•Journal•ISSN: 1110-1164
The Egyptian Rheumatologist
Elsevier BV
About: The Egyptian Rheumatologist is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Medicine & Internal medicine. It has an ISSN identifier of 1110-1164. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 615 publications have been published receiving 4158 citations.
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TL;DR: Local injection of autologous PRP proved to be a promising form of therapy for TE and PF, both safe and effective in relieving pain and improving function and superior to local steroids in PF.
99 citations
TL;DR: An important role for Th-17 cells and serum IL-17 in the pathogenesis of the inflammatory and destructive pattern characteristic of RA is demonstrated.
64 citations
TL;DR: Findings confirm the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of RA and OA, and that LPO markers and antioxidants can serve as surrogate markers for disease activity.
56 citations
TL;DR: Measuring organ damage in SLE is important with special concern to juvenile-onset patients to allow for designing new treatments that improve control of disease activity and minimize the development of irreversible damage.
41 citations
TL;DR: Serum TNFα levels and -308 G/A promoter polymorphism were higher in RA patients than in controls and could be predicted by disease activity and HAQ and in the multivariate analysis, disease duration and age at disease onset would predict the TNF α level.
39 citations