Serum BAFF in Indian patients with IIM: a retrospective study reveals novel clinico-phenotypic associations in children and adults.

abstract：:The ACR/EULAR Boolean remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) include a strict cutoff for patient global assessment (PGA, value ≤ 1/10). Near-remission corresponds to remission for joint counts and C-reactive protein but with PGA > 1. The objective was to explore whether the contribution of PGA to remission a...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gossec L,Kirwan JR,de Wit M,Balanescu A,Gaujoux-Viala C,Guillemin F,Rat AC,Saraux A,Fautrel B,Kvien TK,Dougados M,RAID investigators.

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Yao syndrome (YAOS), formerly named NOD2-associated autoinflammatory disease, is a periodic disease characterized by fever, dermatitis, polyarthritis, distal extremity swelling, and gastrointestinal and sicca-like symptoms associated with specific NOD2 sequence variants. All patients in the literature were Caucasians....

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Yang X,Wu D,Li J,Shen M,Zhang W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disease with cutaneous lesions present in about one fourth of patients. Cutaneous lesions may be specific or nonspecific based on the presence or the absence of sarcoidal granulomas. Subcutaneos sarcoidosis is the less frequent of the specific cutaneous lesions of sarcoidosis. We report ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dalle Vedove C,Colato C,Girolomoni G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perforin and granzyme A co-localize in the cytotoxic granules of killer cells like cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Perforin is the cytolytic pore-forming protein, whereas the function of the homodimeric serine protease granzyme A and other members of the granzyme family is still unclear. Granzyme A-immunoreactive cells...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nordström DC,Konttinen YT,Sorsa T,Nykanen P,Pettersson T,Santavirta S,Tschopp J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Belimumab is an effective and safe treatment option for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, data on treatment cessation are lacking. Thus, we investigated belimumab-free remission in SLE patients. SLE patients receiving belimumab in our institute (May 1, 2013-May 31, 2019) were retrospectively identified usin...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nakai T,Fukui S,Ikeda Y,Shimizu H,Tamaki H,Okada M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a granulomatous vasculitis of large vessels with unknown aetiopathogenesis. An association between TA and tuberculosis (TB) has been suggested by several authors. The objective of this study was to perform a systematic review of the literature on the association of Mycobacterium tuberculosis...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Pedreira ALS,Santiago MB

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) constitute a subset of autoimmune conditions primarily affecting muscle, along with many extra-muscular manifestations. Proximal muscle weakness is the dominant symptom in the IIM. In addition, many patients will have cutaneous manifestations, pulmonary manifestations, and ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Jones J,Wortmann R

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:We describe the case of a 26-year-old African female who was treated successfully with belimumab in a case of severe membranous lupus nephritis and retinal vasculitis, resistant to first line therapy. She presented initially with chronic dacryoadenitis and screening showed nephrotic-range proteinuria. Biopsy of the ki...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： De Scheerder MA,Boey O,Mahieu E,Vanuytsel J,Bogaert AM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and von Willebrand factor (vWF), all of endothelial origin and active in the haemostasis, were analysed in 74 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The concentrations were related to extra-articular disease and to the incidence of thromboembol...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wållberg-Jonsson S,Dahlén GH,Nilsson TK,Rånby M,Rantapää-Dahlqvist S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin is a hormone released by adipose tissue with antidiabetic, antiatherogenic, and anti-inflammatory properties. The present observational study focused on the relation between serum adiponectin level and the disease severity of established rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Ninety patients with more than 5-year diag...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ebina K,Fukuhara A,Ando W,Hirao M,Koga T,Oshima K,Matsuda M,Maeda K,Nakamura T,Ochi T,Shimomura I,Yoshikawa H,Hashimoto J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES:Cardiovascular risk management of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is medically relevant. The objectives were to estimate the cardiovascular risk by different strategies in patients with SLE, analyzing which proportion of patients would be candidates to receive statin therapy, an...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Masson W,Rossi E,Mora-Crespo LM,Cornejo-Peña G,Pessio C,Gago M,Alvarado RN,Scolnik M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 24-year old Caucasian man with gangrene of small bowels and intestinal resection due to mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease (MIVOD) who later developed deep vein thrombosis in his left leg. He had no clinical evidence of an underlying symptomatic connective tissue disease or Behçet's disease. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gül A,Inanç M,Ocal L,Koniçe M,Aral O,Lie JT

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (anti-TNF) have become the standard treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, evidence is inconsistent as to whether RA patients with anti-TNF are associated with an increased risk of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) compared with those without anti-TNF. We performed a ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wang JL,Yin WJ,Zhou LY,Zhou G,Liu K,Hu C,Zuo XC,Wang YF

