Long term progression of joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunogenicity of aTNFs is one of the mechanisms behind treatment failure. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of anti-drug antibodies (ADA) on drug response to infliximab, adalimumab and etanercept, and the effect of immunosuppression on ADA detection, in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Spondyloarthritis, P...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Garcês S,Demengeot J,Benito-Garcia E

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:A series of observations have led to the hypothesis that normal intestinal microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis may harbour, for genetic reasons, bacteria with cell walls capable of inducing arthritis. Differences occur between bacterial species, and even between strains of a single species, because some c...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Toivanen P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effects of biological drugs on the risk of demyelinating events in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Case-control analyses nested in an administrative database cohort. RESULTS:Initially the risk of demyelinating events appeared to be increased after exposure to anakinra and decreased after ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bernatsky S,Renoux C,Suissa S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) treatments (given for rheumatological manifestations) in reducing uveitis flares in patients with spondylarthropathy in daily practice. METHODS:A retrospective observational study of all patients with spondylarthropathy with at least one uveitis f...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Guignard S,Gossec L,Salliot C,Ruyssen-Witrand A,Luc M,Duclos M,Dougados M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of osteomyelitis secondary to staphylococcal septicaemia, presenting with large sterile effusions in adjacent joints. In both cases the clinical features were suggestive of septic arthritis. Multiple joints were involved in each patient. Initial radiographs showed no abnormalities. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Platt PN,Griffiths ID

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify predictors of radiographic progression in a 2-year randomised, double-blind, clinical study (CIMESTRA) of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Patients with early RA (n = 130) were treated with methotrexate, intra-articular betamethasone and ciclosporin/placebo-ciclosporin. Base...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hetland ML,Ejbjerg B,Hørslev-Petersen K,Jacobsen S,Vestergaard A,Jurik AG,Stengaard-Pedersen K,Junker P,Lottenburger T,Hansen I,Andersen LS,Tarp U,Skjødt H,Pedersen JK,Majgaard O,Svendsen AJ,Ellingsen T,Lindegaard H,C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poor adherence to treatment is difficult to diagnose accurately. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has a long elimination half-life and its concentration in whole blood can be measured easily. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the utility of a very low blood HCQ concentration as a marker of poor compliance in patients with syst...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Costedoat-Chalumeau N,Amoura Z,Hulot JS,Aymard G,Leroux G,Marra D,Lechat P,Piette JC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A disease activity-guided dose optimisation strategy of adalimumab or etanercept (TNFi (tumour necrosis factor inhibitors)) has shown to be non-inferior in maintaining disease control in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with usual care. However, the cost-effectiveness of this strategy is stil...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kievit W,van Herwaarden N,van den Hoogen FH,van Vollenhoven RF,Bijlsma JW,van den Bemt BJ,van der Maas A,den Broeder AA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies are a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis and are believed to play a role in disease pathogenesis. These antibodies are typically detected in ELISA with citrullinated peptides (eg, CCP2) or proteins as antige...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ioan-Facsinay A,el-Bannoudi H,Scherer HU,van der Woude D,Ménard HA,Lora M,Trouw LA,Huizinga TW,Toes RE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgM rheumatoid factor (RF) was measured in the sera of 48 rheumatoid patients and of 48 age and sex-matched normal controls by the Rose-Waaler and latex agglutination tests, a rate nephelometer, and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Good correlation was obtained between all assays. The rate nephelometer as...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bampton JL,Cawston TE,Kyle MV,Hazleman BL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine if the presence of low percentages of CD8 positive cells or high levels of soluble interleukin-2 receptors (sIL-2R) define a subgroup of patients with more severe polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis (PMR/GCA). METHODS:38 PMR/GCA patients were followed up prospectively. Serum levels ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Salvarani C,Boiardi L,Macchioni P,Rossi F,Tartoni P,Casadei Maldini M,Mancini R,Beltrandi E,Portioli I

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop and validate candidate sets of joints and tendons for assessment of ultrasound (US) joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Patients were included in one of two cohorts from 2010 to June 2013: disease-modifying antirheumatic drug naïve early RA or established RA starting/switchin...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Aga AB,Hammer HB,Olsen IC,Uhlig T,Kvien TK,van der Heijde D,Fremstad H,Madland TM,Lexberg ÅS,Haukeland H,Rødevand E,Høili C,Stray H,Bendvold AN,Soldal DM,Bakland G,Lie E,Haavardsholm EA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 35 year old woman presented with headache and fever. Computed brain tomography showed diffuse low attenuation in the cerebral white matter. Several months later, serological tests for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) became positive. In spite of immunosuppressive therapy she relapsed after six months of treatment,...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Boulter M,Brink A,Mathias C,Peart S,Stevens J,Stewart G,Unwin R

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While rheumatoid-factor-producing haemolytic plaque-forming cells (RF--PFC) of the human peripheral blood were easily inhibited by cycloheximide, mouse spleen cells immune to sheep red cells (anti-SRC PFC) were inhibited only after prolonged preincubation in the drug. The RF--PFC were easily inhibited by propranolol, ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Moore TL,Rose JE,Vaughan JH

