Rheumatoid factor false positivity in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis not having medical conditions producing rheumatoid factor.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) are considered a risk factor for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) exacerbation, especially when staphylococcal superantigens (SAgs) are present in nasal swabs. Their role in monitoring disease activity remains controversial. This study determined the relatio...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Fijolek J,Wiatr E,Petroniec V,Augustynowicz-Kopec E,Bednarek M,Gawryluk D,Roszkowski-Sliz K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is actually considered as one of the most appropriate techniques for measuring bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD). An anthropomorphic phantom and a 25-year-old girl were repeatedly measured, 160 times and 50 times respectively, over an 18-month period to in...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Reginster JY,Deroisy R,Zegels B,Jupsin I,Albert A,Franchimont P

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to assess the usefulness of the stand-alone renal SLICC criterion in patients with childhood systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) and report their disease course, treatment response, and outcome. This study included children who were followed regularly in our lupus clinic with proved full...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Almutairi A,Aljammz H,Al-Hussain T,Al-Mayouf SM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze fucosylation of alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (AGP) and to identify relations between AGP fucosylation and clinical and biochemical indices of disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with monoclonal antitumor necrosis factor (TNF) antibody infliximab, we examined 22 patients with RA...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Olewicz-Gawlik A,Korczowska-Łacka I,Łacki JK,Klama K,Hrycaj P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study are to assess the levels of serum Interleukin-35 (IL-35) in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) and to evaluate the association between IL-35 levels and IIM-related features. Serum IL-35 was detected in 76 patients with dermatomyositis (DM), 28 patients with polymyositi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Yin L,Ge Y,Yang H,Peng Q,Lu X,Zhang Y,Wang G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to compare outcomes of dose reduction, withdrawal, and continuation of tofacitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to examine effectiveness of rescue with an original treatment regimen for disease flare. METHODS:We prospectively enrolled 100 patients who had high or mod...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Mori S,Ueki Y

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of late hypophosphatemic osteomalacia are described: a male aged 30 who had the disease since he was 22 and a woman of 23 who had the disease since she was 14. Both presented with myopathy and bone pain, and showed hypophosphatemia, hyperglycinuria, reduced tubular phosphate reabsorption (TPR), increased hyd...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Rico H,Gomez-Castresana F,Hernandez ER,Matute JA,Torrubiano J,Nunez-Torrón M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the serum levels of Dickkopf-1 (DKK-1) and sclerostin, as well as their correlations with the structural damage assessed by modified stoke ankylosing spondylitis spine score (mSASSS) and the disease activity evaluated by ankylosing spondylitis disease activity score (ASDAS) in patients with ankyl...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Sun W,Tian L,Jiang L,Zhang S,Zhou M,Zhu J,Xue J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), mental health problems are common, but often not recognized or treated, contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. Most studies examining the impact of mental health problems in RA have focused on depression. We aimed to determine the association between anxi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Machin AR,Babatunde O,Haththotuwa R,Scott I,Blagojevic-Bucknall M,Corp N,Chew-Graham CA,Hider SL

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old patient, whose hip was completely destroyed by pigmented villonodular synovitis, was successfully treated by a total prosthetic replacement of this articulation. The etiopathogenesis of the illness is uncertain. Its' localization in the hip is, fortunately, a rare occurrence. It can be responsible for fr...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Descamps F,Yasik E,Hardy D,Lafontaine M,Delince P

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the efficacy of Infliximab, a chimeric monoclonal antibody against TNF-alpha, in the treatment of Takayasu arteritis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We used infliximab at an initial dose of 3 mg/kg i.v. at weeks 0, 2, 6, and 8 thereafter in combination with methotrexate or azathioprine, to treat four patients...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Karageorgaki ZT,Mavragani CP,Papathanasiou MA,Skopouli FN

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates whether serum β2-microglobulin (β2-MG) level can be an indicator of the status of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD), and development of hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) complication. Serum β2-MG level was compared between the active and inactive statuses of ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wakabayashi K,Inokuma S,Matsubara E,Onishi K,Asashima H,Nakachi S,Hagiwara K

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 45-year-old Caucasian woman suffering from ankylosing spondylitis and undifferentiated connective tissue disease in whom the prevailing clinical features were retinal vasculitis and inflammatory low back pain. HLA typing revealed the concomitant presence of B27 and DR2 antigens. We hypothesise ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Galluzzo E,Taglione E,Bartolomei MP,Pasero G,Riente L

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musculoskeletal disorders represent a large and growing clinical challenge to primary care clinicians. Unfortunately, there appears to be a gap in current training and continuing education to meet this challenge. We used script concordance within a continuing medical education program entitled "Joint Adventures" to as...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Petrella RJ,Davis P

