Shoulder disorders in the elderly (a hospital study).

abstract：:Synovial fluid isolated from 16 patients with rheumatoid arthritis activated luminol dependent chemiluminescence in bloodstream neutrophils, and the maximal activity stimulated varied over a 50-fold range. In contrast, these same fluids only activated a much lower range (two- to threefold) of maximal rates of lucigeni...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Nurcombe HL,Bucknall RC,Edwards SW

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate traditional and non-traditional risk factors for subclinical atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS:A prospective cohort of 78 patients with SLE without overt atherosclerotic disease was studied. SLE clinical and laboratory parameters, disease activity and damage, treatmen...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Doria A,Shoenfeld Y,Wu R,Gambari PF,Puato M,Ghirardello A,Gilburd B,Corbanese S,Patnaik M,Zampieri S,Peter JB,Favaretto E,Iaccarino L,Sherer Y,Todesco S,Pauletto P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increased cardiovascular disease mortality in rheumatoid arthritis. This may reflect an increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease or an increased case fatality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. OBJECTIVES:To examine whether rheumatoid patients with disease onset in the 1980s-1990s have in...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Goodson N,Marks J,Lunt M,Symmons D

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human extensor tendons of the hand were pulled to rupture, and the torn ends, when observed in the scanning electron microscope, appeared to be knotted, possibly owing to the denaturation of the collagen. This confirmed by fluorimetry assays of both the ruptured ends and the middle unbroken sections of the same tendon...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Minns RJ,Steven FS

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) tends to remit during pregnancy, with more patients achieving remission in the third trimester, coinciding with an increase in levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP). In vitro and animal studies have shown that AFP has immunomodulatory properties. MM-093 is a non-glycosylated, recombinan...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pollard LC,Murray J,Moody M,Stewart EJ,Choy EH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is associated with high morbidity and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Citrullinated proteins are observed in RA lung tissues; however, the association of specific anticitrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA) with ILD in RA is unknown. METHODS:RA patients underwent mult...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Giles JT,Danoff SK,Sokolove J,Wagner CA,Winchester R,Pappas DA,Siegelman S,Connors G,Robinson WH,Bathon JM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57 year old white man with aortic insufficiency and previously undiagnosed ankylosing spondylitis, who developed subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE), is described. Emergency aortic valve replacement was necessary, and the aortic valve pathology showed diffusely fibrosed and thickened valve leaflets with bacterial ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hoppmann RA,Wise CM,Challa VR,Peacock JE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of grade III or IV osteoarthritis was determined in 210 patients with chronic renal failure, of whom 94 were receiving chronic haemodialysis and 116 had functioning renal transplants. The prevalence of grade III or IV osteoarthritis was three times greater in patients under 65 than in a control populati...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Duncan IJ,Hurst NP,Sebben R,Milazzo SC,Disney A

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and forty unrelated British Caucasoid patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been HLA typed for class I and class II antigens. Analyses of HLA antigen associations were performed on the overall group and in patient subsets selected according to particular disease parameters or sex, or both. The resu...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jaraquemada D,Ollier W,Awad J,Young A,Silman A,Roitt IM,Corbett M,Hay F,Cosh JA,Maini RN

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess associations between joint-specific hand symptoms and self-reported and performance-based functional status. METHODS:Participants were from the population-based Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. Symptoms in the distal interphalangeal (DIP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), first carpometacarpa...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Elliott AL,Kraus VB,Fang F,Renner JB,Schwartz TA,Salazar A,Huguenin T,Hochberg MC,Helmick CG,Jordan JM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to analyse retrospectively adult patients with acute joint or muscle symptoms and a high antistreptolysin O (ASO) titre to find out which syndromes of clinical arthritis are associated with serological evidence of streptococcal infection. METHODS:Seventy six adult patients with...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Valtonen JM,Koskimies S,Miettinen A,Valtonen VV

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with cystic fibrosis arthritis and eight patients with cystic fibrosis and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy were typed for HLA-A, B, C, DR, and DQ antigens and were compared with age and sex matched controls with cystic fibrosis. The diagnosis of cystic fibrosis arthritis and hypertrophic osteoarthropat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rush PJ,Gladman DD,Shore A,Anhorn KA

更新日期：1991-11-01 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:To investigate the relation between anatomic changes of the synovium, the bone, the bone marrow and the cartilage to biochemical properties of the cartilage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:33 patients with RA received 3-T MRI scans of the metacarpophalangeal joints. Two independent metho...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Herz B,Albrecht A,Englbrecht M,Welsch GH,Uder M,Renner N,Schlechtweg P,Paul D,Lauer L,Engelke K,Janka R,Rech J,Schett G,Finzel S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the prevalence and incidence of systemic sclerosis (SSc) in southern Sweden. METHODS:In Skåne, the southernmost region of Sweden (total population 1.2 million), healthcare provided is registered in the Skåne Healthcare Register. We identified all Skåne residents who had received an International...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Andréasson K,Saxne T,Bergknut C,Hesselstrand R,Englund M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chondromalacia patellae is a potentially disabling disorder characterised by features of patellar cartilage degradation. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate markers of cartilage and bone turnover in patients with chondromalacia patellae. METHODS:18 patients with chondromalacia patellae were studied. Serum cartilage olig...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Murphy E,FitzGerald O,Saxne T,Bresnihan B

