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... included patients who had discontinued therapy with a TNF-a inhibitor for reasons other than inefficacy, with study percentages ranging between 12% (5 of 41 patients) and 100% (37 of 37 patients) For ... in clinical practice Outcome in 70 rheumatoid arthritis patients, including comparison of patients with and without previous anti-TNF exposure Rheumatology (Oxford) 2005, 44:1026-1031 Bingham CO ... patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with adalimumab, etanercept, or infliximab: results from eight years of surveillance of clinical practice in the nationwide Danish DANBIO registry Arthritis...

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... characterization of the SLE patients are shown in Table S1 in Additional file The non-SLE cohort included 162 individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [21], 88 patients with Sjögren’s syndrome ... revised European classification criteria [22], 81 patients with SSc according to the ACR criteria of 1980 [23] and 26 patients with myositis [24] All patients were recruited from the Department of ... associations of investigated test systems, assay titers of patients with a distinct present clinical finding were compared with those of patients without that finding using the Mann-Whitney U test (Table...

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... soft-tissue envelope are frequently compromised for RA patients For patients suffering wrist level extensor tendon rupture associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), primary tendon repair is generally ... Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2008, 3:16 Background Wrist involvement is common for patients afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), wrist level tendon rupture commonly occurring in the extensor ... level for the rheumatoid- arthritis patient [3-8] Primary repair involves the end-to-end suture of the two ends of the damaged tendon, and, as best we are aware, is generally not feasible for rheumatoid...

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... intensification with infliximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Ann Pharmacother 2005, 39:2021 Stern R, Wolfe F: Infliximab dose and clinical status: results of studies in 1642 patients with rheumatoid ... antibody, for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in patients taking concomitant methotrexate: the ARMADA trial Arthritis Rheum 2003, 48:35-45 Maini SR: Infliximab treatment of rheumatoid arthritis ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Cruyssen et al effective therapy for the majority of patients with RA [4] After an induction scheme with intravenous infliximab infusions given...

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... in rheumatoid arthritis Annu Rev Immunol 2008, 26:651-675 Weissmann G: The pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis Bull NYU Hosp Jt Dis 2006, 64:12-15 Weissmann G: Pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis ... fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis and Rheumatism 2008, 58:S520-S520 24 Skriner K, Adolph K, Jungblut PR, Burmester GR: Association of citrullinated proteins with synovial ... synovium in rheumatoid arthritis using a proteomic approach Arthritis Res Ther 2006, 8:R175 26 van Venrooij WJ, Pruijn GJ: An important step towards completing the rheumatoid arthritis cycle Arthritis...

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... a sample of rheumatoid arthritis patients Methods Study sample A sample of patients with a rheumatologist-confirmed diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was previously assembled for a longitudinal ... transformation was performed No adjustment was performed for the unhealthy end (closer to zero) This procedure is similar to the adjustment method performed in development of HUI3 [4] Transformation ... transformed from a 0–100 scale to a 0.00–1.00 scale Then, power functions were used to transform the data to SG utility scores Power conversion is the most common transformation function used for...

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... than the number of patients with a positive score before the group change will become negative We therefore conclude that a negative change for an entire group of patients, for example a treatment ... radiologic healing phenomena in patients with rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 2001, 28:2608-2615 Rau R, Herborn G: Healing phenomena of erosive changes in rheumatoid arthritis patients undergoing disease-modifying ... of low dose methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis and Rheum 1988, 31:167-175 Moeser PJ, Baer AN: Healing of joint erosions in rheumatoid arthritis [letter] Arthritis Rheum 1990, 33:151-152...

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... validated for use in patients with RA The results of this review provide a comprehensive assessment of the available evidence for the utility of available scales for patients with RA and may inform ... in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 2008, 59(9):1257-1269 19 Mokkink LB, Terwee CB, Patrick DL, Alonso J, Stratford PW, Knol DL, Bouter LM, de Vet HC: The COSMIN checklist for ... disability index in patients with psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 2007, 57(5):723-729 67 Tugwell P, Wells G, Strand V, Maetzel A, Bombardier C, Crawford B, Dorrier C,...

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... follow-up were missing for two infliximab-treated patients Available online http:/ /arthritis- research.com/content/5/4/R181 Table Figure Characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the ... treatment in patients with radiographic progression but remained low and unchanged in patients with no progression R184 We chose to include only patients without glucocorticoid treatment or with stable, ... trials in rheumatoid arthritis: guidelines from a roundtable discussion Arthritis Rheum 2002, 47:215-218 Saxne T, Månsson B: Molecular markers for assessment of cartilage damage in rheumatoid arthritis...

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... the twenty-eight-joint count for the assessment of rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1995, 38:38-43 Larsen A, Dale K, Eek M: Radiographic evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis and related conditions ... rheumatoid arthritis patients studied over nine years Arthritis Rheum 1984, 27:864-872 Mulherin D, Fitzgerald O, Bresnihan B: Clinical improvement and radiological deterioration in rheumatoid arthritis: ... revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1988, 31:315-324 Ritchie DM, Boyle JA, McInnes JM, Jasani MK, Dalakos TG, Grieveson P: Clinical studies with an articular...

