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Clinical rheumatology

Section edited by Susan Goodman (New York, US)

This section is concerns all aspects of clinical rheumatology

  1. Content type: Case report

    The pathobiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is similar to that of periodontitis in that proinflammatory cytokines play an important pathologic role. There is evidence to suggest that inhibitors of tumor necr...

    Authors: Tetsuo Kobayashi, Satoshi Ito, Akira Murasawa, Hajime Ishikawa and Hiromasa Yoshie

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:13

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  3. Content type: Research article

    The TITRATE trial seeks to test whether intensive management is valuable in achieving disease remission in moderately active rheumatoid arthritis. Intensive management is a complex intervention consisting of: ...

    Authors: Louise Prothero, Jackie Sturt, Savia de Souza and Heidi Lempp

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:12

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  4. Content type: Research article

    Inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) are current mainstay of therapies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The decision when to withdraw TNF-α inhibitors after achieving remission and the incidence of ...

    Authors: Arduino A. Mangoni, Fahdah Al Okaily, Hani Almoallim, Seham Al Rashidi, Reem Hamdy A. Mohammed and Amal Barbary

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:10

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  6. Content type: Research article

    Signs and symptoms establish the diagnosis of adult onset Still’s disease (AOSD) as well as of systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA). The published data regarding the importance of IL-18 as a mar...

    Authors: Holger Kudela, Susanne Drynda, Anke Lux, Gerd Horneff and Joern Kekow

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:4

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  7. Content type: Research article

    The emphasis on treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) intensively reduces disease activity but its impact in routine care is uncertain. We evaluated temporal changes in disease activities and outcomes in a 10-yea...

    Authors: Nicola J. Gullick, Fowzia Ibrahim, Ian C. Scott, Alexandra Vincent, Andrew P. Cope, Toby Garrood, Gabriel S. Panayi, David L. Scott and Bruce W. Kirkham

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:6

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  8. Content type: Case report

    Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a severe clinical entity associated with high mortality in the adult population. HLH has been associated with infections, malignancy and autoimmune conditions such a...

    Authors: Christina S. Thornton, Parham Minoo, Michelle Schneider and Aurore Fifi-Mah

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:7

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  9. Content type: Research article

    Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation. It affects around 400,000 people in the UK and 1 million adults in the USA. Given the appropriate treatment, many can have relative...

    Authors: Fran Toye, Kate Seers and Karen Louise Barker

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:5

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  10. Content type: Research article

    Biomarkers of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity typically measure inflammation or autoimmunity (e.g. CRP, RF). C1M and C3M, metabolites of type I and III collagen, are markers reflecting tissue metabo...

    Authors: Anne C. Bay-Jensen, Adam Platt, Martin A. Jenkins, Michael E. Weinblatt, Inger Byrjalsen, Kishwar Musa, Mark C. Genovese and Morten A. Karsdal

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:3

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  11. Content type: Study protocol

    Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic generalized pain, fatigue, sleep disorders and other symptoms. Physical exercise is recommended as the first choice of non-pharmacological therapy. Thus, the aim of thi...

    Authors: Katherinne Ferro Moura Franco, Yuri Rafael dos Santos Franco, Evany Maira Espírito Santo Salvador, Bruna Cristina Brajon do Nascimento, Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto and Cristina Maria Nunes Cabral

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:2

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex, centralized pain condition that is often difficult to diagnose and treat. FM is considered to have a genetic background due to its familial aggregation and due to findings from ...

    Authors: Chee Lee, Ginevra Liptan, Svetlana Kantorovich, Maneesh Sharma and Ashley Brenton

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:38

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  13. Content type: Case report

    Autoimmune disorders are known to produce false positives in serological tests for infections. Aetiological association between infections and autoimmunity, increased susceptibility to infectious and autoimmun...

    Authors: Harsha Anuruddhika Dissanayake, Gayani Premawansa, Enoka Corea and Inoshi Atukorale

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:37

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  14. Content type: Case report

    We report the case of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with tofacitinib who developed severe Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) with an atypical clinical presentation.

