Issue 9/2007
Content (41 Articles)
The development of systemic sclerosis classification criteria
Jennifer G. Walker, Janet Pope, Murray Baron, Sharon LeClercq, Marie Hudson, Suzanne Taillefer, Steven M. Edworthy, Oleg Nadashkevich, Marvin J. Fritzler
Translating evidence into practice for people with osteoarthritis of the hip and knee
Caroline Brand
Evaluation of pulmonary function and bicycle ergometry tests in patients with Behçet’s disease
Figen Gökoğlu, Z. Rezan Yorgancioğlu, Nilgün Üstün, Figen Ayhan Ardiç
Body composition, insulin, and leptin levels in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Ismail Sari, Tevfik Demir, Leyla Didem Kozaci, Servet Akar, Tulay Kavak, Merih Birlik, Fatos Onen, Nurullah Akkoc
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: a retrospective epidemiological study of 168 patients
Iltekin Duman, Umit Dincer, Mehmet Ali Taskaynatan, Engin Cakar, Ilknur Tugcu, Kemal Dincer
A national survey to assess investigation and management protocols followed in dealing with steroid-induced osteoporosis
R. Peshin, M. Phelan
Eosinophilic fasciitis: report of two cases and a systematic review of the literature dealing with clinical variables that predict outcome
Yukie Endo, Atsushi Tamura, Youichiro Matsushima, Tomoko Iwasaki, Michiko Hasegawa, Yayoi Nagai, Osamu Ishikawa
Manifestations of metabolic syndrome associated with male gout in different age strata
Shih-Yang Chen, Ching-Lang Chen, Ming-Lai Shen
Biochemical effectiveness of allopurinol and allopurinol-probenecid in previously benzbromarone-treated gout patients
Mattheus K. Reinders, Eric N. van Roon, Pieternella M. Houtman, Jacobus R. B. J. Brouwers, Tim L. Th. A. Jansen
Early ultrasonographic markers of atherosclerosis in patients with familial Mediterranean fever
Ismail Sari, Oguzhan Karaoglu, Gercek Can, Servet Akar, Aytac Gulcu, Merih Birlik, Nurullah Akkoc, Mehmet Tunca, Yigit Goktay, Fatos Onen
Surgical outcomes and risk factors for postoperative complications in patients with Behcet’s disease
Min-Chan Park, Bum-Kee Hong, Hyuck Moon Kwon, You-Sun Hong
Decreased expressions of the TNF-alpha signaling adapters in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) are correlated with disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Langjing Zhu, Xiao Yang, Weiying Chen, Xiaoyan Li, Yulian Ji, Haiping Mao, Jing Nie, Xueqing Yu
Characteristics of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL)
Jennifer K. King, Karen H. Costenbader
Impact of TNF inhibition on insulin resistance and lipids levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Lai-Shan Tam, Brian Tomlinson, Tanya T. Chu, Tena K. Li, Edmund K. Li
No effects of adalimumab therapy on the activation of NF-κB in lymphocytes from patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis
Marco Semmler, Ulrike Seeck, Beate Neustadt, Martin Schulz, Helmut Dotzlaw, Gunther Neeck, Martin Eggert
Prevalence and clinical significance of antibodies to citrullinated fibrinogen (ACF) in Chinese patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Yi Zhao, Xin Tian, Zhanguo Li
Safety of etanercept therapy in rheumatoid patients undergoing surgery: preliminary report
Salvatore Corrao, Giovanni Pistone, Sabrina Arnone, Luigi Calvo, Rosario Scaglione, Giuseppe Licata
Antioxidant status after iloprost treatment in patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon secondary to systemic sclerosis
Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Yolanda Braun-Moscovici, Vladimir Livshitz, Daniel Schapira, Doron Markovits, Alexander Rozin, Tatiana Boikaner, A. Menahem Nahir
Antitumor necrosis factor-induced neutropenia: a case report with double positive rechallenges
