Issue 7/2021
Content (58 Articles)
The target on B cells in Systemic Sclerosis: a “midsummer dream” to extinguish inflammation and prevent early disease progression to fibrosis
Giacomo De Luca, Alessandro Tomelleri, Lorenzo Dagna, Marco Matucci-Cerinic
Lupus animal models and neuropsychiatric implications
Thaís Evelyn Karnopp, Gustavo Flores Chapacais, Eduarda Correa Freitas, Odirlei André Monticielo
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis: a review of the treatments used during the past 30 years and future directions
Biplab K. Saha, Nils T. Milman
Combined brain/heart magnetic resonance imaging in antiphospholipid syndrome-two sides of the same coin
George Markousis-Mavrogenis, Petros P. Sfikakis, Sophie I. Mavrogeni, Maria G. Tektonidou
A review of applications of metabolomics in osteoarthritis
Jie-Ting Li, Ni Zeng, Zhi-Peng Yan, Tao Liao, Guo-Xin Ni
A critical review of the available evidence on the diagnosis and clinical features of CPPD: do we really need imaging?
Georgios Filippou, Emilio Filippucci, Peter Mandl, Abhishek Abhishek
Synovial biopsies in clinical practice and research: current developments and perspectives
Hanna Johnsson, Aurélie Najm
Mobile health technologies for the management of rheumatic diseases: a systematic review of online stores in Brazil
Lucas Ogura Dantas, Cristiano Carvalho, Beatriz Cardinal Prando, Timothy E. McAlindon, Paula Regina Mendes da Silva Serrão
COVID-19 and the clinical course of rheumatic manifestations
Sakir Ahmed, Olena Zimba, Armen Yuri Gasparyan
B cells in systemic sclerosis: from pathophysiology to treatment
Konstantinos Melissaropoulos, Dimitrios Daoussis
Clinical course and outcomes of COVID-19 in rheumatic disease patients: a case cohort study with a diverse population
Timothy Arleo, David Tong, Julie Shabto, Ghazala O’Keefe, Arezou Khosroshahi
The association of the progression of knee osteoarthritis with high-sensitivity CRP in community-dwelling people—the Yakumo study
Fumiki Kondo, Yasuhiko Takegami, Shinya Ishizuka, Yukiharu Hasegawa, Shiro Imagama
Echocardiographic evaluation of pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular function, and right ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Jose R. Azpiri-Lopez, Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado, Iris J. Colunga-Pedraza, Rosa I. Arvizu-Rivera, Jesus A. Cardenas-de la Garza, Raymundo Vera-Pineda, Jose A. Davila-Jimenez, Carolina M. Martinez-Flores, Alejandra B. Rodriguez-Romero, Natalia Guajardo-Jauregui
Factors predicting addition of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs after initial methotrexate monotherapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Takashi Yamaguchi, Noriko Kohyama, Miki Takenaka, Takahiro Okada, Tatsuya Kurihara, Kosuke Sakurai, Yusuke Miwa, Mari Kogo
Comparable long-term outcomes between DAS28-ESR remission criteria and ACR/EULAR definitions in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis
Julio Ramírez, José Inciarte-Mundo, Andrea Cuervo, Raquel Celis, Virginia Ruiz-Esquide, Raul Castellanos-Moreira, Andrés Ponce, José A. Gómez-Puerta, Raimon Sanmartí, Juan D. Cañete
Drug retention of sarilumab, baricitinib, and tofacitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the ANSWER cohort study
Kosuke Ebina, Toru Hirano, Yuichi Maeda, Wataru Yamamoto, Motomu Hashimoto, Koichi Murata, Akira Onishi, Sadao Jinno, Ryota Hara, Yonsu Son, Hideki Amuro, Tohru Takeuchi, Ayaka Yoshikawa, Masaki Katayama, Keiichi Yamamoto, Makoto Hirao, Yasutaka Okita, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Ken Nakata
