Rheumatoid arthritis with Lung involvement
Early detection of lung involvement in rheumatoid arthritis patients
... This is to certify that this dissertation work titled “EARLY DETECTION OF LUNG INVOLVEMENT IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS” of the candidate Dr.R.AKILA with registration Number 201515203 for ...
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The lung microbiota in early rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmunity
... Our results also confirm previous data showing that the distal airway compartment is not sterile and provide de- tailed characterization of the local bacterial taxa using high-throughput sequencing. Although the material ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis-associated lung disease
... Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic inflammatory disorder that most commonly affects the joints, causing progressive, symmetric, erosive destruction of cartilage and bone, which is usually associated with ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease
... pulmonary involvement, screening for pulmonary involve- ment in the asymptomatic patient should occur with a clear plan in mind for dealing with the ...and lung biopsy is reserved for cases with atypical ...
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TREATMENTS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE
... patients had systemic or autoimmune disease. [30] Indeed, ILD under RTX is very rare and does not exceed 0.03% (540,000 cases treated). [31] Recently, a randomized controlled trial evaluating efficacy and tolerance of ...
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Anti inflammatory and antiarthritic effects of piperine in human interleukin 1β stimulated fibroblast like synoviocytes and in rat arthritis models
... The vocalizations caused by flexion or extension of the inflamed ankle reached a maximum point on day 1 after the carrageenan injection and was sustained at a maximum level in untreated rats through the end of the ...
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Severity index for rheumatoid arthritis and its association with health care costs and biologic therapy use in Turkey
... The severity index for rheumatoid arthritis (SIFRA) score was derived for each patient. SIFRA is composed of a set of 28 RA-related indicators from a study by Cabral et al. [22]. These indicators were ...
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Antibodies from patients with connective tissue diseases bind specific subsets of cellular RNA protein particles
... previously identified RNP, Sm, Ro, and La antigens either singly or in combinations. These antigens, which are located on discrete sets of small nuclear or cytoplasmic RNA-protein particles, exhibited a number of ...
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Familial rheumatoid arthritis: linkage of HLA to disease susceptibility locus in four families where proband presented with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
... to arthritis was controlled by a dominant allele with variable penetrance and expressivity at the rheumatoid-like arthritis, first locus ...of arthritis in affected ...childhood-onset ...
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Parental history of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and risk in offspring in a nationwide cohort study: does sex matter?
... ABSTRACT Objectives To examine the familial risk of systemic lupus erythematosus SLE and rheumatoid arthritis RA, including juvenile rheumatoid/idiopathic arthritis JRA, in a population-[r] ...
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The Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (SERA) Study: an inception cohort and biobank
... Rheumatology units from across Scotland participate in the SERA study. Patients with a new clinical diagnosis of RA or UA, and who have at least one swollen joint, are invited to participate. Patients are excluded if ...
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Estrogen induces St6gal1 expression and increases IgG sialylation in mice and patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a potential explanation for the increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis in postmenopausal women
... mouse arthritis models support this concept by showing that B cells, autoanti- bodies, and Fcγ receptors (FcγRs), which mediate the effector function of autoantibodies, are necessary for the development of ...
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Cardiovascular case fatality in rheumatoid arthritis is decreasing; first prospective analysis of a current low disease activity rheumatoid arthritis cohort and review of the literature
... (RA: rheumatoid arthritis; CV: cardiovascular; SD: standard deviation; LDL: low density lipoprotein; GlyHb: glycated hemoglobin; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Hs CRP: high sensitivity C-reactive ...
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Biologic refractory disease in rheumatoid arthritis: results from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register for Rheumatoid Arthritis
... Acknowledgements the authors acknowledge the enthusiastic collaboration of all consultant rheumatologists and their specialist nurses in the UK in providing the data (visit www. bsrbr. org for a full list of ...
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NF κB in rheumatoid arthritis: a pivotal regulator of inflammation, hyperplasia, and tissue destruction
... an involvement of IKK, thus implicating I κ B-dependent mechanisms [32,37,39,41,42], while results by other workers demonstrate IκB-indepen- dent mechanisms, in which Akt potentiates the transcrip- tional function ...
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Genetic bias in immune responses to a cassette shared by different microorganisms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
... body production are confined to the gut-associated lymphoid tissues (20, 21). Binding studies have demonstrated the capa- bility for antigen-presenting cells to present efficiently shared epitope peptides (this study and ...
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RESEARCH ARTICLE ----- CLINICAL EVALUATION OF AMAVATA (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS) WITH NATUROPATHY MANAGEMENT ----- Saroj Kumar Debnath, Dash SC, Vyas GJ
... (Rheumatoid arthritis) patients of this clinical study was assessed on the basis of important common clinical features of the Amavata which are mentioned in Ayurvedic classics as well as closely resembles ...
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Content validity of the Dutch Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score: results of focus group discussions in established rheumatoid arthritis patients and comparison with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health core set for rheumatoid arthritis
... Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease that strongly affects quality of life [1–3]. The core set of outcome measures for RA clinical trials includes three patient-reported ...
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Interstitial granulomatous dermatitis: a rare case report of dermatological manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis
... of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) type of interstitial lung disease (ILD), on maintenance dose methotrexate presented with chief complaints of on and off low grade fever ...
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Ageing, autoimmunity and arthritis: T cell senescence and contraction of T cell repertoire diversity – catalysts of autoimmunity and chronic inflammation
... Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), like many other autoimmune syndromes, is a disease of adults, with the highest incidence rates reported in the elderly. The immune system undergoes profound changes with advancing ...
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