Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 3 - Number: 19 - January 15, 2003

Outstanding

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

Total costs and predictors of costs in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

On conducting burden-of-osteoporosis studies: a review of the core concepts and practical issues. A study carried out under the auspices of a WHO Collaborating Center

A prospective 2-year study of 75 patients with adult-onset septic arthritis

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Correlation between the immune responses to collagens type I, III, IV and V and Klebsiella pneumoniae in patients with Crohn's disease and ankylosing spondylitis

Antiphospholipids Syndrome

HLA class II gene polymorphisms in antiphospholipid syndrome: haplotype analysis in 83 Caucasoid patients

Editorial

What is meant by self-management and how can its efficacy be established?

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

Lupus

Total costs and predictors of costs 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)

Human parvovirus B19 infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Osteoarthritis

Prevalence of large-joint osteoarthritis in Asian and Caucasian skeletal populations

Morphological analysis of knee synovial membrane biopsies from a randomized controlled clinical study comparing the effects of sodium hyaluronate (Hyalgan®) and methylprednisolone acetate (Depomedrol®) in osteoarthritis

Osteology

Evidence of association and linkage disequilibrium between a novel polymorphism in the transforming growth factor ß1 gene and hip bone mineral density: a study of female twins

Osteoporosis

On conducting burden-of-osteoporosis studies: a review of the core concepts and practical issues. A study carried out under the auspices of a WHO Collaborating Center

High concentrations of dexamethasone suppress the proliferation but not the differentiation or further maturation of human osteoblast precursors in vitro: relevance to glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis

Pain

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

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Human granzyme B mediates cartilage proteoglycan degradation and is expressed at the invasive front of the synovium in rheumatoid arthritis

The effects of treatment with interleukin-1 receptor antagonist on the inflamed synovial membrane in rheumatoid arthritis

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

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

Scleroderma

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

Evaluating the cutaneous involvement in scleroderma: torsional stiffness revisited

Septic Arthritis

A prospective 2-year study of 75 patients with adult-onset septic arthritis

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

Therapy

Prophylactic hydrotherapy

Vasculitis

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