Rheumatology

EDITORIALS

M. Bukhari

The National Osteoporosis Guideline Group's new guidelines: what is new?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 7, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 327-329; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken454 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Foster and Athimalaipet V. Ramanan

‘The eyes have it!’ The need to improve awareness and access to early ophthalmological screening for juvenile idiopathic arthritis associated uveitis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 7, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 330-331; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep002 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY  

REVIEWS

Get checked abstract M. Y. Karim, C. N. Pisoni, and M. A. Khamashta

Update on immunotherapy for systemic lupus erythematosus—what's hot and what's not!
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 332-341; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken476 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract P. Ranganathan

Genetics of bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis—role of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 16, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 342-346; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken473 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BASIC SCIENCE

Get checked abstract Takeru Yoshimura, Koh-Hei Sonoda, Nobuyuki Ohguro, Yoshiyuki Ohsugi, Tatsuro Ishibashi, Daniel J. Cua, Takashi Kobayashi, Hiroki Yoshida, and Akihiko Yoshimura

Involvement of Th17 cells and the effect of anti-IL-6 therapy in autoimmune uveitis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 22, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 347-354; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken489 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Min Chen, Fang Wang, and Ming-Hui Zhao

Circulating neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin: a useful biomarker for assessing disease activity of ANCA-associated vasculitis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 355-358; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken500 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David P. Lowe, Mark A. Cook, Simon J. Bowman, David C. Briggs, and the UK Sjögren's Interest Group

Association of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors with primary Sjögren's syndrome
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 359-362; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken503 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Justyna M. Rak, Philippe P. Pagni, Kiet Tiev, Yannick Allanore, Dominique Farge, Jean-Robert Harlé, David Launay, Eric Hachulla, Rémi Didelot, Jean Cabane, André Kahan, Marielle Martin, Brigitte Granel, Jean Roudier, and Nathalie C. Lambert

Male microchimerism and HLA compatibility in French women with sclerodema: a different profile in limited and diffuse subset
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 10, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 363-366; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken505 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gry B. N. Nordang, Marte K. Viken, Jade E. Hollis-Moffatt, Tony R. Merriman, Øystein T. Førre, Knut Helgetveit, Tore K. Kvien, and Benedicte A. Lie

Association analysis of the interleukin 17A gene in Caucasian rheumatoid arthritis patients from Norway and New Zealand
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 10, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 367-370; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken512 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shu-Chi Mu, Hwa-Chang Liu, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Ming-Ta Michael Lee, Hui-Ping Chuang, Liang-Kuang Chen, and Yuan-Tsong Chen

A large kindred of early-onset osteoarthritis of the knee and hip: excluding the link to COL2A1 gene
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 17, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 371-374; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL

Get checked abstract Gino Fornaciari, Valentina Giuffra, Sara Giusiani, Antonio Fornaciari, Natale Villari, and Angelica Vitiello

The ‘gout’ of the Medici, Grand Dukes of Florence: a palaeopathological study
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 375-377; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken493 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Vikas Agarwal, Manoj Kumar, Jitesh K. Singh, Ram K. S. Rathore, Ramnath Misra, and Rakesh K. Gupta

Diffusion tensor anisotropy magnetic resonance imaging: a new tool to assess synovial inflammation
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 378-382; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken499 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wolfgang A. Schmidt, Andreas Krause, Bernd Schicke, Jörn Kuchenbecker, and Erika Gromnica-Ihle

Do temporal artery duplex ultrasound findings correlate with ophthalmic complications in giant cell arteritis?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 29, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 383-385; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken515 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tugce Karaderi, David Harvey, Claire Farrar, Louise H. Appleton, Millicent A. Stone, Roger D. Sturrock, Matthew A. Brown, Paul Wordsworth, and Jennifer J. Pointon

Association between the interleukin 23 receptor and ankylosing spondylitis is confirmed by a new UK case–control study and meta-analysis of published series
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 2, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 386-389; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken501 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Murray Baron, Orit Schieir, Marie Hudson, Russell Steele, Audrée Janelle-Montcalm, Jessica Bernstein, Michael Starr, Michel Gagné, Michael Stein, Harb Kang, Morton Kapusta, François Couture, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Bruce Garfield, Henri A. Ménard, Laeora Berkson, Christian Pineau, Andrzej Gutkowski, Michel Zummer, Jean-Pierre Mathieu, Suzanne Mercille, Sophie Ligier, Jiri Krasny, Carole Bertrand, Sai Yan Yuen, and Jan Schulz

Evaluation of the clinimetric properties of the Early Inflammatory Arthritis—self-administered comorbidity questionnaire
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 4, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 390-394; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken504 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Fatos Yalçinkaya, Seza Özen, Zeynep Birsin Özçakar, Nuray Aktay, Nilgün Çakar, Ali Düzova, Özgür Kasapçopur, Atilla H. Elhan, Beyza Doganay, Mesiha Ekim, Nazli Kara, Nermin Uncu, and Aysin Bakkaloglu

A new set of criteria for the diagnosis of familial Mediterranean fever in childhood
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 4, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 395-398; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken509 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY  

Get checked abstract Pagalavan Letchumanan, Heng-Joo Ng, Lai-Heng Lee, and Julian Thumboo