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) remains a challenging condition for clinicians. There is substantial evidence for the presence of various cervical dysfunctions (e.g., increased cervical muscle tone and impaired cervical movement control), but their contribution to the complex clinical picture of subjects w...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nijs J,Van Oosterwijck J,De Hertogh W

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the association of two common interleukin 12B (IL-12B) polymorphisms (rs3212227 and rs6887695) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility through meta-analyses. A systematic literature search of PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Embase databases was conducted on ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Yang X,Xiao F,Luo D,Wang G,Liang S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one Thai patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), diagnosed in accordance with Rome and New York criteria for AS, were studied. The cases includes idiopathic AS (46 cases), Reiter's syndrome AS (8 cases) and psoriatic spondylitis (7 cases). The vast majority of patients were male (Male:Female = 11.2:1), and in...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Deesomchok U,Tumrasvin T

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the association of combined arthritis and diabetes, diabetes only, and arthritis only compared with neither with gait speed in the general population. This cross-sectional study included data from the second wave of Midlife in the United States-2 (MIDUS 2) project 4: Biomarker Project, 2004-200...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Alenazi AM,Alshehri MM,Alqahtani BA,Alanazi AD,Bindawas SM

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with idiopathic portal hypertension (IPH) associated with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and Sjögren's syndrome. A 72-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our hospital because of Raynaud's phenomenon, sclerodactyly, and dyspnea. The patient had splenomegaly, esophageal varices in the absence of extrah...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kogawa H,Migita K,Ito M,Takii Y,Daikoku M,Nakao M,Miyashita T,Kimura H,Ezaki H,Nakamura M,Yatsuhashi H,Eguchi K,Ishibashi H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty patients with Reiter's syndrome (RS) were studied retrospectively. A comparison was made between patients with the complete syndrome and patients with the incomplete syndrome. A comparison was also made between patients with and without HLA-B27. There were no major differences in severity and duration of the ar...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bengtsson A,Lindström FD,Lindblom B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aims to analyze the effects of induction treatment with cyclophosphamide (CYC) pulse therapy followed by maintenance treatment with other mild immunosuppressive agents on lung function in scleroderma (SSc) patients. Thirty patients with SSc (mean age 52 years, mean disease duration < 2 years) with forced vit...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Pavlov-Dolijanovic S,Vujasinovic Stupar N,Zugic V,Ostojic P,Zekovic A,Zivanovic Radnic T,Jeremic I,Tadic I

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:There is a paucity of data on the impact of chronic rheumatic diseases on functional disability and overall health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Africans. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We compared Black South Africans (BSA) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (n=50) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (n=50) to ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Benitha R,Tikly M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to determine reasons for admission, the prevalence and spectrum of infections, and the outcomes in a multiethnic cohort of hospitalized systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients in Durban, South Africa. We reviewed the records of hospitalized SLE patients seen over a 79-month period; the demographic data...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dubula T,Mody GM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of polymyositis (PM) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is rare; only nine cases have been described in English literature. We report a case of a 46-year-old woman presenting with these two autoimmune diseases. The diagnosis of PM was based on the symmetrical, proximal limb muscle weakness, elevated m...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Boki KA,Dourakis SP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total body bone mineral content (TBBMC), total body bone mineral density (TBBMD), and regional bone mineral content (BMC) were determined with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry and correlated with different anthropometric variables in 324 normal male subjects aged 15 to 85 years, in order to obtain further knowledge of...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Rico H,Revilla M,Gonzalez-Riola J,Villa LF,Alvarez de Buergo M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 5 years, several hundred articles have been published concerning the link between primary immunodeficiency disease (PID) and rheumatologic diseases. Although rheumatologic complications were originally thought to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum of immunopathologic manifestations, they are now all b...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dimitriades VR,Sorensen R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional investigation examined the prevalence and severity of dysphonia, globus pharyngeus, and dysphagia in patients affected by immunomediated (IM) diseases. Seventy subjects were administered the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) (scale 0-4), Glasgow-Edinburgh Throat Scale (GETS) (scale from 0 to 7) for globu...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Galli J,Marchese MR,De Canio C,Di Salvo M,Olivieri I,Santandrea L,Paludetti G

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Acute gouty arthritis (AGA) is an auto-inflammatory disease characterized by resolving spontaneously, which suggests that negative feedback loops control inflammatory and immunological responses to monosodium urate (MSU) crystals. By now, the molecular mechanism for spontaneous resolution of acute GA remains unclear; ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Zeng M,Dang W,Chen B,Qing Y,Xie W,Zhao M,Zhou J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00