... study by Dawson et al. [56], pulmonary parenchymal disease could only account for 6% of RA cases with increased pulmonary arterial pressures, suggesting that asymptomatic primary pulmonary vascular disease ... factor-{alpha} by monocytes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Chest 2004, 126:1473-1479. 63. Redlund-Johnell I: Upper airway obstruction in patients with rhe...
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... Anxiety and panic anxiety may be linked with the withdrawal syndrome. The pathophysiol- ogy of withdrawal actually overlaps with that of panic dis- order, as noradrenergic circuitry around the locus coeruleus ... signifi- cant). Group 1 patients were 31 ± 7 years old; group 2 patients were 31 ± 7 years old; group 3 patients were 29 ± 7 years old; group 4 patients were 30 ± 7 years...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21
Báo cáo y học: "B lymphocytopenia in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with the DRB1 shared epitope and increased acute phase response" docx
... percentage of CD19 + lymphocytes from total T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes combined (CD3 + + CD19 + lymphocytes). The CD19 percentages found in RA patients showed a bimodal distribution, with two separate ... lower CD19 percentages in the rank-sum analysis when compared with SE-negative patients, and were markedly B lymphocytopenic when compared with a healthy control group. To conf...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24
Báo cáo y học: "Bone erosions in rheumatoid arthritis can be repaired through reduction in disease activity with conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs." pot
... IC, Grahame R: Quan- titative microfocal radiography detects changes in erosion area in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis treated with myocrisine. J Rheumatol 1993, 20:243-247. 6. Menninger ... Rheumatology criteria for RA. From among RA patients seen in the rheumatology clinic by two of the authors (HI and SO) at Yokohama City University Medical Center between January 2001...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22
Báo cáo y học: "Treating patients with fibromyalgia in primary care settings under routine medical practice: a claim database cost and burden of illness study" docx
... frequently in mail surveys sent to homes and are instruments that are easy to understand and well used in daily clinical practice, which is why we believe that the errors in the degree of accuracy should ... of anxiety/depres- sion was severe, which was driven primarily by indirect costs. We have not found any studies similar to ours in order to com- pare our findings with other hea...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: " Forefoot pathology in rheumatoid arthritis identified with ultrasound may not localise to areas of highest pressure: cohort observations at baseline and twelve months" ppt
... forefoot in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol 1998, 25:229-230. 1 Forefoot pathology in rheumatoid arthritis identified with ultrasound may not localise to areas of highest ... MTP joint synovial hypertrophy and forefoot bursal hypertrophy (Table 7). This suggests that the pattern of presence of MTP joint synovial hypertrophy and forefoot bursal hypertro...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24
Báo cáo y học: "Sustained remission of rheumatoid arthritis with a specific serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant: a case report and review of the literature" ppsx
... proinflammatory cytokines, including TNF-a, induce glial indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO). This activates the kynurenine pathway, thus chan- neling the available tryptophan to form kynurenine (Kyn), 3-hydroxykynurenine ... receptors are expressed widely throughout the central nervous system. In the periphery, they are highly expressed in platelets and many cell types of the cardiovascula...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23
Báo cáo y học: "Women, men, and rheumatoid arthritis: analyses of disease activity, disease characteristics, and treatments in the QUEST-RA Study" ppsx
... Tuulikki Sokka, Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Medcare Oy, Äänekoski, Finland; Hannu Kautiainen, Medcare Oy, Ääneko- ski, Finland; Theodore Pincus, New York University Hospital for Joint ... seventy-five rheumatoid arthritis patients studied over nine years. Arthritis Rheum 1984, 27:864-872. 6. Kaarela K: Prognostic factors and diagnostic criteria in early rheumatoid arthri...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22
Báo cáo y học: " Autoantibody profile in rheumatoid arthritis during long-term infliximab treatment" pdf
... Anticitrullinated protein/peptide antibody assays in early rheumatoid arthritis for predicting five years radiographic damage. Ann Rheum Dis 2003, 62:120-126. 19. Bas S, Genevay S, Meyer O, Gabay C: Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide ... and 0 by ELISA and 1, 1, 2 and 1 by IIF, respectively. The two anti- dsDNA antibody positive patients at baseline by ELISA remained positive at 30 weeks...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
Báo cáo y học: "Infliximab therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis-induced specific antinuclear and antiphospholipid autoantibodies without autoimmune clinical manifestations: a two-year prospective study" potx
... [Remicade ® ]) are highly beneficial for most patients who are refractory to classic treatment with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs, methotrexate or steroid therapy [1-4]. These anti- inflammatory ... autoimmunity by inhibiting the induction of cytotoxic T lymphocyte response, which nor- mally suppresses autoreactive B-cells [36]. Infliximab might also act by neutralizing the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24