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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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

  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. To determine the burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) on patients’ work productivity and health related quality of life (HRQoL), and examine the influence of several exposure variables; to analyze the progressi...

    Authors: Ricardo Machado Xavier, Cristiano Augusto Freitas Zerbini, Daniel Feldman Pollak, Jorge Luis Alberto Morales-Torres, Philippe Chalem, José Fernando Molina Restrepo, Javier Arnaldo Duhau, Jacqueline Rodríguez Amado, Maurício Abello, Maria Celina de la Vega, Adriana Pérez Dávila, Priscila Martin Biegun, Maysa Silva Arruda and Cesar Ramos-Remus
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:47
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  30. Osteoporosis is a major healthcare concern in Latin America. Factors such as changing demographics, fragmented healthcare systems, and financial considerations may result in a huge increase in the burden of os...

    Authors: Joao L. Cunha-Borges, Guillermo Meléndez Mier, Noemí Casas, Adriana Medina, Jose Fernando Molina, Maria Laura García, Lindomar Guimarães Oliveria, Marcela S. Caselato, Angélica C. Cruz, Vanessa Ippolito and Sandra Flórez
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:46
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  32. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a well-documented independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Obesity may provide an additional link between inflammation and accelerated atherosclerosis in RA.

    Authors: Maria Fernanda Brandão de Resende Guimarães, Carlos Ewerton Maia Rodrigues, Kirla Wagner Poti Gomes, Carla Jorge Machado, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Susana Ferreira Krampe, Nicole Pamplona Bueno de Andrade and Adriana Maria Kakehasi
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:44
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  33. The Indian Takayasu Clinical Activity Score (ITAS2010) was developed in 2010 as an assessment tool for disease activity in patients with Takayasu arteritis (TA). It has since been widely used in different stud...

    Authors: Scheila Fritsch, Rafaela Martinez Copes, Bruna Savioli, Mariana Freitas de Aguiar, Rozana Mesquita Ciconelli, Valderílio Feijó Azevedo and Alexandre W. S. de Souza
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:43
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  34. This research is recommended by the Myopathy Committee of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the investigation and diagnosis of systemic autoimmune myopathies.

    Authors: Fernando Henrique Carlos de Souza, Daniel Brito de Araújo, Verônica Silva Vilela, Ricardo Santos Simões, Wanderley Marques Bernardo, Thais Amanda Frank, Bernardo Matos da Cunha and Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:42
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  35. Nail involvement has been described as a key clinical feature for both psoriasis (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and is an important risk factor in PsA. Thus, early diagnosis of nail involvement may be ess...

    Authors: José Alexandre Mendonça, Sibel Zehra Aydin and Maria-Antonietta D’Agostino
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:41
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  36. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is known to be associated with coronary artery diseases (CAD). Previous studies of the association between RA and CAD were reported mainly in non-Asian groups. We aimed to examine the...

    Authors: Tae Hyub Lee, Gwan Gyu Song, Sung Jae Choi, Hongdeok Seok and Jae Hyun Jung
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:40
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  37. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of prolotherapy with hypertonic dextrose in patients with knee osteoarthritis. A systematic search was performed in electronic databases including PUBMED, SCIELO, DIALNET an...

    Authors: Pedro Iván Arias-Vázquez, Carlos Alfonso Tovilla-Zárate, Blanca Gabriela Legorreta-Ramírez, Wajid Burad Fonz, Dory Magaña-Ricardez, Thelma Beatriz González-Castro, Isela Esther Juárez-Rojop and María Lilia López-Narváez
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:39
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  38. SLE is a systemic autoimmune disease generally affecting woman in the reproductive age. It is associated with an altered level of Tregs and oxidative stress while an increase in Tregs, and different antioxidan...

    Authors: Naveet Pannu, Rashmi Singh, Sukriti Sharma, Seema Chopra and Archana Bhatnagar
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:38
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  39. Benzbromarone is a uricosuric drug that has been used in the treatment of gout over the last 30 years. Due to its potent inhibition of the dominant apical (luminal) urate exchanger in the human proximal tubule...

    Authors: Valderilio Feijó Azevedo, Igor Age Kos, Ana Beatriz Vargas-Santos, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro and Eduardo dos Santos Paiva
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:37
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  40. Complement component 4 (C4) gene copy number (GCN) affects the susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in different populations, however the possible phenotype significance remains to be determine...

    Authors: Kaline Medeiros Costa Pereira, Sandro Perazzio, Atila Granado A. Faria, Eloisa Sa Moreira, Viviane C. Santos, Marcelle Grecco, Neusa Pereira da Silva and Luis Eduardo Coelho Andrade
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:36
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  41. The panniculitides remain as one of the most challenging areas for clinicians, as they comprise a heterogeneous group of inflammatory diseases involving the subcutaneous fat with potentially-shared clinical an...

    Authors: Thâmara Cristiane Alves Batista Morita, Gabriela Franco Sturzeneker Trés, Maria Salomé Cajas García, Ilana Halpern, Paulo Ricardo Criado and Jozelio Freire de Carvalho
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:35
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  42. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-systemic, chronic inflammatory disease of autoimmune nature, which can impair performance in daily life activities, causing to a compromised quality of life. Thus,...

    Authors: Tassia Catiuscia da Hora, Kelly Lima and Roberto Rodrigues Bandeira Tosta Maciel
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:34
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  44. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects children and adolescents. Its prevalence varies greatly from one study to another according to the population and methodology....

    Authors: Vânia Schinzel, Simone Guerra Lopes da Silva, Maria Teresa Terreri and Claudio Arnaldo Len
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:32
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  46. Adaptive immune cells, including CD4+CD69+ and CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells, are important for maintaining immunological tolerance. In human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ Treg c...

    Authors: Tatiana Vasconcelos Peixoto, Solange Carrasco, Domingos Alexandre Ciccone Botte, Sergio Catanozi, Edwin Roger Parra, Thaís Martins Lima, Natasha Ugriumov, Francisco Garcia Soriano, Suzana Beatriz Verissímo de Mello, Caio Manzano Rodrigues and Cláudia Goldenstein-Schainberg
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:30
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  47. Describe the clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).

    Authors: Maria Fernanda Alvarez Barreneche, William Dario Mcewen Tamayo, Daniel Montoya Roldan, Libia Maria Rodriguez Padilla, Carlos Jaime Velasquez Franco and Miguel Antonio Mesa Navas
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:29
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  48. The V Brazilian Consensus for determination of autoantibodies against cellular constituents on HEp-2 cells, held in Brasilia (DF, Brazil) on August 27, 2016, discussed the harmonization between the Brazilian C...

    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 2019 59:28
    Content type: Position article and guidelines Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Advances in Rheumatology 2020 60:6

  50. Imbalance and disfuntion in regulatory T-cells (Tregs) and IL-17 producer lymphocytes (Th17) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Gray scale synovial proliferation (GS), power...

    Authors: Aline Defaveri do Prado, Melissa Cláudia Bisi, Deise Marcela Piovesan, Markus Bredemeier, Talita Siara Baptista, Laura Petersen, Moises Evandro Bauer, Inês Guimarães da Silveira, José Alexandre Mendonça and Henrique Luiz Staub
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2019 59:26
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