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Physiotherapy for anterior knee pain: a randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...
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Efficacy of physiotherapy management of knee joint osteoarthritis: a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial

1 Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 2 Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Hospital and ...
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Clinical efficacy and side effects of antimalarials in systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review

Background: Antimalarial drugs (AMs), chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), are frequently withdrawn in patients with lupus with either severe or remitting disease. However, additional ...
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EULAR report on the use of ultrasonography in painful knee osteoarthritis. Part 1: Prevalence of inflammation in osteoarthritis

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of inflammation in subjects with chronic painful knee osteoarthritis (OA), as determined by the presence of synovitis or joint effusion at ultrasonography (US); ...
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Defining active sacroiliitis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for classification of axial spondyloarthritis: a consensual approach by the ASAS/OMERACT MRI group

Department of Rheumatology, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of sacroiliac joints has evolved as the most relevant ...
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Guidelines for musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatology

aDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, bDepartment of Rheumatology and Physical Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, ...
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The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part I): classification of paper patients by ...

Rheumatology, Med Klinik I, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany ...
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Withdrawal of low-dose prednisone in SLE patients with a clinically quiescent disease for more than 1 year: a randomised clinical trial

1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...
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Central nervous system involvement in Sjögren’s syndrome

Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, Greece Correspondence to: Professor H M Moutsopoulos Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, University of ...
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EULAR recommendations for the management of knee osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic ...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease encountered throughout Europe. A task force for the EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Trials met in 1998 to determine the ...
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OP0229 THE GROUP FOR RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT OF PSORIASIS AND PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (GRAPPA) TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS 2021

Background: Since the 2015 GRAPPA treatment recommendations were published, therapeutic options and management strategies for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have advanced considerably. Objectives: The goal ...
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The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for peripheral spondyloarthritis and for spondyloarthritis in general

Objective To evaluate new classification criteria for peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA) in patients with SpA with peripheral manifestations only. Methods In this Assessment of SpondyloArthritis ...