Silicone breast implants and depression, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome in a rheumatology clinic population.

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：:Behçet's disease (BD) has well-defined pulmonary complications, but cardiopulmonary exercise testing and the strength of the respiratory muscles have not been studied in detail. We aimed to investigate the pulmonary functions tests, inspiratory and expiratory muscle strength and endurance, cardiopulmonary exercise tes...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gökoğlu F,Yorgancioğlu ZR,Ustün N,Ardiç FA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is a rare, benign, autoimmune condition characterized by lymphadenopathy, fever, and neutropenia. KFD can frequently mimic various diseases including infection, malignancy, and autoimmune disease. KFD has also been infrequently reported in associa...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kampitak T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported a series of ten patients with lupus nephritis (five patients in the relapse phase and five in the remission phase) and measured the macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), an important pro-inflammatory cytokine with probable role in the pathogenesis of many inflammatory diseases, in their urine sampl...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Otukesh H,Chalian M,Hoseini R,Chalian H,Hooman N,Bedayat A,Yazdi RS,Sabaghi S,Mahdavi S

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermographic appearance of the sacro-iliac joints in health and in active inflammation has been established on the basis of 72 thermographic examinations of healthy volunteers and 82 examinations of patients with clinically and radiographically active disease. In the latter group a certain number of cases showed ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Jacobsson H,Vestersköld L

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To validate the Quality of Life-Rheumatoid Arthritis Scale II (QOL-RA II) in an Argentinean cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients ≥ 18 years old, with a diagnosis of RA according to ACR-EULAR 2010 criteria, were included in a cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic data, comorbidities, RA charact...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Isnardi CA,Schneeberger EE,Capelusnik D,de Los Ángeles Correa M,Lim R,Hu M,Tapia MJ,Kerzberg E,Blanco E,Benavidez FL,Gonzales Lucero L,Barbaglia AL,Bazzarelli M,Ficco HM,Pérez S,Hartvig C,Salcedo M,Citera G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of opioid therapy in chronic musculoskeletal disease continues to be controversial. However, recent years have seen a gradual shift towards the use of opioid therapy in chronic non-malignant pain (CNMP) following recognition that at least a subpopulation of such patients appears to benefit from long-term opio...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Simpson KH

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small differences in inbred animals with a gene for arthritis must be the cause that some of them evolve the disease and others not. These differences are partly stochastic, caused by thermal movement of molecules. It is possible that their effect is amplified by a network of cytokines, known to play an important role...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Daams JH,Westerhoff HV

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antinuclear antibody (ANA) test results frequently affect the course of patients' evaluations, diagnosis, and treatment, but different laboratory centers may yield conflicting results. This study investigated the degree of agreement between laboratory results in a group of subjects who had ANA testing performed at two...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Abeles AM,Gomez-Ramirez M,Abeles M,Honiden S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of biotechnology-derived medicines has significantly increased in recent decades. Although biosimilars undergo rigorous characterization as well as clinical studies to document their safety and effectiveness, they are highly complex molecules and small changes in the purification and production process of a bi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Pineda C,Caballero-Uribe CV,de Oliveira MG,Lipszyc PS,Lopez JJ,Mataos Moreira MM,Azevedo VF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ochronosis involves primarily the large cartilaginous joint surfaces, ribs, intervertebral discs, ear cartilage etc. We report on a 53-year-old woman with typical alkaptonuric ochronosis with dark urine, blue-black pigmentation of the auriculae and hands, focal brown hyperpigmentation of the sclera, spondylarthropathy...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nas K,Gür A,Akdeniz S,Cevik R,Harman M,Saraç AJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Sidonian sarcophagus, from the Late Antique/early Christian period, skeletal remains of two persons were found. One of them, male, 30-50 years old, was found almost completely ankylosed, with highly osteoporotic bones and prominent erosion of joint surfaces. We diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis based on the eroded o...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bašić Ž,Jerković I,Kružić I,Anđelinović Š

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small synovial cysts are a common manifestation of juvenile idiopathic arthritis; large brachial cysts, however, are a rare sign of the disease and they must be differentiated from other soft tissue swelling which are not related to articular involvement. We describe the case of three children with juvenile idiopathic...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dell'Era L,Vercellesi P,Forzenigo LV,Carnelli V,Corona F

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presentation of the Table 1 of the original version of this article was incorrectly published. The Table is now presented correctly in this article. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Greco M,Rúa-Figueroa Í,Ghiglione S,Santana Medina E,Quevedo Abeledo JC,Rodríguez-Lozano C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correlation study was performed on the degree of muscle weakness in 36 patients with dermatomyositis and 69 with polymyositis in relation to muscle biopsy findings, electromyography (EMG) abnormalities, and serum concentrations of creatine kinase (CK), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (A...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tymms KE,Beller EM,Webb J,Schrieber L,Buchanan WW

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the serum interleukin-18 (IL-18) levels in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to assess their relationship with disease activity. Thirty-five patients with SLE and 35 age- and sex-matched controls were enrolled in this study. Paired serum samples were collected ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Park MC,Park YB,Lee SK

