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Switching between TNF inhibitors in psoriatic arthritis: data from the NOR-DMARD study

5 Department of Rheumatology, Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway 6 Department of Rheumatology, Vestre Viken/Drammen Hospital, Drammen, Norway Correspondence to Dr Karen ...
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Ultrasonographic assessment of osteophytes in 127 patients with hand osteoarthritis: exploring reliability and associations with MRI, radiographs and clinical joint findings

Correspondence to Alexander Mathiessen, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, PO Box 23, Vinderen, Oslo 0319, Norway; alexander_mathiessen{at}hotmail.com Objective To investigate the ...
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EULAR/PRINTO/PRES criteria for Henoch-Schönlein purpura, childhood polyarteritis nodosa, childhood Wegener granulomatosis and childhood Takayasu arteritis: Ankara 2008. Part I ...

Correspondence to Dr Nicolino Ruperto, Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), IRCCS G Gaslini, Università di Genova, Pediatria II – Reumatologia, EULAR Centre of ...
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Antibodies to citrullinated human fibrinogen (ACF) have diagnostic and prognostic value in early arthritis

4 Sanquin Research at CLB and Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam Correspondence to: Dörte Hamann Sanquin Diagnostic Services at CLB, Dept. of Autoimmune Diseases ...
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EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

15 Department of Radiology. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 16 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...
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Acute effect of milk on serum urate concentrations: a randomised controlled crossover trial

Objectives Recent observational studies have highlighted the beneficial role of dairy ingestion in gout prevention. The aims of this study were to determine the acute effects of milk ingestion on ...
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Intramuscular glucocorticoid injection versus placebo injection in hip osteoarthritis: a 12-week blinded randomised controlled trial

Correspondence to Desirée M J Dorleijn, Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; d.dorleijn{at}erasmusmc.nl Objectives ...
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Palaeopathology of spinal osteophytosis, vertebral ankylosis, ankylosing spondylitis, and vertebral hyperostosis.

Five hundred and sixty intact skeletons and several thousand disarticulated vertebrae have been examined with special reference to spinal fusion. In period they ranged from a 21st dynasty Egyptian ...
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Type II collagen degradation and its regulation in articular cartilage in osteoarthritis

3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Montreal, Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, ...
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Isolation of HLA-DR-naturally presented peptides identifies T-cell epitopes for rheumatoid arthritis

Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) immunopathogenesis revolves around the presentation of poorly characterised self-peptides by human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-class II molecules on the surface of ...
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Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS): defining cut-off values for disease activity states and improvement scores

2 Rheumatology Department, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Rheumatology Department, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Background The ...
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Deficiency of complement-dependent prevention of immune precipitation in systemic sclerosis

1 Department of Immunology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavík 101, Iceland 2 Department of Medicine, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavík 101, Iceland Correspondence to: Dr G J Arason, ...