Issue 3/2018
Content (38 Articles)
Scores versus clinical profiles in therapeutic decisions: a positive example from the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) decisions in the field of osteoporosis
Antonio Del Puente, Antonella Esposito, Luisa Costa, Francesco Caso, Raffaele Scarpa
Metabolic syndrome in psoriatic arthritis: the interplay with cutaneous involvement. Evidences from literature and a recent cross-sectional study
Francesco Caso, Antonio Del Puente, Francesca Oliviero, Rosario Peluso, Nicolò Girolimetto, Paolo Bottiglieri, Francesca Foglia, Carolina Benigno, Marco Tasso, Leonardo Punzi, Raffaele Scarpa, Luisa Costa
Role of dual-energy CT in the diagnosis and follow-up of gout: systematic analysis of the literature
André Ramon, Amélie Bohm-Sigrand, Pierre Pottecher, Pascal Richette, Jean-Francis Maillefert, Herve Devilliers, Paul Ornetti
Remission assessment of rheumatoid arthritis in daily practice in China: a cross-sectional observational study
Huaqun Zhu, Ru Li, Zhanyun Da, Liqi Bi, Xiangpei Li, Yang Li, Chongyang Liu, Fengxiao Zhang, Zhijun Li, Xiangyuan Liu, Zhiyi Zhang, Lingyun Sun, Youlian Wang, Wei Zhang, Quan Jiang, Jinwei Chen, Qingping Chen, Zhenbin Li, Lijun Wu, Wencheng Qi, Jianhua Xu, Xiangjun Cui, Xiaofei Wang, Long Li, Xiaomei Leng, Guochun Wang, Dongbao Zhao, Lindi Jiang, Dongyi He, Xiaomin Liu, Ling Li, Yongfei Fang, Cibo Huang, Huaxiang Wu, Shaoxian Hu, Qin Li, Hui Song, Weiguo Xiao, Lu Gong, Liaojia Zhang, Xiaofeng Li, Zhanguo Li, Yin Su
Prevalence of rheumatoid cachexia assessed by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis and its relation with physical function
Cira Santillán-Díaz, Noemi Ramírez-Sánchez, Rolando Espinosa-Morales, Arturo Orea-Tejeda, Luis Llorente, Gerardo Rodríguez-Guevara, Lilia Castillo-Martínez
High levels of oxidized fatty acids in HDL are associated with impaired HDL function in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis
Christina Charles-Schoeman, David Meriwether, Yuen Yin Lee, Ani Shahbazian, Srinivasa T. Reddy
The role of microalbuminuria as a predictor of subclinical cardiovascular events in rheumatoid arthritis patients and its relation to disease activity
D. W. Nada, S. El Morsy, M. H. Abu-Zaid, M. A. Aboelhawa, Mohammad A. Zakaria, E. A. El Sheikh, R. A. Gaber
Association between leptin and IL-6 concentrations with cardiovascular risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
José Antonio De Jesús Batún-Garrido, Marisol Salas-Magaña, Isela Esther Juárez-Rojop
Changes and clinical significance of CD8+CD122+ T cells in the peripheral blood of patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Renfang Han, Xiao Yang, Mengya Chen, Xu Zhang, Yaping Yuan, Xingxing Hu, Mengmeng Wang, Rui Liu, Yubo Ma, Jiajia Yang, Shengqian Xu, Zongwen Shuai, Shanqun Jiang, Faming Pan
Patterns of comorbidity and disease characteristics among patients with ankylosing spondylitis—a cross-sectional study
Lotta Ljung, Björn Sundström, Johan Smeds, Maria Ketonen, Helena Forsblad-d’Elia
Translation and validation of the Chinese Social Role Participation Questionnaire in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Guoning Zhang, Jia Li, Delin Liu, Ting Wang, Yiming Wang, Weidong Xu
Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the achievement of therapeutic goals in psoriatic arthritis: is there any association?