Rheumatology health care providers’ views and practices on obesity and smoking cessation management in rheumatoid arthritis
Derin Karacabeyli, Kam Shojania, Natasha Dehghan, Diane Lacaille
Serum Krebs von den Lungen-6 and lung ultrasound B lines as potential diagnostic and prognostic factors for rheumatoid arthritis–associated interstitial lung disease
Dina S. Fotoh, Asrar Helal, Mohamed S. Rizk, Heba A. Esaily
First trimester combined screening test for aneuploidies in anti-Ro carriers pregnant women
N. Martínez-Sánchez, A. Robles Marhuenda, M. De la Calle Fernández-Miranda, J. L. Bartha
Role of IL-24 in NK cell activation and its clinical implication in systemic lupus erythematosus
Yundi Tang, Xiaotong Sun, Yuxuan Wang, Huijie Luan, Ruijun Zhang, Fanlei Hu, Xiaolin Sun, Xia Li, Jianping Guo
Medication adherence: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of adolescents with systemic lupus erythematosus
Qiu Er Clarice Tan, Xiaocong Gao, Wei How Darryl Ang, Ying Lau
Expression of Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 in the saliva of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and chronic periodontitis
Consuelo P. C. Marques, Vandilson P. Rodrigues, Larissa C. de Carvalho, Louise P. Nichilatti, Mayra M. Franco, Fernando José B. Patrício, Marcelo Magalhães, Marcelo S. de Andrade, Bruno B. Benatti
Clinicopathological features and outcomes of SLE patients with renal injury characterised by thrombotic microangiopathy
Wencui Chen, Shaoshan Liang, Ke Zuo, Liu Yang, Caihong Zeng, Weixin Hu
Hydroxychloroquine blood levels in stable lupus nephritis under low dose (2–3 mg/kg/day): 12-month prospective randomized controlled trial
Caio B. Zanetti, Tatiana Pedrosa, Léonard de V. K. Kupa, Nadia E. Aikawa, Eduardo F. Borba, Margarete B. G. Vendramini, Clovis A. Silva, Sandra G. Pasoto, Eloisa Bonfa
Gender differences in patient journey to diagnosis and disease outcomes: results from the European Map of Axial Spondyloarthritis (EMAS)
Marco Garrido-Cumbrera, Denis Poddubnyy, Laure Gossec, Raj Mahapatra, Christine Bundy, Souzi Makri, Sergio Sanz-Gómez, Laura Christen, Carlos J. Delgado-Domínguez, Victoria Navarro-Compán
PM-Scl and Th/To in systemic sclerosis: a comparison of different autoantibody assays
C. A. Mecoli, L. Gutierrez-Alamillo, Q. Yang, M. Sampedro, A. Woods, L. K. Hummers, F. Wigley, A. A. Shah, L. Casciola-Rosen
Evaluation of limited hand mobility in systemic sclerosis patients by using “prayer sign” and “tabletop sign”
Sadettin Uslu, Semih Gülle, Gerçek Can, İsmail Sarı, Fatoş Önen, Merih Birlik
Efficacy and safety of rituximab on lung and skin involvement in systemic sclerosis: a systematic review and metaanalysis
Sasimon Borrirukwisitsak, Pongchirat Tantayakom, Wanrachada Katchamart
Lymphocyte subpopulations in Sjögren’s syndrome are distinct in anti-SSA-positive patients and related to disease activity
Filipe Barcelos, Catarina Martins, Nathalie Madeira, Miguel Ângelo-Dias, Joana Cardigos, Nuno Alves, José Vaz-Patto, Jaime Cunha-Branco, Luís-Miguel Borrego
Mycophenolate in idiopathic inflammatory myositis: outcome data of a large South Asian cohort
Aswin M. Nair, John Mathew, Ruchika Goel, Pramod Chebbi, Ashish Jacob Mathew, G. Arvind, Bijesh Yadav, Grace Rebekah, John A. J. Prakash, Debashish Danda
Subclavian artery involvement in patients with giant cell arteritis: do we need a modified Halo Score?
