Sonographic subclinical enthese ...
Long-term dialysis treatment can be associated with several musculoskeletal complications. Entheseal involvement in dialysis patients remains rarely ...
MRI findings of neuro-Behcet’s ...
Neurological manifestations present in 5% to 30% of patients with Behçet’s disease. We studied consecutive patients with relapsing–remitting or prog ...
Impact of tight control strateg ...
The aim of our study is to describe the impact of tight control strategy on the care of RA patients in Sarawak General Hospital. We performed a pros ...
Microalbuminuria in rheumatoid ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associates with excess cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. New screening tools are needed to better identify pati ...
Performance of global assessmen ...
The objective of this study is to compare patients’ global assessments of change in knee, hip, and back symptoms with actual changes over time in pa ...
Plasma asymmetric dimethylargin ...
Conclusive data about the prevalence of endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerotic process in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients with respect to ...
Interleukin-6 gene polymorphism ...
Interleukin 6 (IL-6) has been shown to be related to the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In the present study, the relationship ...
The relationship between serum ...
We proposed to assess serum antioxidant vitamins and magnesium (Mg) levels in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) in comparison to healthy controls. Add ...
Introduction to economic modeli ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, debilitating inflammatory, progressive musculoskeletal disease that affects 0.5–1.0% of the adult population ...
Characteristics of chronic fati ...
This study seeks to estimate the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and assess the characteristics of CFS in a community population in Jap ...
Visfatin levels and intima-medi ...
Chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases lead to increased prevalence of atherosclerosis. However, this early and accelerated atherosclerosis cannot ...
A retrospective analysis of tre ...
The aim of this work is to describe the outcome of a series of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related vasculitis who were treated with cortic ...
Awareness of Fabry disease amon ...
Fabry disease is an inherited disorder of lipid metabolism caused by deficient activity of the lysosomal enzyme ل-galactosidase A. Burning periphera ...
Cutaneous vasculitis in systemi ...
Ninety-one consecutive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients (American College of Rheumatology criteria) with a history of cutaneous vasculiti ...
The role of viral agents in aet ...
The reason why abnormal immune response exists in acute rheumatic fever is not exactly explained. The influence of co-pathogens like certain viruses ...
Real patient learning integrate ...
Although musculoskeletal disorders are the most common reason for general practitioner visits, training did not keep pace. Implementation of learnin ...
The burden of illness of rheuma ...
It is necessary to understand the full burden of illness of a disease before the value of interventions can be assessed. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) h ...
Prevalence of hyperuricemia in ...
To investigate the prevalence of hyperuricemia in general Thai population and to evaluate its association with metabolic syndrome. A total of 1,945 ...
Review of current therapies for ...
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) is a disabling condition that may occur secondarily to primary lung cancer. It is characterized by digital club ...
Can simple ultrasonography pred ...
To investigate whether ultrasonographic joint assessment can predict the clinical response to intra-articular injection therapy of the knee. Patient ...
Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibr ...
The objective of this study is to describe the clinical characteristics of patients with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF). A retrospective ...
What does it mean to grow up wi ...
We investigated what it means to patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) to grow up with this disease. A qualitative study was conducted u ...
Enthesitis in seronegative spon ...
Seronegative spondyloarthropathies are a unique group of disorders sharing similar clinical characteristics (e.g., inflammatory back pain, spondylit ...
Association of antiphospholipid ...
Over the last few years, several studies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have demonstrated an association between valvulopathy, ...
Combination with corticosteroid ...
We retrospectively examined the effect of combination therapy with prednisolone and cyclosporin-A (CSA) on the findings of pulmonary function tests ...