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    International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases: Volume 16, Issue 6

    i-ii, 611-789
    December 2013
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  • Pages: i-ii
  • First Published: 31 December 2013

Editorial

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New perspectives and insights to Asian systemic lupus erythematosus: renal disease, genetic predisposition and disease activity

Judith A. James,  Debashish Danda, 
  • Pages: 611-614
  • First Published: 31 December 2013

Letter from Editor-in-Chief

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Next generation evidence-based medicine: individualised, personalised and humanised

Debashish Danda, 
  • Page: 615
  • First Published: 31 December 2013

Review articles

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Meta-analysis of association between cytokine gene polymorphisms and Behcet's disease risk

Yan Liang,  Wang-Dong Xu,  Min Zhang,  Li-Juan Qiu,  Jing Ni,  Xiao-Song Wang,  Peng-Fei Wen,  Han Cen,  Rui-Xue Leng,  Hai-Feng Pan,  Dong-Qing Ye, 
  • Pages: 616-624
  • First Published: 25 November 2013
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Overview of lupus nephritis management guidelines and perspective from Asia

Chi Chiu Mok,  Desmond Y. H. Yap,  Sandra V. Navarra,  Zhi-hong Liu,  Ming-hui Zhao,  Liangjing Lu,  Tsutomu Takeuchi,  Yingyos Avihingsanon,  Xue-qing Yu,  Elizabeth A. Lapid,  Lenrore R. Lugue-Lizardo,  Vasant Sumethkul,  Nan Shen,  Shun-le Chen,  Tak Mao Chan,  for the Asian Lupus Nephritis Network (ALNN) , 
  • Pages: 625-636
  • First Published: 31 October 2013

Original articles

Australian and New Zealand national evidence-based recommendations for the investigation and follow-up of undifferentiated peripheral inflammatory arthritis: an integration of systematic literature research and rheumatological expert opinion

Claire Barrett,  Paul Bird,  Gabor Major,  Evange Romas,  Ian Portek,  Andrew Taylor,  Jane Zochling, 
  • Pages: 637-651
  • First Published: 16 October 2013

Perceptions of methotrexate use in rheumatoid arthritis by rheumatologists and their patients: an Australian survey study

Peter Nash,  Dave Nicholls, 
  • Pages: 652-661
  • First Published: 01 November 2013

The role of bromocriptine in the treatment of patients with active rheumatoid arthritis

Mansour Salesi,  Somayeh Sadeghihaddadzavareh,  Peyman Nasri,  Nasrin Namdarigharaghani,  Ziba Farajzadegan,  Mehri Hajalikhani, 
  • Pages: 662-666
  • First Published: 18 January 2013

Metabolic syndrome in psoriatic arthritis patients: A cross-sectional study

Aman Sharma,  Dharmesh Gopalakrishnan,  Ramesh Kumar,  Rajesh Vijayvergiya,  Sunil Dogra, 
  • Pages: 667-673
  • First Published: 20 June 2013
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Prolidase deficiency breaks tolerance to lupus-associated antigens

Biji T. Kurien,  Anil D'Sousa,  Benjamin F. Bruner,  Timothy Gross,  Judith A. James,  Ira N. Targoff,  Jacen S. Maier-Moore,  Isaac T. W. Harley,  Heng Wang,  R. Hal Scofield, 
  • Pages: 674-680
  • First Published: 14 December 2013

No evidence of association between CTLA-4 polymorphisms and systemic lupus erythematosus in Iranian patients

Mahdieh Shojaa,  Naemeh Javid,  Mahsa Amoli,  Fatemeh Shakeri,  Nader M. Samaei,  Mehrdad Aghaie,  Patricia Khashayar,  Sedigheh Livani, 
  • Pages: 681-684
  • First Published: 13 June 2013

Association of FcγRIIIa-158V/F with systemic lupus erythematosus in a Chinese population

Min Dai,  Zhenyuan Zhou,  Xiaodong Wang,  Xiaoxia Qian,  Xinfang Huang, 
  • Pages: 685-691
  • First Published: 16 October 2013

Intracellular tubulo-reticular structures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells as an ultra-structural marker of disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus: a pilot study

Anselm Mak,  Zakaria A. M. Almsherqi,  Ya-Wei Lai,  Alicia A.-C. Cheak,  Yuru Deng, 
  • Pages: 692-697
  • First Published: 30 October 2013

Peripheral CD24hiCD27+CD19+B cells subset as a potential biomarker in naïve systemic lupus erythematosus

Lin Jin,  Chen Weiqian,  Yue Lihuan, 
  • Pages: 698-708
  • First Published: 28 November 2013

High seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Yi-Ching Tung,  Liang-Yin Ke,  Shih-Meng Tsai,  Po-Liang Lu,  Wen-Chan Tsai, 
  • Pages: 709-714
  • First Published: 28 November 2013

Neuropsychiatric manifestations in a consecutive cohort of systemic lupus erythematosus; a single center study

Amal Bakry Abdul-Sattar,  Tarek Goda,  Mohamed G. Negm, 
  • Pages: 715-723
  • First Published: 29 October 2013

Open label randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of mycophenolate sodium against other conventional immunosuppressive agents in active systemic lupus erythematosus patients without renal involvement

Fariz Yahya,  Raja Jasmin,  Chin Teck Ng,  Tien Eang Cheah,  Sargunan Sockalingam, 
  • Pages: 724-730
  • First Published: 14 October 2013

Analysis of clinicopathologic correlations in Iranian patients with lupus nephritis

Zhaleh Shariati-Sarabi,  Amin Ranjbar,  Seyed M. Monzavi,  Habibollah Esmaily,  Mehdi Farzadnia,  Abbas A. Zeraati, 
  • Pages: 731-738
  • First Published: 28 May 2013

Long-term outcome of biopsy-proven lupus nephritis in Iran

Alimohammad Fatemi,  Mehdi Kazemi,  Zahra Sayedbonakdar,  Ziba Farajzadegan,  Hadi Karimzadeh,  Mahdi Moosavi, 
  • Pages: 739-746
  • First Published: 25 November 2013

Incidence of progression from newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus to end stage renal disease and all-cause mortality: a nationwide cohort study in Taiwan

Wei-Hung Lin,  Chao-Yu Guo,  Wei-Ming Wang,  Deng-Chi Yang,  Te-Hui Kuo,  Ming-Fei Liu,  Ming-Cheng Wang, 
  • Pages: 747-753
  • First Published: 04 November 2013
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Rapid control of disease activity by tocilizumab in 10 ‘difficult-to-treat’ cases of Takayasu arteritis

Ruchika Goel,  Debashish Danda,  Sathish Kumar,  George Joseph, 
  • Pages: 754-761
  • First Published: 31 December 2013

Correspondence

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Rheumatoid arthritis with increased bone mineral density

Shweta Agarwal,  Siddharth K. Das, 
  • Pages: 762-763
  • First Published: 29 October 2013
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Prompt efficacy of very low-dose rituximab on monoclonal B lymphocytosis in a rheumatoid arthritis patient

Vincenzo Bruzzese,  Cinzia Marrese,  Cesare Hassan,  Alessandro Andriani,  Angelo Zullo, 
  • Pages: 764-765
  • First Published: 07 November 2013
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Smoking and osteoarthritis

Tiffany K. Gill,  Catherine L. Hill, 
  • Pages: 766-767
  • First Published: 30 September 2013
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Giant aneurysm of the left anterior descending artery in Behçet's disease

Ramyah Rajakulasingam,  Maytham Omran,  Charis Costopoulos, 
  • Pages: 768-770
  • First Published: 04 April 2013
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Sensitivity of clinically abnormal temporal artery in giant cell arteritis

Thierry Zenone,  Marie Puget, 
  • Pages: 771-773
  • First Published: 24 May 2013
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Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa presenting with digital gangrene and breast ulcer

Pooja Dhaon,  Nagma Bansal,  Siddharth K. Das,  Anupam Wakhlu,  Vini Tandon, 
  • Pages: 774-776
  • First Published: 16 October 2013
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Histiocytoid Sweet syndrome and cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa secondary to myelodysplastic syndrome

Iago Pinal-Fernandez,  Berta Ferrer Fabrega,  Marc Ramentol Sintas,  Roser Solans Laque, 
  • Pages: 777-779
  • First Published: 03 June 2013
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Pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma in Sjögren's syndrome without interstitial pneumonia

Tomoko Kobayashi,  Yoshinao Muro,  Kazumitsu Sugiura,  Masashi Akiyama, 
  • Pages: 780-782
  • First Published: 07 November 2013
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An uncommon cause of anemia in systemic lupus erythematosus

Abhijai Singh, 
  • Pages: 783-785
  • First Published: 04 July 2013
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus following methylprednisolone: report of two cases

Srinivasa Chennareddy,  Ramakrishnam Adapa,  Babu K. V. Kishore,  Liza Rajasekhar, 
  • Pages: 786-788
  • First Published: 16 October 2013

Corrigendum

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Corrigendum

  • Page: 789
  • First Published: 31 December 2013