Table of contents

Extended reports

• Histological evidence that infliximab treatment leads to downregulation of inflammation and tissue remodelling of the synovial membrane in spondyloarthropathy (23 September, 2004)

  E Kruithof, D Baeten, F Van den Bosch, H Mielants, E M Veys, F De Keyser
• Clinical efficacy of infliximab plus methotrexate in DMARD naive and DMARD refractory rheumatoid arthritis is associated with decreased synovial expression of TNFα and IL18 but not CXCL12 (15 March, 2005)

  M van Oosterhout, E W N Levarht, J K Sont, T W J Huizinga, R E M Toes, J M van Laar
• Aerobic walking or strengthening exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee? A systematic review (15 March, 2005)

  E Roddy, W Zhang, M Doherty
• Association between age and knee structural change: a cross sectional MRI based study (15 March, 2005)

  C Ding, F Cicuttini, F Scott, H Cooley, G Jones
• Meniscal tear and extrusion are strongly associated with progression of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis as assessed by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (16 September, 2004)

  M-J Berthiaume, J-P Raynauld, J Martel-Pelletier, F Labonté, G Beaudoin, D A Bloch, D Choquette, B Haraoui, R D Altman, M Hochberg, J M Meyer, G A Cline, J-P Pelletier
• Expression of resistance markers to methotrexate predicts clinical improvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2 September, 2004)

  J Wolf, T Stranzl, M Filipits, G Pohl, R Pirker, B Leeb, J S Smolen
• Therapeutic drug monitoring of A77 1726, the active metabolite of leflunomide: serum concentrations predict response to treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2 September, 2004)

  E N van Roon, T L T A Jansen, M A F J van de Laar, M Janssen, J P Yska, R Keuper, P M Houtman, J R B J Brouwers
• Interleukin 10 promoter microsatellite polymorphisms are associated with response to long term treatment with etanercept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2 September, 2004)

  H Schotte, B Schlüter, S Drynda, P Willeke, N Tidow, G Assmann, W Domschke, J Kekow, M Gaubitz
• Silica exposure is associated with increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis: results from the Swedish EIRA study (19 August, 2004)

  P Stolt, H Källberg, I Lundberg, B Sjögren, L Klareskog, L Alfredsson
• A family based study shows no association between rheumatoid arthritis and the PADI4 gene in a white French population

  (14 October, 2004)

  L Caponi, E Petit-Teixeira, M Sebbag, F Bongiorni, S Moscato, F Pratesi, C Pierlot, J Osorio, S Chapuy-Regaud, M Guerrin, F Cornelis, G Serre, P Migliorini
• Reactive arthritis attributable to Shigella infection: a clinical and epidemiological nationwide study

  (18 November, 2004)

  T Hannu, L Mattila, A Siitonen, M Leirisalo-Repo
• Methotrexate ameliorates T cell dependent autoimmune arthritis and encephalomyelitis but not antibody induced or fibroblast induced arthritis (2 September, 2004)

  F Lange, E Bajtner, C Rintisch, K S Nandakumar, U Sack, R Holmdahl
• Impact of musculoskeletal disorders on quality of life: an inception cohort study (2 December, 2004)

  C H Roux, F Guillemin, S Boini, F Longuetaud, N Arnault, S Hercberg, S Briançon
• Analysis for crystals in synovial fluid: training of the analysts results in high consistency (15 March, 2005)

  B Lumbreras, E Pascual, J Frasquet, J González-Salinas, E Rodríguez, I Hernández-Aguado
• Susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis: no evidence for the involvement of transforming growth factor β1 (TGFB1) gene polymorphisms

  (15 March, 2005)

  M van der Paardt, J B A Crusius, M A García-González, B A C Dijkmans, A S Peña, I E van der Horst-Bruinsma
• Controlled clinical trial of IV cyclophosphamide versus IV methylprednisolone in severe neurological manifestations in systemic lupus erythematosus (15 March, 2005)

  L Barile-Fabris, R Ariza-Andraca, L Olguín-Ortega, L J Jara, A Fraga-Mouret, J M Miranda-Limón, J Fuentes de la Mata, P Clark, F Vargas, J Alocer-Varela
• A comparison of the sensitivity of diagnostic criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica (15 March, 2005)

  H A Bird, B F Leeb, C M Montecucco, N Misiuniene, G Nesher, S Pai, C Pease, J Rovensky, B Rozman