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Guidelines for the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis 2002 Update
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The guideline reviewed in this month's column describes the recommended care of patients who have been previously diagnosed with RA.Abstract:
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive polyarthritis that is responsible for over nine million office visits annually. It is likely that most nurse practitioners will care for one or more patients with RA because approximately 1% of the adult population is affected by this disabling disorder. The guideline reviewed in this month's column describes the recommended care of patients who have been previously diagnosed with RA.read more
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Relationship between beliefs about medicines, adherence to treatment, and disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis under subcutaneous anti-TNFα therapy.
TL;DR: In patients with RA established on stable-dose SCAnti-TNFα-Necessity beliefs persistently outweighed anti-T NFα-Concerns, but both correlated with adherence, and these findings may be of use in subsequent studies looking to predict adherence in patients starting treatment with SC anti-tumor necrosis factor α.
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Early management of newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis by Canadian rheumatologists: a national, multicenter, retrospective cohort.
Ruben Tavares,Janet E. Pope,Jean-Luc Tremblay,Carter Thorne,Vivian P. Bykerk,Juris Lazovskis,Kenneth L.N. Blocka,Mary J. Bell,Diane Lacaille,Carol A. Hitchon,Avril A. Fitzgerald,Wesley K. Fidler,Arthur Bookman,James M. Henderson,Dianne Mosher,D. Sholter,Majed Khraishi,Boulos Haraoui,Hong Chen,Xiuying Li,Andreas Laupacis,Gilles Boire,George Tomlinson,Claire Bombardier +23 more
TL;DR: The infrequent reporting of multiple DMARD combinations and formal assessment measures has implications for current clinical management and warrants contemporary reassessment.
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Yoga in Rheumatic Diseases
Susan J. Bartlett,Susan J. Bartlett,Susan J. Bartlett,Steffany Moonaz,Christopher Mill,Sasha Bernatsky,Clifton O. Bingham +6 more
TL;DR: Yoga is a popular activity which may be well suited to some individuals with specific rheumatic disorders, and some evidence suggests yoga may help reduce inflammatory mediators including C-reactive protein and interleukin-6.
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Application of fluorescence polarization immunoassay for determination of methotrexate-polyglutamates in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
TL;DR: A method with the commercially available fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) kit found that anti-MTX monoclonal antibody showed the reactivity to 4-amino-10-methylpteroylheptaglutamic acid (MTX-PG(7)) as equal to MTX.
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Osseous changes in the temporomandibular joint in rheumatoid arthritis: A cone-beam computed tomography study
TL;DR: RC patients with rheumatoid arthritis might show extensive osseous abnormalities with no/mild clinical signs or symptoms of TMJ dysfunction that necessitate TMJ imaging for these patients, and CBCT is a valuable and efficient modality that can assess osSEous TMJ changes in RA patients.
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The American Rheumatism Association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis.
Frank C. Arnett,Steven M. Edworthy,Daniel A. Bloch,Dennis J. McShane,James F. Fries,Norman S. Cooper,L. A. Healey,Stephen R. Kaplan,Matthew H. Liang,Harvinder S. Luthra,Thomas A. Medsger,Donald M. Mitchell,David H. Neustadt,Robert S. Pinals,Jane G. Schaller,John T. Sharp,Ronald L. Wilder,Gene G. Hunder +17 more
TL;DR: The revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were formulated from a computerized analysis of 262 contemporary, consecutively studied patients with RA and 262 control subjects with rheumatic diseases other than RA (non-RA).
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Measurement of patient outcome in arthritis.
TL;DR: A structure for representation of patient outcome is presented, together with a method for outcome measurement and validation of the technique in rheumatoid arthritis, and these techniques appear extremely useful for evaluation of long term outcome of patients with rheumatic diseases.
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Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Rofecoxib and Naproxen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Claire Bombardier,Loren Laine,Alise S. Reicin,Deborah R. Shapiro,Ruben Burgos-Vargas,Barry R. Davis,Richard O. Day,Marcos Bosi Ferraz,Christopher J. Hawkey,Marc C. Hochberg,Tore K Kvien,Thomas J. Schnitzer +11 more
TL;DR: In patients with rheumatoid arthritis, treatment with rofecoxib, a selective inhibitor of cyclooxygenase-2, is associated with significantly fewer clinically important upper gastrointestinal events than treatment with naproxen, a nonselective inhibitor.
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Gastrointestinal Toxicity With Celecoxib vs Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs for Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: The CLASS Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Fred E. Silverstein,Gerald A. Faich,Jay L. Goldstein,Lee S. Simon,Theodore Pincus,Andrew Whelton,Robert W. Makuch,Glenn M. Eisen,Naurang M. Agrawal,William F. Stenson,Aimee M. Burr,William W. Zhao,Jeffrey D. Kent,James B. Lefkowith,Kenneth M. Verburg,G. Steven Geis +15 more
TL;DR: In this study, celecoxib, at dosages greater than those indicated clinically, was associated with a lower incidence of symptomatic ulcers and ulcer complications combined, as well as other clinically important toxic effects, compared with NSAIDs at standard dosages.
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Infliximab (chimeric anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha monoclonal antibody) versus placebo in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving concomitant methotrexate: a randomised phase III trial. ATTRACT Study Group.
Ravinder N. Maini,E W St Clair,F. C. Breedveld,Daniel E. Furst,Joachim R. Kalden,Michael H. Weisman,Josef S. Smolen,Paul Emery,G Harriman,Marc Feldmann,Peter E. Lipsky +10 more
TL;DR: Infliximab was well-tolerated; withdrawals for adverse events as well as the occurrence of serious adverse events or serious infections did not exceed those in the placebo group.
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