Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 6 - Number: 59 - September 15, 2006

Outstanding

Pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis: diagnostic pathway and therapeutic approach

Lumbosacral radiographic signs in patients with previous enteroarthritis or uroarthritis

Relationship between serum trough infliximab levels, pretreatment C reactive protein levels, and clinical response to infliximab treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid and psoriatic knee synovitis: clinical, grey scale, and power Doppler ultrasound assessment of the response to etanercept

Concise reports

Human parvovirus B19, varicella zoster virus, and human herpes virus 6 in temporal artery biopsy specimens of patients with giant cell arteritis: analysis with quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction

Infliximab treatment in ankylosing spondylitis: an observational study

Lack of genetic association of the three more common polymorphisms of CARD15 with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis in a German cohort

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the gene encoding the major histocompatibility complex class II transactivator (CIITA) in systemic lupus erythematosus

ß2 Adrenoceptor gene single nucleotide polymorphisms are associated with rheumatoid arthritis in northern Sweden

Editorial

In the middle of the decade

Education

How to assess the impact of arthritis on the individual patient: the WHO ICF

Extended reports

Implication of interleukin 18 in production of matrix metalloproteinases in articular chondrocytes in arthritis: direct effect on chondrocytes may not be pivotal

Increased pentosidine, an advanced glycation end product, in serum and synovial fluid from patients with knee osteoarthritis and its relation with cartilage oligomeric matrix protein

Inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic description of the extent and frequency of acute spinal changes using magnetic resonance imaging

Lumbosacral radiographic signs in patients with previous enteroarthritis or uroarthritis

Pain and high sensitivity C reactive protein in patients with chronic low back pain and acute sciatic pain

Pregnancy in patients with rheumatic disease: anti-inflammatory cytokines increase in pregnancy and decrease post partum

Raised granzyme B levels are associated with erosions in patients with early rheumatoid factor positive rheumatoid arthritis

Raised levels of anti-glucose-6-phosphate isomerase IgG in serum and synovial fluid from patients with inflammatory arthritis

Relationship between serum trough infliximab levels, pretreatment C reactive protein levels, and clinical response to infliximab treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid and psoriatic knee synovitis: clinical, grey scale, and power Doppler ultrasound assessment of the response to etanercept

Synovial tissue macrophages: a sensitive biomarker for response to treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Leaders

Risk of lymphoma in patients with RA treated with anti-TNF agents

Lesson of the month

Pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis: diagnostic pathway and therapeutic approach