1803-1808
Editorial
Open AccessThe international classification for functioning, disability and health
A challenge and a need for rheumatology
Annelies Boonen, Johannes J. Rasker and Gerold Stucki
1809-1810
Review Article
Chloroquine ototoxicity
Rodrigo Bortoli and Mittermayer Santiago
1811-1817
Original Article
Osteoarthritis of the knee and hip: a comparison of factors associated with physical activity
Thomas Rosemann, Thomas Kuehlein, Gunter Laux and Joachim Szecsenyi
1819-1823
Original Article
Intercellular adhesion molecules in systemic lupus erythematosus patients with lupus nephritis
Alaa Sabry, Hussein Sheashaa, Amr El-Husseini, Khaled El-Dahshan and Mona Abdel-Rahim, et al.
1825-1830
Original Article
Antiphospholipid antibodies in HIV-positive patients
Liliana Galrão, Carlos Brites, Maria Luíza Atta, Ajax Atta and Isabella Lima, et al.
1831-1835
Original Article
Obesity is independently associated with impaired quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Augusto García-Poma, Maria I. Segami, Claudia S. Mora, Manuel F. Ugarte and Henry N. Terrazas, et al.
1837-1841
Original Article
Quantitative salivary gland scintigraphy can distinguish patients with primary Sjøgren’s syndrome during the evaluation of sicca symptoms
Anne Marthe Henriksen and Hans C. Nossent
1843-1849
Original Article
Exercise-based motivational interviewing for female patients with fibromyalgia: a case series
Dennis Ang, Ramesh Kesavalu, Jennifer R. Lydon, Kathleen A. Lane and Silvia Bigatti
1851-1855
Original Article
Outcome of patients having dermatomyositis admitted to the intensive care unit
Yaniv Sherer, Daniel Shepshelovich, Tamara Shalev, Yael Haviv and Eran Segal, et al.
1857-1861
Original Article
No erosive progression revealed by MRI in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with etanercept, even in patients with persistent MRI and clinical signs of joint inflammation
Uffe Møller Døhn, Henrik Skjødt, Merete Lund Hetland, Aage Vestergaard and Jakob M. Møller, et al.
1863-1866
Original Article
Administration of infliximab in general practitioners’ offices is safe
Ulrike Stuby, Georg Biesenbach and Herwig Pieringer
1867-1870
Original Article
Isoniazid intervention for latent tuberculosis among 86 patients with rheumatologic disease administered with anti-TNFα
Ismail Hanta, Suleyman Ozbek, Sedat Kuleci, Murat Sert and Ali Kocabas
1871-1875
Original Article
Mycophenolate mofetil reduces disease activity and steroid dosage in Takayasu arteritis
Samuel K. Shinjo, Rosa M. R. Pereira, Vivian A. P. Tizziani, Ari S. Radu and Maurício Levy-Neto
1877-1882
Original Article
IgG deposits can be detected in cell nuclei of patients with both lupus erythematosus and malignancy
Ingrid Böhm
1883-1889
Original Article
Anti-CCP antibodies have more diagnostic impact than rheumatoid factor (RF) in a population tested for RF
I. G. Silveira, R. W. Burlingame, C. A. von Mühlen, A. L. Bender and H. L. Staub
1891-1894
Original Article
Thyroid dysfunction in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): relation to disease activity
Reuven Mader, Samer Mishail, Muhammed Adawi, Idit Lavi and Rafael Luboshitzky
1895-1901
Original Article
Hypovitaminosis D in female patients with chronic low back pain
Ahmed Lotfi, Ahmed M. Abdel-Nasser, Ahmed Hamdy, Ahmed A. Omran and Mahmoud A. El-Rehany
1903-1907
Brief Report
Open AccessA comparison of the measurement properties of the Juvenile Arthritis Functional Assessment Scale with the childhood health assessment questionnaire in daily practice
W. Peter Bekkering, Rebecca ten Cate, Marion A. J. van Rossum and Theodora P. M. Vliet Vlieland
1909-1912
Brief Report
Can breastfeeding avert the appearance of growth pains during childhood?
Angelos Kaspiris, Chrisi Zafiropoulou, Olympia Tsadira and Chrisanthos Petropoulos
1913-1915
Brief Report
Safety of high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin in systemic autoimmune diseases
Fatih Tufan, Sevil Kamali, Burak Erer, Ahmet Gul and Murat Inanc, et al.
1917-1919
Brief Report
Chronic myositis with cardiomyopathy and respiratory failure associated with mild form of organ-specific autoimmune diseases
K. Tanaka, A. Sato, K. Kasuga, M. Kanazawa and K. Yanagawa, et al.
1921-1924
Brief Report
Association of interferon-gamma gene polymorphism (+874A) with arthritis manifestation in SLE
Marut Tangwattanachuleeporn, Pimpayao Sodsai, Yingyos Avihingsanon, Jongkonnee Wongpiyabovorn and Jeerapat Wongchinsri, et al.
1925-1928
Case Report
Spontaneous multiple insufficiency fractures after pelvic abscess and sepsis in a rheumatoid arthritis patient treated with high-load corticosteroid therapy: a case report
Takeshi Mochizuki, Shigeki Momohara, Katsunori Ikari, Kouichiro Kawamura and So Tsukahara, et al.
