Issue 3/2012
Content (46 Articles)
The association of Raynaud’s syndrome with carpal tunnel syndrome: a meta-analysis
Peter Hartmann, Melvin Mohokum, Peter Schlattmann
Bone marrow lesions: a universal bone response to injury?
Erik Fink Eriksen, Johan Diederich Ringe
Comparative proteome analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in systemic lupus erythematosus with iTRAQ quantitative proteomics
Linqian Wang, Yong Dai, Suwen Qi, Baodong Sun, Jinli Wen, Li Zhang, Zhiguang Tu
Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with psoriatic arthritis in northern Israel
Devy Zisman, Lihi Eder, Muna Elias, Arie Laor, Haim Bitterman, Michael Rozenbaum, Joy Feld, Doron Rimar, Itzhak Rosner
Correlation between serum concentrations of soluble Fas (CD95/Apo-1) and IL-18 in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Maryam Sahebari, Zahra Rezaieyazdi, Mohammadreza J. Nakhjavani, Mohammadreza Hatef, Mahmoud Mahmoudi, Saaid Akhlaghi
Primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
Hadi Poormoghim, Aref Hosseynian, Aryan Javadi
A three-way interplay of DR4, autoantibodies and synovitis in biopsy-proven idiopathic inflammatory myositis
Vidya S. Limaye, Sue Lester, Peter Bardy, Philip Thompson, Sally Cox, Peter Blumbergs, Peter Roberts-Thomson
Nine cases of Alkaptonuria in one family in southern Jordan
Mohammed Al-sbou, Nesrin Mwafi
Paget’s disease of bone: analysis of 134 cases from an island in Southern Brazil: another cluster of Paget’s disease of bone in South America
Gláucio Ricardo Werner de Castro, Gláucia Itamaro Heiden, Adriana Fontes Zimmermann, Edelton Flávio Morato, Fabrício Souza Neves, Maria Amazile Toscano, Sonia Cristina de Magalhães Souza Fialho, Ivânio Alves Pereira
Therapeutic effect of leflunomide on the development of experimental lupus nephritis in mice
Chunyan He, Xuehong Lu, Zhaowei Yan, Man Wu, Shujun Liu, Yongli Yu, Ping Luo
Serum concentration of interleukin 15, interleukin 2 receptor and TNF receptor in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis: correlation to disease activity
Pawel Mielnik, Hanna Chwalinska-Sadowska, Ewa Wiesik-Szewczyk, Wlodzimierz Maslinski, Marzena Olesinska
Corticosteroids and the risk of scleroderma renal crisis: a systematic review
Gerald Trang, Russell Steele, Murray Baron, Marie Hudson
Development and validation of Fibromyalgia Knowledge Questionnaire: FKQ
Alina L. Suda, Fabio Jennings, Vanessa C. Bueno, Jamil Natour
Evaluation of metabolic syndrome in patients with chronic low back pain
Mehmet Tuncay Duruöz, Yasemin Turan, Alev Gürgan, Hülya Deveci
The clinical significance of HRCT in evaluation of patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: a report from China
Yu-Qiong Zou, Ya-Song Li, Xiao-Nan Ding, Zhen-Hua Ying
FDG-PET in the Erdheim–Chester disease: its diagnostic and follow-up role
Emőke Šteňová, Boris Šteňo, Pavol Povinec, František Ondriaš, Jana Rampalová
Synovial/Serum leptin ratio in rheumatoid arthritis: the association with activity and erosion
Shereen M. Olama, Mohammed K. Senna, Mohammed Elarman
Multi-center evaluation of autoantibodies to the major ribosomal P C22 epitope
M. Mahler, N. Agmon-Levin, M. van Liempt, Y. Shoenfeld, A. Waka, F. Hiepe, A. Swart, I. Gürtler, M. J. Fritzler
The serum levels of resistin in ankylosing spondylitis patients: a pilot study
Hilal Kocabas, Volkan Kocabas, Sadık Buyukbas, Meltem Alkan Melıkoglu, Ilhan Sezer, Bulent Butun
Takayasu arteritis: assessment of response to medical therapy based on clinical activity criteria and imaging techniques
Daniele Souza Freitas, Cintia Zumstein Camargo, Henrique Ataíde Mariz, Anne Elizabeth Diniz Arraes, Alexandre Wagner Silva de Souza
Mycophenolate mofetil in juvenile dermatomyositis: a case series
Rawane Dagher, Marine Desjonquères, Agnès Duquesne, Pierre Quartier, Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Michel Fischbach, Vincent Guiguonis, Georges Picherot, Rolando Cimaz
Assessment of phonophoresis and iontophoresis in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized controlled trial
Eda Gurcay, Ece Unlu, Ahmet Gurhan Gurcay, Reyhan Tuncay, Aytul Cakci
Enthesitis and its relationships with disease parameters in Moroccan patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Assia Laatiris, Bouchra Amine, Yousra Ibn Yacoub, Najia Hajjaj-Hassouni
Inhibitors of p38 and ERK1/2 MAPkinase and hydrogen sulphide block constitutive and IL-1β-induced IL-6 and IL-8 expression in the human chondrocyte cell line C-28/I2
B. Kloesch, M. Liszt, G. Steiner, J. Bröll
Three unusual mimics of primary angiitis of the central nervous system
Anupama Shahane, Atul Khasnis, Rula Hajj Ali
Causes of DMARD withdrawal following ADR within 6 months of initiation among Indian rheumatoid arthritis patients
Niti Mittal, Aman Sharma, Vinu Jose, Rakesh Mittal, Ajay Wanchu, Pradeep Bambery
Effects of long-term corticosteroid usage on functional disability in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, regardless of controlled disease activity
Eiichi Tanaka, Ajitha Mannalithara, Eisuke Inoue, Noriko Iikuni, Atsuo Taniguchi, Shigeki Momohara, Gurkirpal Singh, Hisashi Yamanaka
The effect of low-level laser to apoptosis of chondrocyte and caspases expression, including caspase-8 and caspase-3 in rabbit surgery-induced model of knee osteoarthritis
Hai-Dan Lin, Cheng-Qi He, Qing-Lu Luo, Jing-Long Zhang, De-Xin Zeng
A PTPN22 promoter polymorphism −1123G>C is associated with RA pathogenesis in Chinese
Jian-Jun Huang, Yu-Rong Qiu, Hai-Xia Li, De-Hua Sun, Jia Yang, Chun-Li Yang
Malignancies associated with systemic lupus erythematosus in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Ji-An Liang, Li-Min Sun, Jun-Jun Yeh, Wan-Yu Lin, Shih-Ni Chang, Hung-Chang Sung, Chia-Hung Kao
Use of cardiac MR imaging to evaluate the presence of myocarditis in autoimmune myositis: three cases
Catherine Toong, Rajesh Puranik, Stephen Adelstein
An infant with severe refractory Crohn’s disease and homozygous MEFV mutation who dramatically responded to colchicine
Zarife Kuloğlu, Aydan Kansu, Gonca Üstündağ, Z. Birsin Özçakar, Arzu Ensari, Mesiha Ekim
Transient involvement of the cerebral cortex in a flare of Behçet’s syndrome
Walter Conca, Soliman A. Kamel, Dominic Venne, Peter Corr
Tongue infarction as first symptom of temporal arteritis
Husein Husein-ElAhmed, Jose-Luis Callejas-Rubio, Raquel Rios-Fernández, Norberto Ortego-Centeno
Healthcare-associated infections in rheumatology in Japan
Masahiro Iwamoto, Takeshi Kamimura, Takao Nagashima, Yasuyuki Kamata, Yoko Aoki, Sachiko Onishi, Seiji Minota
A case of primary Sjögren’s syndrome presenting primarily with central nervous system vasculitic involvement
Zehra Isik Hasiloglu, Sait Albayram, Koray Tasmali, Burak Erer, Hakan Selcuk, Civan Islak
Delayed diagnosis of Kawasaki syndrome and thrombosis of a medium-sized aneurysm of the anterior descending coronary artery: case report and literature review
Gabriella De Rosa, Maria Giuseppina Cefalo, Riccardo Marano, Marco Piastra, Angelica Bibiana Delogu, Donato Rigante
Increased levels of rheumatoid factors after TNF inhibitor in rheumatoid arthritis
José Alexandre Mendonça, João Francisco Marques-Neto, Adil Muhib Samara, Simone Appenzeller
Pregnancy-associated spinal osteoporosis treated with bisphosphonates: long-term follow-up of maternal and infants outcome
Nada Vujasinovic-Stupar, Nada Pejnovic, Ljiljana Markovic, Maja Zlatanovic
Painful myositis in the anti-synthetase syndrome with anti-PL12 antibodies
Puja Mehta, Leena Patel, Federico Roncaroli, Matthew C. Pickering, Alexander Brand
A spontaneous intercostal artery hemorrhage in systemic lupus erythematosus
Chun-Chi Lu, Chen-Hung Chen, Song-Feng Yeh, Jenn-Haung Lai, Deh-Ming Chang
A potential explanation of the reported low prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
William H. James