Seronegative oligoarthritis: a 23-year follow-up study.

abstract：:Calciphylaxis is a rare and life-threatening condition of progressive cutaneous necrosis secondary to small and medium-sized vessel calcification that is seen almost exclusively in patients with end-stage renal disease and hyperparathyroidism. We report a case of calciphylaxis that may very well be due to a long-term ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Korkmaz C,Dündar E,Zubaroğlu I

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-year-old man with hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP) and an undifferentiated connective tissue disease is described. Combined therapy with prednisolone and azathioprine improved his symptoms. The association between an undifferentiated connective tissue disease and HP is discussed. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Lampropoulos CE,Zain M,Jan W,Nader-Sepahi A,Sabin IH,D' Cruz DP

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic significance of class III major histocompatibility complex complement components, factor B (Bf), C4A and C4B, were studied in a 3-year prospective study of 73 patients with early RA. Patients with C4B null allele had higher disease activity with more radiological progression than patients with C4A null ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Paimela L,Leirisalo-Repo M,Lokki ML,Koskimies S

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to examine the needs and preferences regarding the delivery of health care services and information provision and their determinants in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). A questionnaire was sent to 77 SSc outpatients, comprising 27 items on health care needs within the domains physical, psycholog...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Schouffoer AA,Zirkzee EJ,Henquet SM,Caljouw MA,Steup-Beekman GM,van Laar JM,Vlieland TP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to now, there is no uniformly accepted treatment for avascular necrosis (AN) that alleviates pain and retards its progression. The aim of clinical and surgical treatments is usually only to improve blood support in the avascular area. The objective of the present study was to make a systematic review of the use of ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cardozo JB,Andrade DM,Santiago MB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactogenic hormone prolactin is produced in part by cells of the immune system and serves as an upregulator of immune function. Hyperprolactinemia is common in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), raising the possibility that the hormone contributes to the excessive immune response in the disease. The...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Li M,Keiser HD,Peeva E

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained cough is a frequent complaint in methotrexate (MTX) treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and can be a symptom of incipient MTX-induced pneumonitis. This study was performed to characterize MTX-associated cough clinically and to clarify by which means this condition can be distinguished from incipient MTX pneum...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Schnabel A,Dalhoff K,Bauerfeind S,Barth J,Gross WL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D deficiency may be involved in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory conditions. This study aimed to determine the status of vitamin D in the rheumatology patients who were diagnosed with different rheumatic, inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases. In this cross-sectional observational study, we review...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Alachkar M,Teoh YP,O'Sullivan MM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To validate the Quality of Life-Rheumatoid Arthritis Scale II (QOL-RA II) in an Argentinean cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients ≥ 18 years old, with a diagnosis of RA according to ACR-EULAR 2010 criteria, were included in a cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic data, comorbidities, RA charact...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Isnardi CA,Schneeberger EE,Capelusnik D,de Los Ángeles Correa M,Lim R,Hu M,Tapia MJ,Kerzberg E,Blanco E,Benavidez FL,Gonzales Lucero L,Barbaglia AL,Bazzarelli M,Ficco HM,Pérez S,Hartvig C,Salcedo M,Citera G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The burden of non-communicable diseases such as musculoskeletal diseases in the developing world is often overshadowed by the more prevalent infectious diseases. Generally, there is gross underestimation of the burden of rheumatologic disease in the backdrop of scanty or indeed non-existent rheumatology services in th...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chipeta J,Njobvu P,McGill PE,Bucala R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Patient-Rated Elbow Evaluation (PREE) is a joint-specific, self-administered outcome measure used to determine the level of pain and disability in patients with various elbow pathologies. The aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the PREE into Turkish (PREE-T) and to test its reliability and ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Hazar Kanik Z,Pala OO,Karabicak GO,Citaker S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four patients with typical palindromic rheumatism were typed for HLA-A,B,C and DR antigens. The mean duration of follow-up of our patients was 4.0 yrs. (range 1-12 yrs.). During this time 27% of patients showed a seropositivity; 22% of patients developed polyarthritis, 1 patient revealed a Sjögren syndrome and 3...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Barbieri P,Ciompi ML,Menicucci A,Pasero G

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiographic (ECG) and echocardiographic examinations and 24-h ECG Holter monitoring were carried out in 100 patients (age < 65 years) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) of stages II-IV according to Steinbrocker's criteria. One hundred patients with osteoarthrosis, spondyloarthrosis and painful shoulder matched fo...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Wisłowska M,Sypuła S,Kowalik I

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of evaluating the role of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D in the pathogenesis of osteoporosis, this hormone was studied in 90 subjects. They were divided into three groups: the first group consisted of 30 normal female subjects (aged 30 to 45); the second group comprised 30 elderly female subjects (aged 67 to 90)...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Cantatore FP,Carrozzo M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62-year-old man who suffered from severe deforming arthritis, secondary to chronic tophaceous gout with multilobular, solid, tender, enlarged subcutaneous nodules, and draining tophi in right second finger, was treated by free flap and finally got the more functional and aesthetic result. ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Lee KS,Lee HS,Kim NG,Kim JS,Lee SI,Choi TH

