Issue 4/2009
Content (23 Articles)
Pharmacoepidemiologic research in Australia: challenges and opportunities for monitoring patients with rheumatic diseases
Christine Y. Lu
Risk factors for cardiovascular disease and endothelin-1 levels in Takayasu arteritis patients
Alexandre Wagner Silva de Souza, Henrique Ataíde Mariz, Edgard Torres Reis Neto, Anne Elizabeth Diniz Arraes, Neusa Pereira da Silva, Emília Inoue Sato
Quantitative alterations of CD8+ T cells in juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients in remission
Martina Prelog, Nora Schwarzenbrunner, Elisabeth Tengg, Michaela Sailer-Höck, Hannelore Kern, Lothar Bernd Zimmerhackl, Juergen Brunner
Cyclophosphamide treatment improves microvessel damage in systemic sclerosis
Paola Caramaschi, Alessandro Volpe, Sara Pieropan, Ilaria Tinazzi, Helal Mahamid, Lisa Maria Bambara, Domenico Biasi
The effect of mild whole-body hyperthermia on systemic levels of TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, and IL-6 in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Ingo H. Tarner, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Christine Uhlemann, Uwe Lange
Cost-effectiveness modeling of abatacept versus other biologic agents in DMARDS and anti-TNF inadequate responders for the management of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis
Anthony Russell, Ariel Beresniak, Louis Bessette, Boulos Haraoui, Proton Rahman, Carter Thorne, Ross Maclean, Danielle Dupont
Adalimumab response in patients with early versus established rheumatoid arthritis: DE019 randomized controlled trial subanalysis
Shahin Jamal, Kaushik Patra, Edward C. Keystone
Increased risk of tuberculosis in patients treated with antitumor necrosis factor alpha
Osman Elbek, Meral Uyar, Neriman Aydın, Şermin Börekçi, Nazan Bayram, Hasan Bayram, Öner Dikensoy
Expression of multidrug resistance-1 protein correlates with disease activity rather than the refractoriness to methotrexate therapy in rheumatoid arthritis
V. Agarwal, S. K. Mittal, R. Misra
Oxidative stress in fibromyalgia and its relationship to symptoms
Cecilia P. Chung, Dina Titova, Annette Oeser, Margaret Randels, Ingrid Avalos, Ginger L. Milne, Jason D. Morrow, C. Michael Stein
Underweight and obese states both associate with worse disease activity and physical function in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis
Antonios Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Giorgos S. Metsios, Vasileios F. Panoulas, Alan M. Nevill, Athanasios Z. Jamurtas, Yiannis Koutedakis, George D. Kitas
Serum adiponectin concentrations correlate with severity of rheumatoid arthritis evaluated by extent of joint destruction
Kosuke Ebina, Atsunori Fukuhara, Wataru Ando, Makoto Hirao, Tadashi Koga, Kazuya Oshima, Morihiro Matsuda, Kazuhisa Maeda, Tadashi Nakamura, Takahiro Ochi, Iichiro Shimomura, Hideki Yoshikawa, Jun Hashimoto
Radiographic progression in weight-bearing joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis after TNF-blocking therapies
Eiko Seki, Isao Matsushita, Eiji Sugiyama, Hirohumi Taki, Koichiro Shinoda, Hiroyuki Hounoki, Hiraku Motomura, Tomoatsu Kimura
Hemophagocytic syndrome in elderly patients with underlying autoimmune diseases
Rie Tabata, Chiharu Tabata, Makoto Terada, Tomoko Nagai
Non-infectious lupus pericarditis: a retrospective hospital-based observation in Yaoundé—Cameroon
Madeleine Singwe Ngandeu, Pierre Ndobo, Cem Gabay
Is the Alifax Test-1TH useful to determine the Disease Activity Score (DAS28) in rheumatoid arthritis patients?
M. Levitus, A. Pelliccia, R. J. van de Stadt, A. E. Voskuyl, A. A. Bouman
Evaluating obesity in fibromyalgia: neuroendocrine biomarkers, symptoms, and functions
Akiko Okifuji, David H. Bradshaw, Chrisana Olson
Focal myocarditis mimicking myocardial infarction in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
Cheng-Hsueh Wu, Shih-Hsien Sung, Tao-Cheng Wu
Unusual acute crystal-induced hip arthritis: hydroxyapatite deposition of the round ligament
J-B Arlet, H. André, C. Mutschler, S. Dupeux, J. Pouchot
Glucocorticoid and cyclosporine refractory adult onset Still’s disease successfully treated with tocilizumab
Kazuko Matsumoto, Takao Nagashima, Shino Takatori, Yuta Kawahara, Masaki Yagi, Masahiro Iwamoto, Hitoaki Okazaki, Seiji Minota
Successful treatment of pyoderma gangrenosum associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis with a combination of topical tacrolimus and oral prednisolone
Pradeep Kumar Shenoy Chandrasekhara, Nambiar Veettil Jayachandran, Joe Thomas, Sumeet Agrawal, Gumdal Narsimulu
Glucose blood levels after intra-articular steroid injection in diabetic and non-diabetic patients
Francesca Uboldi, Nicoletta Carlo-Stella, Laura Belloli, Marco Massarotti, Bianca Marasini