Tuberculosis in biologic users for rheumatic diseases: results from the South African Biologics Registry (SABIO).

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The influence of dexamethasone on interleukin 10 (IL10) production and the type 1 (T1)/type 2 (T2) T cell balance found in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was studied. METHODS:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PB MNC) were isolated from 14 RA patients both before and 7 and 42 days after high dose dexamethasone ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verhoef CM,van Roon JA,Vianen ME,Lafeber FP,Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine, using the method of adjusted indirect comparisons, whether there are differences in efficacy of tumour necrosis factor (TNF alpha) blocking agents, as measured by the rate ratios for American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 20, 50, and 70 responses, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with an in...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hochberg MC,Tracy JK,Hawkins-Holt M,Flores RH

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An investigator-initiated, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, treat-to-target protocol (Clinical Trials:NCT00660647) studied whether adalimumab added to methotrexate and intra-articular triamcinolone as first-line treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis (ERA) increased the frequency of low disease activity ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hørslev-Petersen K,Hetland ML,Junker P,Pødenphant J,Ellingsen T,Ahlquist P,Lindegaard H,Linauskas A,Schlemmer A,Dam MY,Hansen I,Horn HC,Ammitzbøll CG,Jørgensen A,Krintel SB,Raun J,Johansen JS,Østergaard M,Stengaard-Pe

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The technique and results of a special oblique radiograph of the hip called the "faux profil" (FP) of the hip are described. The FP was evaluated for the detection of joint space narrowing in incipient osteoarthritis of the hip (OAH) as compared with the anteroposterior (AP) radiograph. METHODS:58 hips with ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lequesne MG,Laredo JD

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1978 a survey was carried out on 34 036 people in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, in an epidemiological study of hyperuricaemia; 15 713 males and 18 324 females were examined by means of our health examination car. The subjects of the survey were all volunteers. The results have shown that the serum uric acid (SUA) l...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Akizuki S

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluid and cellular phases of inflammatory resonse have been measured using a technique employing subcutaneous implantation of polyurethane foam cubes impregnated with heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Phenylbutazone, azathioprine, aspirin, cyclophosphamide, and prednisolone suppressed fluid response, whereas...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Clarke AK,Vernon-Roberts B,Currey HL

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis of the hands is a prevalent musculoskeletal disease with a considerable effect on patients' lives, but knowledge and research results in the field of hand osteoarthritis are limited. Therefore, the Disease Characteristics in Hand OA (DICHOA) initiative was founded in early 2005 with the aim of...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kloppenburg M,Stamm T,Watt I,Kainberger F,Cawston TE,Birrell FN,Petersson IF,Saxne T,Kvien TK,Slatkowsky-Christensen B,Dougados M,Gossec L,Breedveld FC,Smolen JS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study immunological markers and compare these markers with standard measures for the clinical and immunological follow up of vasculitis activity in hepatitis C virus (HCV) associated cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis (CV). METHODS:Serial serum samples from eight patients with newly diagnosed HCV associated CV ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lamprecht P,Moosig F,Gause A,Herlyn K,Csernok E,Hansen H,Gross WL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human leucocyte antigen (HLA) genes predict disease severity in psoriasis (HLA-Cw6) and rheumatoid arthritis (shared epitope (SE)), but the situation is unclear for psoriatic arthritis (PsA). AIM:To determine the association of the HLA-Cw6 and HLA-DRB1 gene with disease severity in a large UK cohort with Ps...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ho PY,Barton A,Worthington J,Thomson W,Silman AJ,Bruce IN

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An imbalance in cytokine homoeostasis is thought to have a key role in the neuropsychiatric syndromes of systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE), and recently, a role for chemokines has been noted. OBJECTIVE:To compare concentrations of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1)/CCL2 in cerebral spinal fluid (CSF)...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Iikuni N,Okamoto H,Yoshio T,Sato E,Kamitsuji S,Iwamoto T,Momohara S,Taniguchi A,Yamanaka H,Minota S,Kamatani N

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Eosinophils possess pro-inflammatory functions in asthma. However, our recent studies have suggested that innate lymphoid cells type 2 (ILC2s) and eosinophils have proresolving properties in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Nothing is known yet about the mechanisms determining the double-edged role of eosinophils....

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Andreev D,Liu M,Kachler K,Llerins Perez M,Kirchner P,Kölle J,Gießl A,Rauber S,Song R,Aust O,Grüneboom A,Kleyer A,Cañete JD,Ekici A,Ramming A,Finotto S,Schett G,Bozec A

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is considered a pauci-immune systemic vasculitis based on the absence of immune deposits in renal biopsies of patients with active disease. In animal models of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated glomerulonephritis, immune deposits along the glomerular capillar...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Brons RH,de Jong MC,de Boer NK,Stegeman CA,Kallenberg CG,Tervaert JW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prostaglandin E (PGE) level in the knee joint fluid was determined by radioimmunoassay before and after anti-inflammatory therapy with flurbiprofen in 8 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 4 patients with osteoarthritis (OA). The level of PGE in RA joint fluids before the anti-inflammatory treatment was 9....

