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Clinical Rheumatology

Issue 10/2017

Content (33 Articles)

Editorial

Africa Journal of Rheumatology: enhancing the visibility of rheumatology in Africa

Eugene K. Genga, Omondi Oyoo, Luis R. Espinoza, Adewale Adebajo

Review Article

Management of chikungunya arthritis

J. Kennedy Amaral Pereira, Robert T. Schoen

Original Article

Circulating osteoprotegerin levels are elevated in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Peng Wang, Si Li, Li-Na Liu, Tian-Tian Lv, Xiao-Mei Li, Xiang-Pei Li, Hai-Feng Pan

Original Article

Disease activity, handgrip strengths, and hand dexterity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

D. Palamar, G. Er, R. Terlemez, I. Ustun, G. Can, M. Saridogan

Original Article

Tumor necrosis factor-α -308 polymorphism in North Indian rheumatoid arthritis patients and association with mRNA and serum TNF-α

Mohd Jahid, Rehan-Ul-Haq, Puja Kumari Jha, Diwesh Chawla, Rajnish Avasthi, Rafat Sultana Ahmed

Open Access Original Article

A systematic review of primary Sjögren’s syndrome in male and paediatric populations

Simrun Virdee, James Greenan-Barrett, Coziana Ciurtin

Original Article

Extended high-frequency audiometry as early detection of hearing loss in primary Sjögren syndrome

José Luis Treviño González, Janett Riega Torres, Yolisa Hinojosa Ríos, Mario Jesús Villegas González, Marco A. Mendez Saenz, German A. Soto-Galindo

Original Article

A 2-year observational study on treatment targets in psoriatic arthritis patients treated with TNF inhibitors

Maria Sole Chimenti, Paola Triggianese, Paola Conigliaro, Marco Tonelli, Gianfranco Gigliucci, Lucia Novelli, Miriam Teoli, Roberto Perricone

Original Article

Association of variably expressed KIR3dl1 alleles with psoriatic disease

Jeffrey Berinstein, Remy Pollock, Fawnda Pellett, Arane Thavaneswaran, Vinod Chandran, Dafna D. Gladman

Original Article

Clinical relevance of P-glycoprotein activity on peripheral blood mononuclear cells and polymorphonuclear neutrophils to methotrexate in systemic lupus erythematosus patients

Mario García-Carrasco, Claudia Mendoza-Pinto, Salvador Macías-Díaz, Ivet Etchegaray-Morales, Socorro Méndez-Martínez, Pamela Soto-Santillán, Beatriz Pérez-Romano, Erick A. Jiménez-Herrera, Omar Guzmán-Ruiz, Alejandro Ruiz-Argüelles

Original Article

Mycophenolate mofetil and deflazacort combination in neuropsychiatric lupus: a decade of experience from a tertiary care teaching hospital in southern India

Nikhil Gupta, Arvind Ganpati, Santosh Mandal, John Mathew, Ruchika Goel, Ashish Jacob Mathew, Aswin Nair, Prakash Ramasamy, Debashish Danda

Original Article

Upregulation of CD16− monocyte subsets in systemic lupus erythematous patients

Ziyan Wu, Shulan Zhang, Lidan Zhao, Yunyun Fei, Li Wang, Jing Li, Xiaoting Wen, Xiaofeng Zeng, Fengchun Zhang, Yongzhe Li

Original Article

Quality of life correlates with muscle strength in patients with dermato- or polymyositis

Karina B. Poulsen, Helene Alexanderson, Christine Dalgård, Søren Jacobsen, Louise Weile, Louise P. Diederichsen

Original Article

Multiple values of 18F-FDG PET/CT in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Yuan Li, Yunshan Zhou, Qian Wang

Original Article

The emerging role of interleukin (IL)-1 in the pathogenesis and treatment of inflammatory and degenerative eye diseases

Claudia Fabiani, Jurgen Sota, Gian Marco Tosi, Rossella Franceschini, Bruno Frediani, Mauro Galeazzi, Donato Rigante, Luca Cantarini

Original Article

Diffusion tensor imaging of mild-moderate carpal tunnel syndrome: correlation with nerve conduction study and clinical tests

Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek, Adel Abd Elsalam Shabana, Tamer Omar El Saied, Nora Alrefey‬

Original Article

Serum levels of the bone turnover markers dickkopf-1, osteoprotegerin, and TNF-α in knee osteoarthritis patients

Sicong Min, Chao Wang, Wanli Lu, Zhihong Xu, Dongquan Shi, Dongyang Chen, Huajian Teng, Qing Jiang

Brief Report

Ethnicity and disease severity in ankylosing spondylitis a cross-sectional analysis of three ethnic groups

Farokh Jamalyaria, Michael M. Ward, Shervin Assassi, Thomas J. Learch, MinJae Lee, Lianne S. Gensler, Matthew A. Brown, Laura Diekman, Amirali Tahanan, Mohammad H. Rahbar, Michael H. Weisman, John D. Reveille

Brief Report

Association of obesity with patient-reported outcomes in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: a cross-sectional study in an urban Asian population

Yi Xuan Lee, Yu Heng Kwan, Wan Yu Png, Ka Keat Lim, Chuen Seng Tan, Nai Lee Lui, Eng Hui Chew, Julian Thumboo, Truls Østbye, Warren Fong

Brief Report

Metabolic syndrome in patients with ankylosing spondylitis receiving anti-TNFα therapy: association with predictors of cardiovascular risk

Diego Germano Maia, Kristopherson Lustosa Augusto, Mailze Campos Bezerra, Carlos Ewerton Maia Rodrigues

Brief Report

In psoriatic arthritis Dkk-1 and PTH are lower than in rheumatoid arthritis and healthy controls

Angelo Fassio, Luca Idolazzi, Ombretta Viapiana, Camilla Benini, Elisabetta Vantaggiato, Francesco Bertoldo, Maurizio Rossini, Davide Gatti

Case Based Review

Current clinical evidence of tocilizumab for the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis: a prospective case series for microscopic polyangiitis in a combination with corticosteroids and literature review

Ryota Sakai, Tsuneo Kondo, Takahiko Kurasawa, Eiko Nishi, Ayumi Okuyama, Kentaro Chino, Akiko Shibata, Yusuke Okada, Hirofumi Takei, Hayato Nagasawa, Koichi Amano

Letter to the Editor

Re: Re: Did King Herod suffer from a rheumatic disease? doi: 10.1007/s10067-017-3583-z

Cianna Leatherwood, Richard S. Panush