Ankylosing spondylitis and inflammatory bowel disease. I. Prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the risk of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) among patients with psoriasis exposed to physical trauma. METHODS:A matched cohort study was performed using data from The Health Improvement Network (THIN). Patients with psoriasis exposed to trauma were randomly matched to up to five unexposed psoriasis co...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Thorarensen SM,Lu N,Ogdie A,Gelfand JM,Choi HK,Love TJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocytes expressing the gamma/delta T cell receptor and B lymphocytes expressing CD5 are known to occur in expanded numbers in the peripheral blood of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome. The cellular infiltrates for the surface phenotypic markers for alpha/beta and gamma/delta T cell receptors, CD4, CD8, CD...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Zumla A,Mathur M,Stewart J,Wilkinson L,Isenberg D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the distribution of histocompatibility antigens of 22 Turkish and 14 British patients with Behçet's disease with those of their respective controls. There was a strong association of B5, specifically its Bw51 split, with the disease. A modest increase in the incidence of HLA B27 was noted in British p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Yazici H,Chamberlain MA,Schreuder I,D'Amaro J,Muftuoglu M

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that pustulosis palmaris et plantaris and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are two distinct diseases, and that the associated dermatoses are therefore also distinct diseases. METHODS:We prospectively performed clinical, radiological, biological, and bone scan investigations in 23 outpatients ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mejjad O,Daragon A,Louvel JP,Da Silva LF,Thomine E,Lauret P,Le Loët X

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cancellous bone from patients with osteoarthritis (OA) has been reported to be undermineralised and that from patients with osteoporosis (OP) is more liable to fracture. Changes in the mineral component might be implicated in these processes. OBJECTIVES:To investigate the thermal stability and the mineral s...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mkukuma LD,Imrie CT,Skakle JM,Hukins DW,Aspden RM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:While gout is associated with cardiovascular (CV)-metabolic comorbidities and their sequelae, the antioxidant effects of uric acid may have neuroprotective benefits. We evaluated the potential impact of incident gout on the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a general population context. METHODS:...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lu N,Dubreuil M,Zhang Y,Neogi T,Rai SK,Ascherio A,Hernán MA,Choi HK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously normal 58-year-old woman developed a widespread psoriatic rash and asymmetrical peripheral polyarthritis a week after beginning treatment with oxprenolol for hypertension. Skin and joint disease resolved simultaneously after drug withdrawal and have not recurred. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Macfarlane DG,Settas L

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the risk of incident myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and peripheral vascular disease (PVD) in individuals with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in a general population context. METHODS:We conducted a cohort study using a UK primary care database containing records from 1986 to 2011. SSc diagnoses, ou...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Man A,Zhu Y,Zhang Y,Dubreuil M,Rho YH,Peloquin C,Simms RW,Choi HK

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the safety, efficacy, and lymphocyte activation of a triple therapeutic regimen with infliximab, methotrexate (MTX), and ciclosporin A (CsA) by an open label, pilot study. PATIENTS AND METHODS:19 patients (mean age 52.9 years) with active rheumatoid arthritis (mean DAS28 7.3) after a mean of 16.8 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Sidiropoulos PI,Siakka P,Raptopoulou A,Mamoulaki M,Choulaki C,Koutala H,Kouroumali H,Kritikos H,Boumpas DT

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the incidence of new cancer diagnoses in a community sample of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). METHODS:All incident cases of PMR in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD) (1987-99), without pre-existing cancer or vascular disease and treated with corticosteroids (n=2877) ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Muller S,Hider SL,Belcher J,Helliwell T,Mallen CD

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immunity to cartilage proteoglycans may be responsible for sustaining chronic inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis. This hypothesis was examined by measuring peripheral blood and synovial fluid mononuclear cell proliferation in five preparations of human cartilage proteoglycan monomer in vitro. Peripheral b...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jobanputra P,Choy EH,Kingsley GH,Sieper J,Palacios-Boix AA,Heinegård D,Panayi GS

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dietary fatty acid supplementation on various disease parameters in the spontaneously autoimmune MRL-mp-lpr/lpr mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus before onset of disease were investigated. A fat deficient diet was supplemented with the following oils: olive oil, sunflower oil, evening primrose...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Godfrey DG,Stimson WH,Watson J,Belch JF,Sturrock RD

