Clinical characteristics of human brucellosis in patients with various monoarticular involvements.

abstract：:A case of polymyositis associated with scleroderma, adult coeliac disease, diabetes mellitus and IgA nephropathy is reported in a 33-year-old male. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Vilppula AH,Aine RA

更新日期：1984-12-01 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 aim of this study is to compare effectiveness and safety of Infliximab (INF), Etanercept (ETN), and Adalimumab (ADA) in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) with inadequate response to a previous disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD). One hundred consecutive PsA patients with inadequate response to a pre...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Atteno M,Peluso R,Costa L,Padula S,Iervolino S,Caso F,Sanduzzi A,Lubrano E,Del Puente A,Scarpa R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinction between infection and febrile disease flare in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is fundamental but often difficult to make, because clinical presentation can be similar. A systematic review of all articles indexed in PubMed through October 2013 was performed, in order to examine the potenti...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Serio I,Arnaud L,Mathian A,Hausfater P,Amoura Z

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes four patients with inflammatory joint diseases treated with methotrexate who developed lymphoma either of unusual type or with bizarre clinical features. The pathogenesis of this unusual condition is discussed and the difficulty in differentiating it from the features of the initial disease is emp...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Braun-Moscovici Y,Schapira D,Balbir-Gurman A,Nahir AM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Rheumatic diseases (RDs) are at an increased risk of malignancies compared with the general population. The aim of this study was to examine the relative frequency of several cancers in a single homogeneous cohort of patients with different RDs. Patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Ankylosi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wang HL,Zhou YM,Zhu GZ,Yang Z,Hua BJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide 2 antibodies (anti-CCP2) and rheumatoid factor (RF) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been extensively assessed in industrialized countries. We investigated the diagnostic and prognostic impact of anti-CCP2 and RF isotypes in a Sudanese cross-sectional RA cohort. METHODS:Cons...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Elshafie AI,Elbagir S,Aledrissy MIE,Elagib EM,Nur MAM,Rönnelid J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the growing awareness of the impact of chronic back pain and axial spondyloarthritis and recent breakthroughs in genetics and the development of novel treatments which may impact best on early disease, the need for markers that can facilitate early diagnosis and profiling those individuals at the highest risk for...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Reveille JD

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-binding proteins (lactoferrin, transferrin and ferritin) and free iron were measured in synovial fluid (SF) from 30 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 20 osteoarthritis (OA) patients. The iron-binding proteins except transferrin were significantly increased in RA SF as compared with OA SF. Similarly, fre...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ahmadzadeh N,Shingu M,Nobunaga M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective is to investigate the accrual rate and risk factors of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in an inception cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) followed at a single tertiary center. A prospectively collected database of 256 consecutive patients with SLE followed over a 25-year period was s...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Pokroy-Shapira E,Gelernter I,Molad Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original published version of this article contained the incorrect Table 2 and are now presented correctly in this article. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Idolazzi L,Zabotti A,Fassio A,Errichetti E,Benini C,Vantaggiato E,Rossini M,De Vita S,Viapiana O

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate and compare the diagnostic test accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound (US) for bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients for a specific and efficient diagnostic recommendation. METHOD:To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy, the sensitivity, specificity, area under the ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tang H,Qu X,Yue B

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：: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 effect of long-term (18-70 months) chloroquine treatment 250 mg daily, in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was studied in 20 patients. Sedimentation rates were significantly reduced, as compared to a reference group of 10 RA patients on no treatment of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. Radiographical progression of...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bjelle A,Björnham A,Larsen A,Mjörndal T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate sexual function in Tunisian women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to compare it with that in voluntary healthy controls. METHODS:We conducted a cross-sectional study including 71 women with a confirmed diagnosis of RA according to the American College of Rheumatology/European League Against R...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Alia F,Rim BS,Miladi S,Ouenniche K,Kassab S,Chekili S,Zakraoui L,Abdelghani KB,Laatar A

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Monocytes are an important component in the innate immune system. However, studies to date have failed to conclude whether their levels are altered in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We applied the cytodiff counting method and comprehensively measured the circulating levels of distinct white blood ce...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wu Z,Zhang S,Zhao L,Fei Y,Wang L,Li J,Wen X,Zeng X,Zhang F,Li Y

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Acetabular protrusion (PA) as measured by a line crossing method was studied in 73 patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and its frequency found to be 12% (9/73), presenting bilaterally in 5 cases and unilaterally in 4. All patients had some other forms of radiological damage and the presence of PA was pre...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gusis SE,Maldonado Cocco JA,Rivero EM,Babini JC,Gagliardi SA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the clinical characteristics of autoimmune rheumatic disease-related organizing pneumonia (AIRD-OP), the clinical presentation, radiological findings, treatment, and outcome of AIRD-OP patients were analyzed, in comparison with patients with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP). A total of 131 OP patients w...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dong X,Zheng Y,Wang L,Chen WH,Zhang YG,Fu Q

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was conducted to assess the safety and efficacy of intra-articular injection of etanercept and compare it with corticosteroid injection in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS:Fifty patients with RA who suffered from activity in one joint were randomized into two groups, received an intra-...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Salem RM,El-Deeb AE,Elsergany M,Elsaadany H,El-Khouly R

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to identify the clinical differences between infectious meningitis and neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) in patients with SLE. Clinical manifestations, laboratory test results, and prognoses of 14 SLE patients complicated with various infectious meningitis, hospitaliz...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chen J,Feng X,Wang H,Hua B,Ding C,Liu B,Sun L

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to determine whether unique clinical patterns of AS may exist in China, specifically to explore the different clinical manifestations caused by gender, HLA-B27 status, and age at disease onset. The multicenter cross-sectional survey was conducted and 1251 patients were enrolled across China, representi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Qian Q,Xu X,He H,Ji H,Zhang H,Ding Y,Dai SM,Zou Y,Zhu Q,Yang C,Ye S,Jiang L,Tang JP,Tong Q,He D,Zhao D,Li Y,Ma Y,Zhou J,Yuan Z,Zhang J,Jin L,Zhou X,Reveille JD,Zou H,Wang J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with rheumatoid nodulosis are here described, together with a review of cases reported to date in the literature. This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign cour...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Goñi MA,Scheines EJ,Paira SO,Barceló HA,Maldonado Cocco JA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to measure the frequency of medication error (ME) in rheumatology outpatients of the Social Security System (SS) in Mexico and to measure the costs by comparing the days lost at work as direct consequence of the medication error against the theoretical cost of no error in the process. A prospective 6-m...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Aceves-Avila FJ,Benites-Godínez V,Ramos-Remus C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive arthritis (ReA) due to Gram-negative intestinal bacteria or Chlamydia, is associated by an unknown mechanism with HLA-B27. Like other MHC class I molecules, HLA-B27 presents antigenic peptides derived from intracellular proteins to CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (CTL). In humans however, CTL specific for ReA associat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ringrose JH,Yard BA,Verjans GM,Boog CJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) the indices of disease activity, such as joint swelling, pain, tenderness, and limitation of motion, may poorly correlate with the degree of functional impairment. Since the improvement of functional capacity is one of the main objectives of treatment, we evaluated the effect of met...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ravelli A,Viola S,Ramenghi B,Di Fuccia G,Ruperto N,Zonta L,Martini A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic autoimmune disorder. Renal involvement has the worst prognosis. However, renal cortical necrosis is extremely unusual in SLE. In this case report, we describe the autopsy findings in a young female patient with SLE presenting with renal failure. At autopsy, there w...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Uppin MS,Rajasekhar L,Swetha H,Srinivasan VR,Prayaga AK

更新日期：2010-07-01 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