Issue 3/2015
Content (29 Articles)
Nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis background and confounding factors of this new terminology: an appraisal
Jen Erbil, Luis R Espinoza
Routine use of punch biopsy to diagnose small fiber neuropathy in fibromyalgia patients
Todd D. Levine, David S. Saperstein
Interrelated reduction of chemerin and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 serum levels in rheumatoid arthritis after interleukin-6 receptor blockade
Konstantinos Makrilakis, Kalliopi Fragiadaki, Jacqueline Smith, Petros P. Sfikakis, George D. Kitas
“A gift from heaven” or “This was not for me”. A mixed methods approach to describe experiences of participation in an outsourced physical activity program for persons with rheumatoid arthritis
Ingrid Demmelmaier, Åsa Lindkvist, Birgitta Nordgren, Christina H. Opava
Presence of comorbidity affects both treatment strategies and outcomes in disease activity, physical function, and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Ayako Nakajima, Eisuke Inoue, Yoko Shimizu, Akiko Kobayashi, Kumi Shidara, Naoki Sugimoto, Yohei Seto, Eiichi Tanaka, Atsuo Taniguchi, Shigeki Momohara, Hisashi Yamanaka
Reactive oxygen species and serum antioxidant defense in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Joanna Lipińska, Stanisława Lipińska, Jerzy Stańczyk, Agata Sarniak, Anna Przymińska vel Prymont, Marek Kasielski, Elżbieta Smolewska
A prospective study comparing infection risk and disease activity in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with and without tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors
Heather M. Walters, Nancy Pan, Thomas J. A. Lehman, Alexa Adams, Wei-Ti Huang, Lemonia Sitaras, Susanna Cunningham-Rundles, Thomas J. Walsh, Sima S. Toussi
An Internet-based technique for the identification of persons with symptoms of inflammatory polyarthritis of less than 12 weeks
Matthew H. Liang, Maura C. M. Couto, Cátia C. M. Duarte, Victoria Gall, Patience White, Stanley Naides, H. Ralph Schumacher Jr., Andrew S. Hwang, V. Michael Holers, Kevin D. Deane, Samar Gupta, I-Cheng Ho, Axel Finckh, Jacek Kopec, Chan-Bum Choi, Eric C. Sayre
Diagnostic value of serum complement C3 and C4 levels in Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Hejun Li, Shunping Lin, Shangchih Yang, Ling Chen, Xiangxiong Zheng
Spectrum of infections and outcome among hospitalized South Africans with systemic lupus erythematosus
Thozama Dubula, Girish M. Mody
The influence of Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy on clinical features, microcirculatory abnormalities and selected modulators of angiogenesis in patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon
Anna Kuryliszyn-Moskal, Jacek Kita, Agnieszka Dakowicz, Sylwia Chwieśko-Minarowska, Diana Moskal, Bożena Kosztyła-Hojna, Ewa Jabłońska, Piotr Adrian Klimiuk
Fatigue assessment and its impact in the quality of life of patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Emilce Edith Schneeberger, María Florencia Marengo, Fernando Dal Pra, José Antonio Maldonado Cocco, Gustavo Citera
The relationship between disease activity measured by the BASDAI and psychological status, stressful life events, and sleep quality in ankylosing spondylitis
Yutong Jiang, Mingcan Yang, Husheng Wu, Hui Song, Feng Zhan, Shengyun Liu, Guanmin Gao, Zhangsuo Liu, Zhaoxian Hu, Peigen He, Shengtao Zhang, Zaiying Hu, Zhiming Lin, Yanli Zhang, Yinong Li, Lingxun Shen, Anbing Huang, Zetao Liao, Shuangyan Cao, Yanlin Wei, Li Li, Qiuxia Li, Qing Lv, Jun Qi, Jianlin Huang, Tianwang Li, O. Jin, Yunfeng Pan, J. Gu
Evaluation of the incidence of haemorrhoidal disease in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Mehmet Caglayan, Ahmet Türkoğlu, Pelin Oktayoglu, Mehmet Yıldız, Abdullah Zübeyir Dağlı, Abdullah Böyük, Serda Em, Mehtap Bozkurt, Kemal Nas
Comparison of ASDAS and BASDAI as a measure of disease activity in axial psoriatic arthritis
Gamze Kılıç, Erkan Kılıç, Kemal Nas, Murat Karkucak, Erhan Çapkın, Abdullah Zübeyir Dağlı, Remzi Çevik, Salih Özgöçmen
Prevalence of pes anserine bursitis in symptomatic osteoarthritis patients: an ultrasonographic prospective study
Fatma Uysal, Ayla Akbal, Ferhat Gökmen, Gürhan Adam, Mustafa Reşorlu
WHO-ILAR COPCORD study (stage 1, urban study) in Sanandaj, Iran
Nasrin Moghimi, Fereydoun Davatchi, Ezat Rahimi, Afshin Saidi, Naser Rashadmanesh, Solmaz Moghimi, Hoshyar Ghafori, Peiman Zandi, Negin Ahmadi, Hamed Ghafori, Mohsen Moghimi, Marjan hajiheshmati
Interrelationships between pain processing, cortisol and cognitive performance in chronic whiplash-associated disorders
Mira Meeus, Jessica Van Oosterwijck, Kelly Ickmans, Isabel Baert, Iris Coppieters, Nathalie Roussel, Filip Struyf, Nathalie Pattyn, Jo Nijs
Pain threshold and intensity in rheumatic patients: correlations with the Hamilton Depression Rating scale
Gianluca Bagnato, Ilenia De Andres, Stefania Sorbara, Elisa Verduci, Giorgio Corallo, Antonino Ferrera, Salvatore Morgante, William Neal Roberts Jr, Gianfilippo Bagnato
Comparison of tocilizumab as monotherapy or with add-on disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and inadequate responses to previous treatments: an open-label study close to clinical practice
Vivian P. Bykerk, Andrew J. K. Östör, José Alvaro-Gracia, Karel Pavelka, José Andrés Román Ivorra, Winfried Graninger, William Bensen, Michael T. Nurmohamed, Andreas Krause, Corrado Bernasconi, Maher Aassi, Jean Sibilia
Smoking is associated with a worse self-reported health status in patients with psoriatic arthritis: data from a Swedish population-based cohort
Ann Bremander, Lennart T. H. Jacobsson, Stefan Bergman, Emma Haglund, Sofia Löfvendahl, Ingemar F. Petersson
Characteristics of seroconversion and implications for diagnosis of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: acute and convalescent serology among a prospective cohort of early Lyme disease patients
Alison W. Rebman, Lauren A. Crowder, Allison Kirkpatrick, John N. Aucott
Cranial neuropathies in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's): a case-based review
Ana Söderström, Sylvie Revaz, Jean Dudler
Plaque morphea with neurological involvement—an extraordinary uncommon presentation
Cristina Rosario, Daniela Garelick, Gahl Greenberg, Joab Chapman, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Pnina Langevitz
Inflammatory myopathy with anti-SRP antibodies: case series of a South Australian cohort
Sajini K Basnayake, Peter Blumbergs, Ju Ann Tan, Peter J Roberts-Thompson, Vidya Limaye
Abatacept as a successful therapy for myositis—a case-based review
Anne M. Kerola, Markku J. Kauppi
Anti-citrullinated peptide/protein antibodies in Palindromic rheumatism: comment on the article by Emad Y et al.
Sonia Cabrera-Villalba, Julio Ramírez, Jose Inciarte-Mundo, Raimon Sanmartí