Issue 2/2007
Content (34 Articles)
Strategies for the prevention and control of osteoporosis in developing countries
Jorge Morales-Torres
Prevention and treatment strategies for glucocorticoid-induced osteoporotic fractures
Margaret Gourlay, Nora Franceschini, Yevgeniy Sheyn
Clinical manifestations and antiphosphatidylserine antibodies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: is there an association?
Mehmet Sahin, Nursen Duzgun, Sevket Ercan Tunc, Huseyin Tutkak
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Comparison of the effect of alendronate on lumbar bone mineral density and bone turnover in men and postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
Jun Iwamoto, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Yoshihiro Sato, Mitsuyoshi Uzawa
Oral cyclophosphamide improves pulmonary function in scleroderma patients with fibrosing alveolitis: experience in one centre
Lorenzo Beretta, Monica Caronni, Massimo Raimondi, Alessandra Ponti, Tiziana Viscuso, Laura Origgi, Raffaella Scorza
Sjögren’s syndrome in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Senol Kobak, Arzu Celebi Kobak, Yasemin Kabasakal, Eker Doganavsargil
Diastolic function of the heart in mixed connective tissue disease
Judit Végh, Ida Hegedűs, Gyula Szegedi, Margit Zeher, Edit Bodolay
Dietary calcium and bone mineral density in premenopausal women with systemic lupus erythematosus
H. C. Chong, S. S. Chee, E. M. L. Goh, S. K. Chow, S. S. Yeap
Could 2′5′-oligoadenylate synthetase isoforms be biomarkers to differentiate between disease flare and infection in lupus patients? A pilot study
Shuang Ye, Qiang Guo, Jiang-ping Tang, Cheng-de Yang, Nan Shen, Shun-le Chen
A study of male patients with forearm fracture in Northern Ireland
Stephen Wright, Timothy Beringer, Hugh Taggart, Don Keegan, Jim Kelly, Esme Whithead, Roly McKane, Colette McNally, Margaret McQuilken, Michael Finch
Childhood vasculitides in Turkey: a nationwide survey
Seza Ozen, Aysin Bakkaloglu, Ruhan Dusunsel, Oguz Soylemezoglu, Fatih Ozaltin, Hakan Poyrazoglu, Ozgur Kasapcopur, Ozan Ozkaya, Fatos Yalcinkaya, Ayse Balat, Nurdan Kural, Osman Donmez, Harika Alpay, Ali Anarat, Sevgi Mir, Ayfer Gur-Guven, Ferah Sonmez, Faysal Gok
Autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis: association with severity of disease in established RA
Sumeet Agrawal, Ramnath Misra, Amita Aggarwal
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in leprosy
Fernando Luiz Barros Edington, Maria Olívia Amado Ramos Bacellar, Paulo Roberto Machado, Lúcio Barbosa, Eliana Reis, Mitermayer Reis, Mittermayer Barreto Santiago
Comparison of serum IL-1β, sIL-2R, IL-6, and TNF-α levels with disease activity parameters in ankylosing spondylitis
A. Bal, E. Unlu, G. Bahar, E. Aydog, E. Eksioglu, R. Yorgancioglu
Anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies enhance phagocytosis, IL-8 production, and glucose uptake of polymorphonuclear neutrophils rather than anti-proteinase 3 antibodies leading to activation-induced cell death of the neutrophils
S. C. Hsieh, H. S. Yu, S. H. Cheng, K. J. Li, M. C. Lu, C. H. Wu, C. Y. Tsai, C. L. Yu
Pulmonary involvement in ankylosing spondylitis
Percival D. Sampaio-Barros, Elza Maria F. P. Cerqueira, Sílvio M. Rezende, Lucimara Maeda, Roseneide A. Conde, Verônica A. Zanardi, Manoel Barros Bértolo, José Ribeiro de Menezes Neto, Adil M. Samara
Tacrolimus and cyclosporine A inhibit human osteoclast formation via targeting the calcineurin-dependent NFAT pathway and an activation pathway for c-Jun or MITF in rheumatoid arthritis
Masashi Miyazaki, Yosuke Fujikawa, Chikahiro Takita, Hiroshi Tsumura
Age-related decrease in the activity of collagenase in the femoral head in patients with hip osteoarthritis
M. Zgoda, L. Pczek, I. Bartłomiejczyk, J. Siemińska, D. Chmielewski, A. Górecki
Clinical and densitometric efficacy of the association of interferon alpha and pamidronate in the treatment of osteoporosis in patients with systemic mastocytosis
M. Laroche, J. Bret, A. Brouchet, B. Mazières
Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma misdiagnosed as lupus erythematosus panniculitis
Estrella Garcia Gonzalez, Enrico Selvi, Sauro Lorenzini, Roberta Maggio, Susanna Mannucci, Mauro Galeazzi, Roberto Marcolongo
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and bronchiolitis obliterans organized pneumonia
Debora Ingrid Sohn, Hugo Armando Laborde, Marta Bellotti, Luis Seijo
Long-term treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome-associated cerebral arterial thromboses with intravenous immunoglobulin: a case report
B. Arabshahi, E. D. Thompson, E. M. Smergel, D. P. Goldsmith
Isolated eosinophilic mesenteric vasculitis with extensive thrombosis and splenic infarction in a 13-year-old boy
Amal Abdulwahab, Hani Almoallim, Nasim Khan
Peripheral neuropathy in two patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving infliximab treatment
Maria G. Tektonidou, John Serelis, Fotini N. Skopouli
Inhibition of TNFα does not induce viral reactivation in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection: two cases
S. Aslanidis, T. Vassiliadis, A. Pyrpasopoulou, I. Douloumpakas, C. Zamboulis
Fever due to aortitis
Alexander P. Rozin, Rachel Bar-Shalom, Alexander Strizevsky, Giris Jacob
Unusually diffuse idiopathic calcinosis cutis
Ali Guermazi, Mikayel Grigoryan, Florence Cordoliani, Delphine Kérob
Endobronchial stenting for respiratory complications in relapsing polychondritis
Ossama Abbas, Mirna Fares, Ghassan Jamaleddine, Thurayya Arayssi, Zahi Touma, Pierre Bou Khalil
A case of systemic lupus erythematosus complicated by alveolar hemorrhage and cytomegalovirus colitis
Masami Takei, Kenji Yamakami, Ko Mitamura, Noboru Kitamura, Yoshihiro Matsukawa, Shigemasa Sawada
“Primary” antiphospholipid syndrome evolving into Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia: a case report
R. A. Asherson, M. C. Davidge-Pitts, E. Wypkema
Infliximab-associated neuropathy in RA patients—the importance of considering the diagnosis of mononeuritis multiplex
J. Birnbaum
Inhibition of tumour necrosis factor-α in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection
C. Zavos, J. Kountouras, N. Zavos, D. Chatzopoulos
Age-related decrease in the activity of collagenase in the femoral head in patients with hip osteoarthritis
M. Zgoda, L. Pączek, I. Bartłomiejczyk, J. Siemińska, D. Chmielewski, A. Górecki