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tokunaga M,Ohuchi K,Yoshizawa S,Tsurufuji S,Rikimaru A,Wakamatsu E

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is described for separating free 35SO4-- from 35SO4 labelled proteoglycans synthesised by rabbit articular chondrocytes cultured in the presence of excess 35SO4--. The procedure uses the low solubility product of barium sulphate to remove, by precipitation, free 35SO4-- from culture medium. Optimum recove...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Collier S,Ghosh P

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the impact of tocilizumab (TCZ), a humanised monoclonal anti-interleukin-6 receptor antibody, on antibody response following administration of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23). METHODS:A total of 190 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) received PPV23. Patients were c...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mori S,Ueki Y,Akeda Y,Hirakata N,Oribe M,Shiohira Y,Hidaka T,Oishi K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterised by the presence of antibodies to double stranded DNA (dsDNA), which are involved in the pathogenesis of SLE. Previous studies showed that at least two thirds of patients develop a clinical relapse within six months after a significant rise in the anti-dsDNA...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bijl M,Horst G,Bootsma H,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterise optimal screening strategies for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) prior to the initiation of anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy. METHODS:Patients in 62 German rheumatology centres were evaluated for LTBI. Each patient was screened with a tuberculin skin test (TST) and one form of an int...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kleinert S,Tony HP,Krueger K,Detert J,Mielke F,Rockwitz K,Schwenke R,Burmester GR,Diel R,Feuchtenberger M,Kneitz C

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:IL-23 has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of Behcet's disease (BD) through promoting IL-17 production. This study examined whether IL-23R polymorphisms were associated with susceptibility to this disease in a Chinese Han population. METHODS:Four single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), rs7517847, r...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jiang Z,Yang P,Hou S,Du L,Xie L,Zhou H,Kijlstra A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart disease is a rare but important complication of polymyositis. Diagnosis of myocardial disease is usually based on non-specific clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic data. This paper reports a case of polymyositis with myocardial disease diagnosed by myocardial imaging with radiolabelled antibody ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Le Guludec D,Lhote F,Weinmann P,Royer I,Jarrousse B,Caillat-Vigneron N,Guillevin L,Moretti JL

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To elucidate the contribution of HLA-DR-DQ haplotypes and their genotypic combinations to susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis, and to evaluate the various models for HLA associated risk for the disease in a series of Finnish patients. METHODS:322 Finnish patients with rheumatoid arthritis were typed for ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Laivoranta-Nyman S,Möttönen T,Hermann R,Tuokko J,Luukkainen R,Hakala M,Hannonen P,Korpela M,Yli-Kerttula U,Toivanen A,Ilonen J,FIN-RACo Trial Group.

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse fibronectin (FN) gene polymorphisms in type II mixed cryoglobulinemic syndrome (MCsn), an immune-complex mediated systemic vasculitis linked to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and characterised by rheumatoid factor (RF) positive B-cell proliferation at high risk for the progression into non-Hodgk...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fabris M,Quartuccio L,Salvin S,Pozzato G,De Re V,Mazzaro C,Ferri C,Baldini C,De Vita S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for evaluating the progress of patients with back pain. Various symptoms were scored on analogue scales and spinal motion was measured by various techniques. These data were integrated to make subjective and objective indices respectively. Reasonable reproducibility of the measurements was obtain...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Million R,Nilsen KH,Jayson MI,Baker RD

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the deleterious effects of Mayer's haematoxylin staining procedure which result in a decrease in, or complete loss of, the number of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals, and to determine the proper staining period for preserving the crystals in a histological paraffin section of articul...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ohira T,Ishikawa K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Infectious agents like parvovirus have been implicated as exogenous factors that could trigger onset of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A number of case reports describing a SLE-like presentation of acute human parvovirus B19 infection have been published, but no systematic investigation of the actual se...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bengtsson A,Widell A,Elmstâhl S,Sturfelt G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To conduct a cross-sectional review of non-selected consecutive outpatients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as part of standard clinical care in 15 countries for an overview of the characteristics of patients with RA. METHODS:The review included current disease activity using data from clinical assessment and...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Sokka T,Kautiainen H,Toloza S,Mäkinen H,Verstappen SM,Lund Hetland M,Naranjo A,Baecklund E,Herborn G,Rau R,Cazzato M,Gossec L,Skakic V,Gogus F,Sierakowski S,Bresnihan B,Taylor P,McClinton C,Pincus T,QUEST-RA Group.

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate new classification criteria for peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA) in patients with SpA with peripheral manifestations only. METHODS:In this Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) study, two prespecified sets of criteria were compared against the European Spondylarthropathy ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rudwaleit M,van der Heijde D,Landewé R,Akkoc N,Brandt J,Chou CT,Dougados M,Huang F,Gu J,Kirazli Y,Van den Bosch F,Olivieri I,Roussou E,Scarpato S,Sørensen IJ,Valle-Oñate R,Weber U,Wei J,Sieper J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of canakinumab to treat patients with colchicine-resistant familial Mediterranean fever (crFMF) during Epoch 4 (weeks 41 to 113) of the CLUSTER study. METHODS:Patients received open-label canakinumab 150 or 300 mg, every 4 or 8 weeks during a 72-week period. We ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ozen S,Ben-Cherit E,Foeldvari I,Amarilyo G,Ozdogan H,Vanderschueren S,Marzan K,Kahlenberg JM,Dekker E,De Benedetti F,Koné-Paut I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy and safety of golimumab over 104 weeks in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis. METHODS:At baseline, patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (n=356) were randomly assigned (1:1.8:1.8) to subcutaneous injections of placebo (group 1), golimumab 50 mg (group 2) or golimumab 100...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Braun J,Deodhar A,Inman RD,van der Heijde D,Mack M,Xu S,Hsu B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of certolizumab pegol (CZP) on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to interpret these results using number needed to treat (NNT), and associations between PRO responses and longer term outcomes. METHODS:A total of 619 patients with active RA were randomised...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Strand V,Smolen JS,van Vollenhoven RF,Mease P,Burmester GR,Hiepe F,Khanna D,Nikaï E,Coteur G,Schiff M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To show whether intra-articular steroid injections are effective in osteoarthritis; to determine factors that predict response; and to determine whether injection has a beneficial effect on muscle strength. METHODS:Double blind, placebo controlled, crossover study in 59 patients with symptomatic osteoarthri...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones A,Doherty M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00