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Extended reports

• Interobserver reliability in musculoskeletal ultrasonography: results from a “Teach the Teachers” rheumatologist course (7 June, 2005)

  E Naredo, I Möller, C Moragues, J J de Agustín, A K Scheel, W Grassi, E de Miguel, M Backhaus, P Balint, G A W Bruyn, M A D’Agostino, E Filippucci, A Iagnocco, D Kane, J M Koski, L Mayordomo, W A Schmidt, W A A Swen, M Szkudlarek, L Terslev, S Torp-Pedersen, J Uson, R J Wakefield, C Werner
• Comparison of long term outcome of patients with rheumatoid arthritis presenting with undifferentiated arthritis or with rheumatoid arthritis: an observational cohort study (18 May, 2005)

  J van Aken, H van Dongen, S le Cessie, C F Allaart, F C Breedveld, T W J Huizinga
• Low circulating soluble interleukin 2 receptor level predicts rapid response in patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis treated with infliximab (7 June, 2005)

  A Kuuliala, R Nissinen, H Kautiainen, H Repo, M Leirisalo-Repo
• Muscle strength, pain, and disease activity explain individual subdimensions of the Health Assessment Questionnaire disability index, especially in women with rheumatoid arthritis (18 May, 2005)

  A Häkkinen, H Kautiainen, P Hannonen, J Ylinen, H Mäkinen, T Sokka
• The effect of etanercept on anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (23 June, 2005)

  H A Chen, K C Lin, C H Chen, H T Liao, H P Wang, H N Chang, C Y Tsai, C T Chou
• Arthritis instantaneously causes collagen type I and type II degradation in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: a longitudinal analysis (26 August, 2005)

  R B M Landewé, P Geusens, D M F M van der Heijde, M Boers, S J van der Linden, P Garnero
• Clinical practice decision tree for the choice of the first disease modifying antirheumatic drug for very early rheumatoid arthritis: a 2004 proposal of the French Society of Rheumatology (30 June, 2005)

  X Le Loët, J M Berthelot, A Cantagrel, B Combe, M De Bandt, B Fautrel, R M Flipo, F Lioté, J F Maillefert, O Meyer, A Saraux, D Wendling, F Guillemin
• Increase of sympathetic outflow measured by neuropeptide Y and decrease of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis tone in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis: another example of uncoupling of response systems (7 June, 2005)

  P Härle, R H Straub, R Wiest, A Mayer, J Schölmerich, F Atzeni, M Carrabba, M Cutolo, P Sarzi-Puttini
• Reduced uptake of apoptotic cells by macrophages in systemic lupus erythematosus: correlates with decreased serum levels of complement (26 May, 2005)

  M Bijl, E Reefman, G Horst, P C Limburg, C G M Kallenberg
• Comparison of quantitative and semiquantitative indicators of joint space narrowing in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (26 May, 2005)

  S A Mazzuca, K D Brandt, B P Katz, K A Lane, K A Buckwalter
• Femorotibial and patellar cartilage loss in patients prior to total knee arthroplasty, heterogeneity, and correlation with alignment of the knee (23 June, 2005)

  R von Eisenhart-Rothe, H Graichen, M Hudelmaier, T Vogl, L Sharma, F Eckstein
• Growing up and moving on. A multicentre UK audit of the transfer of adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis from paediatric to adult centred care (30 June, 2005)

  L P Robertson, J E McDonagh, T R Southwood, K L Shaw
• The acute respiratory distress syndrome in catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: analysis of a series of 47 patients (26 May, 2005)

  S Bucciarelli, G Espinosa, R A Asherson, R Cervera, G Claver, J A Gómez-Puerta, M Ramos-Casals, M Ingelmo
• Quality of life, morbidity, and mortality after low trauma hip fracture in men (3 August, 2005)

  I Pande, D L Scott, T W O’Neill, C Pritchard, A D Woolf, M J Davis