Rubén Queiro, Juan D. Cañete
Drug survival and effectiveness of ustekinumab in patients with psoriatic arthritis. Real-life data from the biologic Apulian registry (BIOPURE)
Florenzo Iannone, Leonardo Santo, Romano Bucci, Angelo Semeraro, Giorgio Carlino, Franco Paoletti, Laura Quarta, Pierfrancesco Leucci, Carmelo Zuccaro, Antonio Marsico, Crescenzio Scioscia, Francesca D’Onofrio, Daniela Mazzotta, Maurizio Muratore, Francesco Paolo Cantatore, Giovanni Lapadula
Joint involvement in Mexican patients with ulcerative colitis: a hospital-based retrospective study
Jesús K. Yamamoto-Furusho, Andrea Sarmiento-Aguilar
Influence of air pollution on airway inflammation and disease activity in childhood-systemic lupus erythematosus
Andressa Guariento Ferreira Alves, Maria Fernanda de Azevedo Giacomin, Alfésio Luis Ferreira Braga, Adriana Maluf Elias Sallum, Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira, Luis Carlos Farhat, Fernando Louzada Strufaldi, Ana Julia de Faria Coimbra Lichtenfels, Tômas de Santana Carvalho, Naomi Kondo Nakagawa, Clovis Artur Silva, Sylvia Costa Lima Farhat
Clinical features, outcome, and associated factors for posterior reversible encephalopathy in Thai patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case-control study
Usanee Damrongpipatkul, Kanokporn Oranratanachai, Nuntana Kasitanon, Salita Wuttiplakorn, Worawit Louthrenoo
Clinical and serological associations of anti-ribosomal P0 protein antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus
Yong-Jun Mei, Peng Wang, Chao Jiang, Tao Wang, Lin-Jie Chen, Zhi-Jun Li, Hai-Feng Pan
Hospital-acquired infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case-control study in a southern Chinese population
Zhongping Zhan, Minxi Lao, Fan Su, Dongying Chen, Liuqin Liang, Xiuyan Yang
Sodium valproate modulates immune response by alternative activation of monocyte-derived macrophages in systemic lupus erythematosus
Saeed Mohammadi, Marie Saghaeian-Jazi, Sima Sedighi, Ali Memarian
Low-level laser therapy for xerostomia in primary Sjögren’s syndrome: a randomized trial
Tania Fidelix, Adriano Czapkowski, Sergio Azjen, Adagmar Andriolo, Pedro Horvath Neto, Virgínia Trevisani
Central nervous system involvement in patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a single-center retrospective study
George E. Fragoulis, Sophia Lionaki, Aliki Venetsanopoulou, Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos, Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos, Athanasios G. Tzioufas
Anti-CENP-B and anti-TOPO-1-containing sera from systemic sclerosis-related diseases with Raynaud’s phenomenon induce vascular endothelial cell senescence not via classical p53-p21 pathway
Chieh-Yu Shen, Ko-Jen Li, Pei-Hsuan Lai, Chia-Li Yu, Song-Chou Hsieh
Toll-like receptor 9 in systemic sclerosis patients: relation to modified Rodnan skin score, disease severity, and functional status
Tamer A Gheita, Safaa Sayed, Gada S Azkalany, Nouran Abaza, Nevin Hammam, AH Eissa
Risk factors for the recurrence of interstitial lung disease in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis: a retrospective cohort study
Maho Nakazawa, Yuko Kaneko, Tsutomu Takeuchi
Dual-energy computed tomography has limited diagnostic sensitivity for short-term gout
Ertao Jia, Junqing Zhu, Wenhui Huang, Xiaoguang Chen, Juan Li
Utility of CT imaging in differentiating sacroiliitis associated with spondyloarthritis from gouty sacroiliitis: a retrospective study
Jyoti Panwar, Pulukool Sandhya, Madhavi Kandagaddala, Aswin Nair, Visalakshi Jeyaseelan, Debashish Danda
Pregnancy in rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective study
Amanda M. Eudy, Gary McDaniel, Megan E. B. Clowse
Dickkopf 1 protein circulating levels as a possible biomarker of functional disability and chronic damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Ana M. Santos, Eugenia-Lucía Saldarriaga, Rodrigo Giraldo-Bustos, Jesus Giovanny Ballesteros-Muñoz, Juan C. Rueda, Francy-Milena Cuervo, José-Ignacio Angarita, Andrés Y. Vásquez, Sofía Arias-Correal, Camilo A. González, Pedro Santos-Moreno, John Londono
A cross-sectional study of vitamin D levels in a large cohort of patients with rheumatic diseases
Elena Nikiphorou, Jaakko Uksila, Tuulikki Sokka
Brief report: Decreased expression of CD244 (SLAMF4) on monocytes and platelets in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Anselm Mak, Susannah I Thornhill, Hui Yin Lee, Bernett Lee, Michael Poidinger, John E Connolly, Anna-Marie Fairhurst
The use of SLICC and ACR criteria to correctly label patients with cutaneous lupus and systemic lupus erythematosus
Aoibheann Flynn, Eimear Gilhooley, Finbar O’Shea, Bairbre Wynne
Therapeutic response to prednisone in relation to age in polymyalgia rheumatica: a comparison study
Aline Charpentier, Frank Verhoeven, Maxime Sondag, Xavier Guillot, Clément Prati, Daniel Wendling
Temporal trends and regional disparity in rheumatoid arthritis and gout hospitalizations in Sweden, 1998–2015
Aliasghar A. Kiadaliri, Martin Englund
Differential diagnostic perspectives provided by en face microscopic examination of articular surface defects
Bruce M. Rothschild
Non-tuberculous mycobacterium bacteraemia in a pregnant systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patient: a case review and pooled case analysis
Syahrul Sazliyana Shaharir, Narisa Sulaiman Sahari, Zeena Mohamed Fuad, Wan Zul Haikal Wan Zukiman, Nurul Hafizah Mohd Yusof, Anita Sulong, Petrick Periasamy
Tocilizumab for the treatment of birdshot uveitis that failed interferon alpha and anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha therapy: two cases report and literature review
Mathilde Leclercq, M. Le Besnerais, V. Langlois, N. Girszyn, Y. Benhamou, C. Ngo, H. Levesque, M. Muraine, J. Gueudry
Correction to: Ultrasound resistive index, power Doppler, and clinical parameters in established rheumatoid arthritis
Melissa Cláudia Bisi, Aline Defaveri do Prado, Deise Marcela Piovesan, Markus Bredemeier, Inês Guimarães da Silveira, José Alexandre Mendonça, Henrique Luiz Staub
Correction to: Rarely occurring mutation of ACVR1 gene in Moroccan patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Ilham Ratbi, Renata Bocciardi, Asmaa Regragui, Roberto Ravazzolo, Abdelaziz Sefiani