High-resolution ultrasound of the midfoot: sonography is more sensitive than conventional radiography in detection of osteophytes and erosions in inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint disease.

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：:Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a necrotising vasculitis of medium-sized vessels of unknown origin. This type of vasculitis is usually systemic, but restriction to a single organ, for example the testis, the appendix or the gall bladder, can occur. Testicular pain or tenderness are frequent clinical features. In this re...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Meeuwissen J,Maertens J,Verbeken E,Blockmans D

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate whether dexibuprofen meets the basic requirements of Dutch General Practitioners (GPs) for acceptance as an analgesic in mild to moderate pain. The available GP treatment standards for mild to moderate pain were analysed. If no treatment standard was available, results from two se...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bon A,Jongejan RC

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The objectives of our study were to compare the efficacy of febuxostat with allopurinol in Thai subjects with gout, as well as to determine the predictive factors of responsiveness to urate-lowering agents and to evaluate the safety of febuxostat in a real-world setting. METHODS:The study was a retrospective...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Lertnawapan R,Jatuworapruk K

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We encountered an adult patient with acute parvovirus B19 infection who presented with transient lupus-like symptoms (i.e., polyarthritis, fever, myalgia, pancytopenia, hypocomplementemia, and nephritis). Our case is characterized by the demonstration of acute nephritis as a complication of this infection, making it d...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Sugimoto T,Tsuda A,Uzu T,Kashiwagi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical features, risk factors, and outcomes of septic arthritis in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD). We systematically reviewed medical records of 16 HD patients with septic arthritis admitted to our hospital from April 2008 to April 2018. A total of 16 HD in pat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Zhang J,You X

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs/systems with variable activities. We performed a retrospective study to investigate the relationship of clinical characteristics and complications with SLE activity in Chinese Han population. A cohort of 1,490 SLE inpatients w...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Li LH,Pan HF,Li WX,Li XP,Xu JH,Ye DQ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the value of lone anti-Smith antibody (anti-Sm) using Euroimmun line immunoassay (LIA) in a Chinese population. One thousand two hundred eight of 39,766 patients who were analyzed for anti-Sm had positive anti-Sm, and were divided into true group (having both positive Sm and nRNP/Sm bands) and lone grou...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Meng Y,Deng S,Huang Z,Hu J,Zhang J,Xu D,Qin S,Tan C,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the multiple values of 18F-FDG PET/CT in detecting malignant tumors, evaluating myopathy, and determining interstitial lung disease in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM). We retrospectively analyzed the data of 38 patients who were examined by 18F-FDG PET/CT and eventu...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Li Y,Zhou Y,Wang Q

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Back problems and back pain are amongst the most prevalent conditions afflicting Australians and carry high direct and indirect costs for the health care systems of all developed countries. A major gap in the research literature on this topic is the longitudinal analysis of health seeking behaviour for people with bac...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Sibbritt DW,Adams J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is characterized by recurrent episodes of inflammation with fever, abdominal pain, chest pain, rash, myalgia, arthralgia, conjunctivitis, and periorbital edema. This condition is a rare autosomal dominant disease that is strongly associated with heter...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chen Y,Huang X,Zheng S,Zhu Z,Yang W,Liu J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal storage diseases are rare metabolic disorders, some of which can now be treated using enzyme replacement therapies. Because the time point of treatment initiation significantly influences the outcome in Gaucher disease, Fabry disease, and mucopolysaccharidosis type I, early diagnosis is of utmost importance....

