Olecranon nodules in a case of Behçet's disease.

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：:A case is reported of polytenosynovitis in a 31-year-old male during the course of a severe bacteraemic illness caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b. The clinical presentation was similar to tenosynovitis caused by bacterial or viral agents. As the management of the H. influenzae tenosynovitis would differ from tha...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bansal S,Magnussen CR,Napodano RJ

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the presence and functionality of oestrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) in interleukin (IL)1beta-treated rabbit articular chondrocytes in culture, and to determine the mechanisms of 17beta oestradiol (E2) effects on IL1beta-induced inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression. METHODS:The p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Richette P,Dumontier MF,Tahiri K,Widerak M,Torre A,Benallaoua M,Rannou F,Corvol MT,Savouret JF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis are currently successfully treated with infliximab (anti-tumour necrosis factor); however, about 30% of the patients do not respond to infliximab. One of the postulated hypotheses of not responding is the fast clearance of infliximab due to the development of inflixima...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van der Laken CJ,Voskuyl AE,Roos JC,Stigter van Walsum M,de Groot ER,Wolbink G,Dijkmans BA,Aarden LA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondromalacia patellae is difficult to diagnosis clinically with accuracy. In order to clarify the relevant symptoms and signs, 78 patients presenting with a clinical diagnosis of chondromalacia were examined by arthroscopy. In 49% of the knees no abnormalities were found. Presenting symptoms were similar in the norm...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Leslie IJ,Bentley G

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred acute geriatric inpatients were assessed to investigate the prevalence of shoulder disorders; 21 had symptoms due to shoulder disease. Conditions included supraspinatus tendinitis (five), chronic rotator cuff rupture (seven), frozen shoulder (two), glenohumeral osteoarthritis (two), apatite related shoulde...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Chard MD,Hazleman BL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the risk of losing remission, low disease activity (LDA) or radiographic progression in the case of (1) discontinuing or (2) tapering doses of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) compared with continuation of the initial treatment regimen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Henaux S,Ruyssen-Witrand A,Cantagrel A,Barnetche T,Fautrel B,Filippi N,Lukas C,Raffeiner B,Rossini M,Degboé Y,Constantin A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is less common among men than women, and sex hormones have been suggested to play a part in the pathogenesis. Lower levels of testosterone have been demonstrated in men with RA, but it is not known if these changes precede the disease. METHODS:In a nested case-control study, using ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pikwer M,Giwercman A,Bergström U,Nilsson JÅ,Jacobsson LT,Turesson C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Technetium-99m ethyl cysteinate dimer (99mTc ECD) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) of the brain was used to detect abnormal regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) and normal findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS:(99m)Tc EC...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Chang CP,Shiau YC,Wang JJ,Ho ST,Kao A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNF-i) plus methotrexate (MTX), but not MTX monotherapy alone, inhibits joint damage progression even at higher levels of disease activity. Such disassociation of disease activity and structural damage has not been shown for biological agents other than TNF-i...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Smolen JS,Avila JC,Aletaha D

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six measurements of joint mobility were made in a group of 446 normal adolescents. A method of measuring hip and knee rotation is presented. All these data are normally distributed, and would suggest that joint hypermobility lies at the end of the normal spectrum. There was a weak but significant correlation between e...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fairbank JC,Pynsent PB,Phillips H

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) compared with subjects without RA, with the increased risk driven potentially by inflammation. Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) may modulate the risk and severity of MI. We compared the risk and severity of MI...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Low AS,Symmons DP,Lunt M,Mercer LK,Gale CP,Watson KD,Dixon WG,Hyrich KL,British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register for Rheumatoid Arthritis (BSRBR-RA) and the BSRBR Control Centre Consortium.

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low sulphate levels in blood may contribute to osteoarthritis by decreasing cartilage chondroitin sulphation. OBJECTIVE:To measure serum levels of sulphate during 3 h of fasting or glucose ingestion after overnight fasts to determine how much sulphate lowering may occur during this period. METHODS:Sera fro...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Blinn CM,Biggee BA,McAlindon TE,Nuite M,Silbert JE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of increased spontaneous incorporation of 3H-thymidine (3H-TdR) into peripheral blood mononuclear cells in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been investigated. The activity was found to be short lived and affected less than 1% of cells. Using a Percoll density gradient we identified two populations of activ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Froebel K,Dickson R,Lewis D,Jasani MK,Sturrock RD

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether mild variation in acetabular depth (AD) and shape is a risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip. METHODS:The unaffected contralateral hip of patients with unilateral hip OA was compared with hips of asymptomatic controls without hip OA, derived from the Nottingham Genetics Osteoart...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： McWilliams DF,Doherty SA,Jenkins WD,Maciewicz RA,Muir KR,Zhang W,Doherty M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells in nine patients with Felty's syndrome have been examined. One patient had an increased number and percentage of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with the phenotype CD3+ Leu-7+ CD16+ and showed a clonal rearrangement of the T cell rec...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ahern MJ,Roberts-Thomson PJ,Bradley J,Story C,Seshadri P

