Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Incidence and risk of hospitalisation due to shingles and chickenpox in patients with rheumatic diseases treated with TNF antagonists (15 June, 2010) Free

  Ignacio García-Doval, Beatriz Pérez-Zafrilla, Miguel Ángel Descalzo, Rosa Roselló, Ma Victoria Hernández, Juan J Gómez-Reino, Loreto Carmona, BIOBADASER 2.0 Study Group
• Extended report: Serious infections in patients with ankylosing spondylitis with and without TNF blockers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised placebo-controlled trials (28 July, 2009)

  Anne Fouque-Aubert, Laetitia Jette-Paulin, Christophe Combescure, André Basch, Jacques Tebib, Laure Gossec
• Extended report: Comparison of utility measures and their relationship with other health status measures in 1041 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (6 May, 2010)

  Siri Lillegraven, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: Investigation into the impact of abatacept on sleep quality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and the validity of the MOS-Sleep questionnaire Sleep Disturbance Scale (7 July, 2010)

  George Wells, Tracy Li, Peter Tugwell
• Extended report: Mild acetabular dysplasia and risk of osteoarthritis of the hip: a case–control study (14 May, 2010)

  Daniel F McWilliams, Sally A Doherty, Wendy D Jenkins, Rose A Maciewicz, Kenneth R Muir, Weiya Zhang, Michael Doherty
• Extended report: Relation of synovitis to knee pain using contrast-enhanced MRIs (14 May, 2010)

  K Baker, A Grainger, J Niu, M Clancy, A Guermazi, M Crema, L Hughes, J Buckwalter, A Wooley, M Nevitt, D T Felson
• Extended report: Clinical burden of erosive hand osteoarthritis and its relationship to nodes (21 April, 2010)

  J Bijsterbosch, I Watt, I Meulenbelt, F R Rosendaal, T W J Huizinga, M Kloppenburg
• Extended report: Radiographic progression and remission rates in early rheumatoid arthritis – MRI bone oedema and anti-CCP predicted radiographic progression in the 5-year extension of the double-blind randomised CIMESTRA trial (5 May, 2010)

  Merete L Hetland, Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen, Peter Junker, Mikkel Østergaard, Bo J Ejbjerg, Søren Jacobsen, Tine Lottenburger, Ib Hansen, Ulrik Tarp, Lis S Andersen, Anders Svendsen, Jens K Pedersen, Ulrik B Lauridsen, Torkell Ellingsen, Hanne Lindegaard, Jan Pødenphant, Aage Vestergaard, Anne Grethe Jurik, Kim Hørslev-Petersen, the CIMESTRA study group
• Extended report: Meniscal pathology on MRI increases the risk for both incident and enlarging subchondral bone marrow lesions of the knee: the MOST Study (26 April, 2010)

  Martin Englund, Ali Guermazi, Frank W Roemer, Mei Yang, Yuqing Zhang, Michael C Nevitt, John A Lynch, Cora E Lewis, James Torner, David T Felson
• Extended report: Trends in treatment and outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis in Germany 1997–2007: results from the National Database of the German Collaborative Arthritis Centres (6 May, 2010)

  Stefanie Ziegler, Dörte Huscher, Kirsten Karberg, Andreas Krause, Siegfried Wassenberg, Angela Zink
• Extended report: Causes and risk factors for death in systemic sclerosis: a study from the EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research (EUSTAR) database (15 June, 2010)

  Anthony J Tyndall, Bettina Bannert, Madelon Vonk, Paolo Airò, Franco Cozzi, Patricia E Carreira, Dominique Farge Bancel, Yannick Allanore, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Oliver Distler, Florenzo Iannone, Raffaele Pellerito, Margarita Pileckyte, Irene Miniati, Lidia Ananieva, Alexandra Balbir Gurman, Nemanja Damjanov, Adelheid Mueller, Gabriele Valentini, Gabriela Riemekasten, Mohammed Tikly, Laura Hummers, Maria JS Henriques, Paola Caramaschi, Agneta Scheja, Blaz Rozman, Evelien Ton, Gábor Kumánovics, Bernard Coleiro, Eva Feierl, Gabriella Szucs, Carlos Alberto Von Mühlen, Valeria Riccieri, Srdan Novak, Carlo Chizzolini, Anna Kotulska, Christopher Denton, Paulo C Coelho, Ina Kötter, Ismail Simsek, Paloma García de la Pena Lefebvre, Eric Hachulla, James R Seibold, Simona Rednic, Jiří Štork, Jadranka Morovic-Vergles, Ulrich A Walker
• Extended report: Relationship of serum markers of cartilage metabolism to imaging and clinical outcome measures of knee joint structure (15 June, 2010)

  Patricia A Berry, Rose A Maciewicz, Anita E Wluka, Mark D Downey-Jones, Andrew Forbes, Caroline J Hellawell, Flavia M Cicuttini
• Concise report: Withdrawal of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (17 February, 2009)

  Rachel O'Mahony, Alison Richards, Chris Deighton, David Scott
• Concise report: Evaluation of the risk of anti-SSA/Ro-SSB/La antibody-associated cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus in fetuses of mothers with systemic lupus erythematosus exposed to hydroxychloroquine (6 May, 2010)

  Peter M Izmirly, Mimi Y Kim, Carolina Llanos, Phuong U Le, Marta M Guerra, Anca D Askanase, Jane E Salmon, Jill P Buyon
• Concise report: Common vaccinations among adults do not increase the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis: results from the Swedish EIRA study (5 July, 2010)

  Camilla Bengtsson, Meliha C Kapetanovic, Henrik Källberg, Berit Sverdrup, Birgitta Nordmark, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, EIRA Study Group
• Concise report: The relationship between post-onset pregnancy and functional outcome in women with recent onset inflammatory polyarthritis: results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register (25 June, 2010)

  E M Camacho, T M Farragher, M Lunt, S M M Verstappen, D Bunn, D P M Symmons
• Concise report: Systemic mastocytosis and bone involvement in a cohort of 75 patients (22 June, 2010)

  S Barete, N Assous, C de Gennes, C Grandpeix, F Feger, F Palmerini, P Dubreuil, M Arock, C Roux, J M Launay, S Fraitag, D Canioni, B Billemont, F Suarez, F Lanternier, O Lortholary, O Hermine, C Francès
• Concise report: Effects of TNF antagonists on sperm characteristics in patients with spondyloarthritis (7 July, 2010)

  Peter M Villiger, Gion Caliezi, Véronique Cottin, Frauke Förger, Alfred Senn, Monika Østensen
• Concise report: Interobserver reliability of ultrasonography in the assessment of cartilage damage in rheumatoid arthritis (22 June, 2010)

  Emilio Filippucci, Karine Rodrigues da Luz, Luca Di Geso, Fausto Salaffi, Marika Tardella, Marina Carotti, Jamil Natour, Walter Grassi
• Concise report: Are switches from oral to subcutaneous methotrexate or addition of ciclosporin to methotrexate useful steps in a tight control treatment strategy for rheumatoid arthritis? A post hoc analysis of the CAMERA study (28 May, 2010)

  M F Bakker, J W G Jacobs, P M J Welsing, J H van der Werf, S P Linn-Rasker, M J van der Veen, F P J G Lafeber, J W J Bijlsma