Ultrasound-Defined Remission and Active Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Association with Clinical and Serologic Parameters

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 761-767

  Dejaco, Christian ^a   Duftner, Christina ^b   Wipfler Freißmuth, Edith ^c   Weiss, Helmut ^d   Graninger, Winfried B ^a   Schirmer, Michael ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Austria)

^d GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Immunosuppressants; Outcome measures; Quality of health care; Rheumatoid arthritis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; METHOTREXATE; RITUXIMAB; TOCILIZUMAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MORNING STIFFNESS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIMPLIFIED DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84861225811     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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