Clinical and diagnostic features of twenty-five patients with tuberculous arthritis were
reviewed. Local or systemic factors which may have predisposed to articular involvement were …

Objective To investigate the occurrence of lung cancer in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
in the US veteran population. Patients with rheumatic diseases appear to have an …

An understanding of the cytokine cascade in a rheumatoid joint has led to the development
of new therapeutic options, including drugs targeting tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). The …

Limited information exists on treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in a patient with coexisting
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We report a case of a patient with rheumatoid …

Recent in vitro studies have shown that interleukin 4 (IL-4) induces and gamma interferon (IFN-γ)
inhibits collagen production. To define the TH1(IFN-γ) and TH2(IL-4) cytokine profiles …

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha antagonists successfully modulate the pathogenesis of
rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, little is known about the effect of TNF-alpha blockade on …

Surface immunoglobulin-bearing cells were selected from suspensions of human tonsil cells
by the reverse immune cytoadherence technique. The method employed a hybrid antibody …

Mice bearing TEPC-183, an immunoglobulin M(κ)-secreting plasmacytoma, exhibit severe
suppression of their immune responses to both thymus-dependent and thymus-independent …

Arthropathies are joint-centered diseases that arise from a variety of causes but show certain
clinical and radiological similarities with one another. This chapter is concerned with a …

A well designed outcomes research study was performed in which 20 primary care physicians
were selected to participate. Each physician had more than 30 fibromyalgia patients in …