The association of Raynaud’s sy ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has traditionally been included among the diseases associated with Raynaud’s syndrome (RS). The prevalence of RS in patien ...
Evaluation of current therapeut ...
Behçet’s disease (BD) is a chronic relapsing vasculitis with multifunctional pathogenesis. The mucocutaneous and ocular lesions are the commonest ma ...
An overview of commonly used ra ...
Despite the advent of magnetic resonance imaging and musculoskeletal ultrasound, the plain radiographs of the hands and feet remain an important too ...
Management of rheumatoid arthri ...
Given the recent availability of novel biologic agents for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the Hong Kong Society of Rheumatology has dev ...
Polymyositis associated with hy ...
Studies confirming a possible relationship of polymyositis within thyroid dysfunction, either hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, are hardly availabl ...
An independent review of NCCAM- ...
To promote an independent and critical evaluation of 11 randomised clinical trials (RCTs) of chiropractic funded by the National Centre for Compleme ...
The role of ultrasound in rheum ...
The skin and nails are commonly involved in rheumatic conditions, both by the primary disease and/or long-term immunosuppressive treatments. These s ...
Prevalence of patient-reported ...
The aim of this study is to describe the comorbidity profile in patients with early and established psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Patients with PsA wer ...
Combination with corticosteroid ...
We retrospectively examined the effect of combination therapy with prednisolone and cyclosporin-A (CSA) on the findings of pulmonary function tests ...
Association of antiphospholipid ...
Over the last few years, several studies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have demonstrated an association between valvulopathy, ...
Enthesitis in seronegative spon ...
Seronegative spondyloarthropathies are a unique group of disorders sharing similar clinical characteristics (e.g., inflammatory back pain, spondylit ...
What does it mean to grow up wi ...
We investigated what it means to patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) to grow up with this disease. A qualitative study was conducted u ...
Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibr ...
The objective of this study is to describe the clinical characteristics of patients with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF). A retrospective ...
Can simple ultrasonography pred ...
To investigate whether ultrasonographic joint assessment can predict the clinical response to intra-articular injection therapy of the knee. Patient ...
Review of current therapies for ...
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) is a disabling condition that may occur secondarily to primary lung cancer. It is characterized by digital club ...
Prevalence of hyperuricemia in ...
To investigate the prevalence of hyperuricemia in general Thai population and to evaluate its association with metabolic syndrome. A total of 1,945 ...
The burden of illness of rheuma ...
It is necessary to understand the full burden of illness of a disease before the value of interventions can be assessed. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) h ...
Real patient learning integrate ...
Although musculoskeletal disorders are the most common reason for general practitioner visits, training did not keep pace. Implementation of learnin ...
The role of viral agents in aet ...
The reason why abnormal immune response exists in acute rheumatic fever is not exactly explained. The influence of co-pathogens like certain viruses ...
Cutaneous vasculitis in systemi ...
Ninety-one consecutive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients (American College of Rheumatology criteria) with a history of cutaneous vasculiti ...
Awareness of Fabry disease amon ...
Fabry disease is an inherited disorder of lipid metabolism caused by deficient activity of the lysosomal enzyme ل-galactosidase A. Burning periphera ...
A retrospective analysis of tre ...
The aim of this work is to describe the outcome of a series of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related vasculitis who were treated with cortic ...
Visfatin levels and intima-medi ...
Chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases lead to increased prevalence of atherosclerosis. However, this early and accelerated atherosclerosis cannot ...
Characteristics of chronic fati ...
This study seeks to estimate the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and assess the characteristics of CFS in a community population in Jap ...
Introduction to economic modeli ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, debilitating inflammatory, progressive musculoskeletal disease that affects 0.5–1.0% of the adult population ...