Issue 5/2009
Content (23 Articles)
Short- and long-term therapeutic effects of thermal mineral waters in knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
Taoufik Harzy, Najoua Ghani, Nessrine Akasbi, Wafaa Bono, Chakib Nejjari
Perceived barriers to paracetamol (acetaminophen) prescribing, especially following rofecoxib withdrawal from the market
Nadia Barozzi, Susan E. Tett
Translation and validation of the Persian version of the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2-Short Form (AIMS2-SF) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Ahmad Reza Askary-Ashtiani, Sayed Javad Mousavi, Mohamad Parnianpour, Ali Montazeri
Comparison of therapeutic effects of sodium hyaluronate and corticosteroid injections on trapeziometacarpal joint osteoarthritis
Cengiz Bahadır, Burcu Onal, Vildan Yaman Dayan, Nuriye Gürer
The evaluation of efficacy and tolerability of Hylan G-F 20 in bilateral thumb base osteoarthritis: 6 months follow-up
F. Figen Ayhan, Nilgün Üstün
Faraway from the Silk Route: demographic and clinical features of Behçet’s disease in 106 Brazilian patients
Fabricio Souza Neves, Cezar Augusto Muniz Caldas, Laís Verderame Lage, Cláudia Goldenstein-Schainberg, Célio Roberto Gonçalves
Association of complementary or alternative medicine use with quality of life, functional status or cumulated damage in chronic rheumatic diseases
José Alvarez-Nemegyei, Alberta Bautista-Botello, Jorge Dávila-Velázquez
To compare the efficacy and safety of nifedipine sustained release with Ginkgo biloba extract to treat patients with primary Raynaud’s phenomenon in South Korea; Korean Raynaud study (KOARA study)
Whan-Seok Choi, Chang-Jin Choi, Kyung-Soo Kim, Jae-Ho Lee, Chan-Hee Song, Ju-Hye Chung, Sun-Myeoung Ock, Jung-Bok Lee, Chul-Min Kim
Increased frequencies of hysterectomy and early menopause in fibromyalgia patients: a comparative study
Ömer Nuri Pamuk, Salim Dönmez, Necati Çakir
Rapid decrease of anti-β-glucan antibody as an indicator for early diagnosis of carinii pneumonitis and deep mycotic infections following immunosuppressive therapy in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Masaharu Yoshida, Ken-ichi Ishibashi, Shunsuke Hida, Noriko Yoshikawa, Iwao Nakabayashi, Masakazu Akashi, Taeko Watanabe, Tomohiro Tomiyasu, Naohito Ohno
Construct validity of the AIMS-2 upper limb function scales as a measure of disability in individuals with osteoarthritis of the hand
Norma J. MacIntyre, Jean Wessel
Risk factors of vertebral fractures in women with systemic lupus erythematosus
Claudia Mendoza-Pinto, Mario García-Carrasco, Hilda Sandoval-Cruz, Margarita Muñoz-Guarneros, Ricardo O. Escárcega, Mario Jiménez-Hernández, Pamela Munguía-Realpozo, Manuel Sandoval-Cruz, Margarita Delezé-Hinojosa, Aurelio López-Colombo, Ricard Cervera
Prevalence of abnormal ankle brachial index in patients with primary Sjogren’s syndrome
Satish M. Rachapalli, Patrick D. Kiely, Brian E. Bourke
Prolonged synovitis in pediatric Lyme arthritis cannot be predicted by clinical or laboratory parameters
AnneMarie C. Brescia, Carlos D. Rose, Paul T. Fawcett
Spatial-temporal parameters of gait in women with fibromyalgia
José María Heredia Jiménez, Virginia A. Aparicio García-Molina, Jesús M. Porres Foulquie, Manuel Delgado Fernández, Victor M. Soto Hermoso
What factors determine patients’ preference for tumour necrosis factor inhibitors in ankylosing spondylitis?
Dessy W. Fajri, Caroline A. Brand, Shyamali C. Dharmage, Belinda J. Martin, Russell R. C. Buchanan, Lionel Schachna
Nailfold capillaroscopy in Behçet’s disease, analysis of 128 patients
Atusa Movasat, Farhad Shahram, Patricia E. Carreira, Abdolhadi Nadji, Maassoomeh Akhlaghi, Nassim Naderi, Fereydoun Davatchi
Detection of the regression on hydroxychloroquine retinopathy in optical coherence tomography
Burak Turgut, Peykan Turkcuoglu, Süleyman Serdar Koca, Orhan Aydemir
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-specific autoantibodies in patients with interstitial lung disease and absence of clinically apparent articular RA
Alison M. Gizinski, Margherita Mascolo, Jennifer L. Loucks, Alma Kervitsky, Richard T. Meehan, Kevin K. Brown, V. Michael Holers, Kevin D. Deane
Development of leprosy in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis during the infliximab treatment: reactivation of a latent infection?
Roberta Vilela Lopes, Claudia Barros Ohashi, Luiza Helena Cavaleiro, Rosana de Britto Pereira Cruz, Rossana Ruth Garcia da Veiga, Mário Fernando Ribeiro Miranda, Gilberto Toshimitsu Yoshikawa
The coexistence of ankylosing spondylitis and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
M. Wooten