Leaders:

The melatonin-cytokine connection in rheumatoid arthritis

M Cutolo and G J M Maestroni

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1109-1111. doi:10.1136/ard.2005.038588

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Reviews:

Hard work never hurt anyone—or did it? A review of occupational associations with soft tissue musculoskeletal disorders of the neck and upper limb

K Walker-Bone and C Cooper

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1112-1117.
Published Online First: 13 April 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.026484

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Unusual and memorable:

Case number 34: Relapse of polyarteritis nodosa presenting as isolated and localised lower limb periostitis

P Carron, I E A Hoffman, L De Rycke, I Peene, E M Veys, F De Keyser, W Bauters, and M Praet

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1118-1119. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.033621

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Extended reports:

Accuracy of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in the detection of ex vivo focal cartilage defects

H Graichen, D Al-Shamari, S Hinterwimmer, R von Eisenhart-Rothe, T Vogl, and F Eckstein

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1120-1125.
Published Online First: 7 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.029678

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Inhibition of c-kit tyrosine kinase by imatinib mesylate induces apoptosis in mast cells in rheumatoid synovia: a potential approach to the treatment of arthritis

A Juurikivi, C Sandler, K A Lindstedt, P T Kovanen, T Juutilainen, M J Leskinen, T Mäki, and K K Eklund

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1126-1131. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.029835

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Treatment of experimental arthritis with poly(D, L-lactic/glycolic acid) nanoparticles encapsulating betamethasone sodium phosphate

M Higaki, T Ishihara, N Izumo, M Takatsu, and Y Mizushima

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1132-1136.
Published Online First: 4 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.030759

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Body weight, body composition, and bone turnover changes in patients with spondyloarthropathy receiving anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment

K Briot, P Garnero, A Le Henanff, M Dougados, and C Roux

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1137-1140.
Published Online First: 7 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.028670

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Assessment of acute spinal inflammation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis by magnetic resonance imaging: a comparison between contrast enhanced T₁ and short tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequences

X Baraliakos, K-G A Hermann, R Landewé, J Listing, W Golder, J Brandt, M Rudwaleit, M Bollow, J Sieper, D van der Heijde, and J Braun

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1141-1144.
Published Online First: 13 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.031609

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Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies may occur in patients with psoriatic arthritis

B Vander Cruyssen, I E A Hoffman, H Zmierczak, M Van den Berghe, E Kruithof, L De Rycke, H Mielants, E M Veys, D Baeten, and F De Keyser

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1145-1149.
Published Online First: 4 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032177

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Infliximab improves signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis: results of the IMPACT 2 trial

C Antoni, G G Krueger, K de Vlam, C Birbara, A Beutler, C Guzzo, B Zhou, L T Dooley, A Kavanaugh for the IMPACT 2 investigators

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1150-1157.
Published Online First: 27 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032268

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Level of acceptability of EULAR recommendations for the management of knee osteoarthritis by practitioners in different European countries

B Mazières, N Scmidely, H J Hauselmann, E Martin-Mola, U Serni, A A Verbruggen, and M Le Bars

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1158-1164.
Published Online First: 11 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2003.009431

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Up regulated expression of tumour necrosis factor converting enzyme in peripheral monocytes of patients with early systemic sclerosis

T Bohgaki, Y Amasaki, N Nishimura, M Bohgaki, Y Yamashita, M Nishio, K-i Sawada, S Jodo, T Atsumi, and T Koike

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1165-1173. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.030338

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Cost effectiveness of etanercept (Enbrel) in combination with methotrexate in the treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis based on the TEMPO trial

G Kobelt, P Lindgren, A Singh, and L Klareskog

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1174-1179.
Published Online First: 11 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032789

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Pharmacogenetic and metabolite measurements are associated with clinical status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with methotrexate: results of a multicentred cross sectional observational study

T Dervieux, D Furst, D O Lein, R Capps, K Smith, J Caldwell, and J Kremer

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1180-1185.
Published Online First: 27 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.033399

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Response criteria for rheumatoid arthritis in clinical practice: how useful are they?

