Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases articles from August 2000

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases archives from August 2000

Where has secondary amyloid gone?
August 1, 2000... There is a growing clinical impression that the incidence of amyloid secondary to rheumatoid disease is declining. Recent studies from Finland strongly support this impression.[1-3] The prevalence of amyloidosis in patients with rheumatoid...

What competence does a rheumatologist need?: an international perspective.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objectives--To forecast, on the basis of the past and present position of rheumatologists in Europe, the competence needed in the future to secure and promote the specialty within the healthcare network. Methods--Union...

Yttrium radiosynoviorthesis in the treatment of knee arthritis in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--To consider the question: How strong is the evidence in favour of yttrium synovectomy in chronic knee arthritis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in comparison with placebo and intraarticular steroid treatment?...

Development of a logically devised line drawing atlas for grading of knee osteoarthritis.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objectives--To (a) develop an atlas of line drawings for the assessment and grading of narrowing and osteophyte (that is, changes of osteoarthritis) on knee radiographs, and (b) compare the performance of this atlas with that of...

Carol-Nachman prize for rheumatology.
August 1, 2000... Professors J Sieper and J Braun from Berlin have been honoured with the Carol-Nachman prize for rheumatology of the city of Wiesbaden. The Carol-Nachman prize is the most prestigious international award in rheumatology. They received the...

Apoptosis and inflammation.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Apoptosis and inflammation. Ed James D Winkler. (Pp 256; DM228.) Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-7643-5795-9. Apoptosis is one of the hottest topics in present day research, offering an umbrella for studies in the fields of general...

The lupus book.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The lupus book. Daniel J Wallace. (Pp 271; US$25.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-513281-5. Lupus is a common and complex disease. This book is written for patients, but physicians and health professionals dealing with...

Increased cellularity and expression of adhesion molecules in muscle biopsy specimens from patients with rheumatoid arthritis with clinical suspicion of vasculitis, but negative routine histology.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--Histological analysis of random quadriceps muscle biopsy specimens can be used to detect vasculitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This study aimed at determining the immunohistological features in...

Immunohistochemical localisation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors Tie-1 and Tie-2 in synovial tissue of rheumatoid arthritis: correlation with angiogenesis and synovial proliferation.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--To investigate the involvement of Tie-1 and Tie-2, receptor tyrosine kinases required for angiogenesis, in synovial proliferation and angiogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods--Synovial tissues from 10...

Effect of intensive exercise on patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised clinical trial.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--To investigate the effects of a dynamic, intensive exercise regimen on pain, disease activity, and physical functioning in active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods--64 patients with RA with a mean age of 60 (13)...

Familial aggregation of Behcet's disease in Turkey.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--Familial aggregation of Behcet's disease has been reported previously. The current study aimed at investigating the sibling recurrence risk ratio ([Lambda]s) for Behcet's disease, which is of value in the estimation...

Polymorphism in the vitamin D receptor gene and bone mass in African-American and white mothers and children: a preliminary report.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--To evaluate the contribution of polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene to ethnic variations in bone mass in mother and children from different ethnic origins. Methods--VDR genotypes and bone mass in 43...

Coffee consumption, rheumatoid factor, and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Background--Recent epidemiological studies have suggested that smoking is a risk factor for rheumatoid factor (RF) positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Being overweight, high serum cholesterol, and dietary factors have in some...

Spontaneous and cytokine regulated c-fos gene expression in rheumatoid synovial cells: resistance to cytokine stimulation when the c-fos gene is overexpressed.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--To study the effect of cytokines on the transactivation of the c-fos gene in relation to the contribution of over-expression of c-fos/AP-1 in rheumatoid joint destruction. Methods--The promoter region (-447 to...

Early radiographic features in patients with anterior cruciate ligament rupture.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--To determine, in a preliminary cross sectional study of patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptured knees, which of the radiographic features--subchondral cortical plate thickness, trabecular sclerosis,...

Healing of erosions in rheumatoid arthritis.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Reports on healing of erosions in rheumatoid arthritis are rare. However, it is expected that repair of erosions should be seen more often during the period of extensive use of disease modifying antirheumatic drugs, especially...

Assessment of primary hip osteoarthritis: comparison of radiographic methods using colon radiographs.
August 1, 2000... Abstract Objective--To compare the reliability of quantitative measurement of minimum hip joint space with a qualitative global assessment of radiological features for estimating the prevalence of primary osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip...

Incidence of RA in people with persistently raised RF.
August 1, 2000... A criticism of the study reported in the Annals[1] is that age was not taken into account in the evaluation of the probability of development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) among symptom free subjects with persistently raised rheumatoid factor...

The HLA-B*2709 subtype in a patient with undifferentiated spondarthritis.
August 1, 2000... In 1998, in this journal, we reported the cases of two B27 positive patients with undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy (uSpA) and showing dactylitis also affecting the synovial sheaths in the palm of the hand.[1] Neither patient had axial...

Y chromosome microchimerism in rheumatic autoimmune disease.
August 1, 2000... It is well known that some features of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) resemble those of other rheumatic autoimmune diseases, such as systemic sclerosis (SSc), Sjogren's syndrome (SS), and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)....

Marker of erosive progression in RA.(rheumatoid arthritis )
August 1, 2000... Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) catalyses the formation of the proteolytic enzyme plasmin, which plays a part in tissue degradation and remodelling,[1] and seems to have an important role in the erosive growth of pannus in rheumatoid...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2000... Epidemiology of whiplash (Barnsley L. Ann Rheum Dis 2000;59:394; Reply: Ferrari R, Russell AS. Ann Rheum Dis 2000;59:395-6.) The Editor of the Annals regrets that we inadvertently published a reply to Dr Barnsley from Drs Ferrari and...