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  1. Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome characterized by widespread chronic pain associated to other symptoms, such as: fatigue, anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. Health education programs (HEP) have emerged as...

    Authors: Andrei Pereira Pernambuco, Lucina de Souza Cota Carvalho, Luana Pereira Leite Schetino, Janaíne Cunha Polese, Renato de Souza Viana and Débora d’ Ávila Reis
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:21
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  2. High-resolution musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) has been increasingly employed in daily rheumatological practice and in clinical research. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), MSUS can be now considered a complemen...

    Authors: Aline Defaveri do Prado, Henrique Luiz Staub, Melissa Cláudia Bisi, Inês Guimarães da Silveira, José Alexandre Mendonça, Joaquim Polido-Pereira and João Eurico Fonseca
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:19
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  3. Virtual reality therapy (VRT) has clinical indications in rehabilitation programs for the elderly; however, there is still no consensus on the recovery of body balance. The objective of this review was to summ...

    Authors: Juleimar Soares Coelho de Amorim, Renata Cristine Leite, Renata Brizola and Cristhiane Yumi Yonamine
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:18
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  4. Until now, there are few studies evaluating serum levels of angiogenic cytokines in dermatomyositis (DM). Therefore, the aims of the present study were: (a) to analyze systematically and simultaneously serum l...

    Authors: Thiago Costa Pamplona da Silva, Marilda Guimarães Silva and Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:17
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  5. Rheumatoid arthritis patients may have an increased risk of falls due to changes caused by the disease such as muscle weakness, joint impairment, reduced mobility and postural instability. The aim of this stud...

    Authors: Mariana de Almeida Lourenço, Flávia Vilas Boas Ortiz Carli and Marcos Renato de Assis
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:16
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  6. Previous studies discussed the repeatability and variability in plantar pressure measurement, but a few considered different age groups. Here we determine within and between-days repeatability and variability ...

    Authors: Pedro S. Franco, Cristiane F. Moro, Mariane M. Figueiredo, Renato R. Azevedo, Fernando G. Ceccon and Felipe P. Carpes
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:15
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  7. Rheumatoid arthritis primarily affects the working-age population and may cause key functional and work limitations. As the disease progresses, individuals become increasingly unable to conduct daily activitie...

    Authors: Rafael Kmiliauskis Santos Gomes, Luana Cristina Schreiner, Mateus Oliveira Vieira, Patrícia Helena Machado and Moacyr Roberto Cuce Nobre
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:14
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  8. Fibromyalgia is a common chronic disease characterized by persistent diffuse pain, fatigue, sleep disorders and functional symptoms.

    Authors: Ana Paula Monteiro Gomides, Josierton Cruz Bezerra, Eduardo José do Rosário e Souza, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota and Leopoldo Luiz Santos-Neto
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:13
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  9. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) share many clinical manifestations and laboratory findings, therefore, concomitant diagnosis of SLE and human immunodeficiency v...

    Authors: Vanessa Hax, Ana Laura Didonet Moro, Rafaella Romeiro Piovesan, Luciano Zubaran Goldani, Ricardo Machado Xavier and Odirlei Andre Monticielo
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:12
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  10. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) affects wrist and hand joints leading to decrease hand function and patients’ daily living activities. The assessment of hand grip strength (HGS) in children and adolescents...

    Authors: Ahmed Mohammed Rashed, Noha Abdel-Wahab, Ehab M. M. Moussa and Nevin Hammam
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:11
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  11. Little has been published about the epidemiology of Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) in South America, especially in the intertropical zone, and no epidemiological data from Brazil are available. The pur...

    Authors: Francisco Vileimar Andrade de Azevedo, Fabrício Oliveira Lima, Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Andrea Rocha de Saboia Mont’Alverne and Carlos Ewerton Maia Rodrigues
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:10
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  12. There are few data on the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and management of RA in Brazil, even with the recognition of the high direct, indirect and societal costs of this disease. Herein, we report the ...

    Authors: Geraldo da Rocha Castelar-Pinheiro, Ana Beatriz Vargas-Santos, Cleandro Pires de Albuquerque, 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, Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho and Licia Maria Henrique da Mota
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:9
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  13. Low back pain is a significant health problem condition due to high prevalence among the general population. Emotions and physical factors are believed to play a role in chronic low back pain. Kinesiophobia is...

    Authors: Josielli Comachio, Mauricio Oliveira Magalhães, Ana Paula de Moura Campos Carvalho e Silva and Amélia Pasqual Marques
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:8
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  14. The purposes of this study were to assess the prevalence of temporomandibular disorders symptoms and signs and the bite force in pediatric patients with idiopathic musculoskeletal pain syndrome and to compare ...

    Authors: Liete Zwir, Melissa Fraga, Monique Sanches, Carmen Hoyuela, Claudio Len and Maria Teresa Terreri
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:7
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  15. Primary Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is a multifactorial disease that has an important genetic component, and several genes have been associated with its development. The vitamin D receptor has a role in sk...

    Authors: Norma Celia González-Huerta, Verónica Marusa Borgonio-Cuadra, Eugenio Morales-Hernández, Carolina Duarte-Salazar and Antonio Miranda-Duarte
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:6
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  16. Systemic autoimmune myopathies (SAMs) are a heterogeneous group of rare systemic autoimmune diseases that primarily affect skeletal muscles. Patients with SAMs show progressive skeletal muscle weakness and con...

    Authors: Diego Sales de Oliveira, Rafael Giovani Misse, Fernanda Rodrigues Lima and Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. The Hip Outcome Score (HOS) was developed to evaluate physically active patients with hip disease but without severe degenerative change. A translation and cultural adaptation into Brazilian Portuguese was pre...

    Authors: Rafaela Maria de Paula Costa, Themis Moura Cardinot, Letícia Nunes Carreras Del Castillo Mathias, Gustavo Leporace and Liszt Palmeira de Oliveira
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:4
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  19. The objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive update of the recommendations of Brazilian Society of Rheumatology on drug treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), based on a systematic literature ...

    Authors: Licia Maria Henrique da Mota, Adriana Maria Kakehasi, Ana Paula Monteiro Gomides, Angela Luzia Branco Pinto Duarte, Bóris Afonso Cruz, Claiton Viegas Brenol, Cleandro Pires de Albuquerque, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro, Ieda Maria Magalhães Laurindo, Ivanio Alves Pereira, Manoel Barros Bertolo, Mariana Peixoto Guimarães Ubirajara Silva de Souza, Max Vitor Carioca de Freitas, Paulo Louzada-Júnior, Ricardo Machado Xavier and Rina Dalva Neubarth Giorgi
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:2
    Content type: Position article and guidelines Published on:

  20. To assess the main fears and beliefs of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their effect on treatment outcomes;

    Authors: Penélope Esther Palominos, Andrese Aline Gasparin, Nicole Pamplona Bueno de Andrade, Ricardo Machado Xavier, Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, Fernanda Igansi and Laure Gossec
    Citation: Advances in Rheumatology 2018 58:1
    Content type: Review Published on:
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