Gutierrez, Marwin Soto-Fajardo, Carina Pineda, Carlos Alfaro-Rodriguez, Alfonso Terslev, Lene Bruyn, George Iagnocco, Annamaria Bertolazzi, Chiara D'Agostino, Maria Antonietta Delle Sedie, Andrea
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The Journal of rheumatology
To provide an overview of the role of lung ultrasound (LUS) in the assessment of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and to discuss the state of validation supporting its clinical relevance and application in daily clinical practice. Original articles published between January 1997 and October 2017 were included. To identify...
Favalli, Ennio Giulio Agape, Elena Caporali, Roberto
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The Journal of rheumatology
We thank Dr. So, et al 1 for the interest in our letter2 and for sharing the results about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in Hong Kong1 We agree that the quantification of the risk of infection with severe acute respiratory coronaviruses-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in patients with SLE is a major conc...
So, Ho Mak, Joyce Wing Yan Tam, Lai-Shan
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The Journal of rheumatology
We read with interest the report by Favalli, et al on the incidence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italian patients with connective tissue diseases1 None of the 61 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) surveyed was confirmed to have COVID-19. This is in contrast to the initial analysis of the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology A...
Castellanos-Moreira, Raul Rodriguez-Garcia, Sebastian C Gómez-Puerta, José A Ruiz-Esquide, Virginia Camacho, Oscar Ramírez, Julio Cuervo, Andrea Morlà, Rosa Cañete, Juan D Haro, Isabel
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The Journal of rheumatology
To analyze the prevalence of preexisting palindromic rheumatism (PR) in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to evaluate whether these patients have a distinctive clinical and serological phenotype. Cross-sectional study in patients with established RA. Preexisting PR was determined using a structured protocol and confirmed by re...
Brekke, Lene Kristin Fevang, Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Diamantopoulos, Andreas P Assmus, Jörg Esperø, Elisabet Gjesdal, Clara Gram
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To determine the risk of cancer in a large Norwegian cohort of patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). This is a hospital-based, retrospective, observational cohort study including patients diagnosed with GCA in the Bergen Health Area during 1972-2012. Patients were identified through computerized hospital records using the International Classifi...
Qendro, Tedi de la Torre, María Laura Panopalis, Pantelis Hazel, Elizabeth Ward, Brian J Colmegna, Inés Hudson, Marie
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The Journal of rheumatology
To assess vaccination coverage and predictors of vaccination among a Canadian population of rheumatology patients in routine clinical care. In this cross-sectional study, consecutive adult patients presenting to a tertiary rheumatology clinic at the McGill University Health Center between May and September 2015 were asked to fill a survey on vaccin...
Hussain, Sultana Monira Dawson, Chloe Wang, Yuanyuan Tonkin, Andrew M Chou, Louisa Wluka, Anita E Cicuttini, Flavia M
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The Journal of rheumatology
Vascular pathology (changes in blood vessels) and osteoarthritis (OA) are both common chronic conditions associated with aging and obesity, but whether vascular pathology is a risk factor for OA is unclear. The aim of this study was to systematically review the evidence for an association between vascular pathology and risk of joint-specific OA. Sc...
Vieira-Sousa, Elsa Eusébio, Mónica Ávila-Ribeiro, Pedro Khmelinskii, Nikita Cruz-Machado, Rita Rocha, Teresa Martins Bernardes, Miguel Santos-Faria, Daniela Silva, Joana Leite Santos, Helena
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To assess longterm effectiveness of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) registered in the Rheumatic Diseases Portuguese Register, exposed to at least 1 TNFi, prospectively followed between 2001 and 2017. Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed for first-, second-, and third-line TNFi. Responses included Eu...
Skougaard, Marie Bliddal, Henning Christensen, Robin Ellegaard, Karen Nielsen, Sabrina M Zavada, Jakub Oreska, Sabina Krogh, Niels S Holm, Christian C Hetland, Merete L
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In an eHealth setting, to investigate intra- and interrater reliability and agreement of joint assessments and Disease Activity Score using C-reactive protein (DAS28-CRP) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and test the effect of repeated joint assessment training. Patients with DAS28-CRP ≤ 5.1 were included in a prospective cohort study (cl...
Antovic, Aleksandra Mobarrez, Fariborz Manojlovic, Milena Soutari, Nida De Porta Baggemar, Victoria Nordin, Annica Bruchfeld, Annette Vojinovic, Jelena Gunnarsson, Iva
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To investigate expression of terminal complement components C3a and C5a on circulating myeloperoxidase (MPO)-positive microparticles (MPO+MP) in relation to disease activity and renal involvement in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV). Forty-six clinically well-characterized patients with AAV and 23 ...