1929-1930
Case Report
Ankylosing spondylitis presenting with macrophage activation syndrome
Yin-Jun Lou, Jie Jin and Wen-Yuan Mai
1931-1933
Case Report
Lupus erythematosus (LE) cells in ascites: initial diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus by cytological examination: a case report
Kun-Ta Chou, Yu-Chin Lee, Chun-Wei Chen, Jen-Fu Shih and Su-Mei Tung, et al.
1935-1936
Case Report
Immunological diagnosis of cutaneous-pulmonary hypersensitivity vasculitis
Neil M. Skjodt, Tracey L. Elliot, Lakshmi Puttagunta, Elaine A. Yacyshyn and Victor A. Tron
1937-1939
Case Report
Legg–Perthes disease-like joint involvement and diagnosis delay in Scheie syndrome: a case report
Meltem Alkan Melikoglu, Hilal Kocabas, Ilhan Sezer, Hasan Fatih Çay and Aysegul Guller Cassidy, et al.
1941-1942
Case Report
Prepatellar Brucella melitensis bursitis: case report and literature review
R. Traboulsi, I. Uthman and S. S. Kanj
1943-1945
Case Report
Nasal tip necrosis—an unusual presentation of rheumatoid vasculitis
G. E. Glass, A. V. Greig, J. Weir and N. Waterhouse
1947-1949
Case Report
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in Colombian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Carlos Cañas, Gabriel J. Tobón, Marcela Granados and Liliana Fernández
1951-1953
Case Report
Palmar fasciitis and polyarthritis syndrome associated with non-small-cell lung carcinoma
Claire Sheehy, John G. Ryan, Michael Kelly and Maurice Barry
1955-1957
Case Report
B-flow ultrasound in a case of giant cell arteritis
Alessandro Volpe, Paola Caramaschi, Antonio Marchetta, Domenico Biasi and Lisa Maria Bambara, et al.
1959-1962
Case Report
A case of silent giant cell arteritis involving the entire aorta, carotid artery and brachial artery screened by integrated PET/CT
Chang Mo Kwon, Yeong Hoon Hong, Kyung Ah Chun, Ihn Ho Cho and Mi Jin Kim, et al.
1963-1967
Case Report
Combination of transverse myelitis and arachnoiditis in cauda equina syndrome of long-standing ankylosing spondylitis: MRI features and its role in clinical management
Howard Haw-Chang Lan, Der-Yuan Chen, Clayton Chi-Chang Chen, Joung-Liang Lan and Chia-Wei Hsieh
1969-1971
Case Report
Development of sarcoidosis in etanercept-treated rheumatoid arthritis patients
Kilian Verschueren, Els Van Essche, Patrick Verschueren, Veerle Taelman and Rene Westhovens
1973-1975
Case Report
Acute polyarthritis revealing hepatitis E
Jacques Serratrice, Patrick Disdier, Philippe Colson, Nicoleta Ene and Christine Serratrice de Roux, et al.
1977-1979
Case Report
Acute pseudoseptic arthritis after viscosupplementation of the knee: a case report
L. Tahiri, K. Benbouazza, B. Amine and N. Hajjaj-Hassouni
1981-1983
Case Report
Microscopic polyangiitis and myasthenia gravis: the battle of Occam and Hickam
Michael V. Holmes and Debajit Sen
1985-1988
Case Report
Relapsing polychondritis presenting as meningoencephalitis with valvular abnormality: a case report
Kevin T. Kao, Sonja Potrebic and James R. Evans
1989-1992
Case Report
POEMS syndrome complicated by extensive arterial thromboses
Mi Ra Lee, Hyo Jin Choi, Eun Bong Lee and Han Joo Baek
1993-1996
Case Report
Hughes–Stovin syndrome: is it incomplete Behçet’s?
Report of two cases and review of the literature
Yasser Emad, Yasser Ragab, Abd El-Hakim Shawki, Tamer Gheita and Ahmed El-Marakbi, et al.
1997-1998
Case Report
Horton’s three sisters: familial clustering of temporal arteritis
Lampros Raptis, Georgios Pappas and Nikolaos Akritidis
1999-2000
Case Report
Limited Wegener’s granulomatosis—is it limited?
Svetlana Lisitsin, Raymond Farah and Moshe Shay
2001-2003
Case Report
Cardiac sarcoidosis responding to monotherapy with infliximab
Imad Uthman, Zahi Touma and Maurice Khoury
2005
Book Review
Michael H. Weisman, John D. Reveille, Desiree van der Heijde: Ankylosing spondylitis and the spondylarthropaties: a companion to rheumatology, 3rd edn
Mosby-Elsevier, 2006. Hard cover, 229 pages, ISBN : 0323031048, £81,99 (€123)
Jan Dequeker
2007
Book Review
Cyrus Cooper, Anthony Woolf: Osteoporosis: best practice and research compendium
Mosby Elsevier, August 2006. Paperback, 200 pages, ISBN-10: 008044685X, £39.99 (€59.39)
Steven Boonen