Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Survival, comorbidities and joint damage 11 years after the COBRA combination therapy trial in early rheumatoid arthritis (17 May, 2009)

  Lilian H D van Tuyl, Maarten Boers, Willem F Lems, Robert B Landewé, Huub Han, S van der Linden, Mart van de Laar, Rene Westhovens, J Christiaan van Denderen, Marie-Louise Westedt, André J Peeters, Piet Jacobs, Tom W J Huizinga, Hans van de Brink, Ben A C Dijkmans, Alexandre E Voskuyl
• Extended report:

  Association of CD40 with rheumatoid arthritis confirmed in a large UK case-control study

  (11 May, 2009)

  Gisela Orozco, Steve Eyre, Anne Hinks, Xiayi Ke, Wellcome Trust Case Control consortium YEAR Consortium, Anthony G Wilson, Deborah E Bax, Ann W Morgan, Paul Emery, Sophia Steer, Lynne Hocking, David M Reid, Paul Wordsworth, Pille Harrison, Wendy Thomson, Anne Barton, Jane Worthington
• Extended report: Anti-infliximab and anti-adalimumab antibodies in relation to response to adalimumab in infliximab switchers and anti-tumour necrosis factor naive patients: a cohort study (5 July, 2009)

  G M Bartelds, C A Wijbrandts, M T Nurmohamed, S Stapel, W F Lems, L Aarden, B A C Dijkmans, P P Tak, G J Wolbink
• Extended report: Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II alleles, haplotypes and epitopes which confer susceptibility or protection in systemic sclerosis: analyses in 1300 Caucasian, African-American and Hispanic cases and 1000 controls (12 July, 2009)

  Frank C Arnett, Pravitt Gourh, Sanjay Shete, Chul W Ahn, Robert E Honey, Sandeep K Agarwal, Filemon K Tan, Terry McNearney, Michael Fischbach, Marvin J Fritzler, Maureen D Mayes, John D Reveille
• Extended report: Evaluation of several ultrasonography scoring systems for synovitis and comparison to clinical examination: results from a prospective multicentre study of rheumatoid arthritis (9 September, 2009)

  Maxime Dougados, Sandrine Jousse-Joulin, Frederic Mistretta, Maria-Antonietta d'Agostino, Marina Backhaus, Jacques Bentin, Gérard Chalès, Isabelle Chary-Valckenaere, Philip Conaghan, Fabien Etchepare, Philippe Gaudin, Walter Grassi, Désirée van der Heijde, Jérémie Sellam, Esperanza Naredo, Marcin Szkudlarek, Richard Wakefield, Alain Saraux
• Extended report:

  A STAT4 risk allele is associated with ischaemic cerebrovascular events and anti-phospholipid antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus

  (17 September, 2009)

  Elisabet Svenungsson, Johanna Gustafsson, Dag Leonard, Johanna Sandling, Iva Gunnarsson, Gunnel Nordmark, Andreas Jönsen, Anders A Bengtsson, Gunnar Sturfelt, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Kerstin Elvin, Ulf Sundin, Sophie Garnier, Julia F Simard, Snaevar Sigurdsson, Leonid Padyukov, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Lars Rönnblom
• Extended report: Subchondral bone attrition may be a reflection of compartment-specific mechanical load: the MOST Study (17 September, 2009)

  Tuhina Neogi, Michael Nevitt, Jingbo Niu, Leena Sharma, Frank Roemer, Ali Guermazi, Cora E Lewis, James Torner, Kassim Javaid, David Felson
• Extended report: Biomarkers in early rheumatoid arthritis: longitudinal associations with inflammation and joint destruction measured by magnetic resonance imaging and conventional radiographs (16 March, 2010)

  Silje W Syversen, Espen A Haavardsholm, Pernille Bøyesen, Guro L Goll, Cecilie Okkenhaug, Per Ivar Gaarder, Désirée van der Heijde, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: Repair of erosions occurs almost exclusively in damaged joints without swelling (21 October, 2009)

  Cédric Lukas, Désirée van der Heijde, Saeed Fatenajad, Robert Landewé
• Extended report: Radiographic severity of knee osteoarthritis is conditional on interleukin 1 receptor antagonist gene variations (23 November, 2009)

  Mukundan Attur, Hwa-Ying Wang, Virginia Byers Kraus, Jack F Bukowski, Nazneen Aziz, Svetlana Krasnokutsky, Jonathan Samuels, Jeffrey Greenberg, Gary McDaniel, Steven B Abramson, Kenneth S Kornman
• Extended report: Morbid anatomy of ‘erosive osteoarthritis’ of the interphalangeal finger joints: an optimised scoring system to monitor disease progression in affected joints (29 November, 2009)

  Gust Verbruggen, Ruth Wittoek, Bert Vander Cruyssen, Dirk Elewaut
• Concise report: Changes in the rates of joint surgery among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in California, 1983–2007 (5 July, 2009)

  Grant H Louie, Michael M Ward
• Concise report: Effects of denosumab on bone mineral density and bone turnover in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving concurrent glucocorticoids or bisphosphonates (3 September, 2009)

  Robin K Dore, Stanley B Cohen, Nancy E Lane, William Palmer, William Shergy, Lifen Zhou, Huei Wang, Wayne Tsuji, Richard Newmark
• Concise report:

  Deletion of LCE3C and LCE3B genes at PSORS4 does not contribute to susceptibility to psoriatic arthritis in German patients

  (12 May, 2009)

  Ulrike Hüffmeier, Xavier Estivill, Eva Riveira-Munoz, Heiko Traupe, Jörg Wendler, Jörg Lohmann, Beate Böhm, Harald Burkhardt, André Reis
• Concise report: Ultrasonographic monitoring of response to therapy in polymyalgia rheumatica (22 September, 2009)

  M Jiménez-Palop, E Naredo, L Humbrado, J Medina, J Uson, F Francisco, M J García-Yebenes, J Garrido
• Concise report:

  Variation in STAT4 is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus in a Finnish family cohort

  (27 August, 2009)

  Anna Hellquist, Johanna K Sandling, Marco Zucchelli, Sari Koskenmies, Heikki Julkunen, Mauro D'Amato, Sophie Garnier, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Juha Kere
• Concise report:

  Associations of a non-synonymous variant in SLC2A9 with gouty arthritis and uric acid levels in Han Chinese subjects and Solomon Islanders

  (31 August, 2009)

  Hung-Pin Tu, Chung-Jen Chen, Silent Tovosia, Albert Min-Shan Ko, Chien-Hung Lee, Tsan-Teng Ou, Gau-Tyan Lin, Shun-Jen Chang, Shang-Lun Chiang, Hung-Che Chiang, Ping-Ho Chen, Shu-Jung Wang, Han-Ming Lai, Ying-Chin Ko
• Concise report: The fatty Romanus lesion: a non-inflammatory spinal MRI lesion specific for axial spondyloarthropathy (9 August, 2009)

  A N Bennett, A Rehman, E M A Hensor, H Marzo-Ortega, P Emery, D McGonagle
• Concise report: New insights into the experience of fatigue among patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a qualitative study (22 October, 2009)

  Stephanie Nikolaus, Christina Bode, Erik Taal, Mart A F J van de Laar