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Treatment of autoinflammatory diseases: results from the Eurofever Registry and a literature review

23 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Pediatria II, Reumatologia and Universià degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy 24 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Pediatria II, Reumatologia, Genova, Italy Correspondence to ...
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The global burden of occupationally related low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study

1 Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
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European Scleroderma Study Group to define disease activity criteria for systemic sclerosis. III. Assessment of the construct validity of the preliminary activity criteria

Objective: To further assess the construct validity of the three European Scleroderma Study Group (EScSG) preliminary activity indices for systemic sclerosis (SSc): for SSc as a whole, for diffuse SSc ...
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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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Incidence of autoimmune diseases in a nationwide HIV/AIDS patient cohort in Taiwan, 2000–2012

9 Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 10 School of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Sepsis Research Center, College of Medicine, ...
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Elevated circulating levels of interferon-γ and interferon-γ-induced chemokines characterise patients with macrophage activation syndrome complicating systemic juvenile ...

Objectives Interferon-γ (IFNγ) is the pivotal mediator in murine models of primary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (pHLH). Given the similarities between primary and secondary HLH (sec-HLH), ...
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The 10-year follow-up data of the Euro-Lupus Nephritis Trial comparing low-dose and high-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...
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Takayasu arteritis is characterised by disturbances of B cell homeostasis and responds to B cell depletion therapy with rituximab

3 Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 4 Department of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 5 Department of Nuclear ...
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Nottingham knee osteoarthritis risk prediction models

Objectives (1) To develop risk prediction models for knee osteoarthritis (OA) and (2) to estimate the risk reduction that results from modification of potential risk factors. Method This was a 12-year ...
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Smoking is a risk factor for anti-CCP antibodies only in rheumatoid arthritis patients who carry HLA-DRB1 shared epitope alleles

1 Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands 2 Departments of Rheumatology and Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre 3 Department of Immunohaematology ...
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All-cause, cause-specific and age-specific standardised mortality ratios of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in Ontario, Canada over 43 years (1971–2013)

Correspondence to Dr Murray Urowitz, Center for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; ...
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Temporary hold of mycophenolate augments humoral response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: a case series

Mycophenolate is the mainstay of treatment for many organ and life-threatening manifestations of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD). In contrast to most patients with RMD, those taking ...