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Journal ArticlePain · 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 ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ 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 ...
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Journal ArticleArch 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 ...
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Journal ArticleRheum 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 ...
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Journal ArticleBehav 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 ...
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Journal ArticleCognitive 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 ...
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Journal ArticleAdv 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, ...
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Journal ArticleCan 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ 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 ...
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Journal ArticleFoot 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 ...
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Journal ArticleClin 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 ...
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Journal ArticleAm 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ 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: ( ...
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Journal ArticleAm 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 ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis 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 ...
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Journal ArticleSouth 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 ...
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Journal ArticleMed 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 ...
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Journal ArticleArch 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 ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis 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, ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · 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 ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis 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 ...
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Journal ArticleArch 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ 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 ...
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