Issue 1/2009
Content (19 Articles)
Methotrexate for the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: process to approval for JIA indication in Japan
Masaaki Mori, Takuya Naruto, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Takuji Murata, Syuji Takei, Minako Tomiita, Yasuhiko Itoh, Satoshi Fujikawa, Shumpei Yokota
Study of active controlled tocilizumab monotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis patients with an inadequate response to methotrexate (SATORI): significant reduction in disease activity and serum vascular endothelial growth factor by IL-6 receptor inhibition therapy
Norihiro Nishimoto, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Shinichi Kawai, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Junichi Azuma, Tadamitsu Kishimoto
Response of early active rheumatoid arthritis to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors: evaluation by magnetic resonance imaging
Wataru Hirose, Kenichiro Nishikawa, Masuko Hirose, Toshihiro Nanki, Hideharu Sugimoto
Quality of life evaluated by Short Form-8 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were receiving infusion of infliximab
Hiroyasu Ogawa, Mansho Itokazu, Yoshiki Ito, Kazu Matsumoto, Iori Takigami
Deficiency in EBV-induced gene 3 (EBI3) in MRL/lpr mice results in pathological alteration of autoimmune glomerulonephritis and sialadenitis
Takashi Igawa, Hitoshi Nakashima, Atsushi Sadanaga, Kohsuke Masutani, Katsuhisa Miyake, Sakiko Shimizu, Atsunobu Takeda, Shinjiro Hamano, Hiroki Yoshida
Improvement of reduced serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein levels in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients treated with the anti-interleukin-6 receptor monoclonal antibody tocilizumab
Shoko Nakajima, Takuya Naruto, Takako Miyamae, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Masaaki Mori, Shigeru Nishimaki, Shumpei Yokota
Disease activity and the course of wrist joint deterioration over 10 years in the patients with early rheumatoid arthritis
Issaku Toyohara, Hajime Ishikawa, Asami Abe, Kiyoshi Nakazono, Akira Murasawa
Improvement in diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal conditions with one-stop clinic-based ultrasonography
Sumeet Agrawal, Shweta S. Bhagat, Bhaskar Dasgupta
Cyclosporin A treatment for Japanese patients with severe adult-onset Still’s disease
Mio Mitamura, Yoshifumi Tada, Syuichi Koarada, Hisako Inoue, Rie Suematsu, Akihide Ohta, Kohei Nagasawa
Masked early symptoms of pneumonia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis during tocilizumab treatment: a report of two cases
Hiroshi Fujiwara, Norihiro Nishimoto, Yoshimasa Hamano, Nobuyuki Asanuma, Shunji Miki, Soji Kasayama, Masaki Suemura
A case report of a patient with refractory adult-onset Still’s disease who was successfully treated with tocilizumab over 6 years
Hideko Nakahara, Toru Mima, Naoko Yoshio-Hoshino, Masato Matsushita, Jun Hashimoto, Norihiro Nishimoto
An adult case of Henoch-Schönlein purpura complicating common peroneal nerve mononeuropathy
Kei Ohnuma, Osamu Hosono, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Noritada Yoshikawa, Tomoki Katayose, Naoki Oyaizu, Hirotoshi Tanaka, Chikao Morimoto
Treatment of refractory retrobulbar granuloma with rituximab in a patient with ANCA-negative Wegener’s granulomatosis: a case report
Seido Ooka, Akihiko Maeda, Hiroshi Ito, Masami Omata, Hidehiro Yamada, Shoichi Ozaki
Systemic lupus erythematosus and dermatomyositis with symptomatic bilateral sacroiliitis: an unusual and interesting association
Pradeep Kumar Shenoy Chandrasekhara, Nambiar Veettil Jayachandran, Joe Thomas, Gumdal Narsimulu
A case of immunoglobulin G4-related chronic sclerosing sialadenitis and dacryoadenitis associated with tuberculosis
Mitsuhiro Kawano, Kazunori Yamada, Yasushi Kakuchi, Kiyoaki Ito, Ryoko Hamano, Hiroshi Fujii, Ryo Inoue, Masami Matsumura, Masayuki Takahira, Yoh Zen, Akihiro Yachie, Akikatsu Nakashima, Masakazu Yamagishi
Clinical utility of computed tomographic scanning for the evaluation of lupus profundus in two patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Takashi Kato, Ayako Nakajima, Tokiko Kanno, Mikiko Shinozaki, Takahisa Gono, Hisae Ichida, Ikuko Masuda, Naoyuki Kamatani, Masako Hara
Hyper-IgD syndrome with novel mutation in a Japanese girl
Takuya Naruto, Yasuo Nakagishi, Masaaki Mori, Takako Miyamae, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Shumpei Yokota
Efficacy of low-dose tacrolimus added to methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Japan: a retrospective study
Yoshitaka Morita, Yumi Sasae, Takeo Sakuta, Minoru Satoh, Tamaki Sasaki, Naoki Kashihara