Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 4 - Number: 34 - July 15, 2004

Outstanding

Platelet function is inhibited by non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs but not by cyclo-oxygenase-2-selective inhibitors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

The prevalence and burden of arthritis

The hidden costs of arthritis treatment and the cost of new therapy—the burden of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug gastropathy

No evidence of parvovirus B19, Chlamydia pneumoniae or human herpes virus infection in temporal artery biopsies in patients with giant cell arteritis

Arthritis

The prevalence and burden of arthritis

Editorial

Progress and problems in defining susceptibility genes for rheumatic diseases

Giant cell arteritis

No evidence of parvovirus B19, Chlamydia pneumoniae or human herpes virus infection in temporal artery biopsies in patients with giant cell arteritis

Introduction

Introduction and WHO perspective on the global burden of musculoskeletal conditions

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Tumour necrosis factor receptor II polymorphism and juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Knee joint replacement

Who should have priority for a knee joint replacement?

NSAIDs

The hidden costs of arthritis treatment and the cost of new therapy—the burden of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug gastropathy

Original papers

The wafer test: a semi-quantitative test to screen for xerostomia

Polymorphism in the immunoglobulin VH gene V1-69 affects susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis in subjects lacking the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope

Osteoarthritis

Sacral and iliac articular cartilage thickness and cellularity: relationship to subchondral bone end-plate thickness and cancellous bone density

Pain

Sex hormonal factors and chronic widespread pain: a population study among women

Polymyalgia rheumatica

In polymyalgia rheumatica serum prolactin is positively correlated with the number of typical symptoms but not with typical inflammatory markers

A case–control study examining the role of physical trauma in the onset of fibromyalgia syndrome

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Drug survival, efficacy and toxicity of monotherapy with a fully human anti-tumour necrosis factor- antibody compared with methotrexate in long-standing rheumatoid arthritis

Platelet function is inhibited by non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs but not by cyclo-oxygenase-2-selective inhibitors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Immune complexes contain immunoglobulin A rheumatoid factor in serum and synovial fluid of patients with polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Sicca syndrome

Dry eyes and mouth syndrome—a subgroup of patients presenting with sicca symptoms

Sjögren Syndrome

Primary Sjögren's syndrome associated with inclusion body myositis

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Family studies in systemic lupus erythematosus

Immune responses to native ß2-glycoprotein I in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and the antiphospholipid syndrome

Neuropsychological function in systemic lupus erythematosus: a five-year longitudinal study

Acute lethal pancreatitis in childhood systemic lupus erythematosus

Teraphy of autoimmune diseases

The therapeutic uses of intravenous immunoglobulins in autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Therapy

Clinical experience with cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors

Results from a patient survey to assess gastrointestinal burden of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug therapy contrasted with a review of data from EVA to determine satisfaction with rofecoxib

Arthropathy in art and the history of pain management—through the centuries to cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors