Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 2 - Number: 10 - January 15, 2003

Outstanding

Incomplete lupus erythematosus: results of a multicentre study under the supervision of the EULAR Standing Committee on International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT)

Updated Reviews in Dermatology: Systemic sclerosis – scleroderma.

Are antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies a marker predictive of relapse in Wegener's granulomatosis? A prospective study

Anti-TNF Therapy for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Antiphospholipids Syndrome

Thrombus on the Tricuspid Valve in a Patient With Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome After Implantation of an Inferior Vena Cave Filter

b2-Glycoprotein I – A Key Player in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase gene mutation together with anticardiolipin antibody during pregnancy: a case report

Autoimmune Disease Organs Specific

A Longitudinal Study of Abnormalities on MRI and Disability from Multiple Sclerosis

The effect of anti-4 integrin antibody on brain lesion activity in MS

alfa.4.1 Integrins as Therapeutic Targets in Autoimmune Disease

A Controlled Trial of Natalizumab for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

Natalizumab for Active Crohn's Disease

Skin: Vitiligo: The melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1, a novel target of autoantibody responses in vitiligo

Thrombosis: Long Distance Flights and the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism – A Real Threat or Just Another Flight Hysteria?

Thyroid disease

Chronic, Persisted and Disseminated Pain

Risk factors for persistent chronic widespread pain: a community-based study

Dermatomyositis

Cancer-associated neuromusculoskeletal syndromes Recognizing the rheumatic-neoplastic connection

Editorial

The ‘zero patient’ design to compare the prevalences of rare diseases

Lupus

Human parvovirus B19 infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Incomplete lupus erythematosus: results of a multicentre study under the supervision of the EULAR Standing Committee on International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT)

Markedly increased levels of IL-6 and CA125 in pleural fluid of an elderly person with overlap syndrome of systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus

Serum S100B Levels in Patients with Lupus Erythematosus: Preliminary Observation

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in fulminant myocarditis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus.

Hepatobiliary Disease in Neonatal Lupus: Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics in Cases Enrolled in a National Registry

No lupus nephritis in the absence of antiC1q autoantibodies?

Meetings and Congress

The I Latinamerican Congress on Autoimmunity will take place on Galapagos Islands on board of the MV Galapagos Legend. September 2003

The British Society of Rheumatology. Manchester (UK). XXth Annual Meeting April 1-4 2003

News Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases

Patient Self-Testing and Patient Self-Management of Oral Anticoagulation: Is It Too Late?

The new clinical trials on pharmacological treatment in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism with the Oral Thrombin Inhibitor, Melagatran

Rituximab for Refractory Childhood Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Evidence for a protective role of the human leukocyte antigen class II region in early rheumatoid arthritis

Mortality associated with cervical spine disorders: a population-based study of 1666 patients with rheumatoid arthritis who died in Finland in 1989

Anti-TNF Therapy for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Scleroderma

Pilot study of anti-thymocyte globulin plus mycophenolate mofetil in recent-onset diffuse scleroderma

Sjögren Syndrome

The liver is a common non-exocrine target in primary Sjögren's syndrome: A retrospective review

Cathepsin S inhibitor prevents autoantigen presentation and autoimmunity

Superposition Syndromes

Autoimmune hepatitis and systemic sclerosis: a new overlap syndrome?

Systemic Sclerosis

Increased urinary pyridinoline cross-link compounds of collagen in patients with systemic sclerosis and Raynaud's phenomenon

Evaluating the cutaneous involvement in scleroderma: torsional stiffness revisited

Corticosteroid-induced scleroderma renal crisis

Anti-Fibroblast Antibodies in Systemic Sclerosis

Updated Reviews in Dermatology: Systemic sclerosis – scleroderma.

The Best Unit of Autoimmune Diseases of the World

Investigation Units in the Wordl in Autoimmune Diseases. The John Hopkins Arthritis Research

Vasculitis

Are antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies a marker predictive of relapse in Wegener's granulomatosis? A prospective study

Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant-Cell Arteritis

P-ANCA vasculitic neuropathy with 12-year latency between onset of neuropathy and systemic symptoms

Small vessel vasculitis

Lingual arteritis in an elderly woman