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  1. 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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  3. Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies associated vasculitides (AAV) are characterized by autoimmune small vessel inflammation. Eosinophils are multifunctional cells with both pro-inflammatory and immunoregula...

    Authors: Thomas Hellmark, Sophie Ohlsson, Åsa Pettersson, Markus Hansson and Åsa C. M. Johansson
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:9
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  4. 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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  5. Uncontrolled gout can cause significant joint and organ damage and has been associated with impairments in quality of life and high economic cost. Gout has also been associated with other comorbid diseases, su...

    Authors: Dena H. Jaffe, Alyssa B. Klein, Arriel Benis, Natalia M. Flores, Hagit Gabay, Robert Morlock, Dana Y. Teltsch, Jonathan Chapnick, Yair Molad, Shmuel M. Giveon, Becca Feldman and Maya Leventer-Roberts
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:11
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  6. 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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  8. 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
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  9. The details of two rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) who were administered tocilizumab, an anti-interleukin-6 receptor antibody, are reported, along with a review of the literature.

    Authors: Hiroki Wakabayashi, Hitoshi Kino, Makoto Kondo, Keiichi Yamanaka, Masahiro Hasegawa and Akihiro Sudo
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:15
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  10. Adjusting medication of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) until predefined disease activity targets are met, i.e. Treat-to-Target (T2T), is the currently recommended treatment approach. However, not much...

    Authors: Celine J. van de Laar, Martijn A. H. Oude Voshaar and Harald E. Vonkeman
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:16
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. With improved therapies and management, more women with inflammatory arthritides (IA) are considering pregnancy. Our objective was to survey rheumatologists across Canada about their IA management in pregnancy...

    Authors: Mary A. De Vera, Corisande Baldwin, Nicole W. Tsao, Alyssa Howren, Glen S. Hazlewood, Nevena Rebić and Stephanie Ensworth
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:18
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  12. Around 1 in 8 patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) also meet criteria for fibromyalgia and such patients have considerable unmet need. Identifying effective therapy is important but to what extent fib...

    Authors: Gary J. Macfarlane, Ejaz Pathan, Stefan Siebert, Jonathan Packham, Karl Gaffney, Ernest Choy, Raj Sengupta, Fabiola Atzeni, Kathryn R. Martin, Gareth T. Jones and Linda E. Dean
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:19
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  13. Good communication is central to a high-quality consultation process. We assessed the quality of referral information from primary care physicians (PCPs) to rheumatologists and the quality and timeliness of co...

    Authors: Jenna Wong, Karen Tu, Sasha Bernatsky, Liisa Jaakkimainen, J. Carter Thorne, Vandana Ahluwalia, J. Michael Paterson and Jessica Widdifield
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:23
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:35

  14. A fatty corner lesion (FCL) is a well-demarcated fat infiltration in the corner of a vertebral body on T1 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequence. It has been reported to be useful in the diagnosis of axial ...

    Authors: Ho Yin Chung, Rachel Sze Wan Yiu, Shirley Chiu Wai Chan, Kam Ho Lee and Chak Sing Lau
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:17
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  15. The aim of this study was to identify predictors of prolonged disease control after discontinuation of tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

    Authors: Marjan Ghiti Moghadam, Femke B. G. Lamers-Karnebeek, Harald E. Vonkeman, Peter M. ten Klooster, Janneke Tekstra, Barbara van Schaeybroeck, Ruth Klaasen, Marieke van Onna, Hein J. Bernelot Moens, Henk Visser, Annemarie M. Schilder, Marc R. Kok, Robert B. M. Landewé, Piet L. C. M. van Riel, Mart A. F. J. van de Laar and Tim L. Jansen
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:22
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:35

  16. Withdrawal of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) once disease remission is achieved is endorsed by current international rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management guidelines. However, very little data ...

    Authors: Kenneth F. Baker, John D. Isaacs and Ben Thompson
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:24
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:35

  17. The role of self-care behaviors in promoting physical function, pain management, health status and quality of life among patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is well documented. However, there is no valid a...

    Authors: Haidar Nadrian, Yasna Hosseini Niaz, Zahra Basiri and Ahmad Tahamoli Roudsari
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:20
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:35

  18. Previous studies of prognosis for women with Fibromyalgia (FM) or chronic widespread pain (CWP) show contradictory results. However, some women appear to improve in pain and other core symptoms over time. Ther...

    Authors: Anna Bergenheim, Sofia Juhlin, Lena Nordeman, Monica Joelsson and Kaisa Mannerkorpi
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:21
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:35

  19. Heterogeneity in assessments of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease remission, based on physician judgment and patient self-reports versus standardized measures, have previously been reported. This study explore...

