Issue 2/2008
Content (19 Articles)
Clinical strategies for amyloid A amyloidosis secondary to rheumatoid arthritis
Tadashi Nakamura
Hughes syndrome (the antiphospholipid syndrome): 25 years old
C. J. Edwards, G. R. V. Hughes
Limits and perspectives of ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of rheumatic diseases
Andrea Delle Sedie, Lucrezia Riente, Stefano Bombardieri
Regenerative effects of transplanting autologous mesenchymal stem cells on corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis in rabbits
Hiroyuki Matsuya, Taketoshi Kushida, Taku Asada, Masayuki Umeda, Takahiko Wada, Hirokazu Iida
In vivo change of elastic property in polyethylene acetabular components
Atsushi Kusaba, Saiji Kondo, Yujiro Mori, Yoshikatsu Kuroki
Retrospective clinical study on the notable efficacy and related factors of infliximab therapy in a rheumatoid arthritis management group in Japan: one-year clinical outcomes (RECONFIRM-2)
Yoshiya Tanaka, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Eisuke Inoue, Kazuyoshi Saito, Naoya Sekiguchi, Eri Sato, Masao Nawata, Hideto Kameda, Shigeru Iwata, Kouichi Amano, Hisashi Yamanaka
Prevalence of disease-specific antinuclear antibodies in general population: estimates from annual physical examinations of residents of a small town over a 5-year period
Nobuhide Hayashi, Masahiro Koshiba, Kunihiro Nishimura, Daisuke Sugiyama, Tomoko Nakamura, Sahoko Morinobu, Seiji Kawano, Shunichi Kumagai
Clinical manifestations and clinical syndromes of Filipino patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Charles A. C. Villamin, Sandra V. Navarra
Life expectancies of Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a review of deaths over a 20-year period
Fumio Shinomiya, Noriaki Mima, Keiichirou Nanba, Kenji Tani, Shunji Nakano, Hiroshi Egawa, Toshinori Sakai, Hideaki Miyoshi, Daisuke Hamada
Characteristics of fracture and related factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Akihide Nampei, Jun Hashimoto, Junichiro Koyanagi, Takeshi Ono, Hideo Hashimoto, Noriyuki Tsumaki, Tetsuya Tomita, Kazuomi Sugamoto, Norihiro Nishimoto, Takahiro Ochi, Hideki Yoshikawa
Successful treatment of new onset Wegener’s granulomatosis with IVIG (intravenous immunoglobulin) during pregnancy: a case report
Seo Young Kim, Julie M. Linton, Sharon L. Kolasinski
Hyperostosis frontalis interna in a patient with giant cell arteritis
Hilal Kocabas, Ilhan Sezer, Meltem Alkan Melikoglu, Ulku Gurbuz, Ozge Illeez, Irem Hicran Ozbudak, Bulent Butun
Aseptic meningitis in mixed connective tissue disease: cytokine and anti-U1RNP antibodies in cerebrospinal fluids from two different cases
Yoshimasa Fujita, Takao Fujii, Ran Nakashima, Masao Tanaka, Tsuneyo Mimori
A case of planned pregnancy with an interruption in infliximab administration in a 27-year-old female patient with rheumatoid-factor-positive polyarthritis juvenile idiopathic arthritis which improved after restarting infliximab and methotrexate
Yasuhito Nerome, Hiroyuki Imanaka, Yukiko Nonaka, Yumiko Tsuru, Nobuaki Maeno, Tomoko Takezaki, Hirosumi Mori, Harumi Akaike, Tomohiro Kubota, Yoshifumi Kawano, Syuji Takei
Therapeutic efficacy of intravenous cyclophosphamide concomitant with moderate- to high-dose prednisolone in two patients with fasciitis panniculitis syndrome
Takashi Kato, Ayako Nakajima, Makoto Soejima, Reon Nagai, Toru Yago, Kiyoko Tanohara, Hisae Ichida, Ikuko Masuda, Toru Yamada, Atsuo Taniguchi, Yuji Akiyama, Toshihide Mimura, Tetsuya Tsuchida, Naoyuki Kamatani, Masako Hara
Hodgkin lymphoma as a complication of primary Sjögren’s syndrome
Isabella Lima, Ana Suellen B. Carneiro, Caroline Alencar Amorim, Mittermayer Barreto Santiago
A case of periodic-fever-syndrome-like disorder with lipodystrophy, myositis, and autoimmune abnormalities
Shimpei Kasagi, Seiji Kawano, Takashi Nakazawa, Hirotoshi Sugino, Masahiro Koshiba, Kunihiro Ichinose, Hiroaki Ida, Katsumi Eguchi, Shunichi Kumagai
Tacrolimus-induced lung injury in a rheumatoid arthritis patient with interstitial pneumonitis
Yusuke Miwa, Takeo Isozaki, Kuninobu Wakabayashi, Tsuyoshi Odai, Mizuho Matsunawa, Nobuyuki Yajima, Masao Negishi, Hirotsugu Ide, Tsuyoshi Kasama, Mitsuru Adachi, Tomoyuki Hisayuki, Tamiko Takemura
Efficacy of high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in Japanese patients with steroid-resistant polymyositis and dermatomyositis
Eizo Saito, Takao Koike, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Yasuo Ikeda, Masako Hara, Hidehiro Yamada, Tadashi Yoshida, Masayoshi Harigai, Yoichi Ichikawa