Rheumatology

EDITORIAL

Fiona M. Blyth, Gareth T. Jones, and Gary J. Macfarlane

Musculoskeletal health—how early does it start?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1181-1182; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep213 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alfredo N. C. Santana

Circulating endothelial progenitor cells in ANCA-associated vasculitis: the light at the end of the tunnel?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1183-1184; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep216 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEWS

Get checked abstract Carine Bouffi, Farida Djouad, Marc Mathieu, Danièle Noël, and Christian Jorgensen

Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells and rheumatoid arthritis: risk or benefit?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on June 26, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1185-1189; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep162 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hélène Maillard-Lefebvre, Eric Boulanger, Maïté Daroux, Cédric Gaxatte, Barry I. Hudson, and Marc Lambert

Soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products: a new biomarker in diagnosis and prognosis of chronic inflammatory diseases
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1190-1196; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep199 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BASIC SCIENCE

Get checked abstract Jakub Závada, Lindy Kideryová, Robert Pytlík, Zdenka Hrusková, and Vladimír Tesar

Reduced number of endothelial progenitor cells is predictive of early relapse in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on June 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1197-1201; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep130 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bogdan Jakiela, Wojciech Szczeklik, Barbara Sokolowska, Lucyna Mastalerz, Marek Sanak, Hanna Plutecka, and Andrzej Szczeklik

Intrinsic pathway of apoptosis in peripheral blood eosinophils of Churg–Strauss syndrome
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 29, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1202-1207; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep209 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rachel L. Lakey and Tim E. Cawston

Sulfasalazine blocks the release of proteoglycan and collagen from cytokine stimulated cartilage and down-regulates metalloproteinases
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 18, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1208-1212; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep236 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hector Chinoy, Debbie Payne, Kate V. Poulton, Noreen Fertig, Zoe Betteridge, Harsha Gunawardena, Joyce E. Davidson, Chester V. Oddis, Neil J. McHugh, Lucy R. Wedderburn, William E. Ollier, and Robert G. Cooper on behalf of the UK Adult Onset Myositis Immunogenetic Collaboration & UK Juvenile Dermatomyositis Research Group

HLA–DPB1 associations differ between DRB1*03 positive anti-Jo-1 and anti-PM-Scl antibody positive idiopathic inflammatory myopathy
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 18, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1213-1217; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep248 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY  

Get checked abstract Svetlana I. Nihtyanova, Jennifer C. Parker, Carol M. Black, Christopher C. Bunn, and Christopher P. Denton

A longitudinal study of anti-RNA polymerase III antibody levels in systemic sclerosis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1218-1221; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep215 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL

Get checked abstract Sonja Bastin, Helen Bird, Gregory Gamble, and Tim Cundy

Paget's disease of bone—becoming a rarity?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 16, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1232-1235; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep212 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jacques Sany, Jean-David Cohen, Christophe Combescure, Marie-Cécile Bozonnat, Françoise Roch-Bras, Georges Lafon, and Jean-Pierre Daurès

Medico-economic evaluation of infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis—prospective French study of a cohort of 635 patients monitored for two years
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1236-1241; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep198 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Donatello Pietrapertosa, Fausto Salaffi, Giusy Peluso, Silvia L. Bosello, Anna L. Fedele, Ilaria Cuoghi, Alessandro Michelutti, Elisa Gremese, and Gianfranco F. Ferraccioli

Residual minimal disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: a simple definition through an in-depth statistical analysis of the major outcome
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1242-1246; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep217 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lydia G. Schipper, Jaap Fransen, Pilar Barrera, Alfons A. den Broeder, and Piet L. C. M. Van Riel

Methotrexate therapy in rheumatoid arthritis after failure to sulphasalazine: to switch or to add?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 28, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1247-1253; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep158 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Salima F. E. van Weely, Christiaan J. van Denderen, Irene E. van der Horst-Bruinsma, Michael T. Nurmohamed, Ben A. C. Dijkmans, Joost Dekker, and Martijn P. M. Steultjens

Reproducibility of performance measures of physical function based on the BASFI, in ankylosing spondylitis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 28, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1254-1260; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep190 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yi-Ming Chen, Liang-Kung Chen, Jong-Liang Lan, and Der-Yuan Chen

Geriatric syndromes in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 3, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1261-1264; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep195 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Takeo Sato, Shigeko Inokuma, Akira Sagawa, Takemasa Matsuda, Tamiko Takemura, Takeshi Otsuka, Yukihiko Saeki, Tsutomu Takeuchi, and Tetsuji Sawada on behalf of the Study Committee for Leflunomide-induced Lung Injury, Japan College of Rheumatology

Factors associated with fatal outcome of leflunomide-induced lung injury in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 3, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1265-1268; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep227 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jeffrey R. Curtis, Nivedita M. Patkar, Archana Jain, Jeffrey Greenberg, and Daniel H. Solomon

