The impact of arthritis on the physical function of a rural Maya-Yucateco community and factors associated with its prevalence: a cross sectional, community-based study.

abstract：:There are few reports about the coexistence of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). To evaluate the frequency of SS in patients with AS. We studied 70 patients with AS presenting to the university outpatient clinic between January 2002 and November 2003. All the patients were asked about sicca symp...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kobak S,Kobak AC,Kabasakal Y,Doganavsargil E

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoinflammatory disorders (AIDs) are a novel class of diseases elicited by mutations in genes regulating the homeostasis of innate immune complexes, named inflammasomes, which lead to uncontrolled oversecretion of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1β. Protean inflammatory symptoms are variably associated with ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cantarini L,Vitale A,Lucherini OM,De Clemente C,Caso F,Costa L,Emmi G,Silvestri E,Magnotti F,Maggio MC,Prinzi E,Lopalco G,Frediani B,Cimaz R,Galeazzi M,Rigante D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to the debilitating fatigue, the majority of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) experience chronic widespread pain. These pain complaints show the greatest overlap between CFS and fibromyalgia (FM). Although the literature provides evidence for central sensitization as cause for the musculoskelet...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Meeus M,Nijs J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a larger body of work to develop a rheumatology priority referral score, a literature review was conducted. The objective of the literature review was to identify preexisting priority-setting, triage, and referral tools/scales developed to guide referrals from primary care to specialist care/consultation us...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： De Coster C,Fitzgerald A,Cepoiu M,Investigators of the Western Canada Waiting List Project (WCWL).

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：: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：:The objective of the study is to determine the risk factors for the development of reactive arthritis (ReA) and examine the factors associated with the persistence of symptoms. Patients with a new diagnosis of ReA and controls with a gastrointestinal (GI), urogenital, or sexually transmitted infection in the 3-6 month...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Garcia Ferrer HR,Azan A,Iraheta I,Von Feldt J,Espinoza LR,Manasson J,Scher JU,Garcia Kutzbach A,Ogdie A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to analyze the impact of TNF antagonists (TNFa) on the total cholesterol and triglycerides on ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). In this single-centre observational study of AS and PsA patients, differences in triglyceride and total cholesterol levels and frequenc...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Maneiro JR,Souto A,Gomez-Reino JJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To explore the trends in diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (KD) and determine the characteristics for patients outside the usual age range of 6 months to 4 years. METHOD:A retrospective review of patients with KD identified in four epidemiological surveys spanning 20 years (1998-2017) in Shanghai was performed. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Zhao QM,Huang M,Huang MR,Chen S,Liu F,Huang GY,Shanghai Kawasaki Disease Research Group.

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophthalmic involvement is the most debilitating complication of Behcet's disease (BD). The aim of the current study is to report on the efficacy and safety of a long-term use of interferon alpha-2a (IFNα-2a) in the treatment of refractory ophthalmic BD in the Azari population of Iran. We retrospectively analyzed the c...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kavandi H,Khabbazi A,Kolahi S,Hajialilo M,Shayan FK,Oliaei M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a chronic inflammation that frequently involves the aorta and its major branches. The clinical features of TA vary in different ethnic populations. The objective of this study is to characterize the clinical features, angiographic findings, and response to treatment of patients with TA in ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cong XL,Dai SM,Feng X,Wang ZW,Lu QS,Yuan LX,Zhao XX,Zhao DB,Jing ZP

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three of fifty-eight (74.1%) female patients with fibromyalgia completed an eight-week treatment period testing the combination of carisoprodol, paracetamol (acetaminophen) and caffeine versus placebo. Twenty-three patients received placebo and twenty active medication. In the placebo group 56.5% of the patients...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Vaerøy H,Abrahamsen A,Førre O,Kåss E

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of cardiovascular clinical manifestations have been described in patients with spondyloarthritis, especially in well-established ankylosing spondylitis. These include both structural heart disease, conduction defects and ischemic heart disease. The true prevalence of cardiovascular involvement in patients wi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Gensler LS

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:HLA-II molecules are critical in triggering human immune response, especially in activating CD4+ T cells. HLA-DP, belonging to HLA-II molecules, draws increasing attention for its role in presentation of viral antigen and autoantigen to T cells. Researches reported single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of HLA-DP associ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Huang Z,Niu Q,Yang B,Zhang J,Yang M,Xu H,Cai B,Hu J,Wu Y,Wang L

