a Division of Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany, b Medical Clinic 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, c Department of General, Visceraland Vascular Surgery, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, d Medical Department (Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Rheumato...

Leonard H. Calabrese, D.O., Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; R.J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology; Theodore F. Classen D.O. Chair of Osteopathic Research and Education; Vice Chairman, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk A50, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Rece...

The patient was an 81-year-old woman who had hypertension, dyslipidemia, asthma and limited systemic sclerosis (LSS). Scleroderma was diagnosed 5 years prior due to finger calcinosis, sclerodactylia and positive anticentromere antibodies. She had no Raynaud’s phenomenon or any other clinical data and was not followed by rheumatology. She came to the clinic due to inflammatory neck pain that did...

Purpose Children with rheumatic disease who are infected with influenza have increased rates of complications. Influenza related morbidity and mortality can be reduced by improving the flu vaccination rate. The purpose of the study is to look at the effectiveness of single information technology intervention in improving flu vaccination rate in children with rheumatic diseases. of rheumatology ...

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K. Brockow, A. Romano, M. Blanca, J. Ring, W. Pichler, P. Demoly Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie, Muenchen, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, UCSC, Allergy Unit, CI Columbus, Rome and IRCS Oasi Maria SS, Troina, Italy; Research Unit for Allergic Diseases, Carlos Haya Hospital, Malaga, Spain; Clinic for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology/Allergolo...

Beatriz de A. F. Gomes, Marcony R. Santhiago, Priscilla Magalhães, Newton Kara-Junior, Mário N. L. de Azevedo, Haroldo V. Moraes Jr. I Ophthalmology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. II Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. III Rheumatology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. IV Ophthalmology Department, Faculd...

Osteochondrodysplasias are a heterogeneous group of genetic skeletal dysplasias. Patients with these diseases commonly develop an early degenerative arthritis or osteoarthritis. Occasional observations of inflammatory arthritis have been made in this population but such observations are based on clinical grounds alone without confirmatory imaging studies. Four patients followed up in a paediatr...

M ediopatellar plica syndrome is an uncommon diagnosis in the rheumatology clinic. Medial plica is an embryologic synovial remnant that originates from the medial wall of the knee and inserts obliquely into the fat pad. Although the medial plica is a common arthroscopic finding in adults, it only causes discomfort once it becomes irritated. We do not have knowledge of previous reports of an acu...

Material and Methods: This study included 307 subjects (250 healthy individuals and 57 patients with ankylosing spondylitis who were diagnosed at the University Clinic of Rheumatology in Skopje). The HLA typing of class 1 (HLA-A, HLA-C and HLA-B) genes was performed using the method of Reverse Line Strip, after isolation of DNK from the blood leucocytes with the standard phenol-chloroforme meth...