Cutaneous nodules in patients w ...
We report a case of 57-year-old Japanese woman with an overlap syndrome of both rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and autoimmune hepatitis, who developed mu ...
Cutaneous manifestations of Chu ...
Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a small-vessel vasculitis characterized by severe asthma, lung/tissues infiltrates, extravascular necrotizing granul ...
A case of antisynthetase syndro ...
In our earlier study, we had reported the case of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), who had anti-Jo-1 antibodies. This patient had received ...
Osteopathy for musculoskeletal ...
The objective of this systematic review was to assess the effectiveness of osteopathy as a treatment option for musculoskeletal pain. Six databases ...
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TN ...
To study the cytokine profile in a 52 year old woman with psoriasis, PsA, and HCV who developed hepatic sarcoidosis following Etanercept therapy for ...
Improvement of irregularity of ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease that affects multiple organs. Neuropsychiatric SLE develops during the ...
Palmar fasciitis with polyarthr ...
Palmar fasciitis and polyarthritis syndrome (PFPAS) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome often associated with ovarian and pancreatic cancers, and rare ...
Charcot arthropathy of the knee ...
The diagnosis of Charcot arthropathy in the knee is rare. However, there is an increasing number of diabetic patients, and they are living longer du ...
Early onset systemic lupus eryt ...
Juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus is a rare multisystemic autoimmune disease with variable clinical manifestations, and disease onset before 16 ...
Liver autoantibodies in patient ...
Association between autoimmune liver diseases and scleroderma has been described. The purpose of this study was to study the prevalence of antimitho ...
Infliximab for patients with ne ...
This study aims to report the therapeutic effects of anti-tumor necrotic factor antibody, infliximab, for treatment of neuro-Behcet"s disease (NBD) ...
Relapsing polychondritis and fa ...
Relapsing polychondritis (RP) and familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) are systemic inflammatory disorders with seemingly distinct genetic and pathoph ...
Predominance of IgG1 and IgG3 s ...
Analysis of IgG subclass distribution of antibodies may provide insights into the mechanisms driving antibody production. Here, we have first determ ...
Brown tumor of the cervical spi ...
Brown tumors (BT) are benign focal bone lesions that may appear in the context of primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism (HPT). Involvement of th ...
Increased serum IL-17 and IL-23 ...
Interleukin 17 (IL-17) is a Th17 cytokine associated with inflammation, autoimmunity, and defense against some bacteria; it has been implicated in m ...
Spondyloarthritis in women: dif ...
The aim of this study is to assess the gender differences in spondyloarthritides (SpAs) in terms of disease onset, clinical presentation, and the Ba ...
Wasabi nose: an underreported c ...
Wasabi nose, a term used to describe the nasopharyngeal discomfort experienced during cyclophosphamide infusions, is a rare phenomenon, previously ...
Outcome of patients with serone ...
The objective of the study is to evaluate the outcome of patients with seronegative spondyloarthritis continuing on sulphasalazine (SSZ) and methotr ...
Effective treatment of Kimura’s ...
Kimura’s disease (KD) is a rare, benign, chronic inflammatory disease which typically presents as persisting or recurring tumor-like lesions in the ...
What are we doing about septic ...
This study aims to determine the current practices and beliefs of United Kingdom (UK)-based rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons (OS) in managing ...
Predictors of radiographic seve ...
The objective of this study is to investigate the association between clinical and laboratory prognostic factors, radiographic severity, and functio ...
Extreme hypercomplementemia in ...
Elevated levels of complement components, C3 and C4, are often seen in inflammatory diseases. They are generally not thought to be responsible for o ...
Infrapatellar bursitis in child ...
Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) may infrequently present with localized anterior knee pain or swelling, in addition to generalize ...
Iron status during anti-TNF the ...
Patients with active juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have frequently low haemoglobin (Hgb) due to inflammation and/or iron deficiency. The aim o ...
Is anti-TNF switching in refrac ...
Still’s disease (SD) is a rare chronic inflammatory disease characterized by polyarthritis, systemic symptoms, and elevated inflammatory markers. Of ...