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the influence of the reading order (chronological v paired) on radiographic scoring results in ankylosing spondylitis. To investigate whether this method is sufficiently sensitive to change because paired reading is requested for establishing drug efficacy in clinical trials. METHODS:Films obtai...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wanders A,Landewé R,Spoorenberg A,de Vlam K,Mielants H,Dougados M,van der Linden S,van der Heijde D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the extent of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPP) crystal deposition and the distribution of affected sites, using ultrasonography (US), in patients affected by CPP deposition disease (CPPD). PATIENTS AND METHODS:42 consecutive patients affected by definite CPPD according to the McCarty criteria ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Filippou G,Filippucci E,Tardella M,Bertoldi I,Di Carlo M,Adinolfi A,Grassi W,Frediani B

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Target trial emulation is an intuitive design framework that encourages investigators to formulate their comparative effectiveness research (CER) question as a hypothetical randomised controlled trial (RCT). Our aim was to systematically review CER studies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to provide examples of ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Zhao SS,Lyu H,Solomon DH,Yoshida K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibodies directed against citrullinated proteins (eg anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP)) have excellent diagnostic and good prognostic potential for rheumatoid arthritis. Type 1 autoimmune hepatitis (AIH-1) is a chronic liver disease characterised by a variety of serum autoantibodies. Recently, in a l...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Vannini A,Cheung K,Fusconi M,Stammen-Vogelzangs J,Drenth JP,Dall'Aglio AC,Bianchi FB,Bakker-Jonges LE,van Venrooij WJ,Pruijn GJ,Zendman AJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is postulated that the mobile inflamed joint may be subject to cyclical ischaemic reperfusion injury. Xanthine oxidoreductase is an enzyme thought to contribute to oxidative reperfusion injury, and the detection of this activity in human synovium is described. Three normal and five rheumatoid tissues were assayed w...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Allen RE,Outhwaite JM,Morris CJ,Blake DR

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse the functional response of p53 in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASF) in vitro and in vivo and to investigate whether activation of p53 modulates the destructive process of RASF. METHODS:RASF and controls grown on chamber slides were either directly examined with DO7 anti-p53 antibodi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Seemayer CA,Kuchen S,Neidhart M,Kuenzler P,Rihosková V,Neumann E,Pruschy M,Aicher WK,Müller-Ladner U,Gay RE,Michel BA,Firestein GS,Gay S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this pilot study was to compare clinical examination (CE) and ultrasound (US) with high field MRI (as the reference standard) for the detection of rearfoot and midtarsal joint synovitis and secondly tenosynovitis of the ankle tendons in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wakefield RJ,Freeston JE,O'Connor P,Reay N,Budgen A,Hensor EM,Helliwell PS,Emery P,Woodburn J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop a preliminary composite psoriatic disease activity index (CPDAI) for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. METHODS:Five domains were assessed and specific instruments were employed for each domain to determine the extent of domain involvement and the effect of that involvement on quality of life/fun...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mumtaz A,Gallagher P,Kirby B,Waxman R,Coates LC,Veale J D,Helliwell P,FitzGerald O

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the circulating serum concentrations of nerve growth factor (NGF) and compare them with indices of disease activity in juvenile chronic arthritis. METHODS:NGF concentrations were evaluated with a two site immunoenzymatic assay (ELISA), in 17 children with systemic, 39 with polyarticular, and 24 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Falcini F,Matucci Cerinic M,Lombardi A,Generini S,Pignone A,Tirassa P,Ermini M,Lepore L,Partsch G,Aloe L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is described in which the mother and 2 of the 5 children had Felty's syndrome, a pattern of inheritance suggesting a dominant defect and one which has not previously been reported. The family is also of interest in that the other sib had rheumatoid arthritis. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Blendis LM,Jones KL,Hamilton EB,Williams R

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population mean changes from clinical trials are difficult to apply to individuals in clinical practice. Responder analysis may be better, but needs validating for level of response and treatment duration. METHODS:The numbers of patients with pain relief over baseline (> or =15%, > or =30%, > or =50%, > or ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Moore RA,Moore OA,Derry S,Peloso PM,Gammaitoni AR,Wang H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) of two therapeutic regimens of infliximab for ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS:230 patients with active AS who were participating in a randomised controlled trial comparing two infliximab infusion modalities-every 6 weeks (Q6) and on demand (...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fautrel B,Benhamou M,Breban M,Roy C,Lenoir C,Trape G,Baleydier A,Ravaud P,Dougados M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell activation and cellular immune responses are modulated by interleukin 2 (IL2) through binding to its corresponding cell surface receptor. Three forms of the receptor are recognised based on IL2 binding affinity. The high affinity receptor is a heterotrimer composed of alpha, beta, and gamma(c)-polypeptide chain...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Morris JC,Waldmann TA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety, efficacy and therapeutic mechanism of BI 655064, an antagonistic anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and an inadequate response to methotrexate (MTX-IR). METHODS:In total, 67 patients were randomised to receive weekly subcutaneous doses of 120 mg ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Visvanathan S,Daniluk S,Ptaszyński R,Müller-Ladner U,Ramanujam M,Rosenstock B,Eleftheraki AG,Vinisko R,Petříková A,Kellner H,Dokoupilova E,Kwiatkowska B,Alten R,Schwabe C,Baum P,Joseph D,Fine JS,Padula SJ,Steffgen J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00