    Authors: Ian F. J. Pirker, Jacqueline Krane-Nuber, Werner C. Albrich, Rüdiger Müller and Thomas Neumann

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:34

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  16. Content type: Research article

    Osteoarthritis (OA) is diagnosed and managed primarily by general practitioners (GPs). OA guidelines recommend using clinical criteria, without x-ray, for diagnosis, and advising strengthening exercise, aerobi...

    Authors: Thorlene Egerton, Rachel K Nelligan, Jenny Setchell, Lou Atkins and Kim L Bennell

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:30

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  17. Content type: Research article

    Fibromyalgia is a debilitating condition, characterized by extensive muscular pain and fatigue. Vitamin D is essential for overall health, with ubiquitous involvement in various inflammatory and pain pathways....

    Authors: Shawn D. Ellis, Sam T. Kelly, Jonathan H. Shurlock and Alastair L. N. Hepburn

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:28

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  18. Content type: Research article

    To evaluate demographics, family history, and previous medication use at enrollment in a subset of psoriasis patients with self-reported psoriatic arthritis (PsA) enrolled in Psoriasis Longitudinal Assessment ...

    Authors: Arthur Kavanaugh, Kim Papp, Alice B. Gottlieb, Elke M. G. J. de Jong, Soumya D. Chakravarty, Shelly Kafka, Wayne Langholff, Kamyar Farahi, Bhaskar Srivastava and Jose U. Scher

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:29

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  19. Content type: Research article

    Chronic inflammatory arthritis is associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. Pharmacological management and healthy lifestyle modification is recommended to manage these risks, but ...

    Authors: Premarani Sinnathurai, Alexandra Capon, Rachelle Buchbinder, Vibhasha Chand, Lyndall Henderson, Marissa Lassere and Lyn March

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:25

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Although psoriatic arthritis is complex and involves multiple domains, recent advances in treatments have made remission or near-remission of most symptoms a potentially achievable goal for many patients. We s...

    Authors: Laura C. Coates, Ana-Maria Orbai, Akimichi Morita, Olivier Benichou, Lisa Kerr, David H. Adams, Catherine L. Shuler, Julie Birt and Philip S. Helliwell

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:24

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  21. Content type: Research article

    Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) such as inflammatory arthritis and Lupus, and many of the treatments for these diseases, can have a detrimental impact on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. Disease activity...

    Authors: Rhiannon Phillips, Bethan Pell, Aimee Grant, Daniel Bowen, Julia Sanders, Ann Taylor, Adrian Edwards, Ernest Choy and Denitza Williams

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:21

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  22. Content type: Research article

    There is growing evidence that it may be possible to identify people at high risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Assuming that effective interventions were available, this could mean that treatments ...

    Authors: Sarah Munro, Luke Spooner, Katherine Milbers, Marie Hudson, Cheryl Koehn and Mark Harrison

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:18

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  23. Content type: Case report

    Behcet’s disease and Sjogren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disorder from which many systems of the body can suffer. Here we reported a patient with a history of Behcet’s disease and Sjogren’s syndrome in which R...

    Authors: Fulong Xiao, Jun Zhang, Waner Wang, Xuehua Wang, Wei Zhang, Liyue Xu and Fang Han

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:19

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  24. Content type: Research article

    Clinical response and remission are defined in multiple ways and measured with different instruments, resulting in substantial variation of the proportion of patients classified as being in remission. Therefor...

    Authors: Samina A. Turk, Linda A. Rasch, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Willem F. Lems, Marjolein Sanberg, Lilian H. D. van Tuyl and Marieke M. ter Wee

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:16

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  25. Content type: Research article

    Patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS) are at increased risk of asymptomatic hyperuricemia (i.e., elevated serum uric acid (SUA) level without gout) and cardiovascular disease. We conducted a cross-sectional ...

    Authors: Seoyoung C. Kim, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Rajesh K. Garg, Kathleen Vanni, Penny Wang, Alyssa Wohlfahrt, Zhi Yu, Fengxin Lu, Anarosa Campos, Courtney F. Bibbo, Stacy Smith and Daniel H. Solomon

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:17

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  26. Content type: Research article

    This study aimed to explore the beliefs of people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) about the disease, and how these beliefs had formed and what impact these beliefs had on activity participation, health behaviour...

