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Paget Disease: When to Treat and When Not to TreatPaget's disease may silently erode bone and increase the risk for fracture and deformation. The current review describes how to diagnose and treat Paget's disease effectively.
Complexities of Gout: Comorbidities Cause or Effect?
FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approval of Xiaflex for Dupuytren's Contracture
Rituximab for Refractory ANCA-Associated Vasculitis?
Clinical Guide to Managing Advanced Gouty Arthritis and Associated Complications
A 16-Year-Old Boy With a Fever of Unknown Origin
Physicians Are Talking About: The Million Med March on Washington
Childhood- and Adult-onset Lupus: an Update of Similarities and Differences
Guiding RA Patients Through Medicare Maze Toward Payment for Biologic Therapies
CDC Updates Guidelines on Management of 2009 H1N1 Influenza
EULAR
2009: The Annual European Congress of Rheumatology
Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from the
meeting.
Infliximab in SLE
In what clinical scenario would you consider using a TNF blocker in a Lupus patient?
All Joints Considered: Bruno Oliveira, MD
Diagnosing Sjogren's Syndrome
How do you diagnose a patient with Sjogren's syndrome in your "real-life" practice?
Rheum With a View: Robert Fox, MD
Clinical Update on the Pharmacology, Efficacy and Safety of Transdermal Buprenorphine
This old molecule is now available in a new transdermal preparation and may change the way chronic pain is managed.
Faculty of 1000 Medicine 2009
Best Ways to Deal With Noncompliant Patients
As pay for performance becomes more entrenched, doctors may be held responsible for noncompliant patients.
Medscape Business of Medicine 2009
Physicians Are Talking About: Their Most Memorable Patients
Physicians recall memorable patient encounters.
Medscape Family Medicine 2009
Prosthetic Shoulder Arthritis Related to Propionibacterium acnes
Compared with hip and leg devices, a high proportion of septic shoulder prostheses have this common skin contaminant. How do we know these findings reflect infection rather than contamination?
Medscape Infectious Diseases 2009
News
Adalimumab Shows Long-Term Efficacy in Psoriatic Arthritis
The clinical and radiographic efficacy of adalimumab shown in short-term treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis is sustained over a number of years, researchers report in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Reuters Health Information 2009
Etanercept Efficacy Persistent in Juvenile Arthritis
Etanercept is effective in most patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and long-term follow-up indicates that efficacy is maintained, according to Dutch researchers.
Reuters Health Information 2009
TNF Blockade Is Associated With Favorable HDL Composition Changes
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockade treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is associated with atheroprotective alterations in high density lipoprotein (HDL) composition, according to a report in Arthritis & Rheumatism.
Reuters Health Information 2009
Pediatric SLE Is Linked With Premature Atherosclerosis
Pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with premature atherosclerosis, according to a report in Arthritis & Rheumatism.
Reuters Health Information 2009
Thrombosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Other Autoimmune Diseases of Recent Onset
http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/1/68.abstract
Low Molecular Weight Heparin and Aspirin for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss:
Results from the Randomized, Controlled HepASA Trial
http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/2/279.abstract
Effectiveness, Safety, and Predictors of Good Clinical Response in 1250
Patients Treated with Adalimumab for Active Ankylosing Spondylitis
http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/4/801.abstract
Gout in the Axial Skeleton
http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/3/609.abstract
Prednisone, Lupus Activity,
and Permanent Organ Damage
http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/3/560.abstract
Changing Patterns in Mortality
and Disease Outcomes for Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
http://www.jrheum.org/content/35/11/2152.abstract
Liver Involvement in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Case Review of 40
Patients
http://www.jrheum.org/content/35/11/2159.abstract
Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) Nephropathy in Catastrophic, Primary,
and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus-related APS
http://www.jrheum.org/content/35/10/1983.abstract
Clinical and imaging efficacy of infliximab in HLA-B27-Positive patients
with magnetic resonance imaging-determined early sacroiliitis
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122290614/abstract
Golimumab,
a new human tumor necrosis factor antibody, administered every four
weeks as a subcutaneous injection in psoriatic arthritis: Twenty-four-week
efficacy and safety results of a randomized, placebo-controlled study
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76509746/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Radiographic findings
following two years of infliximab therapy in patients with ankylosing
spondylitis
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121425876/issue
Medscape Rheumatology
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MOMOHARA S, Ikari K, Mochizuki
T, Kawamura K, et al. Declining use
of synovectomy surgery for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in
Japan. Ann Rheum Dis. 2009;68:291-2.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=19139210&s=rhe
VERVOORDELDONK MJ, Aalbers CJ, Tak PP.
