Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 1 - Number: 9 - December 19, 2002

Outstanding

Differences in autoantibody response to th/to between systemic sclerosis and autoimmune disease

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody and vasculitis: Much more than a disease marker

Churg–Strauss syndrome: outcome and long-term follow-up of 32 patients

Rituximab (anti-CD20): Treatment of refractory antibody mediated autoimmune disorders with anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (Rituximab)

Antiphospholipids Syndrome

Up date on the antiphospholipid syndrome.

Review APS.

Fatal tumor thrombosis due to an inferior vena cava leiomyosarcoma in a patient with APS.

Autoantibodies

Autoantibodies as reporters identifying aberrant cellular mechanisms in tumorigenesis

Autoantibodies as predictors of disease

Autoimmune Disease Organs Specific

Diagnosing pericarditis

Ocular manifestations of autoimmune disease

Bone marrow: Autoimmune red cell aplasia and antierythropoietin antibodies in patients treated with recombinant erythropoietin

Dermatomyositis

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like calcification in adult dermatomyositis

Autoantibodies directed to novel components of the PM/Scl complex, the human exosome

Investigatives Unit of autoimmune Diseases in the World

The best centers for autoimmune diseases around the world: The Lupus Unit. St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK Director: Dr. Graham Hughes

Lupus

A 31 year old woman with confusion and labile behavior

Meetings and Congress

Congresses and Meetings 10th APLAR congress of rheumatology.

EULAR 2003. June 18-21/2003 Lisbon, Portugal

67th annual ACR scientific meeting. October 24-28/2003 Orlando, USA

News Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases

Rituximab (anti-CD20): Treatment of refractory antibody mediated autoimmune disorders with anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (Rituximab)

Montelukast in Churg-Strauss

Oral bisphosphonates and upper gastro intestinal tract problems: What is the evidence

Drugwatch: Autoimmune disease

Sjögren Syndrome

The buzz about BAFF

Analysis of immunoglobulin light chain rearrangements in the salivary gland and blood of a patient with Sjögren

Association BAFF/BlyS overexpression and altered B cell differentiation with sjögren\'s syndrome. Journal of Clinical Investigation

Sicca symptoms and secondary Sjögren's syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus: comparison with rheumatoid arthritis and correlation with disease variables

Systemic Sclerosis

Angiogenic and angiostatic factor in systemic sclerosis

Scleroderma at end stage renal disease in the United States: Patient characteristics and survival.

Differences in autoantibody response to th/to between systemic sclerosis and autoimmune disease

Vasculitis

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody and vasculitis: Much more than a disease marker

Behcet: Vascular involvement in behcet disease

ANCA associated small-vessel vasculitis

Churg–Strauss syndrome: outcome and long-term follow-up of 32 patients

Churg–Strauss syndrome: clinical and serological features of 19 patients from a single Italian centre