Juan Molina Collada, Julia Martínez-Barrio, Belén Serrano-Benavente, Isabel Castrejón, Juan Carlos Nieto-González, Liz Rocío Caballero Motta, Laura Trives Folguera, José María Álvaro-Gracia
The U.S. Veterans Health Administration national giant cell arteritis (GCA) database cohort: incident ophthalmic complications in biopsy-negative GCA patients
Sarah H. Chung, Meredith B. Morcos, P. Scott Pollock, Bernard Ng
Visceral adipose tissue in granulomatosis with polyangiitis: association with disease activity parameters
Pedro L. Furlam, Mariana O. Perez, Andre S. Franco, Valeria F. Caparbo, Samuel K. Shinjo, Rosa M. R. Pereira
Incidence and risk factors of venous thromboembolism in ANCA-associated vasculitis: a metaanalysis and metaregression
Panupong Hansrivijit, Angkawipa Trongtorsak, Kinjal P. Gadhiya, Kriti Lnu, Christina T. Dimech, Charat Thongprayoon, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Stewart H. Lecker
Suboptimal vaccination coverage of recommended vaccines among French children with recurrent autoinflammatory fever syndromes: a study from the Juvenile Inflammatory Rheumatism cohort
Virginie Rollet-Cohen, Justine Mirete, Glory Dingulu, François Hofer, Michael Hofer, Andreas Woerner, Marie-Aliette Dommergues, Véronique Hentgen
Work productivity impairment in patients with familial Mediterranean fever and effects of interleukin-1 antagonists
Erdem Suticen, Nuh Atas, Aslihan Avanoglu Guler, Orhun Akdogan, Hakan Babaoğlu, Hasan Satis, Hazan Karadeniz, Seminur Haznedaroglu, Mehmet Akif Ozturk, Abdurrahman Tufan
Comorbidities and factors influencing frequent gout attacks in patients with gout: a cross-sectional study
Jing Liang, Yutong Jiang, Yefei Huang, Yulan Huang, Feng Liu, Yanli Zhang, Mingcan Yang, Jialing Wu, Min Xiao, Shuangyan Cao, Jieruo Gu
Acute effect of green tea catechins on uric acid metabolism after alcohol ingestion in Japanese men
Yuka Kawakami, Arisa Yasuda, Motoki Hayashi, Misuzu Akiyama, Toshihiko Asai, Toshio Hosaka, Hidekazu Arai
Extracellular-to-intracellular water ratios are associated with functional disability levels in patients with knee osteoarthritis: results from the Nagahama Study
Masashi Taniguchi, Tome Ikezoe, Tsukasa Kamitani, Tadao Tsuboyama, Hiromu Ito, Shuichi Matsuda, Yasuharu Tabara, Fumihiko Matsuda, Noriaki Ichihashi
Sonographic evaluation of the association between calcific tendinopathy and rotator cuff tear: a case-controlled comparison
Nicholas C. Laucis, Kelli A. Rosen, Anay Thodge, Jessica R. Leschied, Chad L. Klochko, Steven B. Soliman
Gaps on rheumatologists’ knowledge of physical activity
Camilla Astley, Ana Jessica Pinto, Eloisa Bonfá, Clovis Artur Almeida da Silva, Bruno Gualano
Current status of the rheumatologists’ workforce in Latin America: a PANLAR collaborative study
Daniel Gerardo Fernández-Ávila, Daniela Patino-Hernandez, Sergio Kowalskii, Alfredo Vargas-Caselles, Ana Maria Sapag, Antonio Cachafeiro-Vilar, Lucia Meléndez-Muñoz, Carlos Santiago-Pastelín, Cesar Graf, Chayanne Rossetto, Daniel Palleiro, Daniela Trincado, Diana Fernández-Ávila, Dina Arrieta, Gil Reyes, Jossiel Then Baez, Manuel F. Ugarte-Gil, Mario Cardiel, Nelly Colman, Nilmo Chávez, Paula I Burgos, Ruben Montúfar, Sayonara Sandino, Yurilis Fuentes-Silva, Enrique R. Soriano
The impact of education and clinical decision support on the quality of positive antinuclear antibody referrals
