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  1. Annexins are a group of conserved proteins which exert several regulatory functions on various cellular activities. Increased frequency and levels of antibodies against annexin V have already been observed in ...

    Authors: Alex Magno Coelho Horimoto, Laize Guerreiro de Jesus, Albert Schiaveto de Souza, Silvia Helena Rodrigues and Cristiane Kayser
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:38
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  2. To verify the validity of the 2016-revised Fibromyalgia Survey Questionnaire (FSQ) by telephone interview compared to self-administration and to produce a valid version of FSQ in Brazilian Portuguese language.

    Authors: Jordana Bernardi Daltrozo, Juliane Aline Paupitz and Fabricio Souza Neves
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:37
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  3. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and its related symptoms (e.g. pain) have been associated with interference in the daily life of adolescents with JIA including their friendships. There is little research i...

    Authors: Imma Beneitez, Rubén Nieto, Eulàlia Hernández and Mercè Boixadós
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:36
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  4. Duloxetine and amitriptyline are antidepressants used in the treatment of fibromyalgia. In published systematic reviews, there is no agreement about which drug is more effective and safer. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Áurea Dias de Farias, Luciana Eberle, Tânia Alves Amador and Tatiane da Silva Dal Pizzol
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:35
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  5. Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), is a chronic pain disorder with poorly understood pathophysiology. In recent years, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been recommended for pain relief in vari...

    Authors: Suman Tanwar, Bhawna Mattoo, Uma Kumar and Renu Bhatia
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:34
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  6. The severity of nail disease, the presence of arthralgia and fatigue are predictors of development of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients with psoriasis (Pso). In children, little is known about the musculos...

    Authors: Thaís Cugler Meneghetti, Thaís Mayumi Honda Padilha, Valderílio Feijó Azevedo, Mônica Nunes Lima Cat, Bruna Maria Stofela Sarolli and Vânia Oliveira de Carvalho
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:33
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  7. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, also known as antimalarial drugs, are widely used in the treatment of rheumatic diseases and have recently become the focus of attention because of the ongoing COVID-19 pand...

    Authors: Edgard Torres dos Reis Neto, Adriana Maria Kakehasi, Marcelo de Medeiros Pinheiro, Gilda Aparecida Ferreira, Cláudia Diniz Lopes Marques, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota, Eduardo dos Santos Paiva, Gecilmara Cristina Salviato Pileggi, Emília Inoue Sato, Ana Paula Monteiro Gomides Reis, Ricardo Machado Xavier and José Roberto Provenza
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:32
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  8. Evaluating small nerve fibers in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using cutaneous silent period (CSP) and skin biopsy and assesssing the relationship between clinical signs, autoantibodies and ...

    Authors: Aslan Tekatas, Demet Deniz Tekatas, Volkan Solmaz, Turan Karaca and Omer Nuri Pamuk
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:31
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  9. The inadequate storage of biopharmaceuticals may result in an ineffective therapeutic response since poor conservation can lead to the emergence of protein aggregates and cause immunogenicity in patients, whic...

    Authors: Glaucia Santin, Mariana Moreira Magnabosco da Silva, Vinicius Augusto Villarreal, Leane Dhara Dalle Laste, Eduardo de Freitas Montin, Luis Eduardo Ribeiro Betiol and Valderilio Feijó Azevedo
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:30
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  10. The term Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) refers to a group of drugs that inhibit factor Xa or thrombin. Even though their use for treating different thrombotic or prothrombotic conditions is increasing rece...

    Authors: Gustavo Guimarães Moreira Balbi, Marcelo de Souza Pacheco, Odirlei Andre Monticielo, Andreas Funke, Adriana Danowski, Mittermayer Barreto Santiago, Henrique Luiz Staub, Jozelia Rêgo and Danieli Castro Oliveira de Andrade
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:29
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  11. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory and chronic autoimmune disease that leads to muscle mass loss and functional capacity impairment, potentiated by physical inactivity. Despite evidences demonstrate ...

