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    International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases: Volume 22, Issue 4

    537-760
    April 2019
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ISSUE INFORMATION

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Issue Information

  • Pages: 537-541
  • First Published: 15 April 2019

EDITORIAL

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Improving adherence to urate-lowering therapy in people living with gout

Matthew J. Coleshill,  Eindra Aung,  Amy D. Nguyen,  Sophie L. Stocker,  Melissa T. Baysari,  Bishoy Kamel,  Marcel Schulz,  Andrew J. McLachlan,  Richard O. Day, 
  • Pages: 542-544
  • First Published: 15 April 2019

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Cost-effectiveness of an adherence-enhancing intervention for gout based on real-world data

Lydia Wenxin Lin,  Gim Gee Teng,  Anita Yee Nah Lim,  Joanne Su-Yin Yoong,  Niklas Zethraeus,  Hwee-Lin Wee, 
  • Pages: 545-554
  • First Published: 16 December 2018

Medication adherence and cost-related medication non-adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A cross-sectional study

Parvaneh Heidari,  Wendy Cross,  Carolina Weller,  Mohammadali Nazarinia,  Kimberley Crawford, 
  • Pages: 555-566
  • First Published: 28 March 2019
Open Access

Characteristics of gout patients according to the laterality of nephrolithiasis: A cross-sectional study using helical computed tomography

Toru Shimizu,  Hiroshi Hori,  Masanori Umeyama,  Kentaro Shimizu, 
  • Pages: 567-573
  • First Published: 28 November 2018

Incidence and risk factors for reactivation from resolved hepatitis B virus in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

Toshiyuki Watanabe,  Jun Fukae,  Shinji Fukaya,  Norifumi Sawamukai,  Masato Isobe,  Megumi Matsuhashi,  Masato Shimizu,  Kazumasa Akikawa,  Kazuhide Tanimura,  Tatsuya Atsumi,  Takao Koike, 
  • Pages: 574-582
  • First Published: 18 October 2018

Pulse corticosteroids in treatment of rheumatic disease concomitant with cytomegalovirus infection

Yan Li,  Limin Ren,  Xu Liu,  Xiaotao Zhao,  Fanlei Hu,  Zhanguo Li, 
  • Pages: 583-591
  • First Published: 10 February 2019

Impact of hepatitis C treatment on pain intensity, prescription opioid use and arthritis

Anand Kumthekar,  Sarah Shull,  Travis I. Lovejoy,  Benjamin J. Morasco,  Michael Chang,  Jennifer Barton, 
  • Pages: 592-598
  • First Published: 06 February 2019

Diagnostic value of anti-citrullinated fibrinogen antibody in rheumatoid arthritis: A meta-analysis

Zi-Wei Dai,  Zhi-Hui Wang,  Yuan-Yuan Dong,  Yue Wu,  Hai-Li Wang,  De-Guang Wang,  Bin Wang,  Dong-Qing Ye, 
  • Pages: 599-607
  • First Published: 06 February 2019

Burden and depression in caregivers of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in China

Jinli Ru,  Jing Ma,  Hongqing Niu,  Ying Chen,  Li Li,  Yanqiong Liu,  Xuxu Li,  Fengping Lian,  Xiuli Wang, 
  • Pages: 608-613
  • First Published: 18 October 2018

Group therapy in a cohort study of Egyptian patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Taifoor Hamad Farah,  Shirin Mostafa El-Makawi,  Ola Osama Khalaf,  Wafaa Gaber,  Hatem Hamdi Eleishi, 
  • Pages: 614-618
  • First Published: 05 November 2018

An evaluation of the Virtual Monitoring Clinic, a novel nurse-led service for monitoring patients with stable rheumatoid arthritis

Li-Ching Chew,  Xiaohui Xin,  Hui Yang,  Julian Thumboo, 
  • Pages: 619-625
  • First Published: 18 November 2018

Association between chest computed tomography findings and respiratory adverse events in rheumatoid arthritis patients undergoing long-term biological therapy

Takuya Matsumoto,  Shingo Iwano,  Nobunori Takahashi,  Shuji Asai,  Tatsuo Watanabe,  Nobuyuki Asai,  Yasumori Sobue,  Satoru Ito,  Naoki Ishiguro,  Toshihisa Kojima, 
  • Pages: 626-635
  • First Published: 08 November 2018

Comparative study on serum-induced arthritis in the temporomandibular and limb joint of mice

Sema Safi,  David Frommholz,  Susanne Reimann,  Werner Götz,  Christoph Bourauel,  Anna-Lena Neumann,  Achim Hoerauf,  Harald Illges,  Ali-Farid Safi,  Andreas Jäger,  Marc P. Hübner,  Lina Gölz, 
  • Pages: 636-645
  • First Published: 21 January 2019

Open Access

Pharmacodynamic biomarkers and differential effects of TNF- and GM-CSF-targeting biologics in rheumatoid arthritis

Xiang Guo,  Shiliang Wang,  Alex Godwood,  David Close,  Patricia C. Ryan,  Lorin K. Roskos,  Wendy I. White, 
  • Pages: 646-653
  • First Published: 24 October 2018

Early supplemental α2-macroglobulin attenuates cartilage and bone damage by inhibiting inflammation in collagen II-induced arthritis model

Shengchun Li,  Chuan Xiang,  Xiaochun Wei,  Xiaojuan Sun,  Ruifang Li,  Pengcui Li,  Jian Sun,  Dinglu Wei,  Yong Chen,  Yanxiang Zhang,  Lei Wei, 
  • Pages: 654-665
  • First Published: 04 January 2019