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine concentrations of chondroitin sulphate (CS) and keratan sulphate (KS) epitopes, glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and hyaluronan (HA) in knee synovial fluid (SF) from normal subjects and patients with osteoarthritis (OA) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA), to test whether these variables may be used as marker...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Belcher C,Yaqub R,Fawthrop F,Bayliss M,Doherty M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 13 questions to which 173 rheumatic outpatients most frequently wished to know the answer were made the basis of a structured interview. Two lengths of interview were conducted in a controlled trial (short being of 2 minutes' duration, long ranging from 4 to 11 minutes). Sixty patients referred directly from their...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wright V,Hopkins R,Burton K

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure interleukin (IL)18 serum concentrations in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) undergoing infliximab treatment (tumour necrosis factor (TNF) alpha blockade) and to evaluate the concomitant modification of IL12 and IL13 serum concentrations, two cytokines belonging to the Th1 and Th2 profile res...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pittoni V,Bombardieri M,Spinelli FR,Scrivo R,Alessandri C,Conti F,Spadaro A,Valesini G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether continued methotrexate treatment increases the risk of postoperative infections or of surgical complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) within one year of elective orthopaedic surgery. DESIGN:A prospective randomised study of postoperative infection or surgical complicat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Grennan DM,Gray J,Loudon J,Fear S

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of habitual knuckle cracking to osteoarthrosis with functional impairment of the hand has long been considered an old wives' tale without experimental support. The mechanical sequelae of knuckle cracking have been shown to produce the rapid release of energy in the form of sudden vibratory energy, much li...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Castellanos J,Axelrod D

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Infectious agents like parvovirus have been implicated as exogenous factors that could trigger onset of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A number of case reports describing a SLE-like presentation of acute human parvovirus B19 infection have been published, but no systematic investigation of the actual se...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bengtsson A,Widell A,Elmstâhl S,Sturfelt G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary deficiencies of early complement components have usually been associated with the development of rheumatic diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), while terminal component deficiency is well known to predispose to recurrent neisserial infection. In contrast, only recently have patients been report...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wisnieski JJ,Naff GB,Pensky J,Sorin SB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is described of a patient with scleromyxoedema with features typical of systemic sclerosis. The features were so characteristic that the disease was misdiagnosed as systemic sclerosis. A brief review of the association of the two diseases is given. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verma UN,Singh RR,Misra R,Naik S,Agarwal SS

更新日期：1992-10-01 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 determine clinical and ultrasonographic predictors of joint replacement surgery across Europe in primary osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. METHODS:This was a 3-year prospective study of a painful OA knee cohort (from a EULAR-sponsored, multicentre study). All subjects had clinical evaluation, radiographs ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Conaghan PG,D'Agostino MA,Le Bars M,Baron G,Schmidely N,Wakefield R,Ravaud P,Grassi W,Martin-Mola E,So A,Backhaus M,Malaise M,Emery P,Dougados M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the course of adjuvant arthritis in rats by measuring clinical, biochemical, and histological parameters on day 36 after induction (representing the secondary reaction) and on day 171, which is at the stage of permanent deformity. The effect of SR 41319, a new diphosphonate, was evaluated on days 36 and 171...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Barbier A,Breliére JC,Remandet B,Roncucci R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common monogenic autoinflammatory disease (AID) worldwide. The disease is caused by mutations in the MEFV gene encoding the inflammasome sensor Pyrin. Clinical diagnosis of FMF is complicated by overlap in symptoms with other diseases, and interpre...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Van Gorp H,Huang L,Saavedra P,Vuylsteke M,Asaoka T,Prencipe G,Insalaco A,Ogunjimi B,Jeyaratnam J,Cataldo I,Jacques P,Vermaelen K,Dullaers M,Joos R,Sabato V,Stella A,Frenkel J,De Benedetti F,Dehoorne J,Haerynck F,C

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between body mass index (BMI) and osteoarthritis (OA) leading to total hip (THR) or knee (TKR) joint replacement. METHODS:Case-control study design. All patients still living in Iceland who had had a THR or TKR resulting from OA before the end of 2002 were invited to participate. F...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Franklin J,Ingvarsson T,Englund M,Lohmander LS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA A, B, and C antigens were studied in 25 patients with ankylosing hyperostosis. There was no evidence of an increased frequency of any antigen in association with the condition itself. However, a high frequency of several antigens was found, reflecting the predominance of Jewish patients in the series. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Perry JD,Wolf H,Festenstein H,Storey GO

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00