Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Resulting Severe Aortic Insufficiency and Aortitis: Exacerbation of Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis and Stenosis of the Main Left Coronary Artery after Me... by Agnė Balčiūnaitė, Algimantas Budrikis, Eglė Rumbinaitė, Jurgita Sabaliauskienė, Vaiva Patamsytė, Vaiva Lesauskaitė

“…Ankylosing spondyloarthritis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease, strongly related to human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27. …”
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Enteropathic Spondyloarthritis: From Diagnosis to Treatment by Rosario Peluso, Matteo Nicola Dario Di Minno, Salvatore Iervolino, Francesco Manguso, Giuseppina Tramontano, Pasquale Ambrosino, Carmela Esposito, Antonella Scalera, Fabiana Castiglione, Raffaele Scarpa

“…Rheumatic manifestations are the most frequent extraintestinal findings of IBD with a prevalence between 17% and 39%, and IBD is associated, less frequently, with other rheumatic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren syndrome, Takayasu arteritis, and fibromyalgia. …”
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Adaptive Immunity in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Phenotype and Functional Alterations of T-Cells before and during Infliximab Therapy by Balázs Szalay, Gergő Mészáros, Áron Cseh, Lilla Ács, Magdolna Deák, László Kovács, Barna Vásárhelyi, Attila Balog

“…Our aim was to assess the phenotype of T-cell subsets in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease. In addition, we also tested short-term T-cell activation characteristics. …”
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Use and scope of ultrasonography in rheumatology in India by Parasar Ghosh, Prasan Deep Rath

“…Technical expansion in the field of ultrasonography has made MSUS a powerful tool in the early identification of inflammatory and noninflammatory rheumatic disease, monitoring disease, predicting therapeutic responses and guidance for procedures such as diagnostic fluid aspiration and peri- or intra-lesional therapeutic injections. …”
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Psychological Profile in Children and Adolescents with Severe Course Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis by Emanuela Russo, E. Trevisi, F. Zulian, M. A. Battaglia, D. Viel, D. Facchin, A. Chiusso, A. Martinuzzi

“…Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic pediatric rheumatic disease. It is recognized that only reliance on clinical signs of disease outcome is inadequate for understanding the impact of illness and its treatment on child’s life and functioning. …”
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Development of Two Types of Skin Cancer in a Patient with Systemic Sclerosis: a Case Report and Overview of the Literature by Firdevs Ulutaş, Erdem Çomut, Veli Çobankara

“…Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an uncommon rheumatic disease in which the underlying main histopathologic feature is a thickening of the skin due to excessive accumulation of collagen in the extracellular tissue. …”
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Decompression of the Posterior Horn of the Medial Meniscus Based on Arthroscopic Findings During Deep Flexion of the Knee Joint: Resection of Osseous Bulge on the Posteromedial Fem... by Jun Suganuma, M.D., Ryuta Mochizuki, M.D.

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New Platform Technology for Comprehensive Serological Diagnostics of Autoimmune Diseases by Annika Willitzki, Rico Hiemann, Vanessa Peters, Ulrich Sack, Peter Schierack, Stefan Rödiger, Ursula Anderer, Karsten Conrad, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, Dirk Reinhold, Dirk Roggenbuck

“…However, different diagnostic strategies have been proposed for the work up of sera in particular from patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease (SARD). In general, screening for SARD-associated antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) is followed by confirmatory testing covering different assay techniques. …”
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Prevalence and incidence of celiac disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a case-control study based on the RECORD cohort by Garifallia Sakellariou, Garifallia Sakellariou, Annalisa Schiepatti, Annalisa Schiepatti, Anna Zanetti, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Federico Biagi, Federico Biagi, Carlo Alberto Scirè, Carlo Alberto Scirè

“…BackgroundThe reported prevalence of coeliac disease (CD) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is variable.ObjectiveTo evaluate the prevalence and incidence of CD in RA and controls.DesignCase-control study on administrative data.MethodsThe RECord linkage On Rheumatic Disease database (administrative data, 2004–2013) was used to retrieve patients with RA and age and sex-matched controls. …”
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Seroprevalence against Rickettsia and Borrelia Species in Patients with Uveitis: A Prospective Survey by Kim B. Madsen, Katarina Wallménius, Åke Fridman, Carl Påhlson, Kenneth Nilsson

