Performance of tuberculin skin ...
The objective of this prospective cross-sectional study was to compare a Mycobacterium tuberculosisspecific interferon gamma (IFN-ƒء) enzyme linked ...
P-wave dispersion in systemic A ...
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary disease characterized by attacks of fever and polyserositis. Recent studies differ as to whether ...
The subclinic autonomic dysfunc ...
Studies that have evaluated autonomic nervous system (ANS) function in Behçet disease (BD) are rare and have indicated conflicting results with diff ...
The efficacy and safety of etan ...
We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of long-term use of etanercept therapy in patients with spondyloarthropathy (SpA) and rheumatoid arthri ...
Clinical significance and diagn ...
Anti-SS-A/Ro antibody (SS-A) and anti-SS-B/La antibody (SS-B) are important serologic markers in the diagnostic criteria for Primary Sjِgren’s syndr ...
Resistin and visfatin: are they ...
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease which predominantly affects certain ethnic groups mainly Sephardic Jews, Turks, ...
The pathway of estradiol-induce ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease with unknown etiology. The pathologic role of sex hormones and apoptosis in SLE has often been discu ...
Gender and disease features in ...
This study was conducted to determine differences in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) between men and women in terms of clinical characteristics, biologi ...
Ultrasound-guided procedure for ...
Initial treatment of trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis (TMO) often consists of intra-articular injection of corticosteroids or hyaluronic acid. Seve ...
Sicca complex among Egyptian pa ...
The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of sicca complex (SC) in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and its as ...
Evaluation of various endotheli ...
Atherosclerosis has been shown to be increased in chronic inflammatory diseases including ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Impaired endothelial function ...
Vertigo is associated with adva ...
Since vascular risk factors that predispose to vertebrobasilar ischemia are common findings in elderly, cervical spondylosis—which is also common in ...
No effect of physiotherapy on t ...
To investigate the effect of intensive physiotherapy on disease activity and serum levels of adipocytokines in patients with ankylosing spondylitis ...
Psychometric properties of self ...
The aim of this study is to perform a psychometric analysis of the Lequesne Algofunctional Indexes (LAI) for the severity of osteoarthritis (OA) of ...
Color duplex ultrasonography of ...
The objectives of this study are to study the diagnostic value of color duplex ultrasonography (CDU) compared with the clinical results and temporal ...
Quantitative analysis of vascul ...
This study aimed to compare the intraobserver and interobserver reliability of three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) power Doppler ultraso ...
Serum and synovial fluid levels ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate serum and synovial levels of IL-17A by ELISA in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and find out the correlations betwee ...
Translation and validation of t ...
The aim of this study was to translate and adapt the original English-language versions of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (B ...
Tryptophan degradation and neop ...
Increased kynurenine/tryptophan—reflects trytophan degradation—and neopterin levels have been regarded as a biochemical marker of cell-mediated immu ...
A series of 22 patients with ad ...
Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) remains a perplexing, difficult to diagnose clinical entity, with clinical characteristics that are often broad a ...
Depression among the Moroccan s ...
To determine the prevalence and predictors factors of depression in Moroccan patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), we conducted a cross-sectional ...
Assessment of biocorrelates for ...
Central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities are rare in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Direct studies done to investigate brain involvement ...
Gender-specific risk factors fo ...
Previous reports suggested that gout incidence increased with serum uric acid (sUA) level. In addition to sUA, we aimed to examine the gender-specif ...
Severe systemic lupus erythemat ...
This study describes the characteristics of severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients who visited the emergency department of the Shanghai ...
An examination of coping styles ...
Cross-sectional cohort study: to examine concurrent expectations and coping style for whiplash injury in injury-naive subjects in Germany. Studies s ...