    Authors: Ben Darlow, Melanie Brown, Bronwyn Thompson, Ben Hudson, Rebecca Grainger, Eileen McKinlay and J. Haxby Abbott

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:15

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  27. Content type: Research article

    Systemic Sclerosis is a multifactorial autoimmune rheumatic disease characterized by inflammation, fibrosis, immune dysregulation and vascular dysfunction.

    Authors: Annemarie Schorpion, Max Shenin, Robin Neubauer and Chris T. Derk

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:13

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  28. Content type: Review

    Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is markedly increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis partly due to accelerated atherosclerosis from chronic inflammation. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as hyp...

    Authors: Aprajita Jagpal and Iris Navarro-Millán

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:10

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  29. Content type: Research article

    Pneumococcal vaccination is recommended to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS). However, little is known whether the diseases influence pneumococcal vaccine response. T...

    Authors: Per Nived, Tore Saxne, Pierre Geborek, Thomas Mandl, Lillemor Skattum and Meliha C. Kapetanovic

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:12

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  30. Content type: Research article

    Chronic pain, regional or widespread, is a frequent and multidimensional symptom in arthritis. There is still limited information on chronic pain in spondyloarthritis, which is important to recognize for adequ...

    Authors: Elisabeth Mogard, Ann Bremander, Elisabet Lindqvist and Stefan Bergman

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:11

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  31. Content type: Research article

    Pharmacotherapy is paramount to the management of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs), yet there is sub-optimal adherence and limited adherence interventions. To understand how to better support pat...

    Authors: Hans Haag, Tim Liang, J. Antonio Avina-Zubieta and Mary A. De Vera

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:9

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  32. Content type: Research article

    Methotrexate (MTX) is well known to affect folic acid metabolism, so MTX treatment can result in alterations of mean corpuscular volume (MCV), which may impact on red cell distribution width (RDW), as MCV leve...

    Authors: Julia Held, Birgit Mosheimer-Feistritzer, Johann Gruber, Erich Mur and Günter Weiss

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:6

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  33. Content type: Research article

    An important source of knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about illness is the mass media. Research has established the often negative and emotive language utilised by journalists to report on physical and ment...

    Authors: Andrew Mark Bassett, Savia de Souza, Ruth Williams and Heidi Lempp

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:5

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  34. Content type: Research article

    Multiple targeted immunomodulators (TIMs) for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) treatment are available, but limited studies have directly compared these agents. This study indirectly compared the efficacy of TNF-α, i...

    Authors: Vibeke Strand, M. Elaine Husni, Keith A. Betts, Yan Song, Rakesh Singh, Jenny Griffith, Marci Beppu, Jing Zhao and Arijit Ganguli

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:3

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  35. Content type: Review

    Total hip (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are widely used, successful procedures for symptomatic end stage arthritis of the hips or knees, but patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus er...

    Authors: Susan M. Goodman and Anne R. Bass

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:2

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  36. Content type: Research article

    Early and intensive targeted treatment with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) has been shown to lead to substantial reductions in disease activity and radiograph damage in patients with early rhe...

    Authors: Laura M. M. Steunebrink, Letty G. A. Versteeg, Harald E. Vonkeman, Peter M. ten Klooster, Monique Hoekstra and Mart A. F. J. van de Laar

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2018 2:1

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  37. Content type: Research article

    To examine the frequency of possible giant cell arteritis (GCA) symptoms (including headache, temporal/scalp tenderness, jaw claudication and visual symptoms) in newly diagnosed polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) pa...

    Authors: William Masson, Sara Muller, Rebecca Whittle, James Prior, Toby Helliwell, Christian Mallen and Samantha L. Hider

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2017 1:7

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  38. Content type: Study protocol

    Being physically active is an essential component of successful self-management for people with inflammatory arthritis; however, the vast majority of patients are inactive. This study aims to determine whether...

    Authors: Linda C. Li, Lynne M. Feehan, Chris Shaw, Hui Xie, Eric C. Sayre, Antonio Aviña-Zubeita, Navi Grewal, Anne F. Townsend, Diane Gromala, Greg Noonan and Catherine L. Backman

    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2017 1:6

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