Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 6 - Number: 61 - November 15, 2006

Outstanding

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

EULAR evidence based recommendations for the management of hip osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)

Immunosuppressive treatment of chronic periaortitis: a retrospective study of 20 patients with chronic periaortitis and a review of the literature

Effects of infliximab treatment on insulin resistance in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis

Concise reports

Effects of infliximab treatment on insulin resistance in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis

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

Editorial

In the middle of the decade

Education

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

Extended reports

E148Q is a disease-causing MEFV mutation: a phenotypic evaluation in patients with familial Mediterranean fever

EULAR evidence based recommendations for the management of hip osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)

Exercises versus arthroscopic decompression in patients with subacromial impingement: a randomised, controlled study in 90 cases with a one year follow up

Expression and regulation of cryopyrin and related proteins in rheumatoid arthritis synovium

Immunosuppressive treatment of chronic periaortitis: a retrospective study of 20 patients with chronic periaortitis and a review of the literature

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

Increased expression of humanin peptide in diffuse-type pigmented villonodular synovitis: implication of its mitochondrial abnormality

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

MMP protein and activity levels in synovial fluid from patients with joint injury, inflammatory arthritis, and osteoarthritis

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

Reviews

Early referral recommendations for ankylosing spondylitis (including pre-radiographic and radiographic forms) in primary care