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Oral sildenafil for the treatment of Raynaud’s phenomenon and digital ulcers secondary to systemic sclerosis

Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Rheumatology, Charleston, South Carolina, USA Correspondence to: Dr J Gore Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Rheumatology, 96 Jonathon ...
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Health-related utility values of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome and its predictors

21 Musculoskeletal Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine & NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ageing and Chronic Diseases, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Wan-Fai Ng, ...
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Smoking is a major preventable risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis: estimations of risks after various exposures to cigarette smoke

2 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet/Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Unit of Clinical Immunology, Uppsala University/Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden 4 ...
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The regulation of human MMP-13 by licofelone, an inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenases and 5-lipoxygenase, in human osteoarthritic chondrocytes is mediated by the inhibition of the p38 ...

Background: MMP-13 is one of the most important metalloproteases (MMP) involved in osteoarthritis. Licofelone, a novel dual inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenases (COX) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX), can modulate ...
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Long-term follow-up on effectiveness and safety of etanercept in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: the Dutch national register

Department of Paediatrics/Paediatric Rheumatology, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Paediatrics/Paediatric ...
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Bone formers: osteophyte and enthesophyte formation are positively associated

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that enthesophyte formation and osteophyte growth are positively associated and to look for associations between bone formation at different sites on the skeleton so ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging, radiography, and scintigraphy of the finger joints: one year follow up of patients with early arthritis

Dr Mette Klarlund, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, H:S Hvidovre Hospital, Kettegaard Allé 30, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark Email:klarlund{at}dadlnet.dk OBJECTIVES To evaluate ...