Oka, Tomohiro Ono, Rei Tsuboi, Yamato Wada, Osamu Kaga, Takehiro Tamura, Yoriko Yamamoto, Yousuke Mizuno, Kiyonori
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Clinical rheumatology
Prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) may affect clinical improvements following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We aim to assess preoperative SB effect on improvements in clinical outcomes after TKA. We hypothesized that patients with high proportion of preoperative SB have small improvements in clinical outcomes after TKA. We recruited 115 adults with...
Zhang, Wenjuan Zheng, Zhaohui Jia, Rulin Li, Xiangpei Zuo, Xiaoxia Wu, Lijun Shen, Nan Li, Zhijun Zhang, Yan Wang, Guochun
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Clinical rheumatology
Due to lack of comprehensive evaluation for various detection methods for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) in Chinese population, we evaluate the diagnostic performance of 12 established analysis methods in Chinese patients having granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). Sera were collected from 209 patie...
Robbins, Shawn M Raymond, Nicolas Abram, François Pelletier, Jean-Pierre Martel-Pelletier, Johanne
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Clinical rheumatology
Knee alignment and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury are risk factors for knee osteoarthritis (OA). The objective was to examine interactions between knee alignment and ACL status on cartilage volume loss in participants with or at risk of knee OA. Participants were from the Osteoarthritis Initiative, a longitudinal cohort study. Data were fr...
Yongchairat, Khemmapop Tanboon, Jantima Waisayarat, Jariya Narongroeknawin, Pongthorn Chevaisrakul, Parawee Dejthevaporn, Charungthai Katchamart, Wanruchada
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Clinical rheumatology
To investigate the clinical characteristics, laboratory features, and treatment outcomes of Thai patients compared between those with necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM) and those with other idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) or non-NAM. This multicenter case-control study included patients aged ≥ 18 years who were diagnosed with IIMs by m...
Li, Xiaodi Sun, Xiaoxuan Huang, Yingheng Wang, Yuanyuan Yang, Xiaoman Wang, Jingya Zhang, Ning Gu, Lei Zhang, Miaojia Wang, Qiang
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Clinical rheumatology
To explore the long-term prognostic value of a simplified risk assessment strategy based on the 2015 European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Respiratory Society (ERS) pulmonary hypertension (PH) guidelines in Chinese patients with connective tissue disease (CTD) associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We identified 50 CTD-PAH p...
Khoo, Thomas Stokes, Michael B Teo, Karen Proudman, Susanna Basnayake, Sajini Sanders, Prashanthan Limaye, Vidya
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Clinical rheumatology
Cardiac involvement in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) adversely affects prognosis but is commonly sub-clinical. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is an effective imaging modality for detecting myocardial inflammation and fibrosis but its use as a screening tool for cardiac disease in IIM has not been fully explored. Nineteen patien...
Anjara, Pamela Jiang, Matthew Mundae, Maninder
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Clinical rheumatology
The aim of RA treatment is to achieve reduction of disease activity and prevent joint damage and disability. Baricitinib is a synthetic small molecule which targets the JAK/STAT pathway which is implicated in the inflammatory response in RA. Baricitinib selectively targets JAK1 and JAK2 and has been shown to have efficacy in treating patients with ...
Chong, Yosep Lee, Ji Young Thakur, Nishant Kang, Chang Suk Lee, Eun Jung
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Clinical rheumatology
Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a rare benign lymphadenitis that mainly involves cervical lymph nodes of young Asian women with unknown etiology. Recently, we experienced a case of KFD found with Torque teno virus/Torque teno-like mini virus (TTV/TTMV) from a 26-year-old woman. TTV/TTMV is a genus of Circoviridae that causes necrotizing lymphaden...
Singh, Jasvinder A Cleveland, John D
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Clinical rheumatology
To assess whether systemic sclerosis (SSc) is associated with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) outcomes. We used the 1998-2014 US National Inpatient Sample. We conducted multivariable-adjusted logistic regression analyses to examine the association of a diagnosis of SSc with post-TKA in-hospital complications (implant infection, revision, transfusion,...
Guler, Mehmet Akif Celik, Omer Faruk Ayhan, Fikriye Figen
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Clinical rheumatology
This study explored the role of central sensitization (CS) pain in patients with various rheumatic diseases using the CS inventory (CSI). A total of 193 patients of mean age 50.72 ± 9.65 years were included; they were divided into four different groups in terms of their rheumatic diseases. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spondyloarthropath...
