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Vitamin D and Rheumatic Diseases: A Review of Clinical Evidence

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
Vitamin D plays an important role in maintaining a healthy mineralized skeleton. It is also considered an immunomodulatory agent that regulates innate and adaptive immune systems. The aim of this narrative review is to provide general concepts of vitamin
N. Charoenngam
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Demyelination in rheumatic diseases [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2008
Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterised by multifocal areas of demyelination in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. Autoantibodies, for example antinuclear antibodies, can also be present.
A, Theodoridou, L, Settas
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Macrophage Activation Syndrome as Onset of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature [PDF]

, 2015
Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is a potentially fatal condition. It is a rare complication of several autoimmune disorders, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA).
Didona, Dario, Feola, Aldo, Granata, Guido, Granata, Massimo, Stifano, Giuseppina   +4 more
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Prevalence, sensitivity and specificity of antibodies against carbamylated proteins in a monocentric cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune rheumatic diseases [PDF]

, 2016
Antibodies against carbamylated proteins (anti-CarP) have been recently identified in the sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The objective of the study was to evaluate the prevalence, sensitivity and specificity of anti-CarP compared to ...
Alessandri, Cristiano, Barbati, Cristiana, Ceccarelli, Fulvia, Colasanti, Tania, Conti, Fabrizio, DI FRANCO, Manuela, Mancini, Riccardo, Morello, Francesca, Pecani, Arbi, Pendolino, Monica, Priori, Roberta, Riccieri, Valeria, Sabatinelli, Danilo, Spinelli, FRANCESCA ROMANA, Truglia, Simona, Valesini, Guido, Vomero, Marta   +16 more
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Multimodal optical diagnostics of the microhaemodynamics in upper and lower limbs [PDF]

, 2019
The introduction of optical non-invasive diagnostic methods into clinical practice can substantially advance in the detection of early microcirculatory disorders in patients with different diseases.
Dremin, Viktor V., Dunaev, Andrey V., Goltsov, Alexey, Makovik, Irina N., Rafailov, Edik U., Sokolovski, Sergei G., Zherebtsov, Evgeny A., Zherebtsova, Angelina I.   +7 more
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Risk and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic diseases compared with the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Rheumatology International, 2021
Patients with rheumatic diseases are often more susceptible to different bacteria and viruses because of immune impairment, but it is not clear whether there is a higher risk of infection and a more serious course of disease for novel coronavirus (SARS ...
Qingxiu Wang, Jianbo Liu, Runxia Shao, X. Han, Chenhao Su, Wenjia Lu   +5 more
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Cardiovascular disease in rheumatic diseases

Terapevticheskii arkhiv, 2016
The representatives of immunoinflammatory diseases are rheumatic ones, such as primarily rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and other systemic connective diseases, which are characterized by a high risk for untimely death.
E L Nasonov, T V Popkova, D S Novikova
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Sustained Drug Free Remission of Lupus Panniculitis with Methotrexate: A Report From Nepal

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2018
Cutaneous manifestations are second most common presenting feature of lupus. Discoid lupus erythematosus is the most common variant amongst all; lupus panniculitis being described in only 2-5% of cases.
Binit Vaidya, Rikesh Baral, Hritu Baral, Shweta Nakarmi   +3 more
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Reduced Humoral Response of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies following Vaccination in Patients with Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases—An Interim Report from a Danish Prospective Cohort Study

Vaccines, 2021
Background/Purpose: In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, whether patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal disease (RMD) treated with conventional (cs) or biologic (b) disease-modifying drugs (DMARDs) exhibit an adequate immune response to the ...
Karen Schreiber, Christine Graversgaard, Randi Petersen, Henning Jakobsen, Anders Bo Bojesen, Niels Steen Krogh, Bente Glintborg, Merete Lund Hetland, Oliver Hendricks   +8 more
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Complement Activation in Patients With Probable Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Ability to Predict Progression to American College of Rheumatology-Classified Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. [PDF]

, 2020
ObjectiveTo evaluate the frequency of cell-bound complement activation products (CB-CAPs) as a marker of complement activation in patients with suspected systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the usefulness of this biomarker as a predictor of the ...
Alexander, Roberta Vezza, Arriens, Cristina, Collins, Christopher E, Dervieux, Thierry, Kalunian, Kenneth C, Massarotti, Elena M, Narain, Sonali, O'Malley, Tyler, Putterman, Chaim, Ramsey-Goldman, Rosalind, Saxena, Amit, Wallace, Daniel J, Weinstein, Arthur   +12 more
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