Veena Patel, Kichul Ko, Anisha B. Dua
NFKB1 promoter –94 insertion/deletion ATTG polymorphism (rs28362491) is associated with severity and disease progression of rheumatoid arthritis through interleukin-6 levels modulation in Egyptian patients
Samy Y. Elkhawaga, Maher H. Gomaa, Mohsen M. Elsayed, Ahmed A. Ebeed
Anti-phospholipids antibodies and immune complexes in COVID-19 patients: a putative role in disease course for anti-annexin-V antibodies
Antonio Cristiano, Valentina Fortunati, Fabio Cherubini, Sergio Bernardini, Marzia Nuccetelli
Glucocorticoid therapy suppresses Wnt signaling by reducing the ratio of serum Wnt3a to Wnt inhibitors, sFRP-1 and Wif-1
Mai Kawazoe, Kaichi Kaneko, Toshihiro Nanki
Chagas disease reactivation in rheumatologic patients: association with immunosuppressive therapy and humoral response
Ariana Ringer, Juan Pablo Ruffino, Rodolfo Leiva, Nadia Cuadranti, María Cecilia Argento, María Florencia Martínez, Ignacio Rolla, Serenela Chulibert, Daniela Carbone, Mariano Palatnik, Maria Noel Cortese, Mariana Lagrutta, Laura Córdoba, Florencia Belén González, María Florencia Pacini, Silvina Raquel Villar, Damian Águila, Oscar Adelmo Bottasso, Ana Rosa Pérez, Marcelo Abdala
Dorsolateral medullary infarction during skin infection by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in a patient with triple antiphospholipid antibody positivity: a case-based review
Yu-Lan Chen, Hai-Tao Yang, Li-Xiong Liu, Cui-Hong Chen, Qin Huang, Xiao-Ping Hong, Jiu-Liang Zhao, Dong-Zhou Liu
Efficacy of interleukin-1 blockade in Schnitzler’s syndrome without detectable monoclonal gammopathy: a case-based review
Riccardo Bixio, Maurizio Rossini, Alessandro Giollo
COVID-19 in rheumatoid arthritis cases: an Iranian referral center experience
Soraya Shadmanfar, Nematollah Jonaidi-Jafari, Ramezan Jafari, Zeynab Rastgar-Moqaddam, Amin Saburi
Clinical and ultrasound response to intralesional sodium thiosulfate for the treatment of calcinosis cutis in the setting of systemic sclerosis. A case-based review
Ana Elísabet López-Sundh, A. Quintana-Sancho, C. Durán-Vian, L. Reguero-DelCura, A. F. Corrales-Martínez, C. Gómez-Fernández, M. A. González-López
Kawasaki disease and influenza—new lessons from old associations
Aaqib Zaffar Banday, Ashwini Arul, Pandiarajan Vignesh, Mini P. Singh, Kapil Goyal, Surjit Singh
Aneurysms in primary antiphospholipid syndrome: a case-based review
Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Yehuda Shoenfeld
Time-trends in cocaine, hallucinogen, amphetamine, and sedative/anxiolytic/hypnotic use disorder hospitalizations in rheumatic diseases: a national time-trends study
Jasvinder A. Singh
Are antiphospholipid antibodies just a common epiphenomenon or are they causative of immune-mediated coagulopathy in COVID-19?
Diana Castillo-Martínez, Zaira Torres, Luis M. Amezcua-Guerra, Carlos Pineda
Juvenile psoriatic arthritis with rash on the hands and knees: diagnostic dilemma
Takuma Ohnishi, Satoshi Sato, Zenshiro Tamaki, Yoji Uejima, Eisuke Suganuma
Cutaneous vasculitis in lupus treated with IV immunoglobulin
Matheo Augusto Morandi Stumpf, Carla Romagnolli Quintino, Marcelo Arlindo Vasconcelos Miranda Rodrigues, Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos, Celina Wakisaka Maruta