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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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Diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests in subacromial impingement syndrome

OBJECTIVE Subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS) is a frequent cause of shoulder pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests, in patients with SIS ...
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Defining conditions where long-term glucocorticoid treatment has an acceptably low level of harm to facilitate implementation of existing recommendations: viewpoints from an ...

3 Amsterdam Rheumatology& Immunology Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4 Medical Humanities, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
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Not only synovitis but also tenosynovitis needs to be considered: why it is time to update textbook images of rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Professor Annette van der Helm-van Mil, Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; A.H.M.van_der_Helm{at}lumc.nl Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is ...
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Psoriatic arthritis: epidemiology, clinical features, course, and outcome

1 University of Toronto, Toronto Western Research Institute, Psoriatic Arthritis Program, University Health Network, Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, ...
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Definition and initial validation of a Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS)

Aims Treating to low disease activity is routine in rheumatoid arthritis, but no comparable goal has been defined for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We sought to define and validate a Lupus Low ...
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Physiotherapy for anterior knee pain: a randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...
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EULAR report on the use of ultrasonography in painful knee osteoarthritis. Part 1: Prevalence of inflammation in osteoarthritis

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of inflammation in subjects with chronic painful knee osteoarthritis (OA), as determined by the presence of synovitis or joint effusion at ultrasonography (US); ...
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Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation reduces pain and fatigue in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled pilot trial

Objectives Musculoskeletal pain and fatigue are common features in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway is a physiological mechanism diminishing inflammation, ...
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Comparison of individually tailored versus fixed-schedule rituximab regimen to maintain ANCA-associated vasculitis remission: results of a multicentre, randomised controlled ...

Objective To compare individually tailored, based on trimestrial biological parameter monitoring, to fixed-schedule rituximab reinfusion for remission maintenance of antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody ...
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Central nervous system involvement in Sjögren’s syndrome

Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, Greece Correspondence to: Professor H M Moutsopoulos Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, University of ...
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Psoriasis assessment tools in clinical trials

1 Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ...