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Power Doppler ultrasonography and synovitis: correlating ultrasound imaging with histopathological findings and evaluating the performance of ultrasound equipments

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland 3 Department of Pathology, Mikkeli Central ...
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Defining active sacroiliitis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for classification of axial spondyloarthritis: a consensual approach by the ASAS/OMERACT MRI group

Department of Rheumatology, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of sacroiliac joints has evolved as the most relevant ...
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Germline genetic patterns underlying familial rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and primary Sjögren’s syndrome highlight T cell-initiated autoimmunity

Objectives Familial aggregation of primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and co-aggregation of these autoimmune diseases (ADs) (also called ...
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Gout is associated with more comorbidities, poorer health-related quality of life and higher healthcare utilisation in US veterans

Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research at the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Objective: To better understand the impact of gout on functional status, health-related quality of ...
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Fish oil in recent onset rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind controlled trial within algorithm-based drug use

Background The effects of fish oil (FO) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have not been examined in the context of contemporary treatment of early RA. This study examined the effects of high versus low ...
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Steroid injection for inferior heel pain: a randomised controlled trial

3 Centre for Public Health, Queens’ University Belfast, Belfast, UK 4 Department of Rheumatology, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, UK 5 Department of Rheumatology, Chapel Allerton Hospital, ...
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EULAR definition of arthralgia suspicious for progression to rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Dr Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; AvdHelm{at}lumc.nl Background ...
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A nationwide non-medical switch from originator infliximab to biosimilar CT-P13 in 802 patients with inflammatory arthritis: 1-year clinical outcomes from the DANBIO registry

1 The DANBIO registry and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark Objectives ...
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The timing of glucocorticoid administration in rheumatoid arthritis

a University Hospital Uppsala, Sweden: Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine , b Department of Clinical Chemistry Nils Gunnar Arvidson MD, Section of Rheumatology, Department of ...
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Position 97 of HLA-B, a residue implicated in pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis, plays a key role in cell surface free heavy chain expression

Correspondence to Dr Liye Chen, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Windmill Road, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK; liye.chen{at}ndorms.ox.ac.uk ...
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Disturbance of the menstrual pattern after local injection with triamcinolone acetonide

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands Dr J M A Mens. Local injections of ...
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SAT0452 Do Traditional Risk Factors for Knee Osteoarthritis Predict Pain Flares in Knee Osteoarthritis?

Background Knee pain is the main cause of disability and reduced function in knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Though knee pain in osteoarthritis was previously perceived as a chronic condition it is now ...