Malignant lymphomas and autoimm ...
Autoimmune diseases and malignant lymphomas have numerous similarities in their etiology and pathogenesis. Patients with autoimmune disorders have i ...
Reactivity of pulmonary circula ...
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is complicated by pulmonary hypertension and right ventricle (RV) failure in approximately 10% of the patients. Factors inf ...
Comparison of indirect immunofl ...
Indirect immunofluorescence antinuclear antibodies (IIF-ANA) are detected in approximately 90% of scleroderma patients, and the staining pattern cor ...
Predictive value of remission s ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate whether remission status after completion of induction therapy can be used to predict long-term renal ou ...
Normal autonomic nervous system ...
There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the autonomic nervous system function in patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Therefore, our ...
Spontaneous skin regression and ...
Skin tightness is a major clinical manifestation of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Importantly for both clinicians and patients, spontaneous regression o ...
Inverse correlation of programm ...
Programmed death 1 (PD-1) has been shown to be involved in the negative regulation of the immune response. However, the role of PD-1 in ankylosing ...
The expression and distribution ...
CD28/B7 signals have been shown to have the capacity to regulate T cell activation and participate in regulating the development of rheumatoid arthr ...
A sarcoidosis patient with hand ...
Sarcoidosis infrequently involves the phalanges and the adjacent soft tissue. The management of bone lesions is not clear. We present herein the res ...
Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome ...
Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare childhood disease with autoimmune association. Environmental factors are known to trigger JDMin genetically ...
A pseudoleukemic blood differen ...
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare systemic vasculitis of the small- and medium-size vessels. It is mostly seen in elderly patients presenting a ...
Lower gastrointestinal perforat ...
Tocilizumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting the IL-6 receptor, has recently been added to the therapeutic armamentarium against rheumatoid arthriti ...
Infliximab therapy efficacy and ...
Patients treatedwith infliximab at our centre through a special access programme (initiation group) had longstanding, treatment-resistant rheumatoid ...
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex immune disease affected by both genetic dispositions and environmental factors. Recently, the polymo ...
An overview of systematic revie ...
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition which is difficult to diagnose and to treat. Most individuals suffering from FM use a variety of compl ...
Yoga for low back pain: a syste ...
It has been suggested that yoga has a positive effect on low back pain and function. The objective of this systematic review was to assess the effec ...
Additive effects of low-level l ...
The subacromial syndrome is the most common source of shoulder pain. The mainstays of conservative treatment are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory dru ...
Utility and feasibility of musc ...
The utility of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK US) is being extensively explored and evaluated amongst European rheumatologists. However, utilizatio ...
Silent central nervous system i ...
Behçet's disease (BD) is an idiopathic multisystem disorder. Involvement of CNS occurs in 4–48% of cases. This study was designed to evaluate the pr ...
Single-center, retrospective an ...
To retrospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of combination therapy with tacrolimus (TAC) and other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DM ...
Successful plasma exchange comb ...
Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by venous and/or arterial thrombosis or recurrent fetal los ...
Hormonal therapy in a patient w ...
Systemic lupus erythromatosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease, which affects mainly women in the reproductive age and is influenced by hormonal chang ...
Lymphatic obstruction as a caus ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem disease of autoimmune origin. Lymphedema is a very uncommon entity and has not been previously ...
Re-challenge with Etanercept in ...
TNF blockers have rarely been associated with haematological complications; however, there are scattered case reports of marked neutropenia with the ...
Schnitzler's syndrome asso ...
Schnitzler's syndrome (SS) is a rare inflammatory disease of unknown origin characterized by chronic urticaria and monoclonal gammopathy (usually Ig ...