… Von Feldt, MD Dr Von Feldt is assistant professor of medicine, division of rheumatology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Her area of research includes …

The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) convened an international working group to obtain
a consensus definition of disease flare in lupus. With help from the Paediatric Rheumatology …

Homocysteine levels and disease duration independently correlate with coronary artery
calcification in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus - Von Feldt - 2006 - Arthritis & …

Objective Reactive arthritis (ReA) is an inflammatory disorder occurring several weeks after
gastrointestinal or genitourinary tract infections. HLA –B27 positivity is considered a risk …

Purpose Diagnostic errors in medicine are common and costly. Cognitive bias causes are
increasingly recognized contributors to diagnostic error but remain difficult targets for medical …

Objective Web‐based patient education materials and printed pamphlets are frequently
used by providers to inform patients about their rheumatic disease. Little attention has been …

Background Trends in medical education have reflected the patient safety movement's initial
focus on systems. While the role of cognitive-based diagnostic errors has been increasingly …

Objective Vitamin D deficiency is a potential risk factor for autoimmunity. Prior studies of the
association between vitamin D levels and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity have …

Several syndromes involving antiphospholipid antibodies have been described in the
literature. Although the varied clinical manifestations have been well delineated, the vascular …

Objective. To evaluate levels of resistin in female subjects with systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE) compared to age and race-matched controls and to determine the relationship …