Inflammation and shoulder pain--a perspective on rotator cuff disease, adhesive capsulitis, and osteoarthritis: conservative treatment.

abstract：:Identification of patients with exposure to viral hepatitis is an important part of the care of patients with inflammatory arthritis. This study was conducted to assess the extent of hepatitis B and C screening, and the prevalence of viral hepatitis in a cohort of patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA). T...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Conway R,Doran MF,O'Shea FD,Crowley B,Cunnane G

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:An insufficiency fracture (IF) involving the acetabulum is presented. This fracture occurred in a 67-year-old woman who had been hysterectomized and oophorectomized 27 years earlier for a carcinoma of the uterine cervix, and who had received external pelvic irradiation. This IF location has been rarely described earli...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Schreiber S

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to find out the outcome of 28 patients who got the diagnosis of primary fibromyalgia (pFM) 26 years ago. In 1986, 56 patients with widespread pain were examined and filled in a base questionnaire (BQ). Of them, 42 fulfilled the Yunus criteria for pFM. Twenty-six years later, addresses of 38 pa...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Isomeri R,Mikkelsson M,Partinen M,Kauppi MJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a great majority of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) lymphocytotoxic antibodies (LCA) are detected. The reported prevalence depends on the methods of detection and definition of test-positivity. The pathogenetic role of LCA remains unclear. Different reports show that LCA can have an influence on mo...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Osman C,Swaak AJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 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

abstract：:At the intersection of atopy and autoimmunity, we present a patient with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who developed hypereosinophilia, without evidence of other etiologies, as she became rheumatoid factor (RF) positive. Although the magnitude of eosinophilia in patients with RA has been thought to reflect th...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Rosenstein RK,Panush RS,Kramer N,Rosenstein ED

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of systemic autoimmune disorders have been reported in patients with myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative syndromes. A possible association with polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis has also been recognised. We report another case of polymyalgia rheumatica and one of giant cell arteritis associa...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Espinosa G,Font J,Muñoz-Rodríguez FJ,Cervera R,Ingelmo M

更新日期：2002-08-01 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 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：:Microwave thermography is the technique of measuring natural thermal radiation from body tissues of clinical interest. It is safe, requires no control of environmental conditions and exposes the patient to no ionising radiation. In this study, we found that microwave thermography of the knee joints showed weak correla...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： MacDonald AG,Land DV,Sturrock RD

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 5 years, several hundred articles have been published concerning the link between primary immunodeficiency disease (PID) and rheumatologic diseases. Although rheumatologic complications were originally thought to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum of immunopathologic manifestations, they are now all b...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dimitriades VR,Sorensen R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

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：:In the study of pathophysiological mechanisms in growth abnormalities of the juvenile knee in arthritis an animal model in dogs was developed. Arthritis was induced by intra-articular injections of Carrageenan. Prominent growth changes were enlargement of the distal femoral epiphysis, patellar squaring and decreased e...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bunger C,Bunger EH,Harving S,Djurhuus JC,Jensen OM

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiglomerular basement membrane antibody disease (aGD) remains a very uncommon entity in the pediatric population, characterized by pulmonary hemorrhage, glomerulonephritis, and antibodies against the glomerular basement membrane. We herein describe the case of a 14-year-old girl with primary pulmonary symptoms diagn...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bayat A,Kamperis K,Herlin T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is prevalent among Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, and Jewish people and it must always be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients from these ethnic groups presenting with recurrent abdominal pain with fever. In cases of fever and recurrent abdominal pain, acute pancreatitis ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Birlik M,Demir T,Zeybel M,Akar S,Onen F,Comlekci A,Tunca M,Akkoc N

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) in the pathomechanism of sarcoidosis must be considered in the analysis of this disorder since elevated concentrations of this cytokine have been found. In addition, TNFalpha expression could be demonstrated in sarcoid granulomata [1]. It is well known that TNF...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Callejas-Rubio JL,Ortego-Centeno N,Lopez-Perez L,Benticuaga MN