Interferon beta for rheumatoid arthritis: new clothes for an old kid
on
the block.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2009;68:157-8.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=19139202&s=rhe
AGARWAL V, Mittal SK, Misra R.
Expression of multidrug resistance-1 protein correlates with disease
activity rather than the refractoriness to methotrexate therapy in
rheumatoid arthritis.
Clin Rheumatol. 2009.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=19137355&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
ASKARY-ASHTIANI AR, Mousavi SJ, Parnianpour M,
Montazeri A, et al.
Translation and validation of the Persian version of the Arthritis
Impact Measurement Scales 2-Short Form (AIMS2-SF) in patients with
rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Rheumatol. 2009.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=19137354&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
HAROON M, Bond U, Phelan M.
Sinusitis: a possible link with adalimumab.
Clin Rheumatol. 2008;27:1189-90.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18581158&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
HANTA I, Ozbek S, Kuleci S, Kocabas A, et al.
The evaluation of latent tuberculosis in rheumatologic diseases for
anti-TNF therapy: experience with 192 patients.
Clin Rheumatol. 2008;27:1083-6.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18320137&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
COURY F, Rossat A, Tebib A, Letroublon
MC, et al. Rheumatoid
Arthritis and Fibromyalgia: A Frequent Unrelated Association
Complicating Disease Management. J Rheumatol. 2008.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=19132794&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
SYVERSEN SW, Goll GL, van der Heijde D, Landewe R, et
al. Cartilage and Bone Biomarkers in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Prediction of
10-year Radiographic Progression. J Rheumatol. 2008.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=19132792&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
POPE JE, Khanna D, Norrie D, Ouimet JM, et al.
The Minimally Important Difference for the Health Assessment
Questionnaire in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Practice Is Smaller
Than
in Randomized Controlled Trials.
J Rheumatol. 2008.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=19132791&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
AMES PR, Aye WW, Beatty C, O'Reilly
D, et al. Imatinib treatment of seropositive arthritis in a young woman with
chronic myeloid leukemia.
J Rheumatol. 2008;35:1682.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18671330&s=rhe
IMUNDO L.
Hodgkin's lymphoma associated with anti-TNF use in juvenile
idiopathic
arthritis: supplemental case report.
J Rheumatol. 2008;35:1681.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18671329&s=rhe
YILDIRIM-TORUNER C, Kimura Y, Rabinovich E.
Hodgkin's lymphoma and tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in juvenile
idiopathic arthritis.
J Rheumatol. 2008;35:1680-1.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18671328&s=rhe
FEDELE S, Wolff A, Strietzel F, Lopez RM, et al. Neuroelectrostimulation in treatment of hyposalivation and xerostomia
in Sjogren's syndrome: a salivary pacemaker. J Rheumatol.
2008;35:1489-94. http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18671323&s=rhe
PEDERSEN TK, Kuseler A, Gelineck J, Herlin T,
et al.
A Prospective Study of Magnetic Resonance and Radiographic Imaging
in
Relation to Symptoms and Clinical Findings of the Temporomandibular
Joint
in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.
J Rheumatol. 2008;.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18634141&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available
RICHETTE P, Francois M, Vicaut E, Fitting C,
et al.
A high interleukin 1 receptor antagonist/IL-1beta ratio occurs
naturally
in knee osteoarthritis.
J Rheumatol. 2008;35:1650-4.
http://amedeo.com/p2.php?id=18597398&s=rhe
ABSTRACT available