Undifferentiated arthritis
Ultrasound detectable grey scale synovitis predicts future fulfilment of the 2010 ACR/EULAR RA classification criteria in patients with new onset undifferentiated arthritis
... early arthritis cohorts demonstrate patients with undifferentiated arthritis (UA), not ful fi lling these 2010 ACR/EULAR RA classi fi - cation criteria, may also be at risk of progression to ...
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Increased galectin 3 may serve as a serologic signature of pre rheumatoid arthritis while markers of synovitis and cartilage do not differ between early undifferentiated arthritis subsets
... Patients presenting with joint complaints of uncertain origin are a common source of concern to clinicians with regard to diagnostic delay and missed therapeutic opportunities. In this first study on galectin-3 and se- ...
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The likelihood of persistent arthritis increases with the level of anti citrullinated peptide antibody and immunoglobulin M rheumatoid factor: a longitudinal study of 376 patients with very early undifferentiated arthritis
... Several questions remain unanswered regarding the predictive role of anti-CCP and RF in patients with early undifferentiated arthritis. What is the optimal cut-off level for defining a positive antibody ...
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Clinical and radiographic course of early undifferentiated arthritis under treatment is not dependent on the number of joints with erosions at diagnosis: results from the Swiss prospective observational cohort
... early undifferentiated arthritis (disease duration ≤1 year), who had not received any previous disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs ...non-radiographic arthritis) depending on whether or not they ...
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Anti cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody titer predicts time to rheumatoid arthritis onset in patients with undifferentiated arthritis: results from a 2 year prospective study
... Finally, anti-CCP antibodies may have an important role in the diagnostic algorithm of subjects presenting with undifferentiated arthritis (UA). Indeed, UA accounts for 30% to 50% of patients presenting to ...
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Abatacept reduces disease activity and ultrasound power Doppler in ACPA-negative undifferentiated arthritis: a proof-of-concept clinical and imaging study
... ACPA-negative undifferentiated arthritis: a proof-of-concept clinical and imaging study, Rheumatology, first published online October 22, 2016) is available online at: ...
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What is the additional value of MRI of the foot to the hand in undifferentiated arthritis to predict rheumatoid arthritis development?
... confirmed arthritis of ≥ 1 joint and symptom duration of < 2 years that are naïve to DMARDs. At baseline, ques- tionnaires were completed, swollen joint counts were performed and serum samples were obtained. ...
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What is the additional value of MRI of the foot to the hand in undifferentiated arthritis to predict rheumatoid arthritis development?
... Previously, it was shown that the predictive accuracy of MRI increased and the rate of false-positive findings de- creased, when features of low-grade inflammation as ob- served in the general population were used as ...
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Treatment of early rheumatoid and undifferentiated arthritis
... tested in the IMPROVED-study (chapter 8). The model was not useful to predict damage progression in patients with UA and early RA who participated in the IMPROVED-study. A matrix model to predict RRP might not be ...
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Aspects of early arthritis What determines the evolution of early undifferentiated arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis? An update from the Norfolk Arthritis Register
... When NOAR was initially established, its aim was to study the natural history of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The net was deliberately cast wide at the time of recruitment as it was always clear that patients would ...
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Analysis of bacterial DNA in synovial tissue of Tunisian patients with reactive and undifferentiated arthritis by broad range PCR, cloning and sequencing
... Propionibacterium acnes sequences were detected in syno- vial samples of one ReA patient with pustular lesions and two UA patients in whom we did not detect any other causative bacteria derived DNA. Thus, the presence of ...
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Does information on novel identified autoantibodies contribute to predicting the progression from undifferentiated arthritis to rheumatoid arthritis: a study on anti-CarP antibodies as an example
... Although they used different study designs and en- tire early arthritis populations, two previous studies found 2.2% and 0.4% improved classification when adding anti-CarP to ACPA and RF, thus showing little ...
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Does information on novel identified autoantibodies contribute to predicting the progression from undifferentiated arthritis to rheumatoid arthritis: a study on anti CarP antibodies as an example
... Although they used different study designs and en- tire early arthritis populations, two previous studies found 2.2% and 0.4% improved classification when adding anti-CarP to ACPA and RF, thus showing little ...
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The prognostic value of baseline erosions in undifferentiated arthritis
... Several studies have shown that the current ACR criteria are not well suited for establishing early RA [21-24]. In the current study, many UA patients had arthritis in few joints, were sero- positive and had ...
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Role overload, pain and physical dysfunction in early rheumatoid or undifferentiated inflammatory arthritis in Canada
... Inflammatory arthritis is joint inflammation due to immune ...rheumatoid arthritis (chronic destructive synovitis) and seronegative ...inflammatory arthritis (EIA) has no agreed upon definition but ...
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Laboratory biomarkers or imaging in the diagnostics of rheumatoid arthritis?
... RA. The association of RA with shared epitope positive HLA-DRB1 alleles is stronger in ACPAs positive than in ACPAs negative RA [12]. ACPAs production can precede the onset of RA symptoms by years and ACPA-positive ...
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www.ijcep.com /ISSN: 1936-2625/IJCEP1111016 Case Report Clinicopathologic study of endometrial dedifferentiated endometrioid adenocarcinoma: a case report
... The solid components in endometrioid adeno- carcinoma are cohesive and often resemble poorly differentiated, nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma. The nuclear features of tumor cells in both the glandular and the ...
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Pathological characteristics and genetic features of melanin-producing medullary thyroid carcinoma
... (2) Undifferentiated carcinoma of thyroid: The tumor cells of undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma are positive for TTF-1, TG, CK19 and negative for calcitonin, whereas the tumor cells of melanin-producing ...
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Radioactivity levels of 238U and 232Th, the α and β activities and associated dose rates from surface soil in Ulu Tiram, Malaysia
... The highest terrestrial gamma-radiation dose-rate measured that is 409 nGy.h –1 was in area covered by Dystric Nitosols soil types. This soil type is underlain by acid with undifferentiated granite rock and the ...
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Challenges in the Treatment of Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma: A Ray of Hope
... Challenges in the Treatment of Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma A Ray of Hope ORIGINft L ARTICLE Challenges in the Treatment of Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma A Ray of Hope A N Norleza, MBBS[.] ...
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