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Anaemia in systemic lupus erythematosus: aetiological profile and the role of erythropoietin
Professor Moutsopoulos, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, 75 Mikras Asias St, 115 27, Athens, Greece OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of different ...
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Quadriceps weakness in knee osteoarthritis: the effect on pain and disability
a Rheumatology Unit, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, b Department of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham Dr O’Reilly. OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the ...
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AB1006 PULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS OF AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS (AXSPA): A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Background Common extra musculoskeletal manifestations (EMM) of axSpA include uveitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis; and some of the uncommon manifestations include aortic incompetence, ...
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Long-term effectiveness and safety of secukinumab for treatment of refractory mucosal and articular Behçet’s phenotype: a multicentre study
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of secukinumab in patients with a mucosal and articular Behçet’s phenotype resistant to conventional and biologic treatment. Methods A multicentre ...
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Adalimumab elicits a restricted anti-idiotypic antibody response in autoimmune patients resulting in functional neutralisation
1 Department of Immunopathology, Sanquin Research and Landsteiner Laboratory Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Objectives Millions of patients worldwide are treated with therapeutic ...
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Gout: why is this curable disease so seldom cured?
3 Department of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 4 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Alicante ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and primary Sjögren’s syndrome shared megakaryocyte expansion in peripheral blood
Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) share many clinical manifestations and serological features. The aim of this study was to ...
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Synovial macrophage M1 polarisation exacerbates experimental osteoarthritis partially through R-spondin-2
Correspondence to Professor Daozhang Cai and Dr Xiaochun Bai, Department of Orthopedics, Academy of Orthopedics - Guangdong Province, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated ...
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EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis
15 Department of Radiology. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 16 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...
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Validation of EULAR primary Sjögren's syndrome disease activity (ESSDAI) and patient indexes (ESSPRI)
1 Center of Clinical Epidemiology, Hôpital Hotel Dieu; INSERM U738, Université Paris-René Descartes, Paris, France Objectives To validate the two recently developed disease activity indexes for ...
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EULAR recommendations for the management of ANCA-associated vasculitis: 2022 update
Background Since the publication of the EULAR recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) in 2016, several randomised clinical trials ...
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Cytokine levels in human synovial fluid during the different stages of acute gout: role of transforming growth factor β1 in the resolution phase
Methods SFs from 38 gouty patients were analysed for white blood cell (WBC) count, percentage of polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs) and levels of interleukin 1β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-8, tumour necrosis ...