    Authors: Wenhui Wei, Emma Sullivan, Stuart Blackburn, Chieh-I Chen, James Piercy and Jeffrey R. Curtis
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Methods of gout flare reporting in research settings are inconsistent and poorly defined. The aim of this study was to describe patterns of gout flare and assess the concurrent validity of different methods of...

    Authors: Novell Teoh, Gregory D. Gamble, Anne Horne, William J. Taylor, Kate Palmano and Nicola Dalbeth
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:27
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  22. Administrative database research is widely applied in the field of epidemiology. However, the results of the studies depend on the type of database used and the algorithms applied for case ascertainment. The o...

    Authors: Kati Otsa, Sandra Talli, Pille Harding, Eevi Parsik, Marge Esko, Anti Teepere and Marika Tammaru
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:26
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  24. The objective of this study was to explore the associations between ultrasonographic and radiographic joint scores and levels of arterial CVD risk markers in patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Secondly, to com...

    Authors: S. A. Provan, S. Rollefstad, E. Ikdahl, A. Mathiessen, I. J. Berg, I. Eeg, I. B. Wilkinson, C. M. McEniery, T. K. Kvien, H. B. Hammer, N. Østerås, I. K. Haugen and A. G. Semb
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:33
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  25. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that primarily affects joints with some extraarticular involvement. If inappropriately treated, it usually results in persistent joint pain, i...

    Authors: Wanruchada Katchamart, Pongthorn Narongroeknawin, Wanwisa Chanapai and Phakhamon Thaweeratthakul
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:34
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in BMC Rheumatology. Several articles were published in volume 3 with a duplicate citation number.

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    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:35
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    The original article was published in BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:21

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    The original article was published in BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:23

  28. Hypogammaglobulinemia is a complication of B-cell targeting therapies (BCTT), used in vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Since autoimmune diseases are associated with unde...

    Authors: M. J. Cuadrado, I. Calatayud, M. Urquizu-Padilla, S. Wijetilleka, S. Kiani-Alikhan and M. Y. Karim
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:30
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  29. To undertake a retrospective review of patients with SLE who had received Rituximab in order to determine the rates and associated patient characteristics of clinically significant adverse infusion reactions.

    Authors: Ashleigh Hennessey, Joanna Lukawska, Geraldine Cambridge, David Isenberg and Maria Leandro
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:32
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  30. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) aid in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management, but it is not well understood which measures would be most relevant to the rheumatologists for making treatment decisions.

    Authors: Aprajita Jagpal, Ronan O’Beirne, Melanie S. Morris, Bernadette Johnson, James Willig, Huifeng Yun, Andrea L. Cherrington, Liana Fraenkel, Jeffrey R. Curtis, Monika M. Safford and Iris Navarro-Millán
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:36
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  31. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a 5 to 10 years reduction in life expectancy due to premature atherosclerosis. This reduction is the consequence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors (TCRF) a...

    Authors: Christophe Mulumba, Pierrot Lebughe, Jean-Marie Mbuyi-Muamba, Jean-Robert Makulo, François Lepira, Jean Mukaya, Rene Westhovens, Patrick Verschueren and Jean-Jacques Malemba
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:37
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  32. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) emerged as the frequent pathogen for septic arthritis. There was no study comparing risks, clinical presentations and outcomes between GBS septic arthritis and other bacterial septi...

    Authors: Rungkan Ruksasakul, Pongthorn Narongroeknawin, Paijit Assavatanabodee and Sumapa Chaiamnuay
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:38
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  33. There has been much variation between epidemiological studies that report the prevalence of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). This study aimed to analyze the diagnostic prevalence rates and treatment patterns of ma...

    Authors: Jessica Walsh, Theresa Hunter, Krista Schroeder, David Sandoval and Rebecca Bolce
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:39
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  34. The objective of this study was to develop an assessment tool, ReproKnow, to evaluate the reproductive health knowledge of women with a wide range of rheumatic diseases.

    Authors: Mehret Birru Talabi, Megan E. B. Clowse, Susan J. Blalock, Galen Switzer, Lan Yu, Alaina Chodoff and Sonya Borrero
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:40
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  35. The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a group of rare conditions characterised by muscle inflammation (myositis). Accurate disease activity assessment is vital in both clinical and research setting...

    Authors: Alexander Oldroyd, Max A. Little, William Dixon and Hector Chinoy
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:41
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  37. Work and workplace factors are important in fibromyalgia management. We investigated factors associated with sick leave in professionally active women living with fibromyalgia.

