Gamboa-Cárdenas, Rocío-V. Barzola-Cerrón, Silvia Toledo-Neira, Denisse Reátegui-Sokolova, Cristina Pimentel-Quiroz, Víctor Zevallos-Miranda, Francisco Alarcón, Graciela S. Ugarte-Gil, Manuel
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Clinical Rheumatology
Objective The identification of risk factors for COVID-19 adverse course in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) is of the utmost importance when approaching patient management; however, data are scarce in relation to the Latin American population. The objective of this study was to determine predictors of hospitalization for COVID-19 patients from...
Malek Mahdavi, Aida Varshochi, Mojtaba Hajialilo, Mehrzad Dastgiri, Saeed Khabbazi, Raha Khabbazi, Alireza
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Clinical Rheumatology
Objective We assessed the factors associated with COVID-19, clinical manifestations, and a 30-day-prognosis of COVID-19 in a cohort of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients compared with the index population. Methods In a cross-sectional study, RA patients were followed in rheumatology clinics of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, and a group of p...
Naveen, R. Mohindra, Namita Jain, Neeraj Majumder, Sanjukta Aggarwal, Amita
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Clinical Rheumatology
Background The data on long-term outcome in enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA), the commonest category of JIA in India, is scant. Thus, we studied outcomes of ERA in a resource-constrained setting. Methods Patients with ERA (ILAR classification) (≥ 5 years of disease and ≥ 18 years) were included. Data on clinical features, Bath indices (BASMI, BAS...
Ciaffi, Jacopo Meliconi, Riccardo Ruscitti, Piero Iagnocco, Annamaria Ferri, Clodoveo Giacomelli, Roberto Ursini, Francesco
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Clinical Rheumatology
Shenoy, Padmanabha Ahmed, Sakir Shanoj, K. C. Shenoy, Veena Damodaran, Deepak Menon, Aparna R. Alias, Bazil SanjoSaijan, Devakumar, Divya Babu, A. S. Sageer
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Clinical Rheumatology
Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRD) are suspected to have less robust immune responses during COVID-19 due to underlying immune dysfunction and the use of immune-suppressive drugs. Fifty consecutive patients with a diagnosis of AIRD on disease-modifying drugs were included at around 30 days after a confirmatory test for COVID-19. Fif...
Misra, Durga Prasanna Thomas, Koshy Nithin Gasparyan, Armen Yuri Zimba, Olena
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Clinical Rheumatology
Patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) have a two- to threefold greater risk of developing venous as well as arterial thrombotic events. Although such thrombotic events are more commonly seen during phases of active AAV, they are also recognized to occur during AAV in remission. Endothelial injury is a...
Haslak, Fatih Barut, Kenan Durak, Cansu Aliyeva, Ayten Yildiz, Mehmet Guliyeva, Vafa Varol, Sevki Erdem Cebeci, Sinem Oral Aygun, Fatih Varli, Yusuf Ziya
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Clinical Rheumatology
Objectives Multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a less understood and a rare complication of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Given the scarce data regarding this novel disease, we aimed to describe the clinical features and outcomes of our patients with MIS-C and to evaluate the associated factors for the pediatric intensi...
Renman, Emma Brink, Mikael Ärlestig, Lisbeth Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt Lejon, Kristina
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Clinical rheumatology
Recent studies have demonstrated an altered expression of certain microRNAs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as well as their first-degree relatives (FDRs) compared to healthy controls (HCs), suggesting a role of microRNA in the progression of the disease. To corroborate this, a set of well-characterized RA families originating from north...
Quintana, Rosana Fernandez, Sofia Fay, Martina Camacho, Cecilia Gomez, Graciela Petrelli, Jazmin Honeri, Andrés Solórzano, Viviana Arenas Bensi, Ana Di Prinzio, Gustavo
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Clinical rheumatology
The objective of this study is to describe the local healthcare system from the perspective of the health professionals, community health workers, and local representatives of the qom community living in the province of Chaco, Argentina. A qualitative study, with an ethnographic approach, was carried out using two techniques: non-participant observ...
De Lucia, Orazio Jerosch, Joerg Yoon, Sophie Sayre, Tobias Ngai, Wilson Filippou, Georgios
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Clinical rheumatology
The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of single or 1-3 weekly injections of hylan G-F 20 at 1 year following the first injection for knee osteoarthritis (OA). Searches were conducted in PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, and CENTRAL and included relevant conference proceedings (January 1, 1995-August 17, 2020). Randomized con...