    Authors: Denise Blum, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Jeam Marcel Geremia, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Marco Aurélio Vaz and Ricardo Machado Xavier
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:28
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  12. To translate and cross-culturally adapt the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool Self-report into Brazilian Portuguese and to correlate with the history of falls.

    Authors: Jarbas Melo Filho, Natacha Verônica Bazanella, Audrin Said Vojciechowski, Elisiê Rossi Ribeiro Costa, Lynette Mackenzie and Anna Raquel Silveira Gomes
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:27
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  13. Injection of Hylan G-F20 (HY) into joints may provoke local flares, which mechanisms may involve reaction to protein contaminants. We have previously developed a protein-free saline-soluble galactomannan deriv...

    Authors: Rodolfo de Melo Nunes, Pablyana Leila Rodrigues Cunha, Ana Carolina Matias Dinelly Pinto, Virgínia Claudia Carneiro Girão, Judith Pessoa de Andrade Feitosa and Francisco Airton Castro Rocha
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:26
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  14. Currently, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to evaluate active inflammatory sacroiliitis related to axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). The qualitative and semiquantitative diagnosis performed by expert r...

    Authors: Matheus Calil Faleiros, Marcello Henrique Nogueira-Barbosa, Vitor Faeda Dalto, José Raniery Ferreira Júnior, Ariane Priscilla Magalhães Tenório, Rodrigo Luppino-Assad, Paulo Louzada-Junior, Rangaraj Mandayam Rangayyan and Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo-Marques
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:25
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  18. The mat Pilates method is the therapeutic modalities which can be used in fibromyalgia treatment. Although there are no well-designed studies that prove the effectiveness of the mat Pilates method in this popu...

    Authors: Suzy Araújo de Medeiros, Hugo Jário de Almeida Silva, Rayssa Maria do Nascimento, Jaely Beatriz da Silva Maia, Caio Alano de Almeida Lins and Marcelo Cardoso de Souza
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:21
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  19. In Brazil, socioeconomic differences in the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been demonstrated, which are important in the formulation of hypotheses regarding the association between environmental f...

    Authors: Nathália de Carvalho Sacilotto, Rina Dalva Neubarth Giorgi, Ana Beatriz Vargas-Santos, Cleandro Pires de Albuquerque, Sebastião Cezar Radominski, Ivânio Alves Pereira, Maria Fernanda Brandão Resende Guimarães, Manoel Barros Bértolo, Paulo Louzada Jr, Maria de Fátima Lobato da Cunha Sauma, Karina Rossi Bonfiglioli, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota and Geraldo da Rocha Castelar-Pinheiro
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:20
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  20. Correlate serum magnesium (Mg) and Calcium (Ca) levels with body composition and metabolic parameters in women with fibromyalgia (FM).

    Authors: Aline Andretta, Maria Eliana Madalozzo Schieferdecker, Ricardo Rasmussen Petterle, Eduardo dos Santos Paiva and César Luiz Boguszewski
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:18
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  21. Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) affects young women in the childbearing age group. We studied obstetric outcomes in these patients before and after disease onset.

    Authors: Latika Gupta, Durga Prasanna Misra, Sakir Ahmed, Avinash Jain, Abhishek Zanwar, Able Lawrence, Vikas Agarwal, Amita Aggarwal and Ramnath Misra
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:17
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  22. Last decades witnessed great technological advances in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management, but their implementation in clinical practice might prove difficult. Despite the efficacy demonstrated in controlled...

    Authors: Ana Paula Monteiro Gomides, Cleandro Pires de Albuquerque, Ana Beatriz Vargas Santos, Manoel Barros Bértolo, Paulo Louzada Júnior, Rina Dalva Neubarth Giorgi, Sebastião Cezar Radominski, Maria Fernanda B. Resende Guimarães, Karina Rossi Bonfiglioli, Maria de Fátima Lobato da Cunha Sauma, Ivânio Alves Pereira, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota and Geraldo da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:16
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  23. Bone disease is common in patients undergoing hemodialysis. It is the result of bone turnover abnormalities and the decrease of bone mineral density (BMD). We aimed to determine the usefulness of serum bone tu...

