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BMJ Journals

Table of contents

April 2003 - Volume 62 - 4

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases: 62 (4)

Leader

Understanding disability (1 April, 2003)
G Stucki

Randomised controlled trial

Cyclosporin A monotherapy versus cyclosporin A and methotrexate combination therapy in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: a double blind randomised placebo controlled trial (1 April, 2003)
A H Gerards, R B M Landewé, A P A Prins, G A W Bruijn, H S Goei Thé, R F J M Laan, B A C Dijkmans

Extended reports

Anti-inflammatory effects of leflunomide on cultured synovial macrophages from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 April, 2003)
M Cutolo, A Sulli, P Ghiorzo, C Pizzorni, C Craviotto, B Villaggio
Microarchitecture and protective mechanisms in synovial tissue from clinically and arthroscopically normal knee joints (1 April, 2003)
M D Smith, E Barg, H Weedon, V Papengelis, T Smeets, P P Tak, M Kraan, M Coleman, M J Ahern
Cost effectiveness and cost utility analysis of multidisciplinary care in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised comparison of clinical nurse specialist care, inpatient team care, and day patient team care (1 April, 2003)
W B van den Hout, G J Tijhuis, J M W Hazes, F C Breedveld, T P M Vliet Vlieland
Number needed to treat (NNT): implication in rheumatology clinical practice (1 April, 2003)
M Osiri, M E Suarez-Almazor, G A Wells, V Robinson, P Tugwell
Hip pain onset in relation to cumulative workplace and leisure time mechanical load: a population based case-control study (1 April, 2003)
D P Pope, I M Hunt, F N Birrell, A J Silman, G J Macfarlane
Prospective comparative study of patients with culture proven and high suspicion of adult onset septic arthritis (1 April, 2003)
M N Gupta, R D Sturrock, M Field
Cartilage turnover assessed with a newly developed assay measuring collagen type II degradation products: influence of age, sex, menopause, hormone replacement therapy, and body mass index (1 April, 2003)
U Mouritzen, S Christgau, H-J Lehmann, L B Tankó, C Christiansen
Can procalcitonin measurement help in differentiating between bacterial infection and other kinds of inflammatory processes? (1 April, 2003)
I Delévaux, M André, M Colombier, E Albuisson, F Meylheuc, R-J Bégue, J-C Piette, O Aumaître
Beneficial effects of the anti-oestrogen tamoxifen on systemic lupus erythematosus of (NZB×NZW)F1 female mice are associated with specific reduction of IgG3 autoantibodies (1 April, 2003)
Z M Sthoeger, H Zinger, E Mozes

Echo

NSAIDs provoke severe acute diarrhoea (1 April, 2003)

Concise reports

Increase in bone mineral density of patients with spondyloarthropathy treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor α (1 April, 2003)
F Allali, M Breban, R Porcher, J F Maillefert, M Dougados, C Roux
Oral corticosteroid prescribing in women over 50, use of fracture prevention therapy, and bone densitometry service (1 April, 2003)
I W Chantler, M W J Davie, S F Evans, J S Rees
Regional differences in Finland in the prevalence of rheumatoid factor in the presence and absence of arthritis (1 April, 2003)
T Korpilähde, M Heliövaara, O Kaipiainen-Seppänen, P Knekt, K Aho
Syndrome of symptomatic adult acetabular dysplasia (SAAD syndrome) (1 April, 2003)
F Birrell, A Silman, P Croft, C Cooper, G Hosie, G Macfarlane
Interleukin 1β and tumour necrosis factor α secreting cells are increased in the peripheral blood of patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (1 April, 2003)
P Willeke, H Schotte, B Schlüter, M Erren, H Becker, A Dyong, E Mickholz, W Domschke, M Gaubitz
TAP1 and TAP2 polymorphisms analysis in northwestern Colombian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (1 April, 2003)
P A Correa, J F Molina, L F Pinto, M Arcos-Burgos, M Herrera, J-M Anaya
Abrupt condylar destruction of the mandibula in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (1 April, 2003)
M Twilt, E van der Giesen, S M L M Mobers, R ten Cate, L W A van Suijlekom-Smit

Letters

Benefit of anti-TNFα treatment for nephrotic syndrome in a patient with juvenile inflammatory bowel disease associated spondyloarthropathy complicated with amyloidosis and glomerulonephritis (1 April, 2003)
P Verschueren, F Lensen, E Lerut, K Claes, R De Vos, B Van Damme, R Westhovens
A unique autoantibody pattern of positive anti-Jo-1, anti-U1RNP, and antiproteasome antibodies in autoimmune myositis as a diagnostic challenge (1 April, 2003)
E Feist, M-L Schneider, M Brychcy, T Dörner, G-R Burmester, F Hiepe
Degenerative disc disease and pre-existing spinal pain (1 April, 2003)
C J Centeno, J Fleishman
Tuberculous tonsillitis in a patient receiving etanercept treatment (1 April, 2003)
C T Derk, R J DeHoratius
Successful treatment of resistant giant cell arteritis with etanercept (1 April, 2003)
A L Tan, J Holdsworth, C Pease, P Emery, D McGonagle
Bilateral subdural effusion in a patient with neuro-Behçet’s disease (1 April, 2003)
N Suzuki, M Takeno, G Inaba
A case of multiple sclerosis associated with rheumatoid arthritis and positive anticardiolipin antibodies (1 April, 2003)
S Mpofu, R J Moots
Observation on serum anti-double stranded DNA antibodies of tripterine in systemic lupus erythematosus of (NZB×W)F1 mice (1 April, 2003)
X Xu, Z Wu, C Xu, Y Ren, Y Ge
Clodronate induced uveitis (1 April, 2003)
P Fietta, P Manganelli, L Lodigiani
Aminotransferase levels during treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with leflunomide in clinical practice (1 April, 2003)
A Hoi, G O Littlejohn
Magnetic resonance imaging of the hand in mixed connective tissue disease (1 April, 2003)
M A Cimmino, A Iozzelli, G Garlaschi, E Silvestri, C Montecucco

Matters arising

Power Doppler sonography: synovial tissue assessment in RA (1 April, 2003)
P Hrycaj, J K Lacki
A case of orbital myositis associated with rheumatoid arthritis (1 April, 2003)
G P Fadini

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