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus exhibit a notable array of defects that probably contribute to the origin and development of the disease. Such abnormalities include an abnormal response to stimulation, aberrant expression of molecules that play key roles in intracellular signalling pathways, al...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Crispín JC,Kyttaris V,Juang YT,Tsokos GC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intra-articular injection of hyaluronan (HA) has been suggested to have a disease-modifying effect in osteoarthritis, but little is known about the possible mechanisms. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of HA species of different molecular mass, including 800 kDa (HA800) and 2700 kDa (HA2700), on the exp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Yatabe T,Mochizuki S,Takizawa M,Chijiiwa M,Okada A,Kimura T,Fujita Y,Matsumoto H,Toyama Y,Okada Y

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative isotype specific enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine the distribution of immunoglobulin isotypes and phospholipid specificities of anticardiolipin (anti-CL) antibodies in 40 patients with one or more of the following 'antiphospholipid (anti-PL) antibody associated clinical comp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gharavi AE,Harris EN,Asherson RA,Hughes GR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen consecutive patients with acute arthritis were studied. Careful culture and microscopy of swabs from mucosal sites were performed to examine the hypothesis that the acute tropical polyarthritis commonly seen in Zimbabwe is due to undiagnosed gonococcal infection. Rheumatic fever and Reiter's disease accounted ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Stein CM,Hanly MG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Factors contributing to the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) remain largely unknown although are likely to include both environmental and genetic components. Studies on murine lupus have indicated a role for an antibody that blocks binding of cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated-4 (CTLA-4) to B...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Heward J,Gordon C,Allahabadia A,Barnett AH,Franklyn JA,Gough SC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare glucose tolerance and parameters of insulin sensitivity and β-cell function between chronic glucocorticoid (GC)-using and GC-naive patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Frequently sampled 75 g oral glucose tolerance tests were performed in 58 chronic GC-using and 82 GC-naive patients w...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hoes JN,van der Goes MC,van Raalte DH,van der Zijl NJ,den Uyl D,Lems WF,Lafeber FP,Jacobs JW,Welsing PM,Diamant M,Bijlsma JW

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(a) To characterise the lipid profile in psoriatic arthritis and investigate whether there are similarities to the dyslipoproteinaemia reported in rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory forms of joint disease; (b) to investigate whether there is an atherogenic lipid profile in psoriatic arthritis, which...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones SM,Harris CP,Lloyd J,Stirling CA,Reckless JP,McHugh NJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of septic, histoplasmal monoarthritis of the knee in a leukaemic patient is described. Ketoconazole therapy failed to eliminate the infection, but after histoplasmosis was diagnosed prolonged therapy with amphotericin B was curative. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones PG,Rolston K,Hopfer RL

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the prevalence and pattern of neuropsychiatric (NP) syndromes observed in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) to patients with Primary Sjögren syndrome (PSS) using the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the 19 NP syndromes seen in SLE. METHODS:A population-based study was conducte...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Harboe E,Tjensvoll AB,Maroni S,Gøransson LG,Greve OJ,Beyer MK,Herigstad A,Kvaløy JT,Omdal R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (GCSF) is important in mobilising neutrophils from the bone marrow but also has a range of proinflammatory effects. We therefore decided to investigate the role of GCSF in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) vasculitis. METHODS:We measured GCSF levels in the seru...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Freeley SJ,Coughlan AM,Popat RJ,Dunn-Walters DK,Robson MG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE: To examine the risk of major cardiovascular disease associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in a large 'real-world' contemporary rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cohort. METHODS: A longitudinal cohort study was conducted with use of Danish nationwide individual-level registry data on inpat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lindhardsen J,Gislason GH,Jacobsen S,Ahlehoff O,Olsen AM,Madsen OR,Torp-Pedersen C,Hansen PR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with Neisseria meningitidis infection complicated by arthritis are described. Three patients had an acute polyarthritis which responded quickly to antimicrobial therapy. A fourth patient developed a prolonged arthritis which occurred after the initial infection had been successfully treated. Tenosynoviti...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kidd BL,Hart HH,Grigor RR

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The MEFV gene is responsible for familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Several disease associated mutations have been identified. The range of genetic variation in MEFV in Greek patients has not been determined. OBJECTIVE:To describe a method that facilitates the routine screening of the entire coding sequenc...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ritis K,Giaglis S,Spathari N,Micheli A,Zonios D,Tzoanopoulos D,Deltas CC,Rafail S,Mean R,Papadopoulos V,Tzioufas AG,Moutsopoulos HM,Kartalis G

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterise renal tissue metabolic pathway gene expression in different forms of glomerulonephritis. METHODS:Patients with nephrotic syndrome (NS), antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and healthy living donors (LD) were studied. Clinically ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Grayson PC,Eddy S,Taroni JN,Lightfoot YL,Mariani L,Parikh H,Lindenmeyer MT,Ju W,Greene CS,Godfrey B,Cohen CD,Krischer J,Kretzler M,Merkel PA,Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium, the European Renal cDNA Bank cohort, and th

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human osteoarthritic (OA) chondrocytes were previously classified into L (low)- and H (high)-OA according to matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) basal levels and interleukin 1beta (IL1beta) inducibility. In H-OA chondrocytes, the regulatory proteins p130(cas) and nuclear matrix protein 4 (NMP4) acting on th...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fan Z,Tardif G,Hum D,Duval N,Pelletier JP,Martel-Pelletier J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00