Muscle disease

Citations 1-10 of 79 total displayed.

Clinical and epidemiological research
Occurrence and correlates of fatigue in psoriatic arthritis

J A Husted, B D Tom, C T Schentag, V T Farewell, and D D Gladman
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 1553 -1558; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2008.098202 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Basic and translational research
Clinical and human leucocyte antigen class II haplotype associations of autoantibodies to small ubiquitin-like modifier enzyme, a dermatomyositis-specific autoantigen target, in UK Caucasian adult-onset myositis

Z E Betteridge, H Gunawardena, H Chinoy, J North, W E R Ollier, R G Cooper, N J McHugh, and for the UK Adult Onset Myositis Immunogenetic Collaboration
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 1621 -1625; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2008.097162 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical and epidemiological research
A descriptive and prognostic study of systemic sclerosis-associated myopathies

B Ranque, F-J Authier, V Le-Guern, C Pagnoux, A Berezne, Y Allanore, D Launay, E Hachulla, A Kahan, J Cabane, R Gherardi, L Guillevin, and L Mouthon
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 1474 -1477; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2008.095919 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ Web only appendix ]  

Clinical and epidemiological research
Estimating the prevalence of polymyositis and dermatomyositis from administrative data: age, sex and regional differences

S Bernatsky, L Joseph, C A Pineau, P Bélisle, J F Boivin, D Banerjee, and A E Clarke
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 1192 -1196; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2008.093161 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical and epidemiological research
Increased serum levels of B cell activating factor (BAFF) in subsets of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

O Krystufková, T Vallerskog, S Barbasso Helmers, H Mann, I Putová, J Belácek, V Malmström, C Trollmo, J Vencovsky, and I E Lundberg
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 836 -843; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2008.091405 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Basic and translational research
Abnormal expression of the genes involved in cytokine networks and mitochondrial function in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis identified by DNA microarray analysis

S Ishikawa, T Mima, C Aoki, N Yoshio-Hoshino, Y Adachi, T Imagawa, M Mori, M Tomiita, N Iwata, T Murata, M Miyoshi, S Takei, Y Aihara, S Yokota, K Matsubara, and N Nishimoto
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 264 -272; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.079533 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical and epidemiological research
A high incidence of disease flares in an open pilot study of infliximab in patients with refractory inflammatory myopathies

M Dastmalchi, C Grundtman, H Alexanderson, C P Mavragani, H Einarsdottir, S Barbasso Helmers, K Elvin, M K Crow, I Nennesmo, and I E Lundberg
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1670 -1677; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.077974 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ web only appendices ]  

Basic and translational research
Effects of immunosuppressive treatment on microsomal prostaglandin E synthase 1 and cyclooxygenases expression in muscle tissue of patients with polymyositis or dermatomyositis

M Korotkova, S Barbasso Helmers, I Loell, H Alexanderson, C Grundtman, C Dorph, I E Lundberg, and P-J Jakobsson
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1596 -1602; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.079525 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Extended reports
Prevalence and clinical associations of anti-Ku antibodies in patients with systemic sclerosis: a European EUSTAR-initiated multi-centre case–control study

B Rozman, S Cucnik, S Sodin-Semrl, L Czirják, C Varjú, O Distler, D Huscher, M Aringer, G Steiner, M Matucci-Cerinic, S Guiducci, B Stamenkovic, A Stankovic, and T Kveder
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1282 -1286; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.073981 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Extended reports
Cervical interspinous bursitis in active polymyalgia rheumatica

C Salvarani, L Barozzi, F Cantini, L Niccoli, L Boiardi, M Valentino, N Pipitone, G Bajocchi, P Macchioni, M G Catanoso, I Olivieri, and G G Hunder
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 758 -761; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.084723 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]