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Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS): defining cut-off values for disease activity states and improvement scores

2 Rheumatology Department, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Rheumatology Department, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Background The ...
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Studies with pain rating scales.

Good correlation has been shown between pain scores derived from 4 different rating scales. The correlation was maintained when presentation of the scales was separated by a series of questions and by ...
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Role of RANKL and RANK in bone loss and arthritis

1 Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Departments of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, University Health Network, Canada ...
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Psoriasis assessment tools in clinical trials

1 Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ...
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How to prevent steroid induced osteoporosis

The first choice for prevention of corticosteroid osteoporosis is a potent oral bisphosphonate—for example, alendronate or risedronate. Intravenous bisphosphonates should be considered for patients ...
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Morbidity and mortality in the antiphospholipid syndrome during a 5-year period: a multicentre prospective study of 1000 patients

Objectives: To identify the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) during a 5-year period and to determine clinical and immunological parameters with ...
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Validated measurement of periarticular bone mineral density at the knee joint by dual energy x ray absorptiometry

Department of Rheumatology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland Dr E Murphy, Department of Rheumatology, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, ...
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Moderate vitamin D deficiency is associated with changes in knee and hip pain in older adults: a 5-year longitudinal study

Background Vitamin D is important for bone, cartilage and muscle function but there are few studies on its association with joint pain. Objective To investigate whether serum vitamin D predicts change ...
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F8: Back to the future: how to mix the old and new treatments for SLE, Sjögren's and APS ...
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CD-19 CAR-T cells for polyrefractory rheumatoid arthritis

‘Poly-refractory’ disease affects 2.7% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have failed different groups of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b-DMARDS) and targeted synthetic ...
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Cutaneous adverse events with febuxostat after previous reactions to allopurinol: comment on the article by Singh and Cleveland

We read with interest the recent article by Singh and Cleveland on the hypersensitivity risk of allopurinol (ALP) and febuxostat (FBX) compared with colchicine.1 A common challenge when using ALP, ...
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Exaggerated neutrophil extracellular trap formation in Kawasaki disease: a key phenomenon behind the outbreak in western countries?

Correspondence to Dr Kiyomi Mizugishi, Department of Hematology, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan; kiyomim{at}kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp KD is a multisystem vasculitis that primarily affects ...