Validity of physician-reported hospitalized infections in a US arthritis registry
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1269-1272; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep205 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rosa Cánovas, Irene León, María D. Roldán, Robert Astur, and Jose M. Cimadevilla

Virtual reality tasks disclose spatial memory alterations in fibromyalgia
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1273-1278; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep218 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shingo Nakayamada, Takashi Fujimoto, Akitaka Nonomura, Kazuyoshi Saito, Shinobu Nakamura, and Yoshiya Tanaka

Usefulness of initial histological features for stratifying Sjögren's syndrome responders to mizoribine therapy
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 11, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1279-1282; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep228 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Aslam Anis, Wei Zhang, Paul Emery, Huiying Sun, Amitabh Singh, Bruce Freundlich, and Reiko Sato

The effect of etanercept on work productivity in patients with early active rheumatoid arthritis: results from the COMET study
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 18, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1283-1289; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep239 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ananthila Anandacoomarasamy, Garett Smith, Steven Leibman, Ian Caterson, Bruno Giuffre, Marlene Fransen, Philip Sambrook, and Lyn March

Cartilage defects are associated with physical disability in obese adults
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 18, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1290-1293; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep246 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Albert Holvast, Sander van Assen, Aalzen de Haan, Anke Huckriede, Cornelis A. Benne, Johanna Westra, Abraham Palache, Jan Wilschut, Cees G. M. Kallenberg, and Marc Bijl

Effect of a second, booster, influenza vaccination on antibody responses in quiescent systemic lupus erythematosus: an open, prospective, controlled study
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 19, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1294-1299; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep200 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ruby Knafo, Brett D. Thombs, Lisa Jewett, Marie Hudson, Fred Wigley, and Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite

(Not) talking about sex: a systematic comparison of sexual impairment in women with systemic sclerosis and other chronic disease samples
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 19, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1300-1303; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep240 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Cinzia Pizzirani, Simonetta Falzoni, Marcello Govoni, Renato La Corte, Simona Donadei, Francesco Di Virgilio, Francesco Trotta, and Andrea Lo Monaco

Dysfunctional inflammasome in Schnitzler's syndrome
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1304-1308; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep222 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christophe Meune, Emmanuel Touzé, Ludovic Trinquart, and Yannick Allanore

Trends in cardiovascular mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis over 50 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1309-1313; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep252 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Isabelle Marie, Philippe Ducrotté, Philippe Denis, Jean-François Menard, and Hervé Levesque

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in systemic sclerosis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1314-1319; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep226 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Vinod Ravindran, Ian Logan, and Brian E. Bourke

Medical vs surgical treatment for the native joint in septic arthritis: a 6-year, single UK academic centre experience
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1320-1322; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep220 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CASE REPORTS

Isabelle Marie, Laure Lahaxe, Séverine Josse, and Hervé Levesque

Sustained response to infliximab in a patient with relapsing polychondritis with aortic involvement
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 3, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1328-1329; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep224 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Thoden, Nils Venhoff, Michael Daskalakis, Annette Schmitt-Gräeff, Ruth Dräger, Michael Schlesier, Klaus Warnatz, and Hans-Hartmut Peter

Disseminated tuberculosis in a patient with idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 11, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1329-1330; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep223 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ittimade Nassar and Farida Imani

Tuberculosis of the greater trochanter
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 18, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1330-1331; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep185 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MATTERS ARISING

Batsi Chikura, Veena Sadananda, and Muniba Usman-Saeed

Comment on: Screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis prior to anti-TNF therapy—an audit of impact of the British Thoracic Society guidelines on rheumatology practice in an area of low Mycobacterium tuberculosis prevalence
Rheumatology Advance Access published on June 30, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1331-1332; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep181 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John D. Pradeep, Gavin P. R. Clunie, Karl Gaffney, Nicholas J. Innes, Alan Brooksby, Pamela Bradley, and Atul Gulati

Comment on: Screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis prior to anti-TNF therapy—an audit of impact of the British Thoracic Society guidelines on rheumatology practice in an area of low Mycobacterium tuberculosis prevalence: reply
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 18, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1332; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep229 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian J. Sweetman

Comment on: Analgesic effects of treatments for non-specific low back pain: a meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomized trials
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 3, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1332-1333; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep214 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Luciana A. C. Machado

Comment on: Analgesic effects of treatments for non-specific low back pain: a meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomized trials: reply
Rheumatology Advance Access published on July 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1333; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep206 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTE

James R. Maxwell, Elizabeth M. Wernham, and John Winfield

Cystic swelling of the acromioclavicular joint: an unusual complication of gout
Rheumatology Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 1217; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep233 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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