to develop despite oral corticosteroid therapy, and one patient underwent surgery in an attempt to prevent the development of further deformity...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Taggart AJ,Iveson JM,Wright V

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has suggested that prior poor reproductive outcome may be a risk factor in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A case-control study of 195 women with RA and 462 control women from two different sources is presented here. No increase in rates of spontaneous abortion was seen in the women with RA; indeed a protecti...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Spector TD,Silman AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the probability of drug continuation in a large cohort of methotrexate treated rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, the reasons for discontinuation of methotrexate, the overall survival of the members of this cohort, and the causes of death in these patients. METHODS:Yearly follow up was conduct...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Alarcón GS,Tracy IC,Strand GM,Singh K,Macaluso M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase-1 (ERAP1) protein is highly polymorphic with numerous missense amino acid variants. We sought to determine the naturally occurring ERAP1 protein allotypes and their contribution to Behçet's disease. METHODS:Genotypes of all reported missense ERAP1 gene variants with 10...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Takeuchi M,Ombrello MJ,Kirino Y,Erer B,Tugal-Tutkun I,Seyahi E,Özyazgan Y,Watts NR,Gül A,Kastner DL,Remmers EF

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early changes (five weeks) in the structure of newly synthesised and endogenous articular cartilage sulphated proteoglycans were studied in lapine IgG induced experimental immune synovitis. Rabbits with immune synovitis (IS-IgG) were compared with animals with a developed hypersensitivity to IgG (I-IgG) and with n...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Malemud CJ,Yoo JU,Goldberg VM,Kresina TF

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiovascular function in primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and to investigate the possible relation with ocular dryness. METHODS:41 (40 women) patients with primary SS, mean age 50 years (range 20-80) with a mean disease duration of eight years (range 1-30),...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Barendregt PJ,van Den Meiracker AH,Markusse HM,Tulen JH,Boomsma F,van Der Heijde GL,Veld AJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The anticyclic citrullinated peptide 2 (anti-CCP2) assay is a generic test for antibodies to citrullinated proteins, among which there is a subset of about 50% with antibodies to citrullinated enolase peptide 1 (CEP-1). The anti-CEP-1 positive subset is strongly associated with the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fisher BA,Plant D,Brode M,van Vollenhoven RF,Mathsson L,Symmons D,Lundberg K,Rönnelid J,Venables PJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine concentrations of chondroitin sulphate (CS) and keratan sulphate (KS) epitopes, glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and hyaluronan (HA) in knee synovial fluid (SF) from normal subjects and patients with osteoarthritis (OA) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA), to test whether these variables may be used as marker...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Belcher C,Yaqub R,Fawthrop F,Bayliss M,Doherty M

更新日期：1997-05-01 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:To compare the efficacy and safety of lumiracoxib with placebo and celecoxib for osteoarthritis OA in a 13 week, multicentre, randomised, double blind study. METHODS:After a 37 day washout period for nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, 1702 patients with knee OA were randomised to lumiracoxib 200 or 400 mg...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tannenbaum H,Berenbaum F,Reginster JY,Zacher J,Robinson J,Poor G,Bliddal H,Uebelhart D,Adami S,Navarro F,Lee A,Moore A,Gimona A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the efficacy of a tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) inhibitor (etanercept, Enbrel) in patients with severe sciatica. METHODS:A pilot study of etanercept was conducted in patients admitted to hospital for acute severe sciatica. Ten consecutive patients received three subcutaneous injections ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Genevay S,Stingelin S,Gabay C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy and safety of golimumab over 104 weeks in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis. METHODS:At baseline, patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (n=356) were randomly assigned (1:1.8:1.8) to subcutaneous injections of placebo (group 1), golimumab 50 mg (group 2) or golimumab 100...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Braun J,Deodhar A,Inman RD,van der Heijde D,Mack M,Xu S,Hsu B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop a questionnaire assessing the expectations of patients regarding management of osteoarthritis (OA of the knee. METHODS:A detailed document reporting on a qualitative analysis of interviews of patients with knee OA was sent to experts and a Delphi procedure was adopted for item generation. Eighty ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Benhamou M,Boutron I,Dalichampt M,Baron G,Alami S,Rannou F,Ravaud P,Poiraudeau S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lornoxicam is a new non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent (NSAID) with a similar pharmacological profile to other oxicams and a potency 10 times greater than piroxicam. A multicentre, randomised, double blind, parallel group study was undertaken to compare the efficacy and tolerance of four weeks' treatment with lorno...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Berry H,Bird HA,Black C,Blake DR,Freeman AM,Golding DN,Hamilton EB,Jayson MI,Kidd B,Kohn H

