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Désirée van der Heijde
Researcher at Leiden University Medical Center
Publications - 764
Citations - 57315
Désirée van der Heijde is an academic researcher from Leiden University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ankylosing spondylitis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 107, co-authored 674 publications receiving 48488 citations. Previous affiliations of Désirée van der Heijde include Leiden University & Radboud University Nijmegen.
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Repair of erosions in rheumatoid arthritis does occur. Results from 2 studies by the OMERACT Subcommittee on Healing of Erosions.
John T. Sharp,Désirée van der Heijde,Maarten Boers,Annelies Boonen,K Bruynesteyn,Paul Emery,Harry K. Genant,G. Herborn,Anne Grethe Jurik,Marissa Lassere,Fiona M McQueen,Mikkel Østergaard,Charles Peterfy,Rolf Rau,Vibeke Strand,Siegfried Wassenberg,Barbara N. Weissman +16 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that repair of bone damage in RA does occur, resulting in some degree of improvement, which was recognized by a majority of a panel of experts.
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Patients with chronic back pain of short duration from the SPACE cohort: which MRI structural lesions in the sacroiliac joints and inflammatory and structural lesions in the spine are most specific for axial spondyloarthritis?
Manouk de Hooge,Rosaline van den Berg,Victoria Navarro-Compán,Monique Reijnierse,Floris A. van Gaalen,Karen Minde Fagerli,Robert Landewé,Maikel van Oosterhout,Roberta Ramonda,Tom W J Huizinga,Désirée van der Heijde +10 more
TL;DR: The presence of at least five fatty lesions and/or erosions on MRI-SI allows an acceptable discrimination of axSpA and no SpA, while assuring >95% specificity.
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Health-related quality of life outcomes in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis treated with adalimumab: results from a randomized controlled study.
John C. Davis,Dennis A. Revicki,Désirée van der Heijde,Anne M. Rentz,Robert L. Wong,Hartmut Kupper,Michelle P. Luo +6 more
TL;DR: Adalimumab significantly improved physical health status and overall HRQOL through 24 weeks in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis.
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Association of circulating adiponectin levels with progression of radiographic joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis
TL;DR: Evidence of temporality and dose-response in the relationship between circulating adiponectin and erosive joint destruction in RA is provided, and subgroups of patients at highest risk for adiponECTin-associated radiographic progression are highlighted.
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The Concept of Axial Spondyloarthritis: Joint Statement of the Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network and the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society in Response to the US Food and Drug Administration's Comments and Concerns
Atul Deodhar,John D. Reveille,Filip Van den Bosch,Jürgen Braun,Rubén Burgos-Vargas,Liron Caplan,Daniel O. Clegg,Robert A. Colbert,Lianne S. Gensler,Désirée van der Heijde,Irene E. van der Horst-Bruinsma,Robert D. Inman,Walter P. Maksymowych,Philip J. Mease,Siba P. Raychaudhuri,Andreas M. Reimold,Martin Rudwaleit,Joachim Sieper,Michael H. Weisman,Robert Landewé +19 more
TL;DR: This study highlights the importance of knowing the prior history and present condition of the individual patient before deciding whether or not to proceed with treatment with or without consulting fees or honoraria.