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Manger B,Mengel E,Schaefer RM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been claimed that some of the symptoms in patients with Behçet's disease (BD) can be activated after the patient has stopped smoking. In this study we investigated the effect of smoking on the symptoms of Behçet's disease. Fifty asymptomatic current smokers (CS) who promised to stop smoking (group 1) a...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Soy M,Erken E,Konca K,Ozbek S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mesenteric vasculitis due to Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is relatively uncommon, it is the most life-threatening manifestation associated with high mortality. We describe a 15-year-old boy with HSP who had massive gastrointestinal bleeding and ileus but delayed onset of the purpuric rash. Abdominal ultraso...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wang L,Huang FC,Ko SF,Cheng MT

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to assess the progression of osteoarthritis (OA) using scoring systems based on the anatomical changes recorded in the finger joints on standard radiographs and to test how far these scoring systems could be used to evaluate the effects of candidate "disease modifying osteoarthritis drugs" (DMOAD). T...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Verbruggen G,Goemaere S,Veys EM

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a rare vasculitis that affects the aorta and its primary branches. Heterogeneous clinical manifestations have been described in different geographical areas. We aimed to evaluate demographic, clinical, and angiographic features and the outcome in 16 TA patients who were followed in a singl...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Petrovic-Rackov L,Pejnovic N,Jevtic M,Damjanov N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycophenolate mofetil (MMf) has recently been reported as a useful alternative immunosuppressive drug in autoimmune diseases. There is paucity of literature on its use in Takayasu's arteritis (TA). The aim of this study was to assess the safety and efficacy of MMf in Asian Indian patients with Takayasu's arteritis. Re...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Goel R,Danda D,Mathew J,Edwin N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the study were to investigate short and long-term changes and relations to treatment response of plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), YKL-40, matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3), and total aggrecan in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) treated with tumor necrosis ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Pedersen SJ,Hetland ML,Sørensen IJ,Ostergaard M,Nielsen HJ,Johansen JS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knee osteoarthritis is a common joint problem leading to an increase of pain and a loss of function in older individuals. The main objective of this study was to evaluate if a participant who was randomly assigned to his preferred group improved his adherence to an effective walking program compared to a participant w...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Loew L,Brosseau L,Kenny GP,Durand-Bush N,Poitras S,De Angelis G,Wells GA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported a case of dermatomyositis (DM) with liver disturbance in a 50-year-old Japanese female. She presented with fever, muscle weakness, and typical DM rashes. On clinical and serological examinations, the liver impairment was initially diagnosed as probable autoimmune hepatitis, which was denied by a histologic...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Noda S,Asano Y,Tamaki Z,Takekoshi T,Sugaya M,Sato S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot joint or neuropathic arthropathy is described in certain neurological conditions. We report the case of a man who presented with a swollen ankle 10 days after a long walk, which rapidly progressed to a Charcot joint. A neurological examination revealed areflexia and insensitivity to temperature and pain. Elect...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chappel R,Willems J,Martin JJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metabolism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is reviewed. Two different entities are recognised: 1) a localised periarticular bone loss, due to inflammatory processes and 2) a generalised increased bone turnover, ultimately leading to a loss of axial bone mass. The mechanism of this loss of axial bone is not ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1988-03-01 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

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：:In the past decade, lung ultrasound (LUS) B-lines and serum Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6) antigen have been recognized as biomarkers of the connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases (CTD-ILDs). Robust data have demonstrated that B-lines total numbers and KL-6 levels are correlated with high-resol...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wang Y,Chen S,Lin Z,Lin J,Xie X,Lin Q,Du G,Huang X,Matucci-Cerinic M,Furst DE

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe disease that can develop in immunocompromised patients. Antitumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) treatment of rheumatoid arthritis can result in clinical benefits, but with an increased risk of opportunistic infections. Leishmania infection in patients treated with TNF-alpha ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bagalas V,Kioumis I,Argyropoulou P,Patakas D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal crises of fever and systemic inflammation herald familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), considered as the archetype of all inherited systemic autoinflammatory diseases. Inflammatory bouts are characterized by short-term and self-limited abdominal, thoracic, and/or articular symptoms which subside spontaneously...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Rigante D,Lopalco G,Tarantino G,Compagnone A,Fastiggi M,Cantarini L

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantified the association between recreational physical activity and daily function in women with fibromyalgia, and determined if this association is mediated by symptoms of pain, depression, or body mass. Twenty-three women diagnosed with fibromyalgia participated in an observational survey study. Recreat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Umeda M,Corbin LW,Maluf KS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00