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The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part II): validation and final selection

Objective: To validate and refine two sets of candidate criteria for the classification/diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: All Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society ...
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Ustekinumab for the treatment of patients with active ankylosing spondylitis: results of a 28-week, prospective, open-label, proof-of-concept study (TOPAS)

1 Rheumatology, Med. Department I, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Radiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3 ...
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Defining active sacroiliitis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for classification of axial spondyloarthritis: a consensual approach by the ASAS/OMERACT MRI group

Department of Rheumatology, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of sacroiliac joints has evolved as the most relevant ...
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Assessment of enthesitis in ankylosing spondylitis

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Maasland Hospital Sittard, The Netherlands 3 ...
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Diagnosis and management of adult onset Still’s disease

1 Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ 07101, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell ...
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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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Development of the CT Syndesmophyte Score (CTSS) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: data from the SIAS cohort

Objectives To develop the CT Syndesmophyte Score (CTSS) for low-dose CT (ldCT) to assess structural damage in the spine of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and test its reliability. Methods ...
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Difficulties making a fist in clinically suspect arthralgia: an easy applicable phenomenon predictive for RA that is related to flexor tenosynovitis

Correspondence to Fenne Wouters, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; f.wouters{at}lumc.nl Difficulties making a fist in patients presenting ...
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Short course prednisolone for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder or stiff painful shoulder): a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial

Objective: To determine whether a short course of prednisolone is superior to placebo for improving pain, function, and range of motion in adhesive capsulitis. Design: Double blind, randomised, ...
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Economic burden of rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review of literature in biologic era

Correspondence to Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK; p.hsieh.1{at}research.gla.ac.uk ...
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Efficacy of physiotherapy management of knee joint osteoarthritis: a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial

1 Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 2 Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Hospital and ...
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Preliminary classification criteria for the cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis

10 Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bologna, S Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy 11 Section of Internal Medicine and Clinical Oncology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human ...