Catastrophic thromboses and severe thrombocytopenia during heparin therapy in a patient with anti-phospholipid syndrome.

abstract：:Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) is a membrane bound molecule that plays an important role in the pathogenic inflammatory responses observed in vasculitis. The aim of this study was to determine whether levels of soluble ICAM-1 sICAM-1) shedding into the circulation reflect the vascular injury found in nailf...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kuryliszyn-Moskal A,Bernacka K,Klimiuk PA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression and are disease biomarkers. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have accelerated atherosclerosis leading to excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, but traditional risk factors for cardiovascular risk stratification are inadequate. In the general population, m...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ormseth MJ,Solus JF,Sheng Q,Chen SC,Ye F,Wu Q,Oeser AM,Allen R,Raggi P,Vickers KC,Stein CM

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with genetic, hormonal, immunological, and environmental factors. Many genes have been related with the appearance of SLE, including several loci that code different complement components and their receptors. Some genetic deficiencies of complement mol...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Monticielo OA,Mucenic T,Xavier RM,Brenol JC,Chies JA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine possible differences in the outcome of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with disease onset early and late in life. As part of a broader outcome study of RA which included patients seen in the division of Rheumatology of Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla of...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Calvo-Alén J,Corrales A,Sánchez-Andrada S,Fernández-Echevarría MA,Peña JL,Rodríguez-Valverde V

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is the first key hormone of reproduction. GnRH analogs are extensively used in in vitro fertilization and treatment of sex hormone-dependent cancers due to their ability to bring about 'chemical castration'. Recently it has been showed that it also plays an important role in the m...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Lazúrová I,Angelovicová J,Petríková J,Calfová A,Oetterová M,Svajdler M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old man suffered from migrating then additive arthralgias associated with macroscopic and microscopic cutaneous lesions compatible at first sight with reticular erythematous mucinosis. After nine months, the cutaneous picture evolved into a papular mucinosis. The patient developed "multiple frozen joints" wi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Dufour JP,Lachapelle JM,Nagant de Deuxchaisnes C,Devogelaer JP,Noel H,Maldague B

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perforin and granzyme A co-localize in the cytotoxic granules of killer cells like cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Perforin is the cytolytic pore-forming protein, whereas the function of the homodimeric serine protease granzyme A and other members of the granzyme family is still unclear. Granzyme A-immunoreactive cells...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nordström DC,Konttinen YT,Sorsa T,Nykanen P,Pettersson T,Santavirta S,Tschopp J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate pre-clinical esophageal involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) by high-resolution impedance manometry (HRiM), its associations with disease features including lung involvement, and its predictivity of esophageal symptoms overtime. Charts of 45 asymptomatic (no heartburn/regurgitation/dy...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Vettori S,Tolone S,Capocotta D,Chieffo R,Giacco V,Valentini G,Docimo L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open study, we have assessed the bone/soft tissue uptake index in recent osteoporotic vertebral collapse using scintigraphy. The evolution of these cases was followed-up at 6 months in 22 patients treated with 100 IU of salmon calcitonin plus 500 mg of elemental calcium/10 days per month and in 18 patients treat...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Rico H,Merono E,Del Olmo J,Revilla M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weekly adalimumab dosing is used to treat juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), uveitis, and other pediatric rheumatic diseases, but the safety of such dosing has not previously been studied. A retrospective chart review was conducted to assess the safety of weekly adalimumab. Demographic and clinical data were collect...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Correll CK,Bullock DR,Cafferty RM,Vehe RK

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of steroid injection (local treatment, LT) into the digital flexor tendon sheath of dactylitis in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients as compared with systemic treatment (ST). METHODS:Forty-six PsA patients with a total of 73 dactylitic fingers were assessed in an observational, mu...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Girolimetto N,Macchioni P,Citriniti G,Tinazzi I,Bascherini V,Martinis F,Marchetta A,Possemato N,Tasso M,Peluso R,Punzi L,Salvarani C,Scarpa R,McGonagle D,Costa L,Caso F

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:The aim of this study was to evaluate whether corticosteroid use is the etiological agent in acute pancreatitis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, or whether it is related to the underlying connective tissue disorder. Hospital admissions at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital between 1982 and 2002 that ca...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Derk CT,DeHoratius RJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is frequently difficult to differentiate radiologically from the axial involvement of ankylosing spondylitis and osteoarthrosis, some features of these 3 different diseases were compared. The predominantly horizontal nature of the enthesiophyte in DISH and its righ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Maertens M,Mielants H,Verstraete K,Veys EM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one Thai patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), diagnosed in accordance with Rome and New York criteria for AS, were studied. The cases includes idiopathic AS (46 cases), Reiter's syndrome AS (8 cases) and psoriatic spondylitis (7 cases). The vast majority of patients were male (Male:Female = 11.2:1), and in...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Deesomchok U,Tumrasvin T

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors of the published version of this article incorrectly presented the affiliation of Li-Chin Sung. The revised affiliation is now presented correctly in this article. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kang JH,Xirasagar S,Lin HC,Kao PF,Sung LC

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD) is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, characterized by spiking fever, evanescent salmon pink maculopapular rash, arthritis, and leukocytosis with neutrophilia. Malignant lymphoma is one of the most important differential diagnoses of AOSD. AOSD has been reported as one of p...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ahn JK,Oh JM,Lee J,Kim SW,Cha HS,Koh EM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus and presenting with catatonic schizophrenia is described. Psychiatric features of the disease and their management are discussed. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Tishler M,Abramov AL

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the function of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in patients suffering from psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis vulgaris the release of beta-glucuronidase, elastase and cytoplasmic lactate dehydrogenase was investigated. The life of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in rheumatoid and psoriatic ar...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Mikulíková D,Stancíková M,Trnavský K,Vlcek F

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is characterized by chronic widespread pain and systemic symptoms. The aetiology and pathogenesis of fibromyalgia are not yet fully understood. Blood neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a marker of systemic inflammatory response. Platelet distribution width (PDW) and mean platelet volume (...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Aktürk S,Büyükavcı R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few reports about the coexistence of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). To evaluate the frequency of SS in patients with AS. We studied 70 patients with AS presenting to the university outpatient clinic between January 2002 and November 2003. All the patients were asked about sicca symp...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Kobak S,Kobak AC,Kabasakal Y,Doganavsargil E

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of long-term (18-70 months) chloroquine treatment 250 mg daily, in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was studied in 20 patients. Sedimentation rates were significantly reduced, as compared to a reference group of 10 RA patients on no treatment of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. Radiographical progression of...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bjelle A,Björnham A,Larsen A,Mjörndal T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our aim was to investigate the prevalence value of a high-avidity antinuclear antibody (ANA) of the IgG isotype (HA IgG ANA) compared with that of ANAs of other isotypes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to assess the associations of HA IgG ANA with the activity of SLE and lupus nephrit...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Zeng Y,Lin Y,Wang X,Zhang Y,Peng F,Wang J,Jiang L,Liang S,Xiao Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoinflammatory pathogenesis of juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) involves the activation of many pathways including various cytokines. We have evaluated the levels of interleukin(IL)-1, IL-6 and IL-8 in 29 JCA patients. The age range was 1-16 with a mean of 10.1. A disease activity score was developed on the ba...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ozen S,Saatci U,Bakkaloglu A,Ozdemir O,Besbas N,Kirazli S,Ozdemir S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-nine patients suffering from rheumatoid factor positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were included in this study. In each patient disease activity was assessed three times at two-week intervals during a four-week period. All factors that might possibly influence RA, except atmospheric conditions (AC) were held co...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： van de Laar MA,Bernelot Moens HJ,van der Stadt RJ,van der Korst JK

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab with those of abatacept in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis not responding to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy. METHODS:A prospective, open-label study was carried out on adult females with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis. Patients were ra...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Elmedany SH,Mohamed AE,Galil SMA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to study the functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and its associated factors. Consecutive SSc patients and an equal number of age- and gender-matched healthy controls were recruited for the assessment of functioning and HRQoL by...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chan PT,Mok CC,Chan KL,Ho LY

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to assess the progression of osteoarthritis (OA) using scoring systems based on the anatomical changes recorded in the finger joints on standard radiographs and to test how far these scoring systems could be used to evaluate the effects of candidate "disease modifying osteoarthritis drugs" (DMOAD). T...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Verbruggen G,Goemaere S,Veys EM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine clinical course and outcomes in rheumatic disease patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and compare results to uninfected patients. METHODS:We conducted a case cohort study of autoimmune disease patients with COVID-19 (confirmed by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 PCR)...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Arleo T,Tong D,Shabto J,O'Keefe G,Khosroshahi A

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In Sri Lanka, record keeping in rheumatology clinics is purely paper-based. Clinic record books are given to patients, and the hospital does not retain clinical data. Different clinics and different rheumatology specialists practice different formats of record keeping in Sri Lanka. This project was aimed to develop a ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Deshapriya K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00