“…A control group of 100 blood donors, 60 patients with rheumatic disease, and 56 patients seeking medical care were tested of which 2.0–7.1% showed low anti-Rickettsia titres and 3.0–8.3% anti-Borrelia titres. …”
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Multimodal Screening for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Systemic Scleroderma: Current Methods and Future Directions by Ioan Teodor Dragoi, Ciprian Rezus, Alexandra Maria Burlui, Ioana Bratoiu, Elena Rezus

“…Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an immuno-inflammatory rheumatic disease that can affect both the skin and internal organs through fibrosis. …”
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Self-Reported Childhood Maltreatment and Traumatic Events among Israeli Patients Suffering from Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis by Raneen Hellou, Winfried Häuser, Inbal Brenner, Dan Buskila, Giris Jacob, Ori Elkayam, Valerie Aloush, Jacob N. Ablin

“…Significant differences were demonstrated between FMS patients and patients suffering from RA, a model of an inflammatory chronic rheumatic disease.…”
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Factors related to painful somatic symptoms in patients with depression: The role of gender and anhedonia by A. Pérez-Morenilla, A. Salazar, I. Failde, F. González-Sáiz, J.A. Micó

“…Results: In N = 111 patients, PSS were related to gender, rheumatic disease and anxiety, and worsened QoL. Anhedonia was detected in 93 patients (83.8%), with no significant gender differences in PSS. …”
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Genital Ulcer of Behçet Disease Localized in the Vagina May Lack Pain, Making It Difficult to Assess by Soichiro Obata, Koji Kobayashi, Misaki Toda, Etsuko Miyagi, Shigeru Aoki

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Eosinophilia predicts poor clinical outcomes in recent-onset arthritis: results from the ESPOIR cohort by Sandrine Jousse-Joulin, Alain Saraux, Thierry Marhadour, Divi Cornec, Gilles Chiocchia, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec, Gabriel J Tobón, Dewi Guellec, Morgane Milin, Olivier Vittecocq

“…Baseline eosinophilia was not associated with presence of extra-articular manifestations.Conclusions Eosinophilia is rare in recent-onset arthritis suggestive of RA, and is usually directly related to the rheumatic disease. Our data suggest that patients with mild eosinophilia at diagnosis could respond worse to the treatment than those without.…”
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Differential diagnosis of rheumatic manifestations of acromegaly. Case report by Margarita A. Perepelova, Larisa K. Dzeranova, Taras S. Panevin, Elena G. Przhiyalkovskaya, Ekaterina A. Pigarova, Ekaterina A. Troshina, Evgeniy G. Zotkin

“…In the article a clinical case with the peculiarities of diagnosing rheumatic disease in acromegaly is presented. A patient aged 56 years was diagnosed with acromegaly based on clinical and laboratory data, and a month later she underwent transnasal adenomectomy. …”
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Imaging in connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease by Praveen P G. Rao, Kushal Joshi, Sidath Liyanage, Daniel Dalili, Gouri Koduri

“…The most common ILD pattern in rheumatic disease is nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis followed by usual interstitial pneumonitis. …”
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Effect of Proinflammatory Cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α, and IL-1β) on Clinical Manifestations in Indian SLE Patients by Vinod Umare, Vandana Pradhan, Milind Nadkar, Anjali Rajadhyaksha, Manisha Patwardhan, Kanjaksha K. Ghosh, Anita H. Nadkarni

“…Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an inflammatory rheumatic disease characterized by production of autoantibodies and organ damage. …”
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Diagnostic Algorithm for Joint Pain in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disorders by A. I. Dolgushina, G. M. Khusainova, O. B. Nesmeyanova, N. V. Kirsh, O. V. Solovieva, E. A. Bogdanova

“…Use of a diagnostic algorithm allowed concomitant rheumatic disease detection in 7 (7.2%) patients from the IBD–joint pain cohort: 2 patients were diagnosed with psoriatic spondyloarthritis, 2 — rheumatoid arthritis, 1 — gout and 2 — with ankylosing spondylitis. …”
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Salivary Levels of Interleukin-17 in Iranian Patients With Systemic Sclerosis by Ali Tadayon, Javad Moayedi, Mohamad Ali Nazarinia, Mahyar Malekzadeh, Sara Kazemi, Maryam Mardani

“… Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare immune-mediated rheumatic disease in which the skin, muscles, blood vessels, and internal organs are damaged through chronic inflammation. …”
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