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since approval of tocilizumab (TCZ) for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), interleukin 6 (IL-6) pathway inhibition was evaluated in trials of TCZ and other agents targeting the IL-6 receptor and ligand in various RA populations and other inflammatory diseases. Thi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Smolen JS,Schoels MM,Nishimoto N,Breedveld FC,Burmester GR,Dougados M,Emery P,Ferraccioli G,Gabay C,Gibofsky A,Gomez-Reino JJ,Jones G,Kvien TK,Murakami M,Betteridge N,Bingham CO 3rd,Bykerk V,Choy EH,Combe B,Cutolo M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49 year old man is described with a polyarticular arthritis. Synovial fluid aspirated from the knee joint showed monosodium urate monohydrate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate by polarised light microscopy. Additionally, diphosphonate binding and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive analysis showed ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Halverson PB,Ryan LM

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon (IFN) beta displays anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive activity and has been considered for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Information about the effects of this molecule on joint cells is scarce, however. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of IFNbeta on the production of inter...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Palmer G,Mezin F,Juge-Aubry CE,Plater-Zyberk C,Gabay C,Guerne PA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To further evaluate the role of bacterial antigens in triggering inflammation in the joint in patients with reactive arthritis by studying local antibody synthesis in the joint. METHODS:Yersinia-specific antibodies in paired serum and synovial fluid samples from 29 patients with yersinia triggered reactive ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mäki-Ikola O,Lahesmaa R,Heesemann J,Merilahti-Palo R,Saario R,Toivanen A,Granfors K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is not a disease, but an exclusion diagnosis that encompasses all forms of arthritis that begin before the age of 16 years, persist for more than 6 weeks, and are of unknown origin. This heterogeneous group of chronic arthritides has been classified on clinical and laboratory ground...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Martini A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-inflammatory effect of single doses and combinations of aspirin and commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs was investigated by the polyurethane sponge implantation model of acute inflammation. Dose response curves were performed to delineate a suppressive (high) and nonsuppressive (low) dose of ea...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Garrett R,Manthey B,Vernon-Roberts B,Brooks PM

更新日期：1983-08-01 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：: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：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:To assess the interobserver agreement on the diagnostic classification of shoulder disorders, based on history taking and physical examination, and to identify the determinants of diagnostic disagreement. METHODS:Consecutive eligible patients with shoulder pain were recruited in various health care settings...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Winter AF,Jans MP,Scholten RJ,Devillé W,van Schaardenburg D,Bouter LM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analysis of salivary variables has frequently been proposed as a diagnostic tool for Sjögren's syndrome (SS). Because univocal salivary reference values are lacking, it is currently rather difficult to use sialometry and sialochemistry for diagnosing SS unless major changes have occurred in salivary secretio...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kalk WW,Vissink A,Stegenga B,Bootsma H,Nieuw Amerongen AV,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the cost of illness in an incidence based cohort of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. METHODS:Direct costs (healthcare and non-healthcare costs) and indirect costs (productivity loss due to sick leave and work disability) were measured in 215 JIA patients, assessed on an average of 17 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Minden K,Niewerth M,Listing J,Biedermann T,Schöntube M,Zink A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Regulatory T cells (Tregs) with the plasticity of producing proinflammatory cytokine IL-17 have been demonstrated under normal and pathogenic conditions. However, it remains unclear whether IL-17-producing Tregs lose their suppressive functions because of their plasticity toward Th17 in autoimmunity. The aim ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wang T,Sun X,Zhao J,Zhang J,Zhu H,Li C,Gao N,Jia Y,Xu D,Huang FP,Li N,Lu L,Li ZG

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The balance between interferon gamma (IFN gamma) and interleukin 4 (IL4) producing T cells (T1 and T2 cells) seems to be of importance in many (auto)immune disorders. In general, T1 cell activity is important in cellular immunity whereas T2 cell activity plays a part in humoral responses. T1 cell activity pr...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verhoef CM,van Roon JA,Vianen ME,Bruijnzeel-Koomen CA,Lafeber FP,Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may differ among rheumatologists and currently, clear and consensual international recommendations on RA treatment are not available. In this paper recommendations for the treatment of RA with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and glucocortic...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Smolen JS,Landewé R,Breedveld FC,Dougados M,Emery P,Gaujoux-Viala C,Gorter S,Knevel R,Nam J,Schoels M,Aletaha D,Buch M,Gossec L,Huizinga T,Bijlsma JW,Burmester G,Combe B,Cutolo M,Gabay C,Gomez-Reino J,Kouloumas M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spondyloarthritis is a group of articular disorders sharing a genetic background. Polymorphisms in the IL-1 gene cluster have previously been associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a subset of spondyloarthritis. This study examined the association between several of these polymorphisms and the whole spo...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Monnet D,Kadi A,Izac B,Lebrun N,Letourneur F,Zinovieva E,Said-Nahal R,Chiocchia G,Breban M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00