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by recurrent self-limited attacks of fever and polyserositis. Reactive amyloid A amyloidosis is the most devastating complication of FMF, and amyloidosis continues to occur in the colchicine era in untreated and noncompliant patients. U...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Özçakar ZB,Yüksel S,Ekim M,Yalçınkaya F

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and 3 types of autoantibodies were measured in 30 patients with angiographical or pathological proved vasculitis. There were 18 patients with systemic vasculitis and 12 patients with cutaneous vasculitis. The measured antibodies included anti-endothelial cell anti...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wang CR,Liu MF,Tsai RT,Chuang CY,Chen CY

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is prevalent among Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, and Jewish people and it must always be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients from these ethnic groups presenting with recurrent abdominal pain with fever. In cases of fever and recurrent abdominal pain, acute pancreatitis ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Birlik M,Demir T,Zeybel M,Akar S,Onen F,Comlekci A,Tunca M,Akkoc N

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few studies have reported the safety profile of interleukin (IL)-1 blockers from real life. The aim of this study is to describe anakinra (ANA) and canakinumab (CAN) safety profile in children and adults, based on data from a real-life setting. Demographic, clinical, and therapeutic data from patients treated with A...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Sota J,Vitale A,Insalaco A,Sfriso P,Lopalco G,Emmi G,Cattalini M,Manna R,Cimaz R,Priori R,Talarico R,de Marchi G,Frassi M,Gallizzi R,Soriano A,Alessio M,Cammelli D,Maggio MC,Gentileschi S,Marcolongo R,La Torre F,

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study are to investigate the prevalence of PAD4 and anti-PAD4 antibodies (Abs) in autoimmune diseases and to clarify their association with anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) and shared epitope (SE) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Levels of human PAD4 and anti-PAD4 Abs in s...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Umeda N,Matsumoto I,Kawaguchi H,Kurashima Y,Kondo Y,Tsuboi H,Ogishima H,Suzuki T,Kagami Y,Sakyu T,Ishigami A,Maruyama N,Sumida T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2'5'-Oligoadenylate synthetase (OAS) was shown to be related to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) 20 years ago, and was rediscovered to be involved in type I interferon pathway in SLE by several microarray gene expression studies recently. The goal of this study was to investigate OAS isoform expressions in lupus pat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ye S,Guo Q,Tang JP,Yang CD,Shen N,Chen SL

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess mean platelet volume (MPV) in children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at the active and inactive stages. Twenty children with SLE and 30 age- and gender-matched controls were enrolled. Demographic data, SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Yavuz S,Ece A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary knee osteoarthritis (OA) contributes to disability among middle-aged and elderly people. Dickkopf-1 (Dkk-1) and sclerostin are inhibitors of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway implicated in regulation of cartilage homeostasis and bone formation, respectively. We aim to investigate the association between the seru...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Theologis T,Efstathopoulos N,Nikolaou V,Charikopoulos I,Papapavlos I,Kokkoris P,Papatheodorou A,Nasiri-Ansari N,Kassi E

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azathioprine (AZA) is indicated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the steps of AZA metabolization. Heritable deficiency of TPMT enzyme activity and polymorphisms may lead to leukopenia. This study aims to detect TPMT polymorphism...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chen D,Lian F,Yuan S,Wang Y,Zhan Z,Ye Y,Qiu Q,Xu H,Liang L,Yang X

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute phase proteins, synovial fluid (SF) cellular infiltrates, pro-inflammatory (TNF-alpha, IL-1alpha, IL-6) and Th1 (IL-2) and Th2 (IL-4) derived cytokine levels both in plasma and SF were examined in pauciarticular and polyarticular juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) patients during the active (n = 22) and inactive (...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kutukculer N,Caglayan S,Aydogdu F

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A white female patient developed overlapping features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systemic sclerosis (SSc) with severe pulmonary compromise. She was treated with steroids and azathioprine, which improved her clinical condition and spirometric status. In May 2002 she presented with continuous pain in her ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cavallasca JA,Laborde HA,Araujo MB,Nasswetter GG

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the mortality and describe the causes of death in a large multicenter cohort of hospitalized patients with SLE in China. This was a retrospective study of a nationwide SLE cohort (10 centers, 29,510 hospitalized patients) from 2005 to 2014 in China. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated for ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wu XY,Yang M,Xie YS,Xiao WG,Lin J,Zhou B,Guan X,Luo CN,Che N,Liu XZ,Wang C,Teng JL,Cheng XB,Ye JN,Su YT,Shi H,Yin YF,Liu MR,Sun Y,Hu QY,Zhou ZC,Chi HH,Liu Y,Zhang X,Chen JW,Zhang MJ,Zhao DB,Yang CD,

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 57-year-old woman presenting with persistent cough, weight loss, and fever. An extensive work-up revealed laboratory signs of inflammation and a mild thickening of the aortic wall on computed tomographic scan of the thorax. These findings raised the suspicion of large vessel vasculitis that was...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Van der Schueren B,Lambert M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with fibromyalgia (FM) syndrome, stress and pain may chronically enhance sympathetic activity, altering cardiovascular response and inducing endothelial dysfunction. We investigated endothelial function in FM patients using echocardiography and analyzed whether endothelial function was affected by the clin...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cho KI,Lee JH,Kim SM,Lee HG,Kim TI

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00