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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Comparative study of MRI and power Doppler ultrasonography of the heel in patients with spondyloarthritis with and without heel pain and in controls (26 September, 2011)

  Antoine Feydy, Marie-Charlotte Lavie-Brion, Laure Gossec, Frédéric Lavie, Henri Guerini, Christelle Nguyen, François Rannou, Jean-Luc Drapé, Maxime Dougados
• Extended report: Inflammation assessment in patients with arthritis using a novel in vivo fluorescence optical imaging technology (2 March, 2012)

  Stephanie G Werner, Hans-Eckhard Langer, Sarah Ohrndorf, Malte Bahner, Peter Schott, Carsten Schwenke, Michael Schirner, Hans Bastian, Gudrun Lind-Albrecht, Bernward Kurtz, Gerd R Burmester, Marina Backhaus
• Extended report: A longitudinal PRINTO study on growth and puberty in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (13 October, 2011)

  Marite Rygg, Angela Pistorio, Angelo Ravelli, Mohamad Maghnie, Natascia Di Iorgi, Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Carlos Da Silva, Rosa Roldan-Molina, Judith Barash, Cristina Dracou, Sylvie Gandon Laloum, Katerina Jarosova, Chantal Job Deslandre, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Franco Garofalo, Joseph Press, Claudia Sengler, Tsivia Tauber, Alberto Martini, Nicolino Ruperto
• Extended report: Development of new syndesmophytes and bridges in ankylosing spondylitis and their predictors: a longitudinal study (11 October, 2011)

  Astrid van Tubergen, Sofia Ramiro, Désirée van der Heijde, Maxime Dougados, Herman Mielants, Robert Landewé
• Extended report: Incidence of cancer in a nationwide population cohort of 7852 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome in Taiwan (9 November, 2011)

  Meng-Yu Weng, Yu-Tung Huang, Ming-Fei Liu, Tsung-Hsueh Lu
• Extended report: Multiple adverse pregnancy outcomes before symptom onset are associated with a worse disease outcome in women with recent-onset inflammatory polyarthritis (13 October, 2011)

  EM Camacho, SMM Verstappen, M Lunt, DK Bunn, DPM Symmons
• Extended report: Treating to target matrix metalloproteinase 3 normalisation together with disease activity score below 2.6 yields better effects than each alone in rheumatoid arthritis patients: T-4 Study (21 October, 2011)

  Yukitomo Urata, Ryoko Uesato, Dai Tanaka, Yoshihide Nakamura, Shigeru Motomura
• Extended report: Infliximab plus methotrexate is superior to methotrexate alone in the treatment of psoriatic arthritis in methotrexate-naive patients: the RESPOND study (12 October, 2011)

  Asta Baranauskaite, Helena Raffayová, NV Kungurov, Anna Kubanova, Algirdas Venalis, Laszlo Helmle, Shankar Srinivasan, Evgeny Nasonov, Nathan Vastesaeger
• Concise report: Psoriasis patients with nail disease have a greater magnitude of underlying systemic subclinical enthesopathy than those with normal nails (9 December, 2011)

  Zoe R Ash, Ilaria Tinazzi, Concepción C Gallego, Chung Kwok, Caroline Wilson, Mark Goodfield, Paolo Gisondi, Ai Lyn Tan, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Paul Emery, Richard J Wakefield, Dennis G McGonagle, Sibel Z Aydin
• Concise report: Screening for interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis: the diagnostic accuracy of HRCT image series with high increment and reduced number of slices (25 November, 2011)

  Anna Winklehner, Nicole Berger, Britta Maurer, Oliver Distler, Hatem Alkadhi, Thomas Frauenfelder
• Concise report: A population-based assessment of live births in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (14 November, 2011)

  Évelyne Vinet, Jeremy Labrecque, Christian A Pineau, Ann E Clarke, Yvan St-Pierre, Robert Platt, Sasha Bernatsky
• Concise Report: Adalimumab in acute sciatica reduces the long-term need for surgery: a 3-year follow-up of a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial (13 October, 2011)

  S Genevay, A Finckh, P Zufferey, S Viatte, F Balagué, C Gabay
• Concise report: Interleukin-1β-regulating antibody XOMA 052 (gevokizumab) in the treatment of acute exacerbations of resistant uveitis of Behçet's disease: an open-label pilot study (14 November, 2011)

  Ahmet Gül, Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun, Charles A Dinarello, Leonid Reznikov, Bahar Artim Esen, Amer Mirza, Patrick Scannon, Alan Solinger
• Concise report:

  Novel genetic association of the VTCN1 region with rheumatoid arthritis

  (9 February, 2012)

  Nina A Daha, Benedicte A Lie, L A Trouw, Gerrie Stoeken, Joris J M Schonkeren, Bo Ding, Tore K Kvien, Marco W Schilham, Leonid Padyukov, T W J Huizinga, Rene Toes
• Concise report: High level of functional dickkopf-1 predicts protection from syndesmophyte formation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (20 December, 2011)

  Gisela Ruiz Heiland, Heiner Appel, Denis Poddubnyy, Jochen Zwerina, Axel Hueber, Hildrun Haibel, Xenofon Baraliakos, Joachim Listing, Martin Rudwaleit, Georg Schett, Joachim Sieper