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John Russell Rice

John Russell Rice

Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Medicine, Rheumatology and Immunology
rice0006@mc.duke.edu
Duke Box 3383, Durham, NC 27710
014 Baker House, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Pain coping skills training and lifestyle behavioral weight management in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled study.

Journal Article Pain · June 2012 Overweight and obese patients with osteoarthritis (OA) experience more OA pain and disability than patients who are not overweight. This study examined the long-term efficacy of a combined pain coping skills training (PCST) and lifestyle behavioral weight ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disease severity and domain-specific arthritis self-efficacy: relationships to pain and functioning in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Journal Article Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · June 2010 OBJECTIVE: To examine the degree to which disease severity and domains of self-efficacy (pain, function, and other symptoms) explain pain and functioning in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS: Patients (n = 263) completed the Arthritis Impact Meas ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in osteoarthritis patients: relationships to pain and disability.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2009 This study examined the degree to which pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear explain pain, psychological disability, physical disability, and walking speed in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Participants in this study were 106 individu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Behavioral insomnia therapy for fibromyalgia patients: a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · November 28, 2005 BACKGROUND: Insomnia is common and debilitating to fibromyalgia (FM) patients. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective for many types of patients with insomnia, but has yet to be tested with FM patients. This study compared CBT with an alternate be ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pain in the rheumatic diseases. Practical aspects of diagnosis and treatment.

Journal Article Rheum Dis Clin North Am · February 1999 Patients with rheumatic disease experience pain that can be intense, persistent, and disabling. This pain is frequently multifactorial in origin and has both central and peripheral components. Because of the array of conditions that can cause musculoskelet ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient predictors of caregiver burden, optimism, and pessimism in rheumatoid arthritis.

Journal Article Behav Med · 1995 The authors of the present study investigated the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients' demographic, medical, and functional status and caregivers' burden, optimism, and pessimism. Subjects were 65 RA patients and their caregivers who we ... Full text Link to item Cite

Relationship of cognitive constructs to adjustment in rheumatoid arthritis patients

Journal Article Cognitive Therapy and Research · October 1, 1994 The present study investigated the interrelationship of several commonly used arthritis-related cognitive measures and their relationship to physical disability, pain, depression, and anxiety in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)_patients. Subjects were 103 RA pati ... Full text Cite

Cyclosporin A therapy for Wegener's granulomatosis.

Journal Article Adv Exp Med Biol · 1993 Five patients with active Wegener's granulomatosis were treated with the immunosuppressive agent Cyclosporin A, along with low dose prednisone. All five patients had previously taken cyclophosphamide, but further treatment with this agent was not desired, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression and level of functioning in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Journal Article Can J Psychiatry · October 1992 This study examined the degree to which depression is related to physical and psychosocial dysfunction. The Beck Depression Inventory and the Sickness Impact Profile were administered to 34 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Information on the demographic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of methotrexate, rheumatoid arthritis and lymphoma: report of 2 cases and literature review.

Journal Article J Rheumatol · September 1992 We describe 2 Caucasian men with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of identical histological type during treatment with low dose oral weekly methotrexate (MTX). Both patients had longstanding RA and had been treated with MTX fo ... Link to item Cite

Endocrine control of inflammation: Rheumatoid arthritis double-blind, crossover clinical trial

Journal Article International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Research · 1992 Cite

Psoriatic arthritis of the foot and ankle: analysis of joint involvement and diagnostic errors.

Journal Article Foot Ankle · August 1991 Forty-two patients with psoriatic arthritis arthritis who were referred to a tertiary medical center from 1983 to 1987 were reviewed. The foot and/or ankle was the most common site of joint or bone involvement, (N = 36, 86%). Twenty-six of these patients d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Expression of autoantibodies to recombinant (U1) RNP-associated 70K antigen in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Journal Article Clin Immunol Immunopathol · February 1990 To determine the specificity of antibodies to the (U1) ribonucleoprotein antigen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), patient sera were tested for binding to a recombinant human 70K antigen. By solid-phase immunoassay, we detected anti-70K reactivity in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Methotrexate-associated hepatotoxicity: retrospective analysis of 210 patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Journal Article Am J Med · December 1988 PURPOSE: Beginning in the 1980s, methotrexate has been used successfully to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The magnitude and severity of short- and long-term methotrexate toxicity, however, have not been adequately investigated. Our study was performed to det ... Full text Link to item Cite

Early detection of carpal erosions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot study of magnetic resonance imaging.

