Change in serum uric acid between baseline and 1-year follow-up and its associated factors in male subjects.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the involvement of autonomic nervous system (ANS) function by using power spectral analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) method in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The study included 94 AS patients all fulfilling the New York criteria for AS, and 49 healthy volunte...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Yildirir A,Aksoyek S,Calguneri M,Aytemir K,Apras S,Kiraz S,Kabakci G,Ovunc K,Oto A,Kes S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular involvement, especially in young males, is seen in up to 40% of the patients with Behcet's disease (BD) and is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. In this study, we investigated vessel wall thickness (VWT) and dilatation in lower extremity veins with Doppler ultrasound (US) in male BD patients. Sixty-on...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Alibaz-Oner F,Ergelen R,Mutis A,Erturk Z,Asadov R,Mumcu G,Ergun T,Direskeneli H

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and 3 types of autoantibodies were measured in 30 patients with angiographical or pathological proved vasculitis. There were 18 patients with systemic vasculitis and 12 patients with cutaneous vasculitis. The measured antibodies included anti-endothelial cell anti...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wang CR,Liu MF,Tsai RT,Chuang CY,Chen CY

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tendency of patients with DISH towards obesity or an adult onset of diabetes has been reflected in marked hyperinsulinaemia following glucose challenge. It is hypothesized that insulin at prolonged and high physiologic levels promotes new bone growth, particularly in the entheseal regions. These areas are also sub...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Littlejohn GO

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a class, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitors have provided clinicians significant control over chronic inflammatory diseases. With their widespread use has come the emergence of new side effects such as the reactivation of latent infections. One such infection that may reactivate is the hepatitis B virus (...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Carroll MB,Forgione MA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of this study were to determine if secretory sphingomyelinase (S-SMase) activity is elevated in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to control subjects and to examine the relationships of S-SMase activity with functional status, quality of life, and RA disease activity measurements. We collected...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Hanaoka BY,Ormseth MJ,Michael Stein C,Banerjee D,Nikolova-Karakashian M,Crofford LJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was not investigated in the setting of controlled studies. The risk of PG among patients with RA is not established. OBJECTIVE:The study aims to evaluate the magnitude of the association between RA and the subsequent development...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kridin K,Damiani G,Cohen AD

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are the key enzymes responsible for the joint destruction. Their activity is regulated by the level of proinflammatory cytokines. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of TNF-α G-308A polymorphism on MMP-9 levels in blood plasma (BP) and synovial fluid (SF) of patients with r...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Stojanovic S,Bojana Stamenkovic,Stoimenov TJ,Nedovic J,Zivkovic V,Despotovic M,Pavlovic D

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate and compare the diagnostic test accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound (US) for bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients for a specific and efficient diagnostic recommendation. METHOD:To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy, the sensitivity, specificity, area under the ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tang H,Qu X,Yue B

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical characteristics of antitumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents-related tuberculosis (TB) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are not well described. The aim was to compare the incidences and the characteristics of TB in AS and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) during TNF inhibitor treatment. AS (n = 1,322) and RA (n = 3,154) p...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kim HW,Park JK,Yang JA,Yoon YI,Lee EY,Song YW,Kim HR,Lee EB

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of opioid therapy in chronic musculoskeletal disease continues to be controversial. However, recent years have seen a gradual shift towards the use of opioid therapy in chronic non-malignant pain (CNMP) following recognition that at least a subpopulation of such patients appears to benefit from long-term opio...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Simpson KH

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop and to test in a preliminary way a new self-administered screening tool, called DETection of Arthritis in Inflammatory boweL diseases (DETAIL) questionnaire, in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) not previously diagnosed as having a spondyloarthritis (SpA). DETAIL questionnaire was rea...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Di Carlo M,Luchetti MM,Benfaremo D,Di Donato E,Mosca P,Maltoni S,Benedetti A,Gabrielli A,Grassi W,Salaffi F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologic therapies have brought improved efficacy in the field of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but their use in clinical practice may be limited by concerns over cost. Predictive models are, therefore, needed to identify those people with RA with the worst potential outcomes, who will benefit most from the use of these ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Conaghan PG

