Demographics, clinical characteristics and predictive factors for total knee or hip replacement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Greece

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 0195-0200

  Pantos, Panayiotis G ^a   Tzioufas, Athanasios G ^b   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^c   Soucacos, Panayiotis N ^a   Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biologic therapies; Hip replacement; Knee replacement; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; HEMOGLOBIN; METHOTREXATE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DAS28; DISEASE DURATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; HIP; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875781444     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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