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... stimulated with plasma samples collected before and hours after the first and the ninth infusions from 20 RA patients TNF-α (5 ng/ml), with or without infliximab (10 µg/ml), was preincubated with these ... (32.9 ng/ml without versus 8.5 ng/ml with infliximab; Fig 1a) Similar studies were performed for OPG production Samples were obtained from 42 patients before the first infliximab infusion The ... modulation by the ninth infusion Patients with high circulating bioactivity at the first infusion could be separated into two subsets For the first group, before the ninth infusion, no circulating...

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... progression in early RA patients Materials and methods Patients A total of 84 consecutively enrolled RA patients with disease duration of less than year were followed for 12 months [4] Clinical ... Margareth Sveinsson for collecting clinical data, research coordinator Tone Omreng for organizing the data collection, Halvor Gilboe for practical assistance with CRFs, Marianne Ytrelid for technical ... chemoattractant protein as sensitive markers of disease activity in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: a six-year longitudinal study Arthritis Rheum 2006, 54:2585-2593 Hueber W, Tomooka BH, Zhao...

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... genotype with one degree of freedom NHS, Nurses' Health Study; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; RF, rheumatoid factor Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Available online http:/ /arthritis- research.com/content/10/3/R52 ... allele and heavy smoking for both seropositive and seronegative RA We did not observe similar gene-smoking interactions for CTLA-4 or PADI-4, for the overall risk for RA, or for RF-positive or RF-negative ... New susceptibility locus for rheumatoid arthritis suggested by a genome-wide linkage study Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998, 95:10746-50 Jawaheer D, Gregersen PK: Rheumatoid arthritis The genetic components...

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... point from patients with RA (n = 9) and from patients with osteoarthritis (n = 11), with knee effusions This synovial fluid was diluted appropriately with PBS in order to avoid clot formation ... infliximab-treated rheumatoid arthritis patients body positivity in infliximab-treated rheumatoid arthritis patients (a) Circulating plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) levels in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients ... of patients with active RA is significantly increased compared with that in osteoarthritis patients Dendritic cell (DC) subsets were measured in the SF of patients with RA (n = 9) and in osteoarthritis...

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... of patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1995, 38:44-48 Kirwan JR, Reeback JS: Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire modified to assess disability in British patients with rheumatoid ... cardiovascular risk factors confer the same risk for cardiovascular outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients as in non -rheumatoid arthritis patients? Ann Rheum Dis 2008, 67:64-69 11 Gonzalez-Gay ... metabolic syndrome with rheumatoid arthritis: a crosssectional study Arthritis Res Ther 2008, 10:R145 Choi HK, Seeger JD: Lipid profiles among US elderly with untreated rheumatoid arthritis – the...

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... Utrecht Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort study group: Intensive treatment with methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis: aiming for remission Computer Assisted Management in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis ... Working Group for Therapeutic Strategies for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Clinical practice format for choosing a second-line disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug in early rheumatoid arthritis after ... criteria for clinical remission in rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1981, 24:1308-1315 Fransen J, Moens HB, Speyer I, van Riel PL: Effectiveness of systematic monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis...

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... disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 2008, 59:1257-1269 34 Ashman CJ, Klecker RJ, Yu JS: Forefoot pain involving the metatarsal region: differential diagnosis with MR imaging ... of rheumatoid foot on disability in Colombian patients with rheumatoid arthritis BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2009, 10:67 Rome K, Gow PJ, Dalbeth N, Chapman JM: Clinical audit of foot problems in patients ... AP, Dekker J: Forefoot joint damage, pain and disability in rheumatoid arthritis patients with foot complaints: the role of plantar pressure and gait characteristics Rheumatology (Oxford) 2006,...

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... blockade in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A pilot, dosefinding, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial evaluating CTLA-4-Ig and LEA29Y eighty-five days after the first infusion Arthritis ... strategy in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis? Arthritis Res Ther 2005, 7:S15-20 Buch MH, Vital EM, Emery P: Abatacept in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Res Ther 2008, 10:S5 ... Cells of the synovium in rheumatoid arthritis T lymphocytes Arthritis Res Ther 2007, 9:202 Brennan FM, McInnes JIB: Evidence that cytokines play a role in rheumatoid arthritis J Clin Invest 2008,...

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... unclassified oligoarthritis (some cases with probable reactive arthritis) , thirteen patients with ankylosing spondylitis, three psoriatic arthritis, nine systemic lupus erythematosus, three oligoarthritis ... longitudinal study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1995, 38:44-48 12 Bas S, Perneger TV, Kunzle E, Vischer TL: Comparative study of different enzyme immunoassays for measurement ... peptide compared with second-generation anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide and rheumatoid factor in predicting disease outcome in undifferentiated arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum...

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... of patients who underwent joint punctures for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes was investigated See Table for details on the RA patients All patients gave informed consent in accordance with ... therapy with rituximab and etanercept in two patients with rheumatoid arthritis after tnf failure: case report Open Rheumatol J 2009, 3:9-13 van Gestel AM, Haagsma CJ, van Riel PL: Validation of rheumatoid ... Developments in the scientific understanding of rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Res Ther 2009, 11:249 Maxwell L, Singh JA: Abatacept for rheumatoid arthritis Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2009, , 4:...

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