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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Rituximab for refractory granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's granulomatosis): comparison of efficacy in granulomatous versus vasculitic manifestations (21 October, 2011)

  Julia U Holle, Christin Dubrau, Karen Herlyn, Martin Heller, Petra Ambrosch, Bernhard Noelle, Eva Reinhold-Keller, Wolfgang L Gross
• Extended report: Development of heart block in children of SSA/SSB-autoantibody-positive women is associated with maternal age and displays a season-of-birth pattern (27 September, 2011)

  Aurélie Ambrosi, Stina Salomonsson, Håkan Eliasson, Elisabeth Zeffer, Amanda Skog, Vijole Dzikaite, Gunnar Bergman, Eva Fernlund, Joanna Tingström, Elke Theander, Annika Rydberg, Thomas Skogh, Annika Öhman, Ulla Lundström, Mats Mellander, Ola Winqvist, Michael Fored, Anders Ekbom, Lars Alfredsson, Henrik Källberg, Tomas Olsson, Fredrik Gadler, Anders Jonzon, Ingrid Kockum, Sven-Erik Sonesson, Marie Wahren-Herlenius
• Extended report: Subclinical renal dysfunction is independently associated with cardiovascular events in rheumatoid arthritis: the CARRÉ Study (27 September, 2011)

  A M van Sijl, I A M van den Oever, M J L Peters, M Boers, B A C Dijkmans, V P van Halm, Y M Smulders, A E Voskuyl, M T Nurmohamed
• Extended report: Comparison of features by MRI and radiographs of the interphalangeal finger joints in patients with hand osteoarthritis (11 October, 2011)

  Ida K Haugen, Pernille Bøyesen, Barbara Slatkowsky-Christensen, Sølve Sesseng, Jessica Bijsterbosch, Désirée van der Heijde, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: Sustained inhibition of progressive joint damage with rituximab plus methotrexate in early active rheumatoid arthritis: 2-year results from the randomised controlled trial IMAGE (19 October, 2011)

  Paul P Tak, William Rigby, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Charles Peterfy, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, William Stohl, Emma Healy, Eva Hessey, Mark Reynard, Tim Shaw
• Extended report: Application of composite disease activity scores in psoriatic arthritis to the PRESTA data set (11 October, 2011)

  Oliver FitzGerald, Philip Helliwell, Philip Mease, Aizad Mumtaz, Laura Coates, Ronald Pedersen, Henk Nab, Charles Molta
• Extended report: Immediate access rheumatology clinic: efficiency and outcomes (11 October, 2011)

  Miriam Gärtner, Julia P Fabrizii, Elisabeth Koban, Martin Holbik, Lorenz P Machold, Josef S Smolen, Klaus P Machold
• Concise report: MRI inflammation at the vertebral unit only marginally predicts new syndesmophyte formation: a multilevel analysis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (6 October, 2011) Free

  Désirée van der Heijde, Pedro Machado, Jürgen Braun, Kay-Geert A Hermann, Xenofon Baraliakos, Benjamin Hsu, Daniel Baker, Robert Landewé
• Concise Report: Effectiveness of disease-modifying antirheumatic drug co-therapy with methotrexate and leflunomide in rituximab-treated rheumatoid arthritis patients: results of a 1-year follow-up study from the CERERRA collaboration (4 October, 2011)

  Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Elisabeth Lie, Evgeny Nasonov, Galina Lukina, Merete Lund Hetland, Ulrik Tarp, Piet L C M van Riel, Dan C Nordström, Juan Gomez-Reino, Karel Pavelka, Matija Tomsic, Tore K Kvien, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Cem Gabay
• Concise Report: Early menopause is an independent predictor of rheumatoid arthritis (4 October, 2011)

  Mitra Pikwer, Ulf Bergström, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Lennart Jacobsson, Carl Turesson
• Concise Report: Change in the discontinuation pattern of tumour necrosis factor antagonists in rheumatoid arthritis over 10 years: data from the Spanish registry BIOBADASER 2.0 (13 October, 2011)

  Juan J Gómez-Reino, Carlos Rodríguez-Lozano, Cristina Campos-Fernández, María Montoro, Miguel Ángel Descalzo, Loreto Carmona
• Concise report: Level of agreement of the 1987 ACR and 2010 ACR/EULAR rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: an analysis based on ESPOIR cohort data (28 October, 2011)

  B Fautrel, B Combe, N Rincheval, M Dougados
• Concise report: IgG4 immune response in Churg–Strauss syndrome (25 November, 2011)

  Augusto Vaglio, Johanna D Strehl, Bernhard Manger, Federica Maritati, Federico Alberici, Christian Beyer, Jürgen Rech, Renato A Sinico, Francesco Bonatti, Luisita Battistelli, Jörg H W Distler, Georg Schett, Jochen Zwerina
• Extended report: Angiogenic biomarkers predict the occurrence of digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis (15 November, 2011)

  Jérôme Avouac, Christophe Meune, Barbara Ruiz, Pierre Olivier Couraud, Georges Uzan, Catherine Boileau, André Kahan, Gilles Chiocchia, Yannick Allanore