Visceral leishmaniasis infection in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis treated with etanercept.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), mental health problems are common, but often not recognized or treated, contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. Most studies examining the impact of mental health problems in RA have focused on depression. We aimed to determine the association between anxi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Machin AR,Babatunde O,Haththotuwa R,Scott I,Blagojevic-Bucknall M,Corp N,Chew-Graham CA,Hider SL

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sternocostoclavicular (SCC) region is subject to the same diseases that occur in joints, with congenital and developmental anomalies, inflammatory and infectious diseases, soft tissue and bone tumors as well as the seronegative spondyloarthropathies, including ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, enteropath...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Guglielmi G,Scalzo G,Cascavilla A,Salaffi F,Grassi W

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed studies concerning immunomodulating therapy in systemic sclerosis. These comprise mostly uncontrolled trials and case reports. Some of these studies hint at a possible beneficial effect of antimetabolites (azathioprine, 5-fluoro-uracil and methotrexate), cyclosporine and interferon-gamma. However, to give ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： van den Hoogen FH,Boerbooms AM,van de Putte LB

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity has been widely accepted as one of the major cause for the alteration of immune system and progression of autoimmune diseases. Natural killer (NK) cells and natural killer T (NKT) cells have not been explored in clinical studies for their cytolytic components in association with rheumatoid arthritis (R...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Aggarwal A,Sharma A,Bhatnagar A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joint lavage for knee osteoarthritis is an invasive procedure that can be stressful and painful. We aimed to assess the impact of music therapy on perioperative anxiety, pain and tolerability of the procedure in patients undergoing joint lavage performed with two needles. We randomized all patients diagnosed with knee...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ottaviani S,Bernard JL,Bardin T,Richette P

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:A correlation study was performed on the degree of muscle weakness in 36 patients with dermatomyositis and 69 with polymyositis in relation to muscle biopsy findings, electromyography (EMG) abnormalities, and serum concentrations of creatine kinase (CK), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (A...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tymms KE,Beller EM,Webb J,Schrieber L,Buchanan WW

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients with the primary antiphospholipid syndrome who presented with severe hypertension. Renal biopsy specimen provided histologic evidence of intra-renal vascular disease with intravascular microthrombosis and nephrosclerosis, without feature of proliferative glomerulopathy. Accelerated hypertensio...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Durand JM,Lefevre P,Kaplanski G,Casanova P,Soubeyrand J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyse microvascular damage and compensatory angiogenesis in skin from patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) compared with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) and healthy controls. Immunohistochemistry was used for skin biopsies (9 SSc, 10 SLE, 9 RP and 12 healt...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Konttinen YT,Mackiewicz Z,Ruuttila P,Ceponis A,Sukura A,Povilenaite D,Hukkanen M,Virtanen I

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigens of HLA-DR locus were determined in 127 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in 175 healthy persons. The frequency of HLA-DR1 antigen was discovered in 45% of the patients and in 22.3% of the examinees from the control group (p less than 0.001). The relative risk is 2.84. 69% of the patients were seropos...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Jajić Z,Jajić I,Jajić I,Kerhin-Brkljacic V

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-system chronic inflammatory disease with a broad spectrum of clinical and serological manifestations. Although clinical evidence of proximal skeletal muscle involvement is not rare in patients with SLE, there is no knowledge about the effects of SLE on the macroscopic stru...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kaya A,Kara M,Tiftik T,Tezcan ME,Ozel S,Ersöz M,Göker B,Haznedaroğlu S,Ozçakar L

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to compare the three classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a large cohort of early arthritis patients. Patients who had at least one clinically swollen joint with disease duration no more than 1 year and age more than 18 years were enrolled. The clinical and laboratory param...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ye H,Su Y,Li R,Zhao J,Liu X,Mei Y,Zhang Z,Guo J,Bi L,Liu X,Wang G,Liu J,Leng X,Gu F,Sun L,Zou Q,Fang Y,Jiang Q,Li Z

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) remains a challenging condition for clinicians. There is substantial evidence for the presence of various cervical dysfunctions (e.g., increased cervical muscle tone and impaired cervical movement control), but their contribution to the complex clinical picture of subjects w...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nijs J,Van Oosterwijck J,De Hertogh W

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There are no pharmacovigilance studies on adverse event (AE) data for tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) inhibitors in South Korea. We analysed AEs induced by adalimumab, infliximab, and etanercept METHODS: We used data from the Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management-Korea Adverse Events Reporti...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ha D,Lee SE,Song I,Lim SJ,Shin JY

