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Rheumatology International

Issue 1/2014

Content (23 Articles)

Original Article

German guidelines for the sequential medical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with traditional and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

Katinka Albrecht, Klaus Krüger, Jürgen Wollenhaupt, Rieke Alten, Marina Backhaus, Christoph Baerwald, Wolfgang Bolten, Jürgen Braun, Harald Burkhardt, Gerd R. Burmester, Markus Gaubitz, Angela Gause, Erika Gromnica-Ihle, Herbert Kellner, Jens Kuipers, Andreas Krause, Hans-Martin Lorenz, Bernhard Manger, Hubert Nüßlein, Hans-Georg Pott, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Matthias Schneider, Christof Specker, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Hans-Peter Tony, Siegfried Wassenberg, Ulf Müller-Ladner

Review

Sex differences in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus from Northwest Spain

Maria D. Alonso, Francisco Martínez-Vázquez, Leyre Riancho-Zarrabeitia, Teresa Díaz de Terán, Jose A. Miranda-Filloy, Ricardo Blanco, Carlos González-Juanatey, Javier Llorca, Miguel A. González-Gay

Original Article

Barriers to accessing biologic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis in Greece: the unseen impact of the fiscal crisis—the Health Outcomes Patient Environment (HOPE) study

Kyriakos Souliotis, Manto Papageorgiou, Anastasia Politi, Dimitrios Ioakeimidis, Prodromos Sidiropoulos

Original Article

Associates of school impairment in Egyptian patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Sharkia Governorate

Amal Abdul-sattar, Sahar Abou El Magd, Mohamed G. Negm

Short Communication

Safety and efficacy of mizoribine in patients with connective tissue diseases other than rheumatoid arthritis

Ryo Rokutanda, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Sachiko Ohde, Hisanori Shimizu, Atsushi Nomura, Yasuhiro Suyama, Yuri Ohara, Kenichi Yamaguchi, Masato Okada

Short Communication

Kinematics gait disorder in men with fibromyalgia

Jose M. Heredia-Jimenez, Victor M. Soto-Hermoso

Original Article

Diabetes mellitus and accompanying hyperlipidemia are independent risk factors for adhesive capsulitis: a nationwide population-based cohort study (version 2)

Sui-Foon Lo, Ssu-Wei Chu, Chih-Hsin Muo, Nai-Hsin Meng, Li-Wei Chou, Wei-Cheng Huang, Chung-Ming Huang, Fung-Chang Sung

Original Article

Rheumatoid arthritis pharmacotherapy and predictors of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug initiation in the early years of biologic use in Quebec, Canada

Jean-Pascal Roussy, Louis Bessette, Elham Rahme, Sasha Bernatsky, Jean Légaré, Jean Lachaine

Original Article

Factors associated with time to diagnosis in early rheumatoid arthritis

Cheryl Barnabe, Juan Xiong, Janet E. Pope, Gilles Boire, Carol Hitchon, Boulos Haraoui, J. Carter Thorne, Diane Tin, Edward C. Keystone, Vivian P. Bykerk

Original Article

Results of a specific smoking cessation program for patients with arthritis in a rheumatology clinic

Antonio Naranjo, Ana Bilbao, Celia Erausquin, Soledad Ojeda, Félix M. Francisco, Iñigo Rúa-Figueroa, Carlos Rodríguez-Lozano

Original Article

As compared to allopurinol, urate-lowering therapy with febuxostat has superior effects on oxidative stress and pulse wave velocity in patients with severe chronic tophaceous gout

A.-K. Tausche, M. Christoph, M. Forkmann, U. Richter, S. Kopprasch, C. Bielitz, M. Aringer, C. Wunderlich

Short Communication

Toll-like receptor polymorphisms and rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review

Young Ho Lee, Sang-Cheol Bae, Jae-Hoon Kim, Gwan Gyu Song

Short Communication

Inhibition of JNK in synovium by treatment with golimumab in rheumatoid arthritis

Katsuaki Kanbe, Junji Chiba, Atsushi Nakamura

Letter to the Editors

Long-term outcome of Osgood-Schlatter disease: not always favorable

Selami Çakmak, Levent Tekin, Selim Akarsu

Short Communication

The detection of calcium pyrophosphate crystals in the synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis using the cytospin technique: prevalence and clinical correlation

Georg Theiler, Franz Quehenberger, Franz Rainer, Manfred Neubauer, Mariana Stettin, Christoph Robier

Short Communication

Multiple sclerosis during adalimumab treatment in a case with ankylosing spondylitis

Uğur Uygunoğlu, Derya Uluduz, Koray Taşçılar, Sabahattin Saip

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Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

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Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.