A comparison of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in an inception cohort of patients with and without systemic lupus erythematosus
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 6, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 399-403; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken510 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Athan Baillet, Elodie Payraud, Virginie-Aurélie Niderprim, Michael J. Nissen, Benoit Allenet, Patrice François, Laurent Grange, Pierre Casez, Robert Juvin, and Philippe Gaudin

A dynamic exercise programme to improve patients’ disability in rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective randomized controlled trial
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 11, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 410-415; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken511 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Britt-Marie Nyhäll-Wåhlin, Ingemar F. Petersson, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Lennart T. H. Jacobsson, Carl Turesson, and the BARFOT study group

High disease activity disability burden and smoking predict severe extra-articular manifestations in early rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 416-420; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mikkel Faurschou, Lene Mellemkjaer, Inge J. Sorensen, Bjarne S. Thomsen, Lene Dreyer, and Bo Baslund

Cancer preceding Wegener's granulomatosis: a case–control study
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 421-424; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bernard Combe, Gary Swergold, James McLay, Timothy McCarthy, Cristiano Zerbini, Paul Emery, Laurine Connors, Amarjot Kaur, Sean Curtis, Loren Laine, and Christopher P. Cannon

Cardiovascular safety and gastrointestinal tolerability of etoricoxib vs diclofenac in a randomized controlled clinical trial (The MEDAL study)
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 17, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 425-432; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Özlem Solak, Fatma Fidan, Ümit Dündar, Aycan Türel, Abdullah Ayçiçek, Vural Kavuncu, and Mehmet Ünlü

The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in ankylosing spondylitis patients
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 17, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 433-435; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep021 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

GUIDELINES

Raashid Luqmani, Sheena Hennell, Cristina Estrach, Damian Basher, Fraser Birrell, Ailsa Bosworth, Frank Burke, Carole Callaghan, Jaime Candal-Couto, Chris Fokke, Nicola Goodson, Dawn Homer, John Jackman, Paula Jeffreson, Susan Oliver, Mike Reed, Luis Sanz, Zoe Stableford, Peter Taylor, Nick Todd, Louise Warburton, Chris Washbrook, and Mark Wilkinson on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology and British Health Professionals in Rheumatology Standards, Guidelines and Audit Working Group

British Society for Rheumatology and British Health Professionals in Rheumatology guideline for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (after the first 2 years)
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 436-439; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken450a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Full Guidelines] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Norbert Blank, Regina Max, Martin Schiller, Steffen Briem, and Hanns-Martin Lorenz

Safety of combination therapy with rituximab and etanercept for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 19, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 440-441; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken491 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine Hill, Tiffany K. Gill, Sarah Appleton, Leslie G. Cleland, Anne W. Taylor, and Robert J. Adams

The use of fish oil in the community: results of a population-based study
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 441-442; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken498 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean-François Augusto, Céline Onno, Simon Blanchard, Sylvain Dubuquoi, Alberto Mantovani, Alain Chevailler, Pascale Jeannin, and Jean-François Subra

Detection of anti-PTX3 autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 442-444; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken507 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Michal Kasher-Meron, Yosef Uziel, and Howard Amital

Successful treatment with B-cell depleting therapy for refractory systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a case report
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 22, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 445-446; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken492 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY  

Edwina Lawson, Katharine Bond, Duncan Churchill, and Karen Walker-Bone

A case of immune reconstitution syndrome: adult-onset Still's disease in a patient with HIV infection
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 446-447; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken514 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jun Kishi, Toshihiro Nanki, Kaori Watanabe, Akito Takamura, and Nobuyuki Miyasaka

A case of rituximab-induced interstitial pneumonitis observed in systemic lupus erythematosus
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 7, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 447-448; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep015 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helena Robinson and Karen Walker-Bone

Anti-TNF- therapy for rheumatoid arthritis among patients with chronic hepatitis B infection
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 16, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 448-450; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep003 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MATTERS ARISING

Dennis McGonagle and Ai Lyn Tan

Comment on: The use of MRI in early RA
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 19, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 450-451; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken496 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

F. M. McQueen

Comment on: The use of MRI in early RA: reply
Rheumatology Advance Access published on December 24, 2008
Rheumatology 2009 48: 451; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken478 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. Rajasekhar, N. V. Jayachandran, V. N. N. Prabu, and G. Narsimulu

Comment on: Prevalence, serological features, response to treatment and outcome of critical peripheral ischaemia in a cohort of lupus patients
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 16, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 451-452; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken451 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. Narshi, R. Jeffery, and D. A. Isenberg

Comment on: Prevalence, serological features, response to treatment and outcome of critical peripheral ischaemia in a cohort of lupus patients: reply
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 452-453; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken474 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter E. Westerweel, Ronald H. W. M. Derksen, and Marianne C. Verhaar

Comment on: Systemic lupus erythematosus patients exhibit functional deficiencies of endothelial progenitor cells
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 22, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 453; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken494 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johannes Grisar, and Josef S. Smolen on behalf of the authors

Comment on: Systemic lupus erythematosus patients exhibit functional deficiencies of endothelial progenitor cells: reply
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 453-454; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken508 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

OBITUARIES

Ruth Holt, Robert Bernstein, and Tom Warnes

Dr Peter John Lennox Holt (1932–2008)
Rheumatology Advance Access published on January 19, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 455; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken453 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Badley

Prof. Philip H. N. Wood
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 456-457; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep014 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDA

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NOTICE

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