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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: MRP8 and MRP14, phagocyte-specific danger signals, are sensitive biomarkers of disease activity in cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (8 September, 2011)

  Helmut Wittkowski, Jasmin B Kuemmerle-Deschner, Judith Austermann, Dirk Holzinger, Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky, Katharina Gramlich, Peter Lohse, Thomas Jung, Johannes Roth, Susanne M Benseler, Dirk Foell
• Extended report: Cardiac and thromboembolic complications and mortality in patients undergoing total hip and total knee arthroplasty (21 October, 2011)

  Jasvinder A Singh, Matthew R Jensen, William Scott Harmsen, Sherine E Gabriel, David G Lewallen
• Extended report: Efficacy of intravenous Ig therapy in juvenile dermatomyositis (6 October, 2011)

  Catherine G Lam, Cedric Manlhiot, Eleanor M Pullenayegum, Brian M Feldman
• Extended report: Two-year results from an open-label, multicentre, phase III study evaluating the safety and efficacy of canakinumab in patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome across different severity phenotypes (21 August, 2011)

  Jasmin B Kuemmerle-Deschner, E Hachulla, R Cartwright, P N Hawkins, T A Tran, B Bader-Meunier, J Hoyer, M Gattorno, A Gul, J Smith, K S Leslie, S Jiménez, S Morell-Dubois, N Davis, N Patel, A Widmer, R Preiss, H J Lachmann
• Extended report: Treatment strategies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis for whom methotrexate monotherapy has failed: data from the NOR-DMARD register (28 August, 2011)

  Elisabeth Lie, Désirée van der Heijde, Till Uhlig, Knut Mikkelsen, Synøve Kalstad, Cecilie Kaufmann, Erik Rødevand, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: A discrete event modelling framework for simulation of long-term outcomes of sequential treatment strategies for ankylosing spondylitis (20 August, 2011)

  An Tran-Duy, Annelies Boonen, Mart A F J van de Laar, Angelinus C Franke, Johan L Severens
• Extended report: Ofatumumab, a fully human anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, in biological-naive, rheumatoid arthritis patients with an inadequate response to methotrexate: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial (22 August, 2011)

  Peter C Taylor, Emilia Quattrocchi, Stephen Mallett, Regina Kurrasch, Jørgen Petersen, David J Chang
• Concise report: Exploratory analyses of the association of MRI with clinical, laboratory and radiographic findings in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (16 September, 2011)

  Paul Emery, Désirée van der Heijde, Mikkel Østergaard, Philip G Conaghan, Mark C Genovese, Edward C Keystone, Roy Fleischmann, Elizabeth C Hsia, Weichun Xu, Stephen Xu, Mahboob U Rahman
• Concise report: Tailored cognitive–behavioural therapy and exercise training improves the physical fitness of patients with fibromyalgia (16 September, 2011)

  S van Koulil, W van Lankveld, F W Kraaimaat, T van Helmond, A Vedder, H van Hoorn, A R T Donders, L Wirken, H Cats, P L C M van Riel, A W M Evers
• Extended report: A large-scale association study identified multiple HLA-DRB1 alleles associated with ACPA-negative rheumatoid arthritis in Japanese subjects (27 August, 2011)

  Chikashi Terao, Koichiro Ohmura, Yuta Kochi, Katsunori Ikari, Etsuko Maruya, Masaki Katayama, Kota Shimada, Akira Murasawa, Shigeru Honjo, Kiyoshi Takasugi, Keitaro Matsuo, Kazuo Tajima, Akari Suzuki, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Shigeki Momohara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Ryo Yamada, Hiroo Saji, Fumihiko Matsuda, Tsuneyo Mimori
• Concise report: An ultrasonographic study of metatarsophalangeal joint pain: synovitis, structural pathology and their relationship to symptoms and function (20 August, 2011)

  Helen I Keen, Anthony Redmond, Richard J Wakefield, Jane Freeston, Andrew J Grainger, Elizabeth M A Hensor, Paul Emery, Philip G Conaghan
• Concise report: Reduced seroprotection after pandemic H1N1 influenza adjuvant-free vaccination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: implications for clinical practice (22 August, 2011)

  Ana C M Ribeiro, Lissiane K N Guedes, Julio C B Moraes, Carla G S Saad, Nadia E Aikawa, Ana Luisa Calich, Ivan L A França, Jozelio F Carvalho, Percival D Sampaio-Barros, Celio R Goncalves, Eduardo F Borba, Maria do Carmo S Timenetsky, Alexander R Precioso, Alberto Duarte, Eloisa Bonfa, Ieda M M Laurindo
• Concise report: Postmarketing surveillance of tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis in Japan: interim analysis of 3881 patients (17 August, 2011)

  Takao Koike, Masayoshi Harigai, Shigeko Inokuma, Naoki Ishiguro, Junnosuke Ryu, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Syuji Takei, Yoshiya Tanaka, Kyoko Ito, Hisashi Yamanaka
• Concise report: Do patients with psoriatic arthritis who present early fare better than those presenting later in the disease? (12 September, 2011)

  Dafna D Gladman, Arane Thavaneswaran, Vinod Chandran, Richard J Cook
• Concise report: On-demand anakinra treatment is effective in mevalonate kinase deficiency (21 August, 2011)

  E J Bodar, L M Kuijk, J P H Drenth, J W M van der Meer, A Simon, J Frenkel
• Concise report: Bone marrow oedema predicts structural progression in a 1-year follow-up of 85 patients with RA in remission or with low disease activity with low-field MRI (22 August, 2011)

  F Gandjbakhch, V Foltz, A Mallet, P Bourgeois, B Fautrel
• Concise report: National EQ-5D tariffs and quality-adjusted life-year estimation: comparison of UK, US and Danish utilities in south Swedish rheumatoid arthritis patients (22 August, 2011)

  Johan A Karlsson, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Martin Neovius, Lars-Erik Kristensen, Anders Gülfe, Tore Saxne, Pierre Geborek