Editorials:

The clinical implication of cervical interspinous bursitis in the diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica

Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 733-734. doi:10.1136/ard.2008.087999

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Reviews:

Biochemical basis of the effect of chondroitin sulphate on osteoarthritis articular tissues

J Monfort, J-P Pelletier, N Garcia-Giralt, and J Martel-Pelletier

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 735-740.
Published Online First: 20 July 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.068882

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Extended reports:

Functional, molecular and proteomic characterisation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in rheumatoid arthritis

M-C Kastrinaki, P Sidiropoulos, S Roche, J Ringe, S Lehmann, H Kritikos, V-M Vlahava, B Delorme, G D Eliopoulos, C Jorgensen, P Charbord, T Häupl, D T Boumpas, and H A Papadaki

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 741-749.
Published Online First: 5 October 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.076174

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Abnormal T cell differentiation persists in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in clinical remission and predicts relapse

C H Burgoyne, S L Field, A K Brown, E M Hensor, A English, S L Bingham, R Verburg, U Fearon, C A Lawson, P J Hamlin, L Straszynski, D Veale, P Conaghan, M A Hull, J M van Laar, A Tennant, P Emery, J D Isaacs, and F Ponchel

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 750-757.
Published Online First: 20 July 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.073833

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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 First: 21 January 2008. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.084723

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Distribution and clinical significance of blood dendritic cells in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

E Smolewska, J Stanczyk, H Brózik, M Biernacka-Zielinska, B Cebula, T Robak, and P Smolewski

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 762-768.
Published Online First: 26 October 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077669

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A high body mass index has a protective effect on the amount of joint destruction in small joints in early rheumatoid arthritis

A H M van der Helm-van Mil, S M van der Kooij, C F Allaart, R E M Toes, and T W J Huizinga

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 769-774.
Published Online First: 26 October 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.078832

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High-dose cyclophosphamide without stem cell rescue in scleroderma

C V Tehlirian, L K Hummers, B White, R A Brodsky, and F M Wigley

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 775-781.
Published Online First: 1 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077446

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Dissemination and evaluation of the ASAS/EULAR recommendations for the management of ankylosing spondylitis: results of a study among 1507 rheumatologists

L Gossec, M Dougados, C Phillips, M Hammoudeh, K de Vlam, K Pavelka, T Pham, J Braun, J Sieper, I Olivieri, D van der Heijde, E Collantes, M Stone, T K Kvien, and on behalf of ASAS (ASsessment in AS international working group)

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 782-788.
Published Online First: 29 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.080077

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Psychometric properties of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index (RADAI) in a cohort of consecutive Dutch patients with RA starting anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment

M M Veehof, P M ten Klooster, E Taal, P L C M van Riel, and M A F J van de Laar

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 789-793.
Published Online First: 1 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.081984

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Magnetic resonance imaging findings in 84 patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: bone marrow oedema predicts erosive progression

E A Haavardsholm, P Bøyesen, M Østergaard, A Schildvold, and T K Kvien

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 794-800.
Published Online First: 2 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.071977

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Duration of preclinical rheumatoid arthritis-related autoantibody positivity increases in subjects with older age at time of disease diagnosis

D S Majka, K D Deane, L A Parrish, A A Lazar, A E Barón, C W Walker, M V Rubertone, W R Gilliland, J M Norris, and V M Holers

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 801-807.
Published Online First: 1 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.076679

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Effects of oral treatments on exercise capacity in systemic sclerosis related pulmonary arterial hypertension: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

J Avouac, J Wipff, A Kahan, and Y Allanore

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 808-814.
Published Online First: 27 September 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077149

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Aggressive combination therapy with intra-articular glucocorticoid injections and conventional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in early rheumatoid arthritis: second-year clinical and radiographic results from the CIMESTRA study

M L Hetland, K Stengaard-Pedersen, P Junker, T Lottenburger, I Hansen, L S Andersen, U Tarp, A Svendsen, J K Pedersen, H Skjødt, U B Lauridsen, T Ellingsen, G V O Hansen, H Lindegaard, A Vestergaard, A G Jurik, M Østergaard, K Hørslev-Petersen, and the CIMESTRA study group

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 815-822.
Published Online First: 18 September 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.076307

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Changes in bone mineral density in patients with recent onset, active rheumatoid arthritis

M Güler-Yüksel, J Bijsterbosch, Y P M Goekoop-Ruiterman, J K de Vries-Bouwstra, H M J Hulsmans, W M de Beus, K H Han, F C Breedveld, B A C Dijkmans, C F Allaart, and W F Lems

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 823-828.
Published Online First: 20 July 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.073817

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Seizures in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: data from LUMINA, a multiethnic cohort (LUMINA LIV)

R M Andrade, G S Alarcón, L A González, M Fernández, M Apte, L M Vilá, G McGwin, Jr, J D Reveille, and for the LUMINA Study Group

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 829-834.
Published Online First: 17 September 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077594

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Double heterozygosity polymorphisms for platelet glycoproteins Ia/IIa and IIb/IIIa increases arterial thrombosis and arteriosclerosis in patients with the antiphospholipid syndrome or with systemic lupus erythematosus

S Jiménez, D Tàssies, G Espinosa, Á García-Criado, J Plaza, J Monteagudo, R Cervera, and J C Reverter

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 835-840.
Published Online First: 29 August 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077321

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A randomised interventional trial of -3-polyunsaturated fatty acids on endothelial function and disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus

S A Wright, F M O’Prey, M T McHenry, W J Leahey, A B Devine, E M Duffy, D G Johnston, M B Finch, A L Bell, and G E McVeigh