Journal Article J Rheumatol · September 1988 A pilot study comparing standard radiography to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on the wrists of 10 patients with early (anatomic Stage I or II) rheumatoid arthritis (RA). MRI was found to be superior to standard radiographs in 2 respects: ( ... Link to item Cite

Endobronchial telangiectasias and hemoptysis in scleroderma.

Journal Article Am J Med · January 1988 Hemoptysis is considered a rare event in scleroderma and to date only two previous cases could be identified. The occurrence of hemoptysis with bleeding and friable telangiectasias is reported in a patient with rapidly progressing systemic sclerosis. This ... Full text Link to item Cite

Survival in systemic lupus erythematosus. A multivariate analysis of demographic factors.

Journal Article Arthritis Rheum · December 1987 We analyzed survival rate and important clinical outcomes in 411 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who were seen at our center between 1969 and 1984. All eligible subjects met 4 of the revised American Rheumatism Association criteria for systemic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate in temporal arteritis.

Journal Article South Med J · December 1987 Some authors have reported that the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is elevated in almost all patients with biopsy-proven temporal arteritis, while others believe it may be normal in up to 30% of such patients. We studied 62 patients with biopsy-prove ... Full text Link to item Cite

Septic arthritis due to Micrococcus luteus.

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"Fibrositis" syndrome.

Journal Article Med Clin North Am · March 1986 There appears to be as yet undefined but significant and possibly multifactorial elements of personality, stress, or depression in the manifestations and possibly the pathogenesis of FS. If these factors, perhaps amplified by the neurophysiologic effects o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pneumonitis complicating low-dose methotrexate therapy in rheumatoid arthritis.

Journal Article Arch Intern Med · November 1985 Three of 95 patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were being treated with low-dose (5 to 15 mg/wk) methotrexate sodium developed the clinical, radiographic, and pathologic features of methotrexate-associated pulmonary injury. Marked hypoxemia emphasized t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rheumatoid arthritis and sterile corneal ulceration. Analysis of tissue immune effector cells and ocular epithelial antigens using monoclonal antibodies.

Journal Article Arthritis Rheum · June 1984 Tissue immune effector cells and epithelial surface antigens present in eye tissue of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with sterile corneal ulceration were studied using a large panel of monoclonal antibodies. During periods of active corneal ulceration, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Occult fractures of the knee: tomographic evaluation.

Journal Article Radiology · August 1983 Seven adults with painful effusions of the knee were examined for occult fractures using pluridirectional tomography in the coronal and lateral planes. Six patients (ages 50-82 years) were osteopenic and gave histories ranging from none to mild trauma; one ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anticentromere antibody. Clinical Correlations and association with favorable prognosis in patients with scleroderma variants.

Journal Article Arthritis Rheum · January 1983 The presence of antibody to the chromosomal centromere appears to be associated with a subset of patients with the limited CREST form of scleroderma. To further define the prognostic value of this autoantibody, 27 patients, who were identified as having an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lymphocytic lymphoma and systemic lupus erythematosus: their coexistence with antibody to the Sm antigen.

Journal Article Arch Pathol Lab Med · April 1982 The serologic and clinical features of a 32-year-old women with coexistent systemic lupus erythematosus and lymphoma were studied. A cervical node biopsy specimen demonstrated nodular, poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma; subsequent development of p ... Link to item Cite

Independent expression of autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Journal Article J Rheumatol · 1982 Antibodies to components of the cell nucleus have been viewed as specific serological markers of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). To determine whether these autoantibodies exhibit common regulation of their expression, antibody levels have been quantita ... Link to item Cite

Characterization and comparison of commercially available antinuclear antibody kits using single pattern index sera.

Journal Article J Rheumatol · 1980 The wide variety of commercial kits used to test antinuclear antibodies (ANA) by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) makes comparison of data from different laboratories difficult. Data comparing the sensitivity and feasibility of the various kits are not av ... Link to item Cite