Rheumatic diseases
Rheumatic Diseases in China
... of rheumatic diseases in China have been ...the diseases con- sidered were all generally ...different rheumatic diseases, with a few including an evaluation of risk ...
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Spectrum of paediatric rheumatic diseases in Nigeria
... infectious diseases are well known in Sub-Sahara ...non-communicable diseases including paediatric rheumatic diseases ...autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARD) is 2 SARD cases per ...
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Vascular involvement in rheumatic diseases: 'vascular rheumatology'
... The basis of atherosclerosis and increased vascular risk Accelerated atherosclerosis and increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality have been associated with RA, SLE, APS, and SSc [36-41]. Cardiovascular disease ...
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Consequences of bariatric surgery on outcomes in rheumatic diseases
... Obesity is associated with numerous comorbidities including some rheumatic conditions. Through adipose-derived inflammation, obesity has been shown to induce increased initiation, progression, and worse responses ...
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The coexistence of autoimmune rheumatic diseases and thymomas
... Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) are a group of rare, heterogeneous disorders characterized by autoim- munity and autoimmune-mediated organ damage. They affect an estimated 7.6–9.4% of the population ...
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Gene therapy of the rheumatic diseases: 1998 to 2008
... Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has seen the greatest recent development. AAV was previously hampered by difficulties in manufacturing large amounts of clinical-grade vector and modest levels of transgene expression in many ...
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Nutritional Change For Rheumatic Diseases- A Review
... 2.1.1. Iron: Iron plays an important role in diverse functions in the body. Iron is an essential part of two proteins, haemoglobin and myoglobin, that are involved in the transport and metabolism of oxygen. As a ...
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Infections as a cause of autoimmune rheumatic diseases
... Infectious agents have long been suspected as initiating agents (etiology) of rheumatic diseases. In the 19th cen- tury, the belief that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was caused by mycobacteria led to treatment ...
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Pneumococcal vaccination in autoimmune rheumatic diseases
... In 2017, a systematic review of vaccination recom- mendations for adult immunosuppressed patients was published. In this review, authors summarised 12 years of data on American, British, Canadian, Australian, French and ...
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Antigen receptor signaling in the rheumatic diseases
... characterized by IgE production and ‘allergic’ Th2 diseases. The ZAP-70 allelic series and Lat mouse models bear a much closer resemblance to these relatively rare clinical entities than to common polygenic ...
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Computer-assisted Diagnosis of Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases
... AI/RHEUM runs on IBM-compatible personal computers and UNIX systems. The knowledge base includes diagnostic criteria tables for 54 common rheumatic diseases (Table 1). The criteria tables are designed using ...
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Garden of therapeutic delights: new targets in rheumatic diseases
... Of the cytokines relevant to autoimmunity, IL-17 and its family have perhaps generated the most anticipation. In murine models of autoimmune disease, the Th17 subtype of T lymphocytes that produce IL-17 plays a pivotal ...
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Current treatment of hepatitis C associated rheumatic diseases
... HCV is a positive, single-stranded RNA virus without a DNA intermediate in its replicative cycle, so that viral genomic sequences cannot be integrated into the host genome. Much evidence indicates that HCV infection ...
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Cytomegalovirus infection in pediatric rheumatic diseases: a review
... other rheumatic diseases that include a significant component of systemic ...for rheumatic diseases in Japan [50], HCMV infec- tion was identified on the basis of a positive pp65 antigenemia ...
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The Safety of Intravenous Cyclophosphamide in the Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases
... The primary indications for the use of CP are chronic systemic rheumatic diseases. In rheuma- tology, this medication is mostly applied in glo- merulonephritis (mainly in the course of systemic lupus ...
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Traditional Medicine and Food Supplements in Rheumatic Diseases
... Traditional Medicine and Food Supplements in Rheumatic Diseases ORIGINAL ARTICLE Traditional Medicine and Food Supplements in Rheumatic Diseases 1IIIIB111 7 7111 77 IIIIITII S K Chow, MRCP*, S S Yeap,[.] ...
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Renal co morbidity in patients with rheumatic diseases
... How to diagnose and monitor renal co-morbidity? Renal co-morbidity may not be apparent in terms of signs and symptoms, so functional parameters must be routinely measured. Serum creatinine is the most commonly used ...
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Cardiovascular co morbidity in patients with rheumatic diseases
... in rheumatic diseases, especially in SLE, and the risk appears to be strikingly ...with rheumatic disease, it is important to pay attention to the increased risk of ...
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Outcome measures in inflammatory rheumatic diseases
... of rheumatic diseases started in RA and have been applied to other rheumatic ...in rheumatic diseases in which multiple organ systems are involved, such as psoriatic arthritis or ...
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Tissue engineering in the rheumatic diseases
... Diseases such as degenerative or rheumatoid arthritis are accom- panied by joint destruction. Clinically applied tissue engineering technologies like autologous chondrocyte implantation, matrix- assisted ...
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