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:To measure serum soluble transferrin receptor (s-TfR) levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), sera were obtained from 50 Japanese RA patients and 20 healthy subjects. Both s-TfR and serum erythropoietin (EPO) levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Routine laboratory tests were al...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Chijiwa T,Nishiya K,Hashimoto K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metabolism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is reviewed. Two different entities are recognised: 1) a localised periarticular bone loss, due to inflammatory processes and 2) a generalised increased bone turnover, ultimately leading to a loss of axial bone mass. The mechanism of this loss of axial bone is not ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:Haemorrhoidal disease (HD) is one of the most common diseases encountered by the clinicians of general surgery. Chronic constipation, pushing during defecation and increased abdominal pressure play an important role in development of haemorrhoidal disease. Patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) frequently use the V...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Caglayan M,Türkoğlu A,Oktayoglu P,Yıldız M,Dağlı AZ,Böyük A,Em S,Bozkurt M,Nas K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study are to investigate the prevalence of PAD4 and anti-PAD4 antibodies (Abs) in autoimmune diseases and to clarify their association with anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) and shared epitope (SE) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Levels of human PAD4 and anti-PAD4 Abs in s...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Umeda N,Matsumoto I,Kawaguchi H,Kurashima Y,Kondo Y,Tsuboi H,Ogishima H,Suzuki T,Kagami Y,Sakyu T,Ishigami A,Maruyama N,Sumida T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 56-year-old woman with an alleged diagnosis of an acute coronary syndrome that was later correctly identified in our Cardiology Unit as antisynthetase syndrome (AS) with inflammatory cardiac involvement. In this case report, we focus on clinical features of this rare autoimmune disease aiming to ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： L'Angiocola PD,Mattei L,Lardieri G

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients are often treated by dermatology and rheumatology specialities and may receive different treatments. To evaluate the impact of dermatology/rheumatology specialist settings on diagnosis and therapeutic approach in PsA patients. This cross-sectional multicounty study in Italy involved ...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Lubrano E,Delle Sedie A,Romanelli M,Chimenti MS,Bianchi L,Piaserico S,De Felice C,Graceffa D,De Andres MI,Curatolo S,Grembiale RD,Dastoli S,Arcuri C,Angileri RG,Prignano F,Bandinelli F,Baldissera E,Mercuri SR,Franchi

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the results of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) staining in patients with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA). Thirty-one patients with an age range of 1-16 years were included in the study: 13, 15 and three patients, respectively, were classified having oligoarticular, polyarticular and systemic-ons...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bakkaloglu A,Ozen S,Saatci U,Erguven S,Topaloglu R,Bassoy Y,Besbas N

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, oesophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia (CREST) syndrome, a limited form of systemic sclerosis, is sometimes complicated by primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). A 52- and 61-year-old Japanese woman with PBC-CREST overlap syndrome accompanied by Sjögren's syndrome, and Hashi...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nakamura T,Higashi S,Tomoda K,Tsukano M,Sugi K

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ochronosis involves primarily the large cartilaginous joint surfaces, ribs, intervertebral discs, ear cartilage etc. We report on a 53-year-old woman with typical alkaptonuric ochronosis with dark urine, blue-black pigmentation of the auriculae and hands, focal brown hyperpigmentation of the sclera, spondylarthropathy...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Nas K,Gür A,Akdeniz S,Cevik R,Harman M,Saraç AJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR) attempts to address the limitations of the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ). As there is no Turkish version of the FIQR available, we aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of a Turkish translation of the FIQR in Turkish female fibromyalgia (FM) pa...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Ediz L,Hiz O,Toprak M,Tekeoglu I,Ercan S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe four cases of giant cell arteritis (GCA) that presented with occipital headache in the last 6 months. Typical ultrasound features of GCA were found in the occipital arteries which helped to confirm the diagnosis. One patient had already suffered significant visual loss by the time the diagnosis was made, r...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Pinnell J,Tiivas C,Perkins P,Blake T,Saravana S,Dubey S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify clinical variables capable of predicting long-term treatment duration of TNF-α inhibition in patients with Behçet's disease (BD)-related uveitis. Demographic, clinical, and therapeutic data were retrospectively collected from BD patients treated with the tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α blockers infliximab an...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Fabiani C,Vitale A,Rigante D,Emmi G,Lopalco G,Sota J,Vannozzi L,di Scala G,Guerriero S,Orlando I,Franceschini R,Capozzoli M,Frediani B,Galeazzi M,Iannone F,Tosi GM,Cantarini L

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and concomitant hepatitis C virus infection (HCV), treated with cyclosporine A (CsA) and anti-TNF-alpha agents. SGOT/SGPT and HCV-RNA serum levels remained unchanged longer than 1 year of treatment. No side effects were registered. We suggest that combination...

journal_title：Clinical rheumatology

authors： Bellisai F,Giannitti C,Donvito A,Galeazzi M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00