Issue 5/2018
Content (40 Articles)
Biosimilars in rheumatology: recommendations for regulation and use in Middle Eastern countries
Bassel El Zorkany, Nizar Al Ani, Samar Al Emadi, Jamal Al Saleh, Imad Uthman, Yasser El Dershaby, Mohamed Mounir, Hani Al Moallim
Infrequent organ involvement of IgG4-related diseases: a literature review
Jie Chang, Wen Zhang
On chronic fatigue syndrome and nosological categories
Kassem Sharif, Abdulla Watad, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Michael Lichtbroun, Mariano Martini, Carlo Perricone, Howard Amital, Yehuda Shoenfeld
Cognitive impairment in rheumatoid arthritis: role of lymphocyte subsets, cytokines and neurotrophic factors
Laura E. Petersen, Talita S. A. Baptista, Júlia K. Molina, Julia G. Motta, Aline do Prado, Deise M. Piovesan, Tatiana de Nardi, Thiago W. Viola, Érica L. M. Vieira, Antonio L. Teixeira, Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira, Moisés Evandro Bauer
Increased frequency of temporal acoustic window failure in rheumatoid arthritis: a manifestation of altered bone metabolism?
Zsófia Kardos, Csaba Oláh, Mariann Sepsi, Attila Sas, László Kostyál, Tünde Bóta, Harjit Pal Bhattoa, Katalin Hodosi, György Kerekes, László Tamási, Dániel Bereczki, Zoltán Szekanecz
Long-term disease and patient-reported outcomes of a continuous treat-to-target approach in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis in daily clinical practice
G. A. Versteeg, L. M. M. Steunebrink, H. E. Vonkeman, P. M. ten Klooster, A. E. van der Bijl, M. A. F. J. van de Laar
Cerebellar involvement in patients withprimary Sjögren’s syndrome: diagnosis and treatment
Huaxia Yang, Yinghao Sun, Lidan Zhao, Xuan Zhang, Fengchun Zhang
Unexplained cough: it is time to rule out Sjogren’s syndrome
Matthew Koslow, Shaye Kivity, Vicktoria Vishnevskia-Dai, Issahar Ben-Dov
Serum uric acid levels are associated with lupus nephritis in patients with normal renal function
Ana Luisa Calich, Eduardo Ferreira Borba, Michelle Remião Ugolini-Lopes, Luiza Fuoco da Rocha, Eloisa Bonfá, Ricardo Fuller
Anti-tubulin-α-1C autoantibody in systemic lupus erythematosus: a novel indicator of disease activity and vasculitis manifestations
Xiaozhen Zhao, Yongjing Cheng, Yuzhou Gan, Rulin Jia, Lei Zhu, Xiaolin Sun
Esophageal high-resolution impedance manometry alterations in asymptomatic patients with systemic sclerosis: prevalence, associations with disease features, and prognostic value
Serena Vettori, Salvatore Tolone, Domenico Capocotta, Rossella Chieffo, Veronica Giacco, Gabriele Valentini, Ludovico Docimo
The safety of iloprost in systemic sclerosis in a real-life experience
S. Bellando-Randone, C. Bruni, G. Lepri, G. Fiori, F. Bartoli, ML Conforti, A. Moggi-Pignone, S. Guiducci, D. Giuggioli, M. Colaci, A. Spinella, C. Ferri, M. Matucci-Cerinic
The clinical phenotype of patients positive for antibodies to myositis and myositis-related disorders
S. G. Gofrit, H. Yonath, M. Lidar, Y. Shoenfeld, S. Kivity
Serum BAFF in Indian patients with IIM: a retrospective study reveals novel clinico-phenotypic associations in children and adults
Latika Gupta, Smriti Chaurasia, Puja Srivastava, Sanjay Dwivedi, Able Lawrence, Ramnath Misra
Atherogenic index of plasma: a useful marker for subclinical atherosclerosis in ankylosing spondylitis
Erkan Cure, Abdullah Icli, Ali Ugur Uslu, Davut Sakiz, Medine Cumhur Cure, Rabia Aydogan Baykara, Fatma Yavuz, Sevket Arslan, Adem Kucuk
Predictive value of microRNA-132 and its target gene NAG-1 in evaluating therapeutic efficacy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs treatment in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Tuan-Mao Guo, Yong Yan, Wei-Ning Cao, Qiang Liu, Hai-Yun Zhu, Lan Yang, Mai-Cang Gao, Yan-Li Xing
Clinical characteristics and thrombosis outcomes of paediatric antiphospholipid syndrome: analysis of 58 patients
Jingran Ma, Hongmei Song, Min Wei, Yanyan He
Evaluation of development of subclinical atherosclerosis in children with uveitis
Seçil Conkar, Suzan Güven Yılmaz, İlker Özgür Koska, Afig Berdeli, Sevgi Mir
Unique histologic features of tonsils from patients with periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome
Kalpana Manthiram, Hernan Correa, Kelli Boyd, Joseph Roland, Kathryn Edwards
Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis: initial risk factors and outcomes in a Latin American tertiary center
