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Fitzsimons Army Medical Center
Healthcare•Aurora, Colorado, United States•
About: Fitzsimons Army Medical Center is a healthcare organization based out in Aurora, Colorado, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Lupus erythematosus & Respiratory disease. The organization has 853 authors who have published 688 publications receiving 21108 citations.
Topics: Lupus erythematosus, Respiratory disease, Biopsy, Didelphis, Population
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TL;DR: In this paper, the frequency of V beta 14+ T cells was significantly higher in the synovial fluid of affected joints than in the peripheral blood of rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Abstract: While studying the alpha beta T cell receptor repertoire in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, we found that the frequency of V beta 14+ T cells was significantly higher in the synovial fluid of affected joints than in the peripheral blood. In fact, V beta 14+ T cells were virtually undetectable in the peripheral blood of a majority of these RA patients. beta-chain sequences indicated that one or a few clones dominated the V beta 14+ population in the synovial fluid of individual RA patients, whereas oligoclonality was less marked for other V beta's and for V beta 14 in other types of inflammatory arthritis. These results implicate V beta 14-bearing T cells in the pathology of RA. They also suggest that the etiology of RA may involve initial activation of V beta 14+ T cells by a V beta 14-specific superantigen with subsequent recruitment of a few activated autoreactive v beta 14+ T cell clones to the joints while the majority of other V beta 14+ T cells disappear.
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TL;DR: An initial attempt to establish the interrater reliability of the trigger point examination that failed, and a second study by the same examiners that included a training period and that successfully established interRater reliability in the diagnosis of the MTrP are reported.
Abstract: The myofascial trigger point (MTrP) is the hallmark physical finding of the myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). The MTrP itself is characterized by distinctive physical features that include a tender point in a taut band of muscle, a local twitch response (LTR) to mechanical stimulation, a pain referral pattern characteristic of trigger points of specific areas in each muscle, and the reproduction of the patient's usual pain. No prior study has demonstrated that these physical features are reproducible among different examiners, thereby establishing the reliability of the physical examination in the diagnosis of the MPS. This paper reports an initial attempt to establish the interrater reliability of the trigger point examination that failed, and a second study by the same examiners that included a training period and that successfully established interrater reliability in the diagnosis of the MTrP. The study also showed that the interrater reliability of different features varies, the LTR being the most difficult, and that the interrater reliability of the identification of MTrP features among different muscles also varies.
632 citations
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01 Sep 1973TL;DR: The CRC Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences: Vol. 4, No. 3, No 3, pp 215-340 as discussed by the authors was the first publication of a comprehensive review of laboratory tests for the assessment of nutritional status.
Abstract: (1973). Laboratory Tests for the Assessment of Nutritional Status. CRC Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 215-340.
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TL;DR: Elevated levels of autoantibodies to the C-terminal region of ribosomal P proteins appear to be a specific marker for SLE, and are associated with both severe depression and psychosis in this disease.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated which serologic, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and neuroradiographic tests alone or in combination are most useful in the diagnosis of neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus (NPLE).
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Marin H. Kollef | 113 | 631 | 49283 |
Daniel D. Bikle | 87 | 387 | 25250 |
Steven M. Opal | 86 | 385 | 67229 |
Melvin M. Grumbach | 82 | 275 | 21199 |
Allen P. Burke | 81 | 339 | 38011 |
Christopher F. Dowd | 71 | 286 | 14458 |
Andrew Farb | 68 | 183 | 33647 |
Kenneth E. Sherman | 64 | 348 | 15934 |
John Kinsella | 61 | 409 | 14279 |
Harold S. Nelson | 60 | 252 | 13536 |
Jeffrey S. Heier | 53 | 183 | 23178 |
Karl J. Kreder | 40 | 181 | 6865 |
Frederick B. Ruymann | 40 | 89 | 5982 |
Robert L. Rubin | 39 | 122 | 5074 |
J. Brantley Thrasher | 38 | 112 | 5098 |