Rheumatology

EDITORIALS

Thierry Dervieux

Methotrexate pharmacogenomics in rheumatoid arthritis: introducing false-positive report probability
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 597-598; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep060 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ade Adebajo, Paul McGill, and Mohammed Tikly

Tropical rheumatology—a global issue
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 599-601; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep063 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEWS

Get checked abstract Kiran Nistala and Lucy R. Wedderburn

Th17 and regulatory T cells: rebalancing pro- and anti-inflammatory forces in autoimmune arthritis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 5, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 602-606; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY  

Get checked abstract Harsha Gunawardena, Zoe E. Betteridge, and Neil J. McHugh

Myositis-specific autoantibodies: their clinical and pathogenic significance in disease expression
Rheumatology 2009 48: 607-612; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep078 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BASIC SCIENCE

Get checked abstract Yvonne C. Lee, Jing Cui, Karen H. Costenbader, Nancy A. Shadick, Michael E. Weinblatt, and Elizabeth W. Karlson

Investigation of candidate polymorphisms and disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis patients on methotrexate
Rheumatology Advance Access published on February 4, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 613-617; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken513 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nieves Perdigones, José Ramón Lamas, Ana G. Vigo, Emilio G. de la Concha, Juan Angel Jover, Elena Urcelay, Benjamín-Fernández Gutiérrez, and Alfonso Martínez

6q23 polymorphisms in rheumatoid arthritis Spanish patients
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 25, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 618-621; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Patricia M. Stassen, Jan W. Cohen-Tervaert, Simon P. M. Lems, Bouke G. Hepkema, Cees G. M. Kallenberg, and Coen A. Stegeman

HLA-DR4, DR13(6) and the ancestral haplotype A1B8DR3 are associated with ANCA-associated vasculitis and Wegener's granulomatosis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 622-625; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Zhuochun Huang, Yunying Shi, Bei Cai, Lanlan Wang, Yongkang Wu, Binwu Ying, Li Qin, Chaojun Hu, and Yongzhe Li

MALDI-TOF MS combined with magnetic beads for detecting serum protein biomarkers and establishment of boosting decision tree model for diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 23, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 626-631; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yukihiro Horie, Akira Meguro, Masao Ota, Nobuyoshi Kitaichi, Yoshihiko Katsuyama, Yuko Takemoto, Kenichi Namba, Kazuhiko Yoshida, Yeong Wook Song, Kyung Sook Park, Eun Bong Lee, Hidetoshi Inoko, Nobuhisa Mizuki, and Shigeaki Ohno

Association of TLR4 polymorphisms with Behçet's disease in a Korean population
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 24, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 638-642; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep077 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Daiki Morimoto, Shoko Kuroda, Takuji Kizawa, Koji Nomura, Chikahisa Higuchi, Hideki Yoshikawa, and Tetsuya Tomita

Equivalent osteoblastic differentiation function of human mesenchymal stem cells from rheumatoid arthritis in comparison with osteoarthritis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 27, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 643-649; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL

Get checked abstract Gisela Westhoff, Matthias Schneider, Heiner Raspe, Henning Zeidler, Claus Runge, Timm Volmer, and Angela Zink

Advance and unmet need of health care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the German population—results from the German Rheumatoid Arthritis Population Survey (GRAPS)
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 25, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 650-657; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jackie Hill, Martyn Lewis, and Howard Bird

Do OA patients gain additional benefit from care from a clinical nurse specialist?—a randomized clinical trial
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 25, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 658-664; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Isabelle Touitou, Véronique Hentgen, and Isabelle Koné-Paut on behalf of The French Reference Centre for Auto-Inflammatory Diseases

Web resources for rare auto-inflammatory diseases: towards a common patient registry
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 25, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 665-669; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nicole M. Orzechowski, Dawn M. Davis, Thomas G. Mason, III, Cynthia S. Crowson, and Ann M. Reed

Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with juvenile localized scleroderma
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 670-672; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep059 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY  

Get checked abstract Sharon A. Chambers, Elizabeth Allen, Anisur Rahman, and David Isenberg

Damage and mortality in a group of British patients with systemic lupus erythematosus followed up for over 10 years
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 673-675; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Moisés Labrador-Horrillo, Mª Angeles Martinez, Albert Selva-O’Callaghan, Juan Francisco Delgado, Xavier Martínez-Gómez, Ernesto Trallero-Araguás, Jose Luis Rodriguez-Sanchez, and Miquel Vilardell-Tarrés

Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide and anti-keratin antibodies in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 22, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 676-679; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jeffrey D. Greenberg, Leslie R. Harrold, Mary J. Bentley, Joel Kremer, George Reed, and Vibeke Strand

Evaluation of composite measures of treatment response without acute-phase reactants in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 24, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 686-690; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep054 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Naoki Mugii, Minoru Hasegawa, Yasuhito Hamaguchi, Chihiro Tanaka, Kenzo Kaji, Kazuhiro Komura, Ikuko Ueda-Hayakawa, Sho Horie, Munehiro Ikuta, Katsuhiko Tachino, Fumihide Ogawa, Shinichi Sato, Manabu Fujimoto, and Kazuhiko Takehara

Reduced red blood cell velocity in nail-fold capillaries as a sensitive and specific indicator of microcirculation injury in systemic sclerosis
Rheumatology 2009 48: 696-703; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ulf Müller-Ladner

Unifying abbreviations for biologics in rheumatology—does the idea hold promise?
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 704; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep042 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valeria Riccieri, Iliana Sciarra, Fulvia Ceccarelli, Cristiano Alessandri, Cristina Croia, Massimiliano Vasile, Maria Grazia Modesti, Roberta Priori, and Guido Valesini

Nailfold capillaroscopy abnormalities are associated with the presence of anti-endothelial cell antibodies in Sjogren's syndrome
Rheumatology Advance Access published on March 23, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 704-706; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep051 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Satoshi Okada, Nakao Konishi, Miyuki Tsumura, Kenichiro Shirao, Shin’ichiro Yasunaga, Hidemasa Sakai, Ryuta Nishikomori, Yoshihiro Takihara, and Masao Kobayashi

Cardiac infiltration in early-onset sarcoidosis associated with a novel heterozygous mutation, G481D, in CARD15
Rheumatology Advance Access published on April 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48: 706-707; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep061 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDUM

Corrigendum
Rheumatology 2009 48: 708; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep114 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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