Issue 7/2007
Content (47 Articles)
Report on the Fifth African League Against Rheumatism Congress in Nairobi, Kenya
George O. Oyoo, Girish M. Mody
Oral and ocular/orbital manifestations of temporal arteritis: a disease with deceptive clinical symptoms and devastating consequences
Kosmas I. Paraskevas, Dimitrios T. Boumpas, George E. Vrentzos, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis
Psychological factors and quality of life in arthritis: a population-based study
Catherine L. Hill, Tiffany Gill, Anne W. Taylor, Alison Daly, Eleonora Dal Grande, Robert J. Adams
Ten years of clinical experience with adult onset Still’s disease: is the outcome improving?
Sukhbir Singh Uppal, Moudhi Al-Mutairi, Sawsan Hayat, Mini Abraham, Anand Malaviya
Improving management of musculoskeletal disorders in primary care: the Joint Adventures Program
Robert J. Petrella, Paul Davis
Quantitative ultrasound is better correlated with bone mineral density and biochemical bone markers in elderly women
Vasiliki Lappa, Ismene A. Dontas, George Trovas, Evangelia Constantelou, Antonios Galanos, George P. Lyritis
Endothelial functions are more severely impaired during active disease period in patients with Behcet’s disease
Mustafa Caliskan, Sema Yilmaz, Erkan Yildirim, Hakan Gullu, Dogan Erdogan, Ozgur Ciftci, Gamze Kaynar, Eftal Yucel, Haldun Muderrisoglu
Absence of antibody to cyclic citrullinated peptide in sera of non-arthritic patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection
Sang-il Lee, Wan Hee Yoo, Hee Jin Yun, Dal Sik Kim, Hye Soo Lee, Sam Im Choi, Ji An Hur, Yong Gon Cho
Reliability and validity of the Turkish version short-form McGill pain questionnaire in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Yavuz Yakut, Edibe Yakut, Kılıçhan Bayar, Fatma Uygur
The effect of infliximab on chemokines in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Eiji Torikai, Yasunori Kageyama, Motohiro Suzuki, Tetsuya Ichikawa, Akira Nagano
Neridronate inhibits angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo
D. Ribatti, B. Nico, D. Mangieri, N. Maruotti, V. Longo, A. Vacca, F. P. Cantatore
A follow-up study of minimally invasive lip biopsy in the diagnosis of Sjögren’s syndrome
Heikki Teppo, Matti Revonta
The effects of sulfasalazine treatment on enthesal abnormalities of inflammatory rheumatic diseases
Hakan Genc, Burcu Duyur Cakit, Barıs Nacir, Meryem Saracoglu, Mahmut Kacar, Hatice Rana Erdem
Prognostic factors of radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis: a two year prospective study after a structured therapeutic strategy using DMARDs and very low doses of glucocorticoids
R. Sanmartí, A. Gómez-Centeno, G. Ercilla, M. Larrosa, O. Viñas, I. Vazquez, J. A. Gómez-Puerta, J. Gratacós, G. Salvador, J. D. Cañete
99mTechnetium pyrophosphate scintigraphy in the detection of skeletal muscle disease
U. A. Walker, K. Garve, I. Brink, N. Miehle, H. H. Peter, T. Kelly
Osteoporosis in men: are we referring enough for DXA and how?
Haider Al Attia, Bruce Adams
Combination therapy with cyclosporine A and anti-TNF-α agents in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and concomitant hepatitis C virus infection
Francesca Bellisai, Chiara Giannitti, Alessandro Donvito, Mauro Galeazzi
Infliximab treatment in two patients with psoriatic arthritis and secondary IgA nephropathy
Grigorios T. Sakellariou, Periklis Vounotrypidis, Charalampos Berberidis
Meta-analysis is no substitute for a comprehensive national registry
Magdalena Dziadzio, Roy Smith
Lack of increased expression of cell surface markers for circulating fibrocyte progenitors in limited scleroderma
R. Russo, H. Medbury, A. Guiffre, H. Englert, N. Manolios
A rare disorder: idiopathic tumoral calcinosis
Gulgun Yilmaz Ovali, Serdar Tarhan, Selim Serter, Petek Bayindir, Guvenir Okcu, Peyker Demireli, Yuksel Pabuscu
Durable remission of HIV-negative, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpes virus-associated multicentric Castleman disease in patient with rheumatoid arthritis treated with methotrexate
Samuel A. Jacobs, Nicholas Vidnovic, Hitendra Patel, Lorinda A. Soma, Yuan Chang, Noah Bass, Steven H. Swerdlow
Subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm in Behcet’s disease
Ahmet Yildirim, Ahmet Isik, Suleyman Koca
Unusual long bone and metacarpo-carpal abnormalities in a case of pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism
Zeliha Unlu, Sebnem Orguc, Gulgun Yilmaz Ovali, Petek Bayindir
An unusual case of osteoid osteoma clinically mimicking sacroiliitis
İltekin Duman, Koray Aydemir, Arif Kenan Tan, Kemal Dinçer, Tunc Alp Kalyon
Recurrent congenital heart block in neonatal lupus
Maria C. Escobar, José A. Gómez-Puerta, Dimpna Albert, Queralt Ferrer, Josep Girona
Arthritis in a child secondary to congenital insensitivity to pain and self-aggression. Why and when pain is good?
Y. Emad, A. El Yasaki, Y. Ragab, M. Khalifa, O. Moawayh, M. Salama
Seronegative arthritis in patient with solitary bone plasmacytoma
Anna Blach, Elzbieta Zycinska-Debska, Aleksandra Zon-Giebel, Michal Banas, Anna Kotulska, Eugene J. Kucharz
Scalp necrosis: a rare complication of temporal arteritis
Stylianos Manetas, Dimitrios A. Moutzouris, Matthew E. Falagas
Combination therapy of prednisolone and mizoribine improves cryoglobulinemic vasculitis with purpura and skin ulcers
Masahide Hamaguchi, Yutaka Kawahito, Yasunori Tsubouchi, Masataka Kohno, Aihiro Yamamoto, Hidetaka Ishino, Makoto Wada, Toshikazu Yoshikawa
Lupus and leg ulcers—a diagnostic quandary
Venkat Reddy, Magdalena Dziadzio, Shahir Hamdulay, Sara Boyce, Nidhi Prasad, Andrew Keat
The dynamism of cutaneous lupus erythematosus: mild discoid lupus erythematosus evolving into SLE with SCLE and treatment-resistant lupus panniculitis
Anna Wozniacka, Małgorzata Salamon, Aleksandra Lesiak, Daniel Paul McCauliffe, Anna Sysa-Jedrzejowska
Bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax in a patient with pulmonary rheumatoid nodules, secondary infected by Aspergillus
Linsey Winne, Marleen Praet, Guy Brusselle, Eric Veys, Herman Mielants
Vasculitis in siblings with familial Mediterranean fever: a report of three cases and review of the literature
Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Abraham Menahem Nahir, Yolanda Braun-Moscovici
Treatment of early and refractory dermatomyositis with infliximab: a report of two cases
Sylvia Dold, Maria E. Justiniano, Javier Marquez, Luis R. Espinoza
Ochronotic arthropathy: pathological evidence of acute destruction of the hip joint
Ichiro Shimizu, Tetsuo Hamada, Zain Khalpey, Keita Miyanishi, Toshihiko Hara
Cocaine use and its rheumatic manifestations: a case report and discussion
Sumeet K. Bhinder, Vikas Majithia
An unusual case of Candida tropicalis and Candida krusei arthritis in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia before chemotherapy
Hon-Pin Wang, Yung-Feng Yen, Wei-Sheng Chen, Yuh-Lan Chou, Chang-Youh Tsai, Hsiao-Ning Chang, Chung-Tei Chou
Successful treatment of refractory rash in paraneoplastic amyopathic dermatomyositis
Spyros Aslanidis, Athina Pyrpasopoulou, Nikoleta Kartali, Chryssanthos Zamboulis
Liposynovitis prepatellaris in athletic runner (Hoffa's syndrome): case report and review of the literature
Y. Emad, Y. Ragab
Purtscher’s-like retinopathy as an initial presentation of adult-onset Still’s disease: a case report and review of the literature
Feng-Cheng Liu, Shang-Yi Chiang, Deh-Ming Chang, Jenn-Haung Lai, Tsung-Yun Hou, Chen-Hung Chen
Polymyositis complicating donor lymphocyte infusion after stem cell transplantation for relapsed chronic myeloid leukemia: report of a case and review of literature
Feng-Cheng Liu, Chen-Hung Chen, Tsu-Yi Chao
Tacrolimus as a reinforcement therapy for a patient with MPO-ANCA-associated diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
Satoko Kawasaki, Hideki Nakamura, Emi Honda, Nozomi Iwanaga, Atsushi Kawakami, Hiroaki Ida, Tomoki Origuchi, Shoko Honda, Yoshiko Tsuchihashi, Hiroyuki Yoshimine, Katsumi Eguchi
Sweet’s syndrome and erythema nodosum: two neutrophilic dermatoses?
M. Ginarte, J. Toribio