Estrogen reverses nicotine-induced inflammation in chondrocytes via reducing the degradation of ECM

Xiaoyun Peng,  Zhiguang Qiao,  You Wang,  Huiqin Li,  Yilin Xie,  Mei Xin,  Zhongdong Qiao,  Zhaoxia Wang, 
  • Pages: 666-676
  • First Published: 11 February 2019

Apoptosis in patients with primary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome

Kuo-Tung Tang,  Tsu-Yi Hsieh,  Ya-Hsuan Chao,  Ju-Pi Li,  Joung-Liang Lan,  Chi-Chien Lin,  Der-Yuan Chen, 
  • Pages: 677-685
  • First Published: 06 February 2019

Iguratimod ameliorates bleomycin-induced alveolar inflammation and pulmonary fibrosis in mice by suppressing expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9

Like Zhao,  Bingyao Mu,  Rongwei Zhou,  Yongjing Cheng,  Cibo Huang, 
  • Pages: 686-694
  • First Published: 21 January 2019

Prevalence and associated factors of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth among systemic sclerosis patients

Kookwan Sawadpanich,  Pisit Soison,  Kitti Chunlertrith,  Pisaln Mairiang,  Wattana Sukeepaisarnjaroen,  Apichat Sangchan,  Tanita Suttichaimongkol,  Chingching Foocharoen, 
  • Pages: 695-699
  • First Published: 06 February 2019

Disease activity and functional status associated with health-related quality of life and patient-acceptable symptom state in patients with psoriatic arthritis in Thailand: A cross-sectional study

Praveena Chiowchanwisawakit,  Varalak Srinonprasert,  Phakhamon Thaweeratthakul,  Wanruchada Katchamart, 
  • Pages: 700-707
  • First Published: 21 January 2019

HLA-B27 prevalence in axial spondyloarthritis patients and in blood donors in a Lebanese population: Results from a nationwide study

Nelly Ziade,  Ghada Abi Karam,  Georges Merheb,  Iyad Mallak,  Laure Irani,  Elie Alam,  Jamil Messaykeh,  Jeanine Menassa,  Kamel Mroue’,  Imad Uthman,  Abdel Fattah Masri,  Pierre Ghorra,  Torsten Witte,  Xenofon Baraliakos, 
  • Pages: 708-714
  • First Published: 06 February 2019

Susceptibility to ERAP1 gene single nucleotide polymorphism modulates the inflammatory cytokine setting in ankylosing spondylitis

Maryam Hemmatzadeh,  Farhad Babaie,  Fatemeh Ezzatifar,  Fatemeh S. Mohammadi,  Mehrdad Ebrazeh,  Shirin Golabi Aghdam,  Mehrzad Hajaliloo,  Gholamreza Azizi,  Arezoo Gowhari Shabgah,  Najibeh Shekari,  Nasrin Sehati,  Ramin Hosseinzadeh,  Hamed Mohammadi,  Zohreh Babaloo, 
  • Pages: 715-724
  • First Published: 10 February 2019

Nuclear magnetic resonance-based metabolomics reveals similar metabolomics profiles in undifferentiated peripheral spondyloarthritis and reactive arthritis

Sakir Ahmed,  Durgesh Dubey,  Abhra Chowdhury,  Smriti Chaurasia,  Anupam Guleria,  Sandeep Kumar,  Rajeev Singh,  Dinesh Kumar,  Ramnath Misra, 
  • Pages: 725-733
  • First Published: 27 February 2019

Evaluation of disease chronicity by bone marrow fat fraction using sacroiliac joint magnetic resonance imaging in patients with spondyloarthritis: A retrospective study

Bon San Koo,  Yoonah Song,  Ji Hui Shin,  Seunghun Lee,  Tae-Hwan Kim, 
  • Pages: 734-741
  • First Published: 10 February 2019

APLAR GRAND ROUND CASE

Primary aspergillosis of the kidney in systemic lupus erythematosus and positron emission tomography-computed tomography

Warren Fong,  Ying Ying Chua, 
  • Pages: 742-745
  • First Published: 20 May 2015

Tacrolimus successfully used to control refractory eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis complicated by invasive aspergillosis and chronic hepatitis B

Fumio Hirano,  Fumitaka Mizoguchi,  Masayoshi Harigai,  Nobuyuki Miyasaka,  Hitoshi Kohsaka, 
  • Pages: 746-749
  • First Published: 29 April 2016

CORRESPONDENCE

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Clinical spectrum of post-streptococcal reactive arthritis (PSRA) revisited: Juvenile versus adult-onset disease

Prasanta Padhan,  Debashish Danda, 
  • Pages: 750-751
  • First Published: 03 April 2019
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Comment on: A case of granulomatosis with polyangiitis complicated by two opportunistic infections

Mehdi Fatahi-Bafghi, 
  • Page: 752
  • First Published: 05 March 2019
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Mycophenolic acid-induced onychomadesis: An easily ignorable adverse effect in patients with rheumatic diseases

Chi-Wei Feng,  Hsiang-Cheng Chen,  Chun-Chi Lu, 
  • Pages: 753-755
  • First Published: 12 March 2019
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Aggressive spinal cord involvement in granulomatosis with polyangiitis

Marc Pawlitzki,  Valentina Perosa,  Melanie Korsen,  Christian Mawrin,  Claudius Bartels,  Tessa Huchtemann, 
  • Pages: 756-758
  • First Published: 04 April 2019

APLAR Matters

APLAR Matters

  • Pages: 759-760
  • First Published: 15 April 2019