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Inner ear involvement has been reported in systemic rheumatic disease while detection of cochlin-specific antibodies has been reported in patients with idiopatic sensorineural hearing loss, suggesting cochlin's strong link to autoimmune hearing loss. The aim of this cross-sectional OBJECTIVE
To examine the relationships of parental and family pain history on the pain experience of children with chronic rheumatic disease. The aims of the study were as follows: 1) to describe the pain history of parents and families of children with rheumatic disease, 2) to examine relationships
Chronic musculoskeletal pain syndromes are common problems, but the etiology, pathogenesis, and pathology of many of them are very poorly understood. Because the currently used nomenclature suggests an understanding that we do not have, I propose that names like "myofascial pain," "tension myalgia,"
Fifty patients suffering from acute soft tissue rheumatism entered an open parallel group study of flurbiprofen 200 mg to 400 mg daily versus piroxicam 20 mg to 40 mg daily for 4 weeks. Both treatments caused statistically significant improvements in pain, pain on active movement, restriction of
Headaches are a common, but under-recognized and understudied symptom in the context of the rheumatic diseases. They can result from intracranial pathology, such as parenchymal and meningeal inflammation, thrombosis, space-occupying lesions, and more. Inflammation, irritation, or degeneration of
Parenteral treatments (either subcutaneous or intravenous) are frequently used in rheumatology practice. In this study, drug side effects in patients who were followed up with a rheumatic disease and treated with parenteral administration methods were evaluated. The drug side effects in children who
Topical nitroglycerin has been tried for the alleviation of Raynaud's phenomenon in rheumatic diseases, but its effect is not widely recognized. We evaluated the effect of nitroglycerin tape (NTG tape) for peripheral circulatory failure of 7 patients with rheumatic diseases (4 women and 3 men, aged
Vasculitis is still being classified according the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology and the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Definitions. Diagnostic criteria are currently being established. The classification criteria are based on the size of the inflamed blood vessel (e.g. large
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Local as well as whole-body cryotherapy is used to relieve pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases. In comparison with a chamber-based whole-body cryotherapy, the novel criostream whole-body therapy (single-person cabin with cold air cooled by liquid nitrogen) as an innovative
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To examine differences in number and size of signal hyperintensities (SH) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) between patients with primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS) and controls who all had frequent episodic tension-type headache (FETH), and to investigate their relation to platelet
Our aim was to measure and compare the link between pain patients and the different kinds of analgesic medications they use by the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ). This is a self-completion 10-item instrument to measure the severity of dependence upon a variety of substances. LDQ was
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To determine the frequency of autoantibodies directed against the nucleolar organizer antigen NOR-90 [human upstream binding factor (hUBF)] in pediatric patients with systemic rheumatic diseases. Two children with antibodies to NOR-90 are reported.
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Two hundred thirty-eight sera