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Radiographic assessment of patellofemoral osteoarthritis.

OBJECTIVES--To determine the feasibility of assessing patellofemoral osteoarthritis using the 'skyline' view and to compare its reproducibility with the standard lateral view. METHODS--Fifty patients ...
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Annual direct medical cost of active systemic lupus erythematosus in five European countries

9 Immunology and Hepatitis Centre of Excellence, GlaxoSmithKline, London, UK 10 Access to Medicine Centre of Excellence, GlaxoSmithKline, London, UK Objectives To evaluate the annual direct medical ...
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CD-19 CAR-T cells for polyrefractory rheumatoid arthritis

‘Poly-refractory’ disease affects 2.7% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have failed different groups of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b-DMARDS) and targeted synthetic ...
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SpA: Innovative techniques in spondyloarthritis research – Is there light at the end of the tunnel for our patients?
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Relationship between serum urate and changes in dual-energy CT monosodium urate crystal volume over 1 year in people with gout: an individual participant data analysis

Objectives The dynamics of monosodium urate (MSU) crystal changes across a range of serum urate concentrations in people with gout are unknown. This study aimed to systematically examine the ...
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Risk of systemic lupus erythematosus in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: population-based cohort study

We read with great interest the article by Zhu et al .1 It was based on a national study regarding the association between idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and the subsequent development of ...
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Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial

Objectives Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating ...
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Varus and valgus alignment and incident and progressive knee osteoarthritis

Objective Varus and valgus alignment increase medial and lateral tibiofemoral load. Alignment was associated with tibiofemoral osteoarthritis progression in previous studies; an effect on incident ...
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EULAR 2024 - Complete PDF

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Cutaneous adverse events with febuxostat after previous reactions to allopurinol: comment on the article by Singh and Cleveland

We read with interest the recent article by Singh and Cleveland on the hypersensitivity risk of allopurinol (ALP) and febuxostat (FBX) compared with colchicine.1 A common challenge when using ALP, ...
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Titre-specific positive predictive value of antinuclear antibody patterns

Damoiseaux et al recently presented the ICAP perspective on the clinical relevance of antinuclear antibody (ANA) patterns.1 The authors acknowledge that in addition to the antibody pattern, the ...
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Hormone replacement therapy and mid-term implant survival following knee or hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study

Objectives Osteolysis and subsequent prosthesis loosening is the most common cause for revision following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA). Hormone replacement therapy ...