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin D is involved in a wide variety of biological processes including bone metabolism, modulation of the immune response, and regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation. Vitamin D has several immunomodulatory effects through vitamin D receptor (VDR). A series of common single-nucleotide polymorphisms...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Zilahi E,Chen JQ,Papp G,Szántó A,Zeher M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for Chagas disease reactivation (CDR) in rheumatologic patients under rheumatologic treatments (RTs) is scarce. To screen and follow-up patients with rheumatic diseases and concomitant Chagas disease under RT to detect CDR and to describe a possible relationship between CDR and specific RT. An observational, ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ringer A,Ruffino JP,Leiva R,Cuadranti N,Argento MC,Martínez MF,Rolla I,Chulibert S,Carbone D,Palatnik M,Cortese MN,Lagrutta M,Córdoba L,González FB,Pacini MF,Villar SR,Águila D,Bottasso OA,Pérez AR,Abdala M

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the roles of neutrophils in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitic neuropathy, we studied neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in peripheral nerve vasculitis. Stored nerve samples from 17 patients with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) were immunohistochemically analyzed using a...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Takeuchi H,Kawasaki T,Shigematsu K,Kawamura K,Oka N

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR) attempts to address the limitations of the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ). As there is no Turkish version of the FIQR available, we aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of a Turkish translation of the FIQR in Turkish female fibromyalgia (FM) pa...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ediz L,Hiz O,Toprak M,Tekeoglu I,Ercan S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:ABP 798 is a proposed biosimilar to the originator biologic rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody. This comparative clinical study evaluated the pharmacokinetics (PK), safety, and efficacy of ABP 798 versus rituximab reference product (RP) in patients with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthr...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Burmester G,Drescher E,Hrycaj P,Chien D,Pan Z,Cohen S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the is study is to examine the role of serum substance P (SP) levels as a simple biomarker for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity, its correlation with other markers of disease activity, and with selected clinical parameters. The study comprised 90 RA patients and 24 healthy controls. RA activity wa...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Barbosa-Cobos RE,Lugo-Zamudio G,Flores-Estrada J,Becerril-Mendoza LT,Rodríguez-Henríquez P,Torres-González R,Moreno-Eutimio MA,Ramirez-Bello J,Moreno J

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:We reviewed studies concerning immunomodulating therapy in systemic sclerosis. These comprise mostly uncontrolled trials and case reports. Some of these studies hint at a possible beneficial effect of antimetabolites (azathioprine, 5-fluoro-uracil and methotrexate), cyclosporine and interferon-gamma. However, to give ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： van den Hoogen FH,Boerbooms AM,van de Putte LB

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between ankylosing spondylitis and the recently proposed entity called axial spondyloarthritis with its radiographic and non-radiographic forms that have been defined by the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS) criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), is currently being de...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Akkoc N,Khan MA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 71-year-old male rheumatoid patient presented with MRSA septic arthritis. The impact of this organism on musculoskeletal practice is discussed. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Byrne PA,Hosein IK,Camilleri J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sera of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) a wide variety of antibodies against nuclear antigens can be found, including antibodies to nucleic acids, histones and non-histone nuclear proteins. Among these, antibodies to double stranded DNA (dsDNA) appear to be mainly restricted to SLE. Yet, in daily p...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Swaak T,Smeenk R

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinases (IRAKs) are serine-threonine kinases involved in toll-like receptor and interleukin-1 signaling pathways. They play a key role in inflammation and innate immunity. IRAKs have been previously incriminated in autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Boumiza A,Zemni R,Sghiri R,Idriss N,Hassine HB,Chabchoub E,Mzabi A,Ghannouchi N,Bouajina E,Ben Hadj Slama F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic Inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are rare disorders. The aim of our study was to determine the incidence of IIM in a well-defined Slovenian region. This retrospective study was conducted at the Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, the only secondary/tertiary rheumatology center in a...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ostrovršnik J,Hočevar A,Rotar Ž,Krošel M,Čučnik S,Jurčić V,Tomšič M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00