Clinical Rheumatology

Central sensitization: a biopsychosocial explanation for chronic widespread pain in patients with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome

Mira Meeus, Jo Nijs

Advances in the management of corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis with bisphosphonates

Johann D. Ringe, Parvis Farahmand

The frequency of hypermobility and its relationship with clinical findings of fibromyalgia patients

O. Faruk Sendur, Gulcan Gurer, Gulnur Tascı Bozbas

Rheumatic manifestations of psoriasis

H. A. Sadek, A. M. Abdel-Nasser, T. A. El-Amawy, S. Z. Hassan

Predictive value of antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptide in patients with early arthritis

Aşkın Ateş, Yaşar Karaaslan, Sebahat Aksaray

Treatment with anti-TNF-α antibody infliximab reduces serum IL-15 levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Yasunori Kageyama, Masaaki Takahashi, Eiji Torikai, Motohiro Suzuki, Tetsuya Ichikawa, Tetsuyuki Nagafusa, Yukio Koide, Akira Nagano

Use of antibodies recognizing cyclic citrullinated peptide in the differential diagnosis of joint involvement in systemic sclerosis

Francesca Ingegnoli, Valentina Galbiati, Silvana Zeni, Laura Meani, Lenka Zahalkova, Chiara Lubatti, Amedeo Soldi, Erberto Paresce, Antonella Murgo, Calogero Crapanzano, Flavio Fantini

Radiographic study of joint destruction patterns in the rheumatoid elbow

Takashi Kitamura, Jun Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Murase, Tetsuya Tomita, Takako Hattori, Hideki Yoshikawa, Kazuomi Sugamoto

Comparison of proprioceptive functions between computerized proprioception facilitation exercise and closed kinetic chain exercise in patients with knee osteoarthritis

Da-Hon Lin, Yeong-Fwu Lin, Hei-Min Chai, Yueh-Chin Han, Mei-Hwa Jan

Relationship between histological subtypes and clinical characteristics at presentation and outcome in biopsy-proven temporal arteritis

E. J. ter Borg, H. C. M. Haanen, C. A. Seldenrijk

Common carotid intima-media thickness and von Willebrand factor serum levels in rheumatoid arthritis female patients without cardiovascular risk factors

Leonel Daza, Martin Aguirre, Martin Jimenez, Rafael Herrera, J. J. Bollain

Effects of rheumatoid factor isotypes on disease activity and severity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a comparative study

Aşkin Ateş, Gülay Kinikli, Murat Turgay, Gülay Akay, Güner Tokgöz

Allelic frequency of the MCP-1 promoter −2518 polymorphism in the Turkish population and in Turkish patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

A. Ruhi Özyürek, Dolunay Gürses, Zülal Ülger, Ertürk Levent, A. Rahmi Bakiler, Afig Berdeli

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with anxiety and depression in fibromyalgia

D. J. Armstrong, G. K. Meenagh, I. Bickle, A. S. H. Lee, E. -S. Curran, M. B. Finch

Prevalence and clinical aspects of Behcet’s disease in the north of Israel

Ilan Krause, Anna Yankevich, Abigail Fraser, Itzhak Rosner, Reuven Mader, Devy Zisman, Nina Boulman, Michael Rozenbaum, Abraham Weinberger

The effect of gabapentin in earlier stage of reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Arif Kenan Tan, Iltekin Duman, Mehmet Ali Taşkaynatan, Bülent Hazneci, Tunc Alp Kalyon

Lack of effect of corticosteroid injection at the shoulder joint on blood glucose levels in diabetic patients

George S. Habib, Ramez Abu-Ahmad

The pain associated with intraarticular hyaluronic acid injections for trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis

Nazım Karalezli, Tunc Cevat Ogun, Senay Kartal, Sacide Nur Saracgil, Mustafa Yel, Ibrahim Tuncay

Magnetic resonance imaging in Löfgren’s syndrome: demonstration of periarthritis

Ananthila Anandacoomarasamy, Anthony Peduto, Graydon Howe, Nicholas Manolios, David Spencer

Anakinra in mutation-negative CINCA syndrome

José Luis Callejas, Javier Oliver, Javier Martín, Norberto Ortego

Serious liver disease induced by infliximab

Gabriel J. Tobon, Carlos Cañas, Juan-Jose Jaller, Juan-Carlos Restrepo, Juan-Manuel Anaya

Low-dose epoprostenol improved pulmonary hypertension in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

Yoshihiro Matsukawa, Kohmei Igei, Takamasa Nozaki, Takafumi Ohki, Takako Shimizu, Noboru Kitamura, Ko Mitamura, Masami Takei, Yuji Kasamaki, Shigemasa Sawada

Peritoneal mesothelioma: an unusual cause of an acute phase response presenting to the rheumatologist

S. S. Hamdulay, H. T. Cook, N Strickland, K. A. Davies, J. C. Mason

High resolution 3 Tesla contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the hands in Raynaud’s disease

J. Walcher, R. Strecker, S. Goldacker, J. Winterer, M. Langer, T. A. Bley

Endocarditis associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies: a case report and review of the literature

Julio A. Chirinos, Vicente F. Corrales-Medina, Santiago Garcia, Daniel M. Lichtstein, Alan L. Bisno, Simon Chakko

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)–CREST overlap syndrome with coexistence of Sjögren's syndrome and thyroid dysfunction

Tadashi Nakamura, Syu-ichi Higashi, Kunihiko Tomoda, Michishi Tsukano, Kazuhiro Sugi

Additive contribution of multiple factors in the development of pneumatosis intestinalis: a case report and review of the literature

Masataka Saito, Akiko Tanikawa, Katsuki Nakasute, Masaru Tanaka, Takeji Nishikawa

Pauciarticular severe destructive arthropathy in a child secondary to synovial osteochondromatosis

Y. Emad, T. Gheita, Y. Ragab, F. Zeinhom

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease coexisted with Sjogren’s syndrome

Mehmet Soy, Hande Peynirci, Selçuk Bilgi, Mustafa Kemal Adali, Servet Güresci

Takayasu arteritis: association with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Ozlem Tiryaki, Hakan Buyukhatipoglu, Ahmet Mesut Onat, Selim Kervancioglu, Serif Cologlu, Celalettin Usalan

Takayasu’s arteritis presenting with bilateral pulmonary granulomatosis

Cheng-De Yang, Jia-Lin Teng, Yue-Ying Gu, Shun-le Chen

When to stop in the quest of formes frustes of connective tissue disease?

Vincent Cottin, Jean-Christophe Lega, Nicole Fabien, Jean-François Cordier

Comparison of proprioceptive functions between computerized proprioception facilitation exercise and closed kinetic chain exercise in patients with knee osteoarthritis

Da-Hon Lin, Yeong-Fwu Lin, Huei-Ming Chai, Yueh-Chin Han, Mei-Hwa Jan

Concurrent occurrence of Sweet’s syndrome and erythema nodosum: an overlap in the spectrum of reactive dermatoses

Sanjeev Wasson, Darcy Folzenlogen, Gurushanker Govindarajan

African League Against Rheumatism Ligue Africane Contra Le Rheumatisme