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Background Psoriasis is a multisystem inflammatory disorder with variable morphology, clinical pattern and multiple comorbidities. Interplay between genetic and environmental factors leading to an aberrant immune response in the skin may contribute to ...
Enas Zahran+4 more
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IgA rheumatoid factor in rheumatoid arthritis
Abstract Objectives Rheumatoid factor (RF) is a well-established marker for the diagnosis and classification of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Most studies evaluated IgM RF or isotype-nonspecific total RF assays. We evaluated the added value of IgA RF in this context.
Lieve Van Hoovels+29 more
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Objective To investigate the correlation between the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and rheumatoid factor levels and the existence of cardiovascular disease in patients in the rheumatoid arthritis population and to analyze their potential value in ...
Zihan Wang+6 more
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Acrokeratosis verruciformis of Hopf - Case report [PDF]
: A 54 year-old woman with a 3-year history of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) consulted us because of weight loss, fever and skin eruption. On physical examination, erythematous plaques with a pseudo-vesicular appearance were seen on the back of both ...
Tatiana Cristina Pedro Cordeiro de Andrade+5 more
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Rheumatoid arthritis and pseudo-vesicular skin plaques: rheumatoid neutrophilic dermatosis [PDF]
: A 54 year-old woman with a 3-year history of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) consulted us because of weight loss, fever and skin eruption. On physical examination, erythematous plaques with a pseudo-vesicular appearance were seen on the back of both ...
Juan Manriquez+3 more
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in which the joints become inflamed causing swelling, pain and often eventually causing damage to the inside of the joint.
Muhammad Faisal Majid
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Rheumatoid factor: study history and concept evolution
Rheumatoid factor became the first laboratory marker of rheumatoid arthritis and one of the first serological markers used to recognize the major autoimmune diseases. Details of the discovery with special regard to contribution of E. Waaler and H.
Sergei V. Guliaev+2 more
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The Effect of Smoking on Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis – Our Experience
The aim of this study was to investigate the association of smoking with disease activity, seropositivity, age and gender in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. We included 89 rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Ana Gudelj Gračanin+5 more
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RHEUMATOID FACTOR AND THE PATHOGENESIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS [PDF]
In analogy with the two categories of reactants which are used in the serological tests for the unusual category of macroglobulins called rheumatoid factor, two fluorescent reactants have been prepared for the detection of rheumatoid factor in situ in tissue sections: fluorescent antigen-rabbit antibody (immune) complex, in the present study, and ...
Adam Nowoslawski+3 more
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Early rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by a distinct and transient synovial fluid cytokine profile of T cell and stromal cell origin [PDF]
Pathological processes involved in the initiation of rheumatoid synovitis remain unclear. We undertook the present study to identify immune and stromal processes that are present soon after the clinical onset of rheumatoid arthritis ( RA) by assessing a ...
A Bucht+65 more
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