E. Montané, M. Sallés, A. Barriocanal, E. Riera, J. Costa, X. Tena
Vascular occlusions in a patient with low positive antiphospholipid antibodies and subsequent development of breast carcinoma: a diagnostic dilemma
Ronald A. Asherson, David D′ Cruz
Dramatic etanercept-induced remission of relapsing febrile sciatic neuralgia related to p46l mutation of the tnfrsf1a gene
Jacques Serratrice, Christine de Roux-Serratrice, Patrick Disdier, Catherine Dodé, Pierre-Jean Weiller
Pulmonary aneurysms and intracardiac thrombi due to Behçet’s disease in an African-American adolescent with oculocutaneous albinism
Lois M. Endo, Steven M. Rowe, Robb L. Romp, Mark A. Buckmaster, T. Prescott Atkinson
Influence of corticosteroid treatment on MRI findings in giant cell arteritis
T. A. Bley, T. Ness, K. Warnatz, A. Frydrychowicz, M. Uhl, J. Hennig, M. Langer, M. Markl
Mixed connective tissue disease: a case with scleroderma renal crisis following abortion
Mehmet Celikbilek, Rengin Elsurer, Baris Afsar, Handan B. Ozdemir, Siren Sezer, Nurhan F. Ozdemir
Unusual cause of painful shoulder in an elderly woman with rheumatoid arthritis
Esha Saha, Magdalena Dziadzio, Katherine Irving, Anthony Chambers, Clare Higgens
Excellent response to the clinical treatment of tophaceous gout
Cezar Augusto Muniz Caldas, Ricardo Fuller
The expanded clinical spectrum of familial Mediterranean fever
Z. Birsin Özçakar, Fatoş Yalçınkaya, Selçuk Yüksel, Mesiha Ekim
Atypical carcinoid tumor of the thymus with ectopic ACTH production developed during the course of etanercept treatment—case report
Ismail Simsek, Salih Pay, Ayhan Dinc, Hakan Erdem, Bulent Kurt
Cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis associated with mycobacterial and salmonella infection
Sulaiman M. Al-Mayouf, Sultan Bahabri, Mahmuod Majeed
Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis in relapsing polychondritis
Seung-Ki Kwok, Soo-Hong Seo, Hyun-Sook Kim, Ji Hyeon Ju, Chong-Hyeon Yoon, Sung-Hwan Park, Ho-Youn Kim
A case of polymyositis complicated with myasthenic crisis
Yoshito Yoshidome, Shinji Morimoto, Naoto Tamura, Shigeto Kobayashi, Hiroshi Tsuda, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yoshinari Takasaki
A case of limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis developing anti-mitochondria antibody positive primary biliary cirrhosis after acute myocardial infarction
Kiyomitsu Miyachi, Raleigh Hankins, Minoru Ihara, Akira Miyamoto, Tetsuroh Okano, Miwako Iwai, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Marvin J. Fritzler
Tumor-induced osteomalacia
Mala Kaul, Miriam Silverberg, Edward F. DiCarlo, Robert Schneider, Anne R. Bass, Doruk Erkan
Spontaneous unilateral accessory nerve palsy: a case report and review of the literature
Oya Özdemir, Aslı Kurne, Çağrı Temuçin, Kubilay Varlı
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis and diffuse alveolar damage associated with methotrexate therapy in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
Hideto Kameda, Ayumi Okuyama, Jun-ichi Tamaru, Shinji Itoyama, Atsushi Iizuka, Tsutomu Takeuchi
Hypernatremic myopathy caused by a hypothalamic mixed germ cell tumor mimicking polymyositis
Min-Nung Huang, Jien-Jiun Chen, Kuang-Lun Lee, Fen-Yu Tseng, Chia-Li Yu, Song-Chou Hsieh
Treatment with infliximab may contribute to the development of peripheral neuropathy among the patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Przemyslaw J. Kotyla, Bogna Sliwinska-Kotyla, Eugene J. Kucharz
The first case of a patient with neutropenia and giant-cell arteritis treated with rituximab
B. Mayrbaeurl, M. Hinterreiter, S. Burgstaller, M. Windpessl, J. Thaler