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 841-848.
Published Online First: 17 September 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077156

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Epistasis between the MHC and the RCA block in primary Sjögren syndrome

S Lester, C McLure, J Williamson, P Bardy, M Rischmueller, and R L Dawkins

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 849-854.
Published Online First: 18 September 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.075044

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of efficacy and toxicity of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and biological agents for psoriatic arthritis

V Ravindran, D L Scott, and E H Choy

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 855-859.
Published Online First: 7 September 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.072652

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Cytokines, autoantibodies and viral antibodies in premorbid and postdiagnostic sera from patients with rheumatoid arthritis: case–control study nested in a cohort of Norwegian blood donors

K T Jørgensen, A Wiik, M Pedersen, C J Hedegaard, B F Vestergaard, R E Gislefoss, T K Kvien, J Wohlfahrt, K Bendtzen, and M Frisch

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 860-866.
Published Online First: 20 July 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.073825

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Blockade of CD40/CD40 ligand interactions attenuates skin fibrosis and autoimmunity in the tight-skin mouse

K Komura, M Fujimoto, K Yanaba, T Matsushita, Y Matsushita, M Horikawa, F Ogawa, K Shimizu, M Hasegawa, K Takehara, and S Sato

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 867-872.
Published Online First: 6 September 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.073387

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BILAG-2004 index captures systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity better than SLEDAI-2000

C-S Yee, D A Isenberg, A Prabu, K Sokoll, L-S Teh, A Rahman, I N Bruce, B Griffiths, M Akil, N McHugh, D D’Cruz, M A Khamashta, P Maddison, A Zoma, and C Gordon

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 873-876.
Published Online First: 22 May 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.070847

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Concise reports:

Allelic variation at the C-reactive protein gene associates to both hand osteoarthritis severity and serum high sensitive C-reactive protein levels in the GARP study

S D Bos, H E D Suchiman, M Kloppenburg, J J Houwing-Duistermaat, M P Hellio le Graverand, A B Seymour, H M Kroon, P E Slagboom, and I Meulenbelt

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 877-879.
Published Online First: 29 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.079228

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Anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment in patients with refractory systemic vasculitis associated with rheumatoid arthritis

X Puéchal, C Miceli-Richard, O Mejjad, P Lafforgue, C Marcelli, E Solau-Gervais, S Steinfeld, C Villoutreix, R Trèves, X Mariette, L Guillevin, and for the Club Rhumatismes et Inflammation (CRI)

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 880-884.
Published Online First: 23 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.081679

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Scoring the nailfold microvascular changes during the capillaroscopic analysis in systemic sclerosis patients

A Sulli, M E Secchi, C Pizzorni, and M Cutolo

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 885-887.
Published Online First: 23 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.079756

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A modified Delphi exercise to determine the extent of consensus with OMERACT outcome domains for studies of acute and chronic gout

W J Taylor, H R Schumacher, Jr, H S B Baraf, P Chapman, L Stamp, M Doherty, F McQueen, N Dalbeth, N Schlesinger, D E Furst, J Vazquez Mellado, M A Becker, A Kavanaugh, W Louthrenoo, T Bardin, D Khanna, L S Simon, H Yamanaka, H K Choi, X Zeng, V Strand, R Grainger, D Clegg, J A Singh, C Diaz-Torne, M Boers, P Gow, and V G Barskova

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 888-891.
Published Online First: 29 November 2007. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.079970

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Letters:

Strong association between plasma thrombomodulin and pathergy test in Behçet disease

S Menashi, B Tribout, C Dosquet, P Le Toumelin, J-C Piette, B Wechsler, and M-C Boffa

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 892-893. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.075143

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Rituximab-related late-onset neutropenia in a patient with severe rheumatoid arthritis

H Marotte, G Paintaud, H Watier, and P Miossec

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 893-894. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.081166

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Beneficial response to rituximab in a patient with haemolysis and refractory Felty syndrome

A Salama, U Schneider, and T Dörner

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 894-895. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077966

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Anti-tumour necrosis factor agents and lipid profile: a class effect?

S P Garcês, M J Parreira Santos, F M R Vinagre, R M Roque, and J A C da Silva

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 895-896. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.078287

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Relapse of sarcoidosis upon treatment with etanercept

G H Louie, P Chitkara, and M M Ward

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 896-898. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.078840

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Tako-tsubo-like syndrome in systemic sclerosis: a sign of myocardial Raynaud phenomenon?

D Melchiorre, P Bernardo, M L Conforti, C Comunian, F Nacci, S Guiducci, G Fiori, A Moggi-Pignone, G F Gensini, and M Matucci-Cerinic

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 898-899. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.069500

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Erythema multiforme with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: a class effect?

T Kain, D MacGregor, R R C Buchanan, J P de Jager, and L Schachna

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 899-900. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.078857

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Testing for linkage and association with rheumatoid arthritis a ptpn22 promoter polymorphism reported to be associated and linked with type 1 diabetes in the Caucasian population

P Dieudé, V H Teixeira, C Pierlot, F Cornélis, E Petit-Teixeira, and for ECRAF*

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 900-901. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.077180

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Coexistence of spondyloarthropathy and multiple sclerosis: a series of 21 cases

D Wendling, R-M Flipo, M Breban, E Bouquillard, S Varin, E Dernis, L Frocrain, P Gaborit, F Lioté, A Martin, and P Sichère

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 901-903. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.082909

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Autoantibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptide in a PMR inception cohort from The PMR Outcomes Study

B Dasgupta, A Hutchings, J Hollywood, and L Nutter

Ann Rheum Dis 2008; 67: 903-904. doi:10.1136/ard.2007.081935

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