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is known to play an important role in the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA). This study investigated whether synovial fluid (SF) leptin level is related to the radiographic severity of OA and its role as a quantitative marker for the detection of OA. SF was obtained from 42 OA patients who underwent knee s...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ku JH,Lee CK,Joo BS,An BM,Choi SH,Wang TH,Cho HL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to identify the clinical predictors of arthritis in patients with psoriasis and to evaluate the use of musculoskeletal ultrasonography (US) as a predictor for inflammatory structural progression in psoriatic patients. Measures of association (odds ratio (OR)) were tested, in a prospective, cohort 1-yea...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： El Miedany Y,El Gaafary M,Youssef S,Ahmed I,Nasr A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total body bone mineral (TBBM) measured by dual photon absorptiometry and local bone mineral (BMC) measured by single photon absorptiometry were determined in 55 patients with definite or classical rheumatoid arthritis. All of them had been on a steady dose of anti-inflammatory drugs for at least 12 months, and furthe...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Skibsted Als O,Gotfredsen A,Christiansen C

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determine the effect of daily low divided or single daily dose of prednisone on the longitudinal change in the number of tender and swollen joints and HAQ scores in African Americans (AA) with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the Consortium for the Longitudinal Evaluation of African Americans with Early Rheumatoid...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Conn DL,Tiliakos A,Bao G,Liu S,Li S,Easley KA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES:Primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS) is usually encountered between the fourth and sixth decades. It is known that the age of onset in autoimmune diseases may affect the clinical features. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinical and laboratory characteristics of early onset pSS patients. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Yayla ME,Karaman Z,Torgutalp M,Keleşoğlu Dinçer AB,Aydemir Gülöksüz EG,Sezer S,Şahin Eroğlu D,Yüksel ML,Turgay TM,Kınıklı G,Ateş A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we aimed to investigate the findings in patients with adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) admitted with fever of unknown origin (FUO) during the last 18 years in our unit, in order to discover the ratio of such patients to all patients with FUO during the same period, and to determine the clinical feature...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Mert A,Ozaras R,Tabak F,Bilir M,Ozturk R,Ozdogan H,Aktuglu Y

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional limitation is often complained by patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). With a rising number of patients suffering from AS, there are a limited number of reports focusing on functional limitation of AS in Chinese patients. This study was conducted to investigate the level of functional limitation and e...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Song Y,Wang C,Chen H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare, systemic, necrotizing, small- and middle-sized vessel vasculitis which is accompanied by blood eosinophilia, eosinophil infiltration of various tissues, and bronchial asthma. The lungs are the organs most often involved in CSS. The aim of this study was a retrospective evaluatio...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Szczeklik W,Sokołowska B,Mastalerz L,Grzanka P,Górka J,Pacułt K,Miszalski-Jamka T,Soja J,Musiał J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and von Willebrand factor (vWF), all of endothelial origin and active in the haemostasis, were analysed in 74 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The concentrations were related to extra-articular disease and to the incidence of thromboembol...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wållberg-Jonsson S,Dahlén GH,Nilsson TK,Rånby M,Rantapää-Dahlqvist S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hundreds of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on tripterygium glycosides tablet (TGT) in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) have been published, but the therapeutic effects have never been systematically reviewed yet. The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the efficacy of TGT on AS based on RCTs. Pu...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Li H,Guo F,Luo YC,Zhu JP,Wang JL

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this scoping review, we sought to summarize the types of outcomes collected in pregnant patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and to identify some methodological limitations related to pregnancy research in these patients. A comprehensive search was done to identify relevant articles in MEDLINE and Embase. We ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Mokbel A,Lawson DO,Farrokhyar F

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the 18F-fluoro-dexoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) imaging characteristics of adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) and its significance in differential diagnosis from other connective tissue diseases (CTDs). METHODS:FDG PET/CT images of 54 patients with AOSD...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Zhou X,Li Y,Wang Q

更新日期：2020-09-01 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