    Authors: Maroua Slouma, Hela Sahli, Afef Bahlous, Lilia Laadhar, Wided Smaoui, Sonia Rekik, Imen Gharsallah, Meriem Sallami, Fatma Ben Moussa, Mohamed Elleuch and Elhem Cheour
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:15
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  24. Spondyloarthritis is a group of chronic inflammatory systemic diseases characterized by axial and/or peripheral joints inflammation, as well as extra-articular manifestations. The classification axial spondylo...

    Authors: Gustavo Gomes Resende, Eduardo de Souza Meirelles, Cláudia Diniz Lopes Marques, Adriano Chiereghin, Andre Marun Lyrio, Antônio Carlos Ximenes, Carla Gonçalves Saad, Célio Roberto Gonçalves, Charles Lubianca Kohem, Cláudia Goldenstein Schainberg, Cristiano Barbosa Campanholo, Júlio Silvio de Sousa Bueno Filho, Lenise Brandao Pieruccetti, Mauro Waldemar Keiserman, Michel Alexandre Yazbek, Penelope Esther Palominos…
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:19
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  25. Urinary parameters, anti-dsDNA antibodies and complement tests were explored in patients with childhood-Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (cSLE) early-onset lupus nephritis (ELN) from a large multicenter cohort study.

    Authors: Daniele Faria Miguel, Maria Teresa Terreri, Rosa Maria Rodrigues Pereira, Eloisa Bonfá, Clovis Artur Almeida Silva, José Eduardo Corrente and Claudia Saad Magalhaes
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:10
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  26. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the leading cause of ischemic stroke and is one of the most common arrhythmias. Previous studies have shown that impaired diastolic functions, P wave dispersion (Pd), and prolonged ...

    Authors: Hasan Akkaya, Ertuğrul Emre Güntürk, Ercan Kaydok and Betül Özdemir
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:14
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  27. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary auto-inflammatory disease characterized by recurrent fever and serosal inflammation. Anti-interleukin-1 (Anti-IL-1) treatments are recommended in colchicine r...

    Authors: Ali Şahin, Mehmet Emin Derin, Fatih Albayrak, Burak Karakaş and Yalçın Karagöz
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:12
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  28. The neutrophil/ lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have the potential to be inflammatory markers that reflect the activity of many inflammatory diseases. The aim of this study was to ev...

    Authors: Mohammed Hadi Al-Osami, Nabaa Ihsan Awadh, Khalid Burhan Khalid and Ammar Ihsan Awadh
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:13
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  29. The current diagnostic cornerstone for septic arthritis contains gram stains, bacterial culture, and cell count with a differential of aspirated synovial fluid. Recently, a synovial leukocyte esterase (LE) tes...

    Authors: Mehrnoush Hassas Yeganeh, Maryam Talaei, Alireza Ebrahimi Bazzaz, Khosro Rahmani, Reza Sinaei, Mohamadreza Fathi, Reza Shiari and Hamid Hosseinzadeh
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:11
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  30. EpiFibro (Brazilian Epidemiological Study of Fibromyalgia) was created to study patients with fibromyalgia (FM). Patients were included since 2011 according to the classification criteria for FM of the America...

    Authors: Marcos Renato de Assis, Eduardo dos Santos Paiva, Milton Helfenstein Jr, Roberto Ezequiel Heymann, Daniel Feldman Pollak, Jose Roberto Provenza, Aline Ranzolin, Marcelo Cruz Rezende, Luiz Severiano Ribeiro, Eduardo José R. Souza and José Eduardo Martinez
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:9
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  31. The results of investigations on the association between killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) gene polymorphisms and the risk of systemic sclerosis (SSc) are inconsistent. To comprehensively evaluate th...

