Opportunities for improving medication use and monitoring in goutJ A Singh
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Rheumatology Section, One Veteran s Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 68:1265-70. 2009
..To study patterns and predictors of medication use and laboratory monitoring in gout...
- Cardiopulmonary complications after primary shoulder arthroplasty: a cohort study
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service and Center for Surgical Medical Acute care Research and Transitions C SMART, VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 41:689-97. 2012
..To study the frequency and predictors of 90-day cardiopulmonary complications following primary shoulder arthroplasty...
- Can racial disparities in optimal gout treatment be reduced? evidence from a randomized trial
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service, Birmingham VA Medical Center and Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
BMC Med 10:15. 2012
..This approach will likely help to narrow the documented racial disparities in gout care.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/13/15...
- Applying science in practice: the optimization of biological therapy in rheumatoid arthritis
Sofia Ramiro
Maastricht University Medical Center, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Arthritis Res Ther 12:220. 2010
..We suggest that cycling of biological agents, until remission is achieved or until the most effective agent for that individual patient is determined, deserves consideration in the current stage of knowledge...
- A systematic review of validated methods for identifying orthopedic implant removal and revision using administrative data
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service and Center for Surgical Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 21:265-73. 2012
..To identify studies that have validated administrative and claims database algorithms for identifying patients with orthopedic device revision or removal...
- Advances in gout: some answers, more questions
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service, Birmingham VA Medical Center and Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 12:136. 2010
..3%), febuxostat 80 mg/day (1.2%) and allopurinol groups (0.9%). A meta-analysis of safety data from published studies is presented...
- Tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis: a Cochrane systematic review
Jasvinder A Singh
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 820 Faculty Office Tower, Room 805B, Birmingham, AL 35294 3708, USA
J Rheumatol 38:10-20. 2011
..to compare the benefit and safety of tocilizumab to placebo in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
- Accuracy of VA databases for diagnoses of knee replacement and hip replacement
J A Singh
Birmingham VA Medical Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 18:1639-42. 2010
..To examine the validity of International Classification of Diseases-Ninth Revision (ICD-9) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for knee replacement and hip replacement in Veterans Affairs (VA) databases...
- Preferred roles in treatment decision making among patients with cancer: a pooled analysis of studies using the Control Preferences Scale
Jasvinder A Singh
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Am J Manag Care 16:688-96. 2010
..To collect normative data, assess differences between demographic groups, and indirectly compare US and Canadian medical systems relative to patient expectations of involvement in cancer treatment decision making...
- Health care utilization in patients with gout
Jasvinder A Singh
Birmingham VA Medical Center and University of Alabama 35294, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 40:501-11. 2011
..To study health care utilization patterns in patients with gout...
- Intraarticular botulinum toxin A for refractory painful total knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Rheumatol 37:2377-86. 2010
..To assess short-term efficacy of single intraarticular botulinum toxin (IA-BoNT/A) injection in patients with chronically painful total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in a randomized, placebo-controlled, triple-blind study...
- Pessimistic explanatory style: a psychological risk factor for poor pain and functional outcomes two years after knee replacement
J A Singh
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Br 92:799-806. 2010
..We conclude that a pessimistic explanatory style is associated with worse pain and functional outcomes two years after total knee replacement...
- Predictors of pain and use of pain medications following primary Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA): 5,707 THAs at 2-years and 3,289 THAs at 5-years
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 11:90. 2010
..Study pain and use of pain medications and their predictors after primary Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA)...
- Golimumab for rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review
Jasvinder A Singh
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 820 Faculty Office Tower, Room 805B, Birmingham, AL 35294 3708, USA
J Rheumatol 37:1096-104. 2010
..To perform a Cochrane systematic review of benefit (American College of Rheumatology 50% improvement criteria; ACR50) and safety (adverse events and withdrawals) of golimumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
- A national survey of Veterans Affairs rheumatologists for relevance of quality of care indicators for gout management
Jasvinder A Singh
Birmingham VA Medical Center and University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 45294, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 62:1306-11. 2010
..To determine the relevance of current gout quality indicators (QIs)...
- Predictors of activity limitation and dependence on walking aids after primary total hip arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:2387-93. 2010
..To study function outcomes and their predictors after primary total hip arthroplasty (THA)...
- Surgery for shoulder osteoarthritis: a Cochrane systematic review
Jasvinder A Singh
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 3408, USA
J Rheumatol 38:598-605. 2011
..To determine the benefits and harm of surgery for shoulder osteoarthritis (OA)...
- Cardiac and thromboembolic complications and mortality in patients undergoing total hip and total knee arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 70:2082-8. 2011
..To study 90-day complications following total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA)...
- Ninety day mortality and its predictors after primary shoulder arthroplasty: an analysis of 4,019 patients from 1976-2008
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service and Center for Surgical Medical Acute care Research and Transitions C SMART, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 12:231. 2011
..Examine 90-day postoperative mortality and its predictors following shoulder arthroplasty..
- Smoking as a risk factor for short-term outcomes following primary total hip and total knee replacement in veterans
Jasvinder A Singh
Birmingham VA Medical Center and University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:1365-74. 2011
..To assess the effect of smoking on postoperative complications following elective primary total hip replacement (THR) or primary total knee replacement (TKR)...
- Early postoperative mortality following joint arthroplasty: a systematic review
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service and Center for Surgical Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions, Birmingham Veterans Affairs VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
J Rheumatol 38:1507-13. 2011
..To perform a systematic review of 30- and 90-day mortality rates in patients undergoing hip or knee arthroplasties...
- Patient-reported outcomes in chronic gout: a report from OMERACT 10
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service, Birmingham Veterans Affairs VA Medical Center and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Rheumatol 38:1452-7. 2011
..To summarize the endorsement of measures of patient-reported outcome (PRO) domains in chronic gout at the 2010 Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Meeting (OMERACT 10)...
- Hospital volume and surgical outcomes after elective hip/knee arthroplasty: a risk-adjusted analysis of a large regional database
Jasvinder A Singh
VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Arthritis Rheum 63:2531-9. 2011
..To examine the relationship between hospital procedure volume and surgical outcomes following elective primary total hip arthroplasty/total knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA)...
- Smoking and outcomes after knee and hip arthroplasty: a systematic review
Jasvinder A Singh
University of Alabama, Faculty Office Tower 805B, 510 20th Street S, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Rheumatol 38:1824-34. 2011
..The objective of this systematic review was to assess the association of smoking and postoperative outcomes following total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA)...
- Validation of pain and patient global scales in chronic gout: data from two randomised controlled trials
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service and Center for Surgical Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Alabama, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 70:1277-81. 2011
..To assess validity of pain and patient global scales in gout...
- Responsiveness differences in outcome instruments after revision hip arthroplasty: what are the implications?
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service, Birmingham VA Medical Center and Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 12:107. 2011
..The responsiveness statistics for both scales were reasonable, higher for Harris Hip Score than SF-36. This is the first study to examine responsiveness of these instruments in revision THA patients in a systematic fashion...
- Risk factors for gout and prevention: a systematic review of the literature
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service and Center for Surgical Medical