Izabel M. Buscatti, Beatriz B. Casella, Nadia E. Aikawa, Andrea Watanabe, Sylvia C. L. Farhat, Lucia M. A. Campos, Clovis Artur Silva
Correction to: Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis: initial risk factors and outcomes in a Latin American tertiary center
Izabel M. Buscatti, Beatriz B. Casella, Nadia E. Aikawa, Andrea Watanabe, Sylvia C. L. Farhat, Lucia M. A. Campos, Clovis Artur Silva
Increased DOT1L in synovial biopsies of patients with OA and RA
Dongyi He, Jia Liu, Yamei Hai, Qi Zhu, Yu Shen, Shicheng Guo, Wenzheng Zhang, Xiaodong Zhou
Decreased muscle mass is independently associated with knee pain in female patients with radiographically mild osteoarthritis: a nationwide cross-sectional study (KNHANES 2010–2011)
Hee Min Park, Ho Jae Kim, Byeori Lee, Minkyoung Kwon, Seung Min Jung, Sang-Won Lee, Yong-Beom Park, Jason Jungsik Song
Comparison of hyaluronic acid and PRP intra-articular injection with combined intra-articular and intraosseous PRP injections to treat patients with knee osteoarthritis
Ke Su, Yuming Bai, Jun Wang, Haisen Zhang, Hao Liu, Shiyun Ma
Assessment of cardiovascular risk profile based on measurement of tophus volume in patients with gout
Kyung-Ann Lee, Se-Ri Ryu, Seong-Jun Park, Hae-Rim Kim, Sang-Heon Lee
Clinical characteristics associated with subcutaneous tophi formation in Chinese gout patients: a retrospective study
Lidan Ma, Ruixia Sun, Zhaotong Jia, Yaowu Zou, Ying Xin, Xiaoyu Cheng, Tian Liu, Lingling Cui, Zhen Liu, Xinjiang Wu, Changgui Li
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in chronic and subacute low back pain patients in India: a triple-arm controlled study
Ajay Panwar, Chandrasekhar Valupadas, Madhavarao Veeramalla, Hunsur N. Vishwas
Proportion of contextual effects in the treatment of fibromyalgia—a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Nicola Whiteside, Aliya Sarmanova, Xi Chen, Kun Zou, Natasya Abdullah, Michael Doherty, Weiya Zhang
Severity of symptoms persists for decades in fibromyalgia—a 26-year follow-up study
Risto Isomeri, Marja Mikkelsson, Markku Partinen, Markku J. Kauppi
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with serum sickness-like reaction
Alaaddin Yorulmaz, Fatih Akın, Ahmet Sert, Mehmet Akif Ağır, Rıza Yılmaz, Şükrü Arslan
Secretory sphingomyelinase (S-SMase) activity is elevated in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Beatriz Y. Hanaoka, Michelle J. Ormseth, C. Michael Stein, Daipayan Banerjee, Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, Leslie J. Crofford
Tenascin-C, a biomarker of disease activity in early ankylosing spondylitis
Latika Gupta, Shruti Bhattacharya, Amita Aggarwal
Anti-adalimumab antibodies in a cohort of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: incidence and clinical correlations
Achille Marino, Feliciana Real-Fernández, Paolo Rovero, Teresa Giani, Ilaria Pagnini, Rolando Cimaz, Gabriele Simonini
Impact of early systemic lupus erythematosus on work disability—results from the Finnish nationwide register 2000–2007
Pia Elfving, Kari Puolakka, Vappu Rantalaiho, Hannu Kautiainen, Lauri J. Virta, Oili Kaipiainen-Seppänen
Regional differences in baseline disease activity and remission rates following golimumab treatment for RA: results from the GO-MORE trial
Patrick Durez, Karel Pavelka, Maria Alicia Lazaro, Abraham Garcia-Kutzbach, Robert J. Moots, Howard Amital, Marinella Govoni, Nathan Vastesaeger
Sjögren’s syndrome initially presented as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in a male patient: a case report and literature review
Xiaohan Xu, Tienan Zhu, Di Wu, Lu Zhang
Colonic perforation due to severe cytomegalovirus disease in granulomatosis with polyangiitis after immunosuppression
Alessandra Soriano, Nazareno Smerieri, Stefano Bonilauri, Loredana De Marco, Alberto Cavazza, Carlo Salvarani
Recurrent fever and arthralgia as the presentation of tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) in a Chinese girl: a case report and review of the literature
Yanxia Chen, Xingqi Huang, Sujie Zheng, Zhongliang Zhu, Wei Yang, Jinlin Liu
We must harness technology to deliver the musculoskeletal disease epidemiology that is urgently needed across sub-Saharan Africa
Doug L. Fink, David Oladele, Oseme Etomi, Hakeem Olaosebikan, Ida Dzifa Dey, Olufemi Olawale Adelowo