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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: No overall progression and occasional repair of erosions despite persistent inflammation in adalimumab-treated rheumatoid arthritis patients: results from a longitudinal comparative MRI, ultrasonography, CT and radiography study (26 October, 2010) Free

  Uffe Møller Døhn, Bo Ejbjerg, Annelies Boonen, Merete Lund Hetland, Michael Sejer Hansen, Lene Surland Knudsen, Annette Hansen, Ole Rintek Madsen, Maria Hasselquist, Jakob M Møller, Mikkel Østergaard
• Extended report: A genome-wide association study suggests contrasting associations in ACPA-positive versus ACPA-negative rheumatoid arthritis (14 December, 2010)

  Leonid Padyukov, Mark Seielstad, Rick T H Ong, Bo Ding, Johan Rönnelid, Maria Seddighzadeh, Lars Alfredsson, Lars Klareskog, the Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis (EIRA) Study Group
• Extended report: Indirect comparisons of the efficacy of biological antirheumatic agents in rheumatoid arthritis in patients with an inadequate response to conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs or to an anti-tumour necrosis factor agent: a meta-analysis (19 November, 2010)

  Carine Salliot, Axel Finckh, Wanruchada Katchamart, Yan Lu, Ye Sun, Claire Bombardier, Edward Keystone
• Extended report: Development of a preliminary composite disease activity index in psoriatic arthritis (29 November, 2010)

  Aizad Mumtaz, Phil Gallagher, Brian Kirby, Robin Waxman, Laura C Coates, Douglas Veale J, Philip Helliwell, Oliver FitzGerald
• Extended report: Reliability and construct validity of ultrasonography of soft tissue and destructive changes in erosive osteoarthritis of the interphalangeal finger joints: a comparison with MRI (15 November, 2010)

  Ruth Wittoek, Lennart Jans, Valérie Lambrecht, Philippe Carron, Koenraad Verstraete, Gust Verbruggen
• Extended report: The presence or absence of antibodies to infliximab or adalimumab determines the outcome of switching to etanercept (10 November, 2010)

  Anna Jamnitski, Geertje M Bartelds, Michael T Nurmohamed, Pauline A van Schouwenburg, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Steven O Stapel, Ben A C Dijkmans, Lucien Aarden, Gerrit Jan Wolbink
• Extended report:

  Association of STAT3 and TNFRSF1A with ankylosing spondylitis in Han Chinese

  (10 November, 2010)

  Stuart I Davidson, Yu Liu, Patrick A Danoy, Xin Wu, Gethin P Thomas, Lei Jiang, Linyun Sun, Niansong Wang, Jun Han, Huanxing Han, Australo-Anglo-American Spondyloarthritis Consortium, Peter M Visscher, Matthew A Brown, Huji Xu
• Extended report: Association of bone attrition with knee pain, stiffness and disability: a cross-sectional study (24 September, 2010)

  Stephan Reichenbach, Paul A Dieppe, Eveline Nüesch, Susan Williams, Peter M Villiger, Peter Jüni
• Concise report: Fcγ receptor IIIb polymorphism and use of glucocorticoids at baseline are associated with infusion reactions to infliximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (27 October, 2010)

  Ayumi Okuyama, Hayato Nagasawa, Katsuya Suzuki, Hideto Kameda, Harumi Kondo, Kouichi Amano, Tsutomu Takeuchi
• Concise report: Inflammation in an individual joint predicts damage to that joint in psoriatic arthritis (27 October, 2010)

  Lynne Cresswell, Vinod Chandran, Vernon T Farewell, Dafna D Gladman
• Extended report: A preliminary score for the assessment of disease activity in hereditary recurrent fevers: results from the AIDAI (Auto-Inflammatory Diseases Activity Index) Consensus Conference (15 November, 2010)

  Maryam Piram, Joost Frenkel, Marco Gattorno, Seza Ozen, Helen J Lachmann, Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky, Véronique Hentgen, Bénédicte Neven, Katia Stankovic Stojanovic, Anna Simon, Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner, Hal Hoffman, Silvia Stojanov, Agnès Duquesne, Pascal Pillet, Alberto Martini, Jacques Pouchot, Isabelle Koné-Paut
• Extended report: Discontinuing treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in sustained clinical remission: exploratory analyses from the BeSt study (10 November, 2010)

  N B Klarenbeek, S M van der Kooij, M Güler-Yüksel, J H L M van Groenendael, K H Han, P J S M Kerstens, T W J Huizinga, B A C Dijkmans, C F Allaart
• Extended report: Arthropathy in long-term cured acromeagaly is characterised by osteophytes without joint space narrowing: a comparison with generalised osteoarthritis (3 December, 2010)

  M J E Wassenaar, N R Biermasz, J Bijsterbosch, A M Pereira, I Meulenbelt, J W A Smit, F Roelfsema, H M Kroon, J A Romijn, M Kloppenburg
• Extended report: Systemic and local factors are involved in the evolution of erosions in hand osteoarthritis (19 November, 2010)

  J Bijsterbosch, J M van Bemmel, I Watt, I Meulenbelt, F R Rosendaal, T W J Huizinga, M Kloppenburg
• Concise report: Urinary type II collagen C-terminal peptide is associated with synovitis and predicts structural bone loss in very early inflammatory arthritis (26 October, 2010)

  J E Freeston, P Garnero, R J Wakefield, E M A Hensor, P G Conaghan, P Emery
• Concise report: Limitations in daily activities are the major determinant of reduced health-related quality of life in patients with hand osteoarthritis (15 November, 2010)

  W Y Kwok, T P M Vliet Vlieland, F R Rosendaal, T W J Huizinga, M Kloppenburg
• Concise report: Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-blocking agents in juvenile psoriatic arthritis: are they effective? (10 November, 2010)

  Marieke H Otten, Femke H M Prince, Rebecca ten Cate, Marion A J van Rossum, Marinka Twilt, Esther P A H Hoppenreijs, Yvonne Koopman-Keemink, Arnold P Oranje, Flora B de Waard-van der Spek, Simone L Gorter, Wineke Armbrust, Koert M Dolman, Nico M Wulffraat, Lisette W A van Suijlekom-Smit