OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...

Background The SELENA flare index (SFI) has functioned well in clinical and clinical trial settings (1), but has the limitation that it classifies only severe versus combined mild/moderate flares.

MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr K T Palmer, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, ...

Background Significant trauma and muscular tightness often result during Total Knee Artroplasty (TKA) surgery and thus act to restrict tissue fluid movement resulting with lower extremity oedema.

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...

3 Department of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 4 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Alicante ...

Correspondence to Dr Laura C Cappelli, Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; lcappel1{at}jhmi.edu Objective We sought to investigate the long-term outcomes of ...

Background: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare type of ANCA associated Vasculitis (AAVs). Cyclophosphamide (CYC) is generally recommended for the induction of remission in ...

a Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands, b Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ...

1 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beijing, China 2 Pingxiang People’s Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Pingxiang ...

Background Immunosuppressive therapy may potentially alter the natural disease course of scleroderma. There have been reports of using mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for the treatment of scleroderma skin ...

Background Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) syndrome is an acute inflammatory polyartritis and palpable pitting edema of the elderly patients. It dramatically ...