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Leri's pleonosteosis (LP) is an autosomal dominant rheumatic condition characterised by flexion contractures of the interphalangeal joints, limited motion of multiple joints, and short broad metacarpals, metatarsals and phalanges. Scleroderma-like skin thickening can be seen in some individuals with LP. We u...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Banka S,Cain SA,Carim S,Daly SB,Urquhart JE,Erdem G,Harris J,Bottomley M,Donnai D,Kerr B,Kingston H,Superti-Furga A,Unger S,Ennis H,Worthington J,Herrick AL,Merry CL,Yue WW,Kielty CM,Newman WG

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of grade III or IV osteoarthritis was determined in 210 patients with chronic renal failure, of whom 94 were receiving chronic haemodialysis and 116 had functioning renal transplants. The prevalence of grade III or IV osteoarthritis was three times greater in patients under 65 than in a control populati...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Duncan IJ,Hurst NP,Sebben R,Milazzo SC,Disney A

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with classic rheumatoid arthritis (RA) complicated by severe vasculitis were studied and compared with a matched control group of 16 RA patients without vasculitis. Seven of the patients with vasculitis died within 4 to 120 months (median 32 months) after developing vasculitic symptoms. Gangrene of di...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Geirsson AJ,Sturfelt G,Truedsson L

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative isotype specific enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine the distribution of immunoglobulin isotypes and phospholipid specificities of anticardiolipin (anti-CL) antibodies in 40 patients with one or more of the following 'antiphospholipid (anti-PL) antibody associated clinical comp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gharavi AE,Harris EN,Asherson RA,Hughes GR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information has been collected on 10 patients, 9 with marrow depression and 1 in whom the diagnosis was presumed. Six of the 10 patients died. The sequentially recorded blood counts on at least 5 of the patients showed a downward trend of the white cell and platelet counts while D-penicillamine was still being adminis...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kay AG

更新日期：1979-06-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess the association of body mass index (BMI) with modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:BMI, disease activity, selected CVD risk factors and CVD medication were assessed in 378 (276 women) patients with RA. Patients exceeding accepted ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou A,Metsios GS,Panoulas VF,Douglas KM,Nevill AM,Jamurtas AZ,Kita M,Koutedakis Y,Kitas GD

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In salivary glands from patients with Sjögren syndrome, overexpression of laminins 1 and 5 and disorganisation of the acinar basal lamina have been reported. Laminin 5 mediates association of the basal lamina with epithelial cells by forming adhesion complexes upon interaction with alpha6beta4 integrin. In t...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Velozo J,Aguilera S,Alliende C,Ewert P,Molina C,Pérez P,Leyton L,Quest A,Brito M,González S,Leyton C,Hermoso M,Romo R,González MJ

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：OBJECTIVE:The expression of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) is considered almost constant in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), although recent experience has suggested that many subjects with SLE considered for clinical trials are ANA negative at screening. The objective of this study is to determine whether assay varia...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pisetsky DS,Spencer DM,Lipsky PE,Rovin BH

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the publication of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) in 2009, several relevant randomised clinical trials and cohort analyses have been published, which have the potential to change clinical care and therefore supporting t...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hellmich B,Agueda A,Monti S,Buttgereit F,de Boysson H,Brouwer E,Cassie R,Cid MC,Dasgupta B,Dejaco C,Hatemi G,Hollinger N,Mahr A,Mollan SP,Mukhtyar C,Ponte C,Salvarani C,Sivakumar R,Tian X,Tomasson G,Turesson C,S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2010 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were developed to improve the identification of individuals for studies of RA. We aimed to summarise the performance of the criteria based on the published literature. METHODS:We performed a systematic literature search to identify all...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Radner H,Neogi T,Smolen JS,Aletaha D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00