Rheumatology International

Rheumatologic disease with peripheral eosinophilia

Nüket Bavbek, Ayşe Kargılı, Handan Cipil, Ali Koşar, Yaşar Karaaslan

Eosinophilia in rheumatologic diseases: a prospective study of 1000 cases

Ayşe Kargılı, Nüket Bavbek, Arif Kaya, Ali Koşar, Yaşar Karaaslan

Transdermal fentanyl for the treatment of pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis

Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Olav Bjorneboe, Ute Richarz

Disease-associated increased HIF-1, αvβ3 integrin, and Flt-1 do not suffice to compensate the damage-inducing loss of blood vessels in inflammatory myopathies

Yrjö T. Konttinen, Zygmunt Mackiewicz, Danutė Povilėnaitė, Antti Sukura, Mika Hukkanen, Ismo Virtanen

Color-coded sonography in suspected temporal arteritis—experiences after 83 cases

Matthias Reinhard, Dieter Schmidt, Andreas Hetzel

Increased sucrose permeability in Behçet’s disease

Bayram Koc, Serdar Aymelek, Alper Sonmez, M. Ilker Yilmaz, Hakki Kocar

Therapy with infliximab decreases the CD4+CD28− T cell compartment in peripheral blood in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Andrzej Pawlik, Lidia Ostanek, Iwona Brzosko, Marek Brzosko, Marek Masiuk, Boguslaw Machalinski, Barbara Gawronska Szklarz

Bone mineral density in patients with Behçet’s disease

Ali Bicer, Umit Tursen, Tamer Irfan Kaya, Caner Ozer, Handan Camdeviren, Guliz Ikizoglu, Canan Erdogan

Meningitis in mixed connective tissue disease complicated by herpes virus infection: case report

Edit Bodolay, Péter Diószeghy, József Demeter, Anikó Bányai, István Csipö, Gyula Szegedi, Zoltán Szekanecz

Varicella glomerulonephritis mimicking microscopic polyangiitis

Rashna Dass, Surjit Singh, Vijay Kumar, Kim Vaiphei, Sunil Agrawal, T. Saeed, Ranjana W. Minz

Left gluteal focal myositis in a patient with signet ring adenocarcinoma of the stomach: not a paraneoplastic phenomenon

S. S. Uppal, T. K. Salopal, Hariqbal Singh

Bilateral spontaneous rupture of the long head of the biceps brachii tendon in rheumatoid arthritis

Emel Eksioglu, Fatih Eksioglu, Ferda Aydogdu

Questions on the superiority of alfacalcidol over plain vitamin D in the treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis

Johann D. Ringe

Acknowledgement to referees