OBJECTIVE Early identification of patients unlikely to achieve good long-term disease control with anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy in axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is important for physicians following treat-to-target recommendations. Here we assess associations between disease activity or clinical response during the first 12 weeks of treatment and attainment o...

OBJECTIVE Joint counts have a central role in assessing disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They are usually undertaken by physicians or nurses. We investigated whether joint counts can be devolved to patients and evaluated the use of a patient-derived Disease Activity Score (DAS). METHODS One hundred RA patients attending a specialist unit were evaluated, comparing joint counts by...

Materials and methods The JADAS is composed of the following measures: 1) physician's global assessment (0–10); 2) parent's global assessment (0–10); 3) active joint count (assessed in 71, 27 or 10 joints); 4) ESR (normalized to 0–10). It yields a score ranging from 0 to 40, 57 or 101, depending on whether the whole 71-joint count (JADAS-71) or the 27joint (JADAS-27) or 10-joint (JADAS-10) redu...

This study proposed to assess the nutritional status of RA patients and to study any impact of disease activity (as assessed by DAS 28 score) on it. In this study 150 cases of RA diagnosed according to 1987 revised ACR criteria were recruited. Patients with immunocompromised state (i. e. HIV, malignancy), malabsorption syndrome, chronic disease or autoimmune disorder other than RA, metabolic sy...

BACKGROUND Early definitive diagnosis and effective treatment are mandatory in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as it can halt the disease progression and subsequent joints destruction. OBJECTIVE To investigate the diagnostic and prognostic value of anti-mutated citrullinated vimentin (anti-MCV) and its correlation with disease activity, peripheral and axial skeleton affection in RA patients. PATI...

©2017 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aims to assess the factor structure of the Turkish Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the relationship of illness perceptions with disease activity and psychological well-being. Patients and methods: One hundred and fifty RA patients (8 males...

Fatigue is a common problem in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and many factors are responsible for its etiology. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the current status fatigue evaluate related by using Bristol Multidimensional Questionnaire (BRAF-MDQ) Numerical Rating Scale (BRAF-NRS) developed specifically RA patients with RA. 64 were included study. Disease Activity Score (DAS...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate clinical response by baseline disease duration using 2-year data from the AMPLE trial. METHODS Patients were randomised to subcutaneous abatacept 125 mg weekly or adalimumab 40 mg bi-weekly, with background methotrexate. As part of a post hoc analysis, the achievement of validated definitions of remission (Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) ≤2.8, Simplified Disease ...

Background: The level of quality life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often overlooked. These suffer from an often-precarious resulting pain, joint destruction and fatigue. Objectives: main objective this study was to compare the RA receiving treatment disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs): monotherapy (biological only) versus combination therapy methotrexate. Methods: W...

UNLABELLED The prevalence of laryngeal involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) ranges from 13 to 75%. The specific RA manifestations include the cricoarytenoid arthritis and the presence of rheumatoid nodules in the vocal folds. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of dysphonia and laryngeal alterations on videolaryngoscopy in RA patients and their association ...