    Authors: F. Laroche, D. Azoulay, A. P. Trouvin, J. Coste and S. Perrot
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:44
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  38. The prevalence of mood disturbances such as anxiety and depression is greater in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients than in the general population. Given this association, the primary aim of this study was to ...

    Authors: Steve Peterson, James Piercy, Stuart Blackburn, Emma Sullivan, Chetan S. Karyekar and Nan Li
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:43
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  40. There is an ongoing discussion about incorporating additional risk factors to established WHO fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) to improve the prediction accuracy in clinical subgroups. We aimed to reach an...

    Authors: Nicolas S. Bodmer, Hans Jörg Häuselmann, Diana Frey, Daniel Aeberli and Lucas M. Bachmann
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:50
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  41. RA flares are common and disabling. They are described in terms of worsening inflammation but pain and inflammation are often discordant. To inform treatment decisions, we investigated whether inflammatory and...

    Authors: Daniel F. McWilliams, Shimin Rahman, Richard J. E. James, Eamonn Ferguson, Patrick D. W. Kiely, Adam Young and David A. Walsh
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:49
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  42. Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have increased risk of adverse events, including serious infections (SI), compared with psoriasis patients.

    Authors: Christopher T. Ritchlin, Mona Stahle, Yves Poulin, Jerry Bagel, Soumya D. Chakravarty, Shelly Kafka, Bhaskar Srivastava, Wayne Langholff and Alice B. Gottlieb
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:52
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  43. The pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA) involves wear and tear, and a state of low-grade inflammation. Tissue repair responses include transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ)-induced myofibroblast production...

    Authors: Tue W. Kragstrup, Dong H. Sohn, Christin M. Lepus, Kazuhiro Onuma, Qian Wang, William H. Robinson and Jeremy Sokolove
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:46
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  44. The Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index (HAQ-DI) is used to assess functional status in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the change required for meaningful improvements remains unclear. A minimum cl...

    Authors: Frank Behrens, Michaela Koehm, Eva C. Schwaneck, Marc Schmalzing, Holger Gnann, Gerd Greger, Hans-Peter Tony and Harald Burkhardt
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:51
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  45. To verify whether serum levels of reactive oxygen metabolites (ROM) are predictive of future clinical remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) receiving tocilizumab (TCZ) therapy.

    Authors: Arata Nakajima, Keiichiro Terayama, Masato Sonobe, Yasuchika Aoki, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yorikazu Akatsu, Junya Saito, Shinji Taniguchi, Manabu Yamada, Ayako Kubota and Koichi Nakagawa
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Treatment decisions for any disease are usually informed by reference to published clinical guidelines or recommendations. These recommendations can be developed to improve the relative cost-effectiveness of h...

    Authors: Sean P. Gavan, Gavin Daker-White, Katherine Payne and Anne Barton
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2019 3:47
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  47. There are limited real-world data on the diagnostic experiences of patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), including medical care sought and potential barriers to diagnosis. We aim to describe patient experie...

    Authors: Alexis Ogdie, W. Benjamin Nowell, Eddie Applegate, Kelly Gavigan, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Marie de la Cruz, Emuella Flood, Ethan J. Schwartz, Beverly Romero and Peter Hur
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2020 4:2
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  48. While total joint replacements (TJR) are frequently performed, there is little qualitative research to define the outcomes most important to patients.

    Authors: Susan M. Goodman, Bella Mehta, Serene Z. Mirza, Mark P. Figgie, Michael Alexiades, Jose Rodriguez, Peter Sculco, Michael Parks and Jasvinder A. Singh
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2020 4:3
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  49. A definite diagnosis of gout requires demonstration of monosodium urate crystals in synovial fluid or in tophi, which in clinical practice today seldom is done. Dual energy CT (DECT) has repeatedly been shown ...

    Authors: Elin Svensson, Ylva Aurell, Lennart T. H. Jacobsson, Anton Landgren, Valgerdur Sigurdardottir and Mats Dehlin
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2020 4:7
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  50. Relapsing polychondritis (RPC) is a rare progressive autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation in the cartilage of multiple organs. Tracheobronchial involvement appears in nearly half of RPC patients du...

    Authors: Tomonori Makiguchi, Akira Koarai, Chihiro Inoue, Yayoi Aoyama, Taizo Hirano, Takashi Ohe, Tomohiro Ichikawa, Yutaka Shishikura, Hanae Komuro, Yoko Tsukita, Naoki Tode, Tadahisa Numakura, Tsutomu Saito, Teruyuki Sato, Yoshiya Mitsuhashi, Tsutomu Tamada…
    Citation: BMC Rheumatology 2020 4:1
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