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) were treated in a pilot study for two weeks at a Tiberias spa with a combination of hot mineral water baths and mud packs. A significant improvement was noticed in morning stiffness, finger to floor distance and the overall well-being assessment both by the patient an...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tishler M,Brostovski Y,Yaron M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory disorder. It is caused by mutations in the MEFV gene encoding the pyrin protein, which regulates the innate inflammatory response. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between serum Interleukin-4 (IL-4) and its gene polymorphism, nam...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Marzouk H,Farag Y,El-Hanafi HM,Ibrahim E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 29-year-old Japanese woman with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and adult onset Still's disease (AOSD). Her disease was refractory to high-dose glucocorticoids, two courses of steroid pulse therapy, and addition of cyclosporine (3.5 mg/kg/day). The serum interleukin-6 level was markedly elevat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Matsumoto K,Nagashima T,Takatori S,Kawahara Y,Yagi M,Iwamoto M,Okazaki H,Minota S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gout is a disease with acute and/or chronic inflammation and tissue damage induced by the precipitation of monosodium urate crystal (MSU) crystals in bone joints, kidneys, and subcutaneous sites. In recent years, with the continuous research on gout animal models and patient clinical investigations, the mechanism of i...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wu M,Tian Y,Wang Q,Guo C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This case-control study aimed to analyze the clinical features and determine the expression of type I interferon-induced genes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients harboring the CD11b rs1143679 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and elucidate whether it is involved in the relapses of SLE. METHODS...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Xu W,Zhang Y,Wang X,Liu P,Gao D,Gu B,Zhang J,Li C,Ren Q,Yang L,Yuan H,Shen M,Chen X

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The "A disintegrin and metalloprotease" (ADAM) family is thought to play an important role in tissue destruction and inflammatory reactions. ADAM-17 was first described as the protease responsible for tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α shedding. Here, we have shown the expression of ADAM-17 in inflammatory myopathy and dem...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nishimi A,Isozaki T,Nishimi S,Ishii S,Tokunaga T,Furuya H,Wakabayashi K,Kasama T

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Neurological involvement is uncommon in systemic sclerosis. Most of the reported cases concern trigeminal neuropathy or peripheral nerve entrapment. We report a third case of brachial plexopathy, presumably related to vasculitis, in a patient with systemic sclerosis, which improved after cyclophosphamide therapy. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Allanore Y,Zuber M,Kahan A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a necrotising vasculitis of medium-sized vessels of unknown origin. This type of vasculitis is usually systemic, but restriction to a single organ, for example the testis, the appendix or the gall bladder, can occur. Testicular pain or tenderness are frequent clinical features. In this re...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Meeuwissen J,Maertens J,Verbeken E,Blockmans D

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors wish to acknowledge that whilst this study and that published in Hammad et al [1] explore different areas - blood cell ratios and serum endocan, respectively - the reader may identify some similarities between the papers owing to the same patient cohort being analysed in both studies. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Hammad M,Shehata OZ,Abdel-Latif SM,El-Din AMM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren's syndrome is characterized serologically by the presence of autoantibodies against Ro/SS-A and La/SS-B. The mechanisms by which these autoantibodies arise is not clear at this moment. B cells capable of producing antibodies to Ro/SS-A and La/SS-B seem to be present in every individual; whether or not an indiv...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Smeenk RJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). To describe the pattern of serious infections in patients with SLE and to identify the predictors of infection-related mortality among SLE patients with serious infections, we prospectively studied all SLE pat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Teh CL,Wan SA,Ling GR

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the trends in diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (KD) and determine the characteristics for patients outside the usual age range of 6 months to 4 years. METHOD:A retrospective review of patients with KD identified in four epidemiological surveys spanning 20 years (1998-2017) in Shanghai was performed. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Zhao QM,Huang M,Huang MR,Chen S,Liu F,Huang GY,Shanghai Kawasaki Disease Research Group.

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone mass was measured in 230 subjects with ages ranging from 15 to 54 years (110 males and 120 females), using the radiogrammetric method on the second metacarpal bone. Results of the study show that bone mass increases with age up to 34 years and then decreases, both in males and females, although males have signifi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kabeya JM,Mbuyi Muamba JM,Tozin R,Dequeker J

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:We investigated whether headache and family history of headache are risk factors for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) or not. Twenty-three CRPS patients and 69 healthy persons were interviewed whether or not they suffered from headache and had first-degree family history of headache. A headache sufferer was defin...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Toda K,Muneshige H,Maruishi M,Kimura H,Asou T

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00