Shi, Wen Huang, Xiaoming Zhang, Shengyu Jiao, Yang
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Clinical rheumatology
Although lupus induced by penicillamine, the first-line medication for Wilson's disease, is well-documented, primary systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE) co-occurring with Wilson's disease has only rarely been reported. Symptom overlap can add to difficulties in making the correct and complete diagnosis of these two systemic diseases. An 18-year-ol...
Seyhoglu, Emrah Uyaroğlu, Oğuz Abdullah Erden, Abdulsamet Kilic, Levent Karadag, Omer Akdogan, Ali Bilgen, Sule Apras Ertenli, Ihsan Kiraz, Sedat Kalyoncu, Umut
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Clinical rheumatology
The Turkish population is vaccinated with Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), and the BCG vaccination decreases the specificity of the tuberculin skin test (TST). The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of active tuberculosis (TBC) among rheumatic patients who were screened only with the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) test for...
Sepúlveda-Delgado, J Rizo-Pinto, A Granados-Arriola, J Mena-Vela, B A Cetina-Díaz, J H García-Silva, R Hernández-Doño, S Cruz-Salvatierra, M A Pérez-Tirado, J M Vázquez-Guzmán, C
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Clinical rheumatology
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease with an increased prevalence in Mexico. Although its etiology is unknown, its development can be influenced by environmental factors such as smoking and viral infections. But among the factors influencing susceptibility, it is the genetic factors that predominate, mainly the HLA-DRB1 g...
Harrison, Mark Bansback, Nick Aguiar, Magda Koehn, Cheryl Shojania, Kam Finckh, Axel Hudson, Marie
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Clinical rheumatology
To elicit and compare preferences of patients and first-degree relatives and rheumatologists for preventive treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, understand the influence of shared decision-making, and predict the probability of uptake of the preventive treatments currently being studied. An online discrete choice experiment was completed by patient...
Damiani, Giovanni Pacifico, Alessia Rizzi, Maurizio Santus, Pierachille Bridgewood, Charlie Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi Adawi, Mohammed Watad, Abdulla
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Clinical rheumatology
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients are often affected by numerous comorbidities. However, contrasting results have been reported with regard to the respiratory involvement in PsA patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of subclinical airway inflammation in non-smoking PsA patients compared to patients with only psoriasis using ...
Haroon, Muhammad Gallaghar, Phil Ahmad, Muddassar FitzGerald, Oliver
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Clinical rheumatology
Little is known about the long-term association of CRP levels during psoriatic arthritis (PsA) disease course. In this study, we examined whether raised CRP over the disease course is associated with worse outcome measures in a well-characterised PsA cohort with a long-term follow up. A cohort of 283 PsA patients (fulfilling CASPAR criteria) was ev...
Patel, Sipahee Lal Prakash, Jaya Gupta, Varsha
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Clinical rheumatology
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease, characterized by chronic inflammation, hyperplasia (swelling), tenderness, erosion of cartilage and bones in synovial joints. Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is an important regulator of inflammation, and its polymorphism is implicated in several diseases. Therefore, the study ...
Azuaga, A B Frade-Sosa, B Laiz, A Estrada, P Prior-Español, A Horcada, L Polino, L Moreno, M Moragues, C Urruticoechea-Arana, A
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Clinical rheumatology
To assess the effectiveness and survival of ustekinumab (UST) among patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) treated under routine clinical care. Multicenter study. Epidemiological and clinical data was collected through electronic medical records of all patients with PsA who started UST in 15 hospitals of Spain. Two hundred and one patients were in...
Hsu, Hui-Ching Hou, Tsung-Yun Lin, Tzu-Min Chang, Yu-Sheng Chen, Wei-Sheng Kuo, Pei-I Lin, Yi-Chun Chang, Chi-Ching Chen, Jin Hua
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Clinical rheumatology
This study assessed the risk of Parkinson disease (PD) in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) using a nationwide, population-based cohort during a 15-year follow-up period. We identified 17,028 patients with pSS by using the catastrophic illness registry in the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, and 68,094 matched non-pS...
Lao, Minxi Gong, Yingying Shen, Chuyu Wang, Cuicui Liang, Liuqin Zhan, Zhongping Chen, Dongying
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Clinical rheumatology
To explore the clinical features and associated factors of cryptococcosis in patients with connective tissue disease (CTD) from Southern China. Demographic and clinical data were collected between 2007 and 2018. Associated factors were analyzed by logistic regression analysis. A total of 6809 inpatients with CTD were included. Cryptococcosis was di...
