there are controversial reports regarding the role of peptidylarginine deiminase type 4 (padi4) gene polymorphisms and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (ra). the aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of padi4 rs1748033 polymorphism and susceptibility to ra in a sample of the iranian population.this case-control study was done on 150 patients with ra and 150 healthy subjects.padi4 r...

conclusions the detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis is always an important differential diagnosis for skin and soft tissue involvement in endemic areas. the cold abscess is an uncommon form of cutaneous tuberculosis that can be single or multiple and with or without fistula. case presentation the case was a 42-year-old female, a known case of rheumatoid arthritis that was receiving predniso...

to determine the rate of different types of arthritis in children. we prepared a retrospective descriptive study and included the whole 100 cases of arthritis referred to 17-shahrivar hospital, rasht, guilan during a 3 years period. using their medical files, data including age, sex, season of admission, history of trauma, signs and symptoms, lab findings and duration of hospitalization were co...

introduction: some of the studies have shown that ra (rheumatoid arthritis) may cause hearing disorders. these disorders can result in problems later in life, so survey of correlation between rheumatoid arthritis and hearing disorders is important . methods: this was a case-control study which has done from december 2004 to august 2006 at shaheed sadoughi hospital in yazd. in this study, 50 rhe...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and characteristics of rheumatologic manifestations associated with mds. methods: eighty patients with mds were evaluated by history and physical examination for inflammatory rheumatologic disorders from jan 2013 to may 2014. patients who had any signs or symptoms of rheumatologic disorders underwent evaluation by laboratory test...

a number of patients with inflammatory arthritis due to inadequate clinical or laboratory data do not fulfill diagnostic criteria for a clinical disease categories. these patients with initial diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (ua) may remit or progress to a definite well- defined condition such as rheumatoid arthritis (ra) or remain as ua with persistence of inflammatory arthritis. the m...

background hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection has been explained as a disease that sometimes present with rheumatic manifestations indistinguishable from rheumatoid arthritis. this study has been performed to evaluate the frequency of hepatitis c virus infection in a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. patients and methods in this study, during one year, serum samples collected from two...