    Authors: Elham Karimizadeh, Shayan Mostafaei, Saeed Aslani, Farhad Gharibdoost, Ricardo Machado Xavier, Patricia Hartstein Salim, Hoda Kavosi, Elham Farhadi and Mahdi Mahmoudi
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:8
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  32. Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked lysosomal disorder due to mutations in the GLA gene resulting in defective enzyme alpha-galactosidase A. FD patients are frequently misdiagnosed, commonly for rheumatic diseases....

    Authors: Nilton Salles Rosa Neto, Judith Campos de Barros Bento and Rosa Maria Rodrigues Pereira
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:7
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  33. After publication of the original article [1], we were notified that there is a mistake in Fig. 2.

    Authors: Wilson de Melo Cruvinel, Luis Eduardo Coelho Andrade, Carlos Alberto von Mühlen, Alessandra Dellavance, Antônio Carlos Ximenes, Carlos David Bichara, Cleonice Bueno, Cristóvão Luis Pitangueira Mangueira, Eloísa Bonfá, Fabiano de Almeida Brito, Fernanda Bull Flumian, Glaucielen Gomes da Silva, Jozelia Rêgo, Lisiane Maria Ericoni dos Anjos, Natasha Slhessarenko, Sandra Gofinet Pasoto…
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:6
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    The original article was published in Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:28

  34. Nephritis occurs frequently in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and may worsen disease morbidity and mortality. Knowing all characteristics of this manifestation helps to a prompt recognition and treatment.

    Authors: Juliana Delfino, Thiago Alberto F. G. dos Santos and Thelma L. Skare
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:5
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  35. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a granulomatous necrotizing vasculitis with high morbidity and mortality. Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody is a valuable diagnostic marker, however its titer lacks...

    Authors: Hamit Kucuk, Duygu Tecer, Berna Goker, Ozkan Varan, Hakan Babaoglu, Serdar Can Guven, Mehmet Akif Ozturk, Seminur Haznedaroglu and Abdurrahman Tufan
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 60:4
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  36. This study was aimed at evaluating the aerobic capacity of patients with antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) and dermatomyositis (DM) and analyzing possible relationships between aerobic capacity and disease status,...

    Authors: Alexandre Moura dos Santos, Rafael Giovani Missé, Isabela Bruna Pires Borges and Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 60:3
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  38. Coexisting fibromyalgia (FM) to psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been identified and it has been associated with more severe symptoms, impaired function, and greater disability. It was aimed to explore the effect...

    Authors: Yasemin Ulus, Yesim Akyol, Ayhan Bilgici and Omer Kuru
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 60:1
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  39. Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by generalized skeletal muscle chronic pain. Its etiology is not well defined, because there are several factors that may trigger it such as physical ...

    Authors: Luana Oliveira de Lima, Carlos Alexandre Martins Zicarelli, Andressa Saori Matsumura, Layse Rafaela Moroti-Perugini, Denilson de Castro Teixeira, Karen Barros Parron Fernandes, Priscila Daniele de Oliveira Perrucini and Regina Célia Poli-Frederico
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:59
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  40. Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a systemic immune-mediated disease whose main characteristic is exocrine gland inflammation and, subsequent reduction in tear and saliva production. A delayed diagnosis is c...

    Authors: Virginia Fernandes Moça Trevisani, Sandra Gofinet Pasoto, Marilena Leal Mesquita Silvestre Fernandes, Maria Lúcia Lemos Lopes, Sonia Cristina de Magalhães Souza Fialho, Aysa César Pinheiro, Laura Caldas dos Santos, Simone Appenzeller, Tania Fidelix, Sandra Lúcia Euzébio Ribeiro, Danielle Christinne Soares Egypto de Brito, Tatiana Libório, Maria Carmen Lopes Ferreira Silva Santos, Leandro Tanure, Juliana D Agostino Gennari, Vinicius Tassoni Civile…
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:58
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  41. To compare the short-term effects of pulsed laser and pulsed and continuous ultrasound on pain and functional disability in women with chronic non-specific low back pain.