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated, in retrospect, if there were differences in the frequency and types of abdominal surgery between newly diagnosed female fibromyalgia (n = 80) and rheumatoid arthritis (n = 47) patients performed before the formal diagnosis. There was no difference in the total number of abdominal operations between bo...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： ter Borg EJ,Gerards-Rociu E,Haanen HC,Westers P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relations between parameters obtained by clinical absorptiometric techniques, such as SPA, DPA, DXA and QCT, and geometrical and material parameters of bone structures are investigated. Two types of bone are considered: the diaphysis of a long bone, modelled as a hollow cylindrical structure consisting of compact ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Van der Perre G,Lowet G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides fragilis is a rare cause of septic arthritis. Most patients with B. fragilis septic arthritis have a chronic joint disease, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, and sources of infection are lesions of the gastrointestinal tract and the skin. We report a 69-year-old male, who developed B. fragilis septic arth...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Borer A,Weber G,Riesenberg K,Schlaeffer F,Horowitz J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyositis may occur along with other manifestations of chronic graft vs host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) could produce durable remissions in relapsed patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) but it may contribute to the development of polymyosi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Liu FC,Chen CH,Chao TY

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism (PPH) with shortening of the left femur and tibia and coalition of the base of the fourth metacarpals with capitatum and hamatum in bilateral wrist joints was presented. Involvement of the fourth digits both in hands and feet were more prominent on the left side, with shorteni...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Unlu Z,Orguc S,Yilmaz Ovali G,Bayindir P

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of symptomatic overlap between fibromyalgia and major depression should be estimated by assessing the amount of local tenderness and the frequency and severity of depressive and functional symptoms. Tender points were assessed by palpation and symptoms by psychometric scales in 30 patients with fibromyalgia...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Fassbender K,Samborsky W,Kellner M,Müller W,Lautenbacher S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 22-year-old African male with known sickle cell anaemia was referred by a Congolese medical centre with a request to improve his poor physical condition. He was unable to walk, stand or sit because his large joints and his spine were either ankylosed or very rigid. Radiographs showed joint fusion from the third to t...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dumarey N,Martin P,Jayankura M,Putz P,Verhas M,Peretz A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigens of HLA-DR locus were determined in 127 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in 175 healthy persons. The frequency of HLA-DR1 antigen was discovered in 45% of the patients and in 22.3% of the examinees from the control group (p less than 0.001). The relative risk is 2.84. 69% of the patients were seropos...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Jajić Z,Jajić I,Jajić I,Kerhin-Brkljacic V

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that psychological variables are associated with self-reported pain and self-reported physical function in patients with musculoskeletal pain. However, the relationship between psychological variables and foot pain and foot function has not been evaluated in people with plantar heel pain. Eighty-...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cotchett MP,Whittaker G,Erbas B

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 56-year-old woman with an alleged diagnosis of an acute coronary syndrome that was later correctly identified in our Cardiology Unit as antisynthetase syndrome (AS) with inflammatory cardiac involvement. In this case report, we focus on clinical features of this rare autoimmune disease aiming to ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： L'Angiocola PD,Mattei L,Lardieri G

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D deficiency may be involved in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory conditions. This study aimed to determine the status of vitamin D in the rheumatology patients who were diagnosed with different rheumatic, inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases. In this cross-sectional observational study, we review...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Alachkar M,Teoh YP,O'Sullivan MM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA B27 and other clinical findings were investigated in 18 Turkish patients with Reiter's syndrome (mean age 35.8 +/- 8.09). Male/female ratio was 2/1. All 18 patients were seronegative, 12 (66.6%) presenting with an asymmetrical oligoarticular arthritis. Radiological sacroiliitis and enthesopathy was found in 9 (50%...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tuncer T,Arman MI,Akyokus A,Bütün B,Unal S

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the short-term effects of Stanger bath therapy and conventional exercises on spinal mobility, functional capacity, disease activity, and quality of life with conventional exercise alone in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. A total of 58 patients with a diagnosis of AS according to the modified New York...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gurcay E,Yuzer S,Eksioglu E,Bal A,Cakci A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyse efficacy and safety of tocilizumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and an inadequate response to conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) and/or tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors of the Swiss and Austrian patients from the ACT-SURE study. This is a sub-analys...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Mueller RB,Graninger W,Sidiropoulos P,Goger C,von Kempis J

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden death following steroid pulse therapy has been recently reported. Continuous electrocardiographic recording was performed 24 hours before, during, and 24 hours after each one to three high dose intravenous methyl prednisolone pulses administered of five patients with severe ankylosing spondylitis unresponsive t...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nasswetter G,Piñeiro DJ,Garcia Morteo OM,Maldonado Cocco JA,Barreira JC,Vazquez Blanco M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is common and has been associated with an increased risk of mortality [1]. Early diagnosis is imperative to control proteinuria and prevent the progression to end-stage renal disease. Standard induction therapies include cyclophosphamide (CYC) and mycophenolate m...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Raturi R,Patel AA,Carter JD

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00