Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 6 - Number: 53 - March 15, 2006

Outstanding

Cytokine balance in kidney tissue from lupus nephritis patients

Rheumatoid factor is the strongest predictor of radiological progression of rheumatoid arthritis in a three-year prospective study in community-recruited patients

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in NSAID users with gastric ulcer

Ultrasound guidance allows accurate needle placement and aspiration from small joints in patients with early inflammatory arthritis

Editorial

Joint counts in routine practice

Original Articles

Rheumatologists' opinions on the feasibility of a measurement feedback system in rheumatoid arthritis and the influence of motivation

MRL/lpr lupus-prone mice show exaggerated ICAM-1-dependent leucocyte adhesion and transendothelial migration in response to TNF-

Cytokine balance in kidney tissue from lupus nephritis patients

Rheumatoid factor is the strongest predictor of radiological progression of rheumatoid arthritis in a three-year prospective study in community-recruited patients

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in NSAID users with gastric ulcer

Musculoskeletal assessment of general medical in-patients—joints still crying out for attention

Osteoarthritis pain and weather

Risk factors for new-onset low back pain amongst cohorts of newly employed workers

Association of polymorphisms of the tumour necrosis factor receptors I and II and rheumatoid arthritis

Prevalence and clinical significance of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide and antikeratin antibodies in palindromic rheumatism. An abortive form of rheumatoid arthritis?

Ultrasound guidance allows accurate needle placement and aspiration from small joints in patients with early inflammatory arthritis

A novel polymorphism of the human APRIL gene is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus

Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase is not a specific autoantigen in rheumatoid arthritis

Combined oral cyclosporin and methotrexate therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis elevates methotrexate levels and reduces 7-hydroxymethotrexate levels when compared with methotrexate alone

Women with established rheumatoid arthritis perceive pain as the predominant impairment of health status

Rheumatological ultrasound

Late complications of SLE

Corneal wound healing in a patient treated with colchicine for familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)

Small vessel vasculitis with pulmonary aneurysms and silent myocardial infarction