Kimura’s disease: case report o ...
Kimura’s disease is a benign chronic inflammatory disease, common in Asian males and rare in Western people. Clinically, Kimura’s disease is charact ...
A case of adult periodic fever, ...
PFAPA is an acronym for periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis. This syndrome has been usually described in pediatr ...
Clinical significance of chroni ...
The role of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in patients with primary Sjِgren's syndrome (pSS) remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated the prev ...
Rheumatologic manifestations of ...
Diseases of blood and lymphoreticular system can have multisystem manifestations. Rheumatologic involvement has been reported in association with ma ...
How common is methotrexate pneu ...
The current literature states the prevalence of methotrexate pneumonitis (MTX-P) to be 3.5–7.6%. This is based on retrospective data. Consequently, ...
Current smoking status is assoc ...
The purpose of this study is to determine factors associated with a non-ACR 50 response at 6 months of follow-up, in a cohort of patients with early ...
Interferon-م release assay in t ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the interferon-ƒء release assay (IGRA) for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (L ...
Lack of cardiovascular risk ass ...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate cardiovascular risk assessment at a Canadian rheumatology center and describe the cardiovascular risk of in ...
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 ...
Successful remission induction ...
A 56-year old patient with a history of limited Wegener's granulomatosis presented with signs and symptoms of optic neuritis. Radiologic signs of or ...
Patients with rheumatoid arthri ...
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have decided that abatacept (ORENCIA®, Bristol- Myers Squibb) is not recommended for th ...
Thrombosis of the inferior vena ...
A 46-year-old female patient presenting with unspecific lower back pain, diffuse abdominal pain, and slightly elevated body temperature was referred ...
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemi ...
We report about a 39-year-old female patient with severe essential mixed cryoglobulinemia of type III with leukocytoclastic vasculitis. The patient ...
Sjِgren’s syndrome in patients ...
There are few reports about the coexistence of Sjِgren’s syndrome (SS) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). To evaluate the frequency of SS in patients ...
Severe systemic lupus erythemat ...
This study describes the characteristics of severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients who visited the emergency department of the Shanghai ...
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 ...
Assessment of biocorrelates for ...
Central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities are rare in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Direct studies done to investigate brain involvement ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tryptophan degradation and neop ...
Increased kynurenine/tryptophan—reflects trytophan degradation—and neopterin levels have been regarded as a biochemical marker of cell-mediated immu ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Case report: successful use of ...
We report on a 64-year-old woman with multirefractory flare of adult-onset Still’s disease successfully treated with six-month course of add-on anti ...
Osteitis pubis ameliorated afte ...
Osteitis pubis is a non-infective inflammation of the symphysis pubis, which is known to be associated with trauma, athletic exertion, urological or ...