    Authors: Ana Paula Fernandes De Angelis Rubira, Marcelo Custódio Rubira, Lucas De Angelis Rubira, Josielli Comachio, Maurício Oliveira Magalhães and Amélia Pasqual Marques
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:57
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  42. The cross-sectional study aimed to assess left ventricular systolic function using global longitudinal strain (GLS) by speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) and arterial stiffness using cardio-ankle vascular...

    Authors: Punchong Hanvivadhanakul and Adisai Buakhamsri
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:56
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  43. Determine food intake and levels of serum magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca) and correlate these minerals with pain, quality of life and depression risk in women with and without fibromyalgia (FM).

    Authors: Aline Andretta, Emmanuelle Dias Batista, Maria Eliana Madalozzo Schieferdecker, Ricardo Rasmussen Petterle, César Luiz Boguszewski and Eduardo dos Santos Paiva
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:55
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  44. Tocilizumab (TCZ), a humanized monoclonal antibody against the interleukin-6 receptor, has been proven to be a safe and effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Because RA is a heterogenous disease a...

    Authors: Katie Tuckwell, Cem Gabay, Thierry Sornasse, Ruediger Paul Laubender, Jianmei Wang and Michael J. Townsend
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:54
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  45. The World Health Organization reports that one of the main incapacitating conditions in older adults is osteomusculoskeletal disorders, and among these is low back pain. There are few instruments translated an...

    Authors: Geisiane Rodrigues de Carvalho, Elenderjane Andrade de Oliveira, Vitor Tigre Martins Rocha, Daniele Sirineu Pereira and Leani Souza Máximo Pereira
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:53
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  46. Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) are described in individuals with leprosy without the clinical features of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), a condition involving thromboembolic phenomena. We have de...

    Authors: Sandra Lúcia Euzébio Ribeiro, Helena Lúcia Alves Pereira, Antonio Luiz Boechat, Neusa Pereira Silva, Emilia Ionue Sato, Maria das Graças Souza Cunha, Luiz Fernando de Souza Passos and Maria Cristina Dos-Santos
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:52
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  47. The Hand Mobility in Scleroderma (HAMIS) test was created to measure the degree of dysfunction of hand movements imposed by systemic sclerosis (SSc). The modified version (mHAMIS), with 4 of the 9 original ite...

    Authors: Pedro Ming Azevedo, Estefânia Sartorato Sanson, Thelma Larocca Skare, Thiago Alberto Fernandes Gomes dos Santos and Patricia Martin
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:51
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  48. To evaluate human papillomavirus (HPV), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) infections in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) patients.

    Authors: Gabriela R. V. Ferreira, Renato B. Tomioka, Ligia B. Queiroz, Katia Kozu, Nadia E. Aikawa, Adriana M. E. Sallum, Paulo Serafini, Maricy Tacla, Edmund C. Baracat, Rosa M. R. Pereira, Eloisa Bonfá and Clovis A. Silva
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:50
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  49. To investigate the link between carbamylated low-density lipoprotein (ca-LDL), atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), atherogenic coefficient (AC), Castelli’s risk indices I and II (CRI I and II) and subclinic ath...

    Authors: Duygu Tecer, Ismihan Sunar, Ali Erhan Ozdemirel, Rabia Tural, Orhan Kucuksahin, Aylin Sepici Dincel and Sebnem Ataman
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:49
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  50. Pharmaceutical Assistance (PA) is a dynamic and multidisciplinary process that aims to supply health systems, programs or services with quality medicines, enabling access and health care, in an efficient and t...

    Authors: Michael Ruberson Ribeiro da Silva, Jéssica Barreto Ribeiro dos Santos, Alessandra Maciel Almeida, Juliana Alvares-Teodoro, Adriana Maria Kakehasi and Francisco de Assis Acurcio
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:48
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