A Gülfe, P Geborek, and T Saxne

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1186-1189.
Published Online First: 10 March 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.027649

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Association of polymorphism in the transforming growth factor ß1 gene with disease outcome and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis

D L Mattey, N Nixon, P T Dawes, and J Kerr

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1190-1194.
Published Online First: 4 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.031674

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Markers of inflammation are negatively correlated with serum leptin in rheumatoid arthritis

C Popa, M G Netea, T R D S Radstake, P L van Riel, P Barrera, and J W M van der Meer

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1195-1198.
Published Online First: 24 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032243

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Antibodies to citrullinated human fibrinogen (ACF) have diagnostic and prognostic value in early arthritis

M M J Nielen, A R van der Horst, D van Schaardenburg, I E van der Horst-Bruinsma, R J van de Stadt, L Aarden, B A C Dijkmans, and D Hamann

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1199-1204.
Published Online First: 7 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.029389

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Validation of the preliminary criteria for the classification of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

R Cervera, J Font, J A Gómez-Puerta, G Espinosa, M Cucho, S Bucciarelli, M Ramos-Casals, M Ingelmo, J-C Piette, Y Shoenfeld, R A Asherson for the Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome Registry Project Group

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1205-1209.
Published Online First: 11 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.025759

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Autoantibodies to a NR2A peptide of the glutamate/NMDA receptor in sera of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

E S Husebye, Z M Sthoeger, M Dayan, H Zinger, D Elbirt, M Levite, and E Mozes

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1210-1213.
Published Online First: 11 February 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.029280

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Concise reports:

Relationship between Heberden’s nodes and underlying radiographic changes of osteoarthritis

A Thaper, W Zhang, G Wright, and M Doherty

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1214-1216.
Published Online First: 27 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.031450

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An excess of widespread pain among South Asians: are low levels of vitamin D implicated?

G J Macfarlane, B Palmer, D Roy, C Afzal, A J Silman, and T O’Neill

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1217-1219. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032656

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Prescription practice of biological drugs in rheumatoid arthritis during the first 3 years of post-marketing use in Denmark and Norway: criteria are becoming less stringent

E Hjardem, M L Hetland, M Østergaard, N S Krogh, and T K Kvien

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1220-1223.
Published Online First: 7 January 2005. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.031252

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Blockade of tumour necrosis factor significantly alters the serum level of IgG- and IgA-rheumatoid factor in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

B Yazdani-Biuki, E Stadlmaier, A Mulabecirovic, R Brezinschek, G Tilz, U Demel, T Mueller, K Brickmann, W B Graninger, and H-P Brezinschek

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1224-1226. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.030262

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Women with early rheumatoid arthritis are referred later than men

Ø Palm and E Purinszky

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1227-1228. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.031716

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Macrophages overloaded with tissue debris in Wegener’s granulomatosis

Z Mackiewicz, A Rimkevicius, J Petersen, C B Andersen, E Dudek, M Vytrasova, and Y T Konttinen

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1229-1232. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.027029

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Early T cell activation in the skin from patients with systemic sclerosis

A Kalogerou, E Gelou, S Mountantonakis, L Settas, E Zafiriou, and L Sakkas

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1233-1235. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.027094

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Letters:

Effect of steroid pulse therapy on mixed connective tissue disease with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Y Kamata, H Nara, H Sato, J-I Masuyama, S Minota, and T Yoshio

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1236-1237. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.029074

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Anti-midbody antibodies as a possible predictive factor for a special limited or abortive form of systemic sclerosis?

A K Tausche, K Conrad, W Seidel, and B Roch

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1237-1238. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.034116

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An unusual presentation of Wegener’s granulomatosis mimicking thymoma

C-R Wang, J-M Chang, W-L Shen, W-J Lin, J Y-Y Lee, and M-F Liu

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1238-1240. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.031617

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Sjögren’s syndrome: a population based study of prevalence in Greece. The ESORDIG study

P I Trontzas and A A Andrianakos

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1240-1241. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.031021

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Methotrexate effect on anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody levels in rheumatoid arthritis

A Spadaro and V Riccieri

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1241-1242. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032136

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Leucoencephalopathy after treatment of Churg-Strauss syndrome with interferon

C Metzler, P Lamprecht, B Hellmich, M Reuter, A-C Arlt, and W L Gross

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1242-1243. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032664

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Anti--fodrin autoantibodies are not useful diagnostic markers of primary Sjögren’s syndrome

C Sordet, J E Gottenberg, J Goetz, D Bengoufa, R-L Humbel, X Mariette, and J Sibilia

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1244-1245. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.026419

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Successful treatment of acute visual loss in Muckle-Wells syndrome with interleukin 1 receptor antagonist

T Alexander, O Klotz, E Feist, K Rüther, G-R Burmester, and U Pleyer

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1245-1246. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.032060

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Matters arising:

Are autoantibodies against a 25-mer synthetic peptide of M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor a new diagnostic marker for Sjögren’s syndrome? • Author’s reply

P Zigon, B Bozic, S Cucnik, B Rozman, M Tomsic, T Kveder, and T Sumida

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1247.

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Short course prednisolone for adhesive capsulitis • Author’s reply

W A Douglas and R Buchbinder

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1247-1248.

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Echoes:

Cost of manipulation is bearable for back pain

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1117.

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Corrections:

CORRECTION

Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64: 1248. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.023564corr1

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