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an adult case of reflex sympathetic dystrophy. In contrast to the usual findings in adults, three phase bone scintigraphy showed decreased bloodflow and bloodpool with hypofixation on delayed steady state bone scan of the affected lower limb. In spite of various therapeutic attempts severe dystrophy develope...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Williame LM,Sand A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to evaluate the interrelationship between the micro- and macrovasculature. METHODS:This is a cross-sectional study that examined SSc patients and fibromyalgia (FM) patients as controls. We assessed forearm peripheral vascular status and nailfold capillaroscopy. We evaluated the assoc...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bieber A,Dolnikov K,Chizik V,Novofastovsky I,Fawaz A,Balbir-Gurman A,Mader R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloidosis in association with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) has rarely been reported. We report a patient with "SLE" and Amyloidosis presenting with recurrent bloody diarrhea and review the relevant literature. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Al-Hoqail I,Naddaf H,Al-Rikabi A,Al-Arfaj H,Al-Arfaj A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peripheral blood eosinophilia is observed in patients with active inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis (RA), RA is not a recognised cause of pulmonary eosinophilia. We describe a 55-year-old woman affected by chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) concomitantly with an initiation of RA. Both diseases responded rap...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kwak JJ,Chang JE,Lee J,Cho YJ,Sung SH

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate oxidative status of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) or non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). Forty-seven patients with AS and 27 healthy controls were enrolled. Of these, 23 were on anti-TNF (group 1) and 24 on N...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Karkucak M,Capkin E,Alver A,Akyuz A,Kiris A,Ak E,Topbas M,Tosun M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of laboratory variables, including Hb., ESR and several phase proteins, fluctuated in concord with the clinical signs of synovitis activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis during a controlled study of 3 disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARD). The correlation between laboratory variables and clin...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bentzon MW,Gad I,Halberg P,Halskov O,Lorenzen I

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Sidonian sarcophagus, from the Late Antique/early Christian period, skeletal remains of two persons were found. One of them, male, 30-50 years old, was found almost completely ankylosed, with highly osteoporotic bones and prominent erosion of joint surfaces. We diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis based on the eroded o...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bašić Ž,Jerković I,Kružić I,Anđelinović Š

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Alkaptonuria (AKU) is a rare metabolic disease. The global incidence is 1:100,000 to 1:250,000. However, identification of a founder mutation in a gypsy population from India prompted us to study the prevalence of AKU in this population and to do molecular typing in referred cases of AKU from the rest of I...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Danda S,Mohan S,Devaraj P,Dutta AK,Nampoothiri S,Yesodharan D,Phadke SR,Jalan AB,Thangaraj K,Verma IC,Danda D,Jebaraj I

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine gene loci are one of the potential susceptibility factors in immuno-inflammatory diseases. Interleukin1 (IL-1) is a major monocyte derived proinflammatory cytokine that mediates tissue damage and cartilage loss in chronic arthritis. IL-1 locus has been linked to various autoimmune diseases, but data on juveni...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Aggarwal A,Srivastava R,Singh S,Kumar Dubey P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to compare total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) utilization and outcomes by patient residence. We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2003 to 2011 to compare utilization and outcomes (post-arthroplasty discharge disposition, length of hospitalization, and mortality) by rural vs. u...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Singh JA,Ramachandaran R

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with increased vascular calcification, although the rate of progress of calcification is uncertain. The aim of the study was to evaluate the progression of and the predictors for calcification in different vascular beds over 10 years. The 10-year actual coronary calcium score (C...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Liu JH,Ng MY,Cheung T,Chung HY,Chen Y,Zhen Z,Zou Y,Mak KF,Khong PL,Lau CS,Tse HF,Yiu KH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has rarely being reported among African Blacks, in contrast with African-Americans. Such reports have been mostly case reports. Our encounter with new cases shows that this disease may not be rare after all. The objective of this study was to study the clinical presentations, laborat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Adelowo OO,Oguntona SA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the abnormalities identified with conventional MRI in children with neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE). This was single-centre (Great Ormond Street Hospital, London) retrospective case series of patients with juvenile NPSLE seen in 2003-2013. Brain MR images of ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Al-Obaidi M,Saunders D,Brown S,Ramsden L,Martin N,Moraitis E,Pilkington CA,Brogan PA,Eleftheriou D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is characterized by recurrent episodes of inflammation with fever, abdominal pain, chest pain, rash, myalgia, arthralgia, conjunctivitis, and periorbital edema. This condition is a rare autosomal dominant disease that is strongly associated with heter...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chen Y,Huang X,Zheng S,Zhu Z,Yang W,Liu J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules occur commonly in advanced cases of rheumatoid arthritis and are the most common extra-articular lesion of this disease. We present a case of a very unusual giant rheumatoid nodule that developed on the lateral side of a knee. The case was devoid of systemic symptoms of arthritis and th...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Mine T,Tanaka H,Taguchi T,Ihara K,Ishida Y,Sugitani T,Kawai S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 53-year-old woman diagnosed of systemic sclerosis. She underwent an episode of pulmonary haemorrhage, characterized by haemoptysis, sudden anaemization, and bilateral alveolar infiltration during her hospitalization, which was resolved with steroid treatment. Subsequently, she developed a focal n...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Alvarez Vega JL,Salazar Vallinas JM,Ortega Alberdi R,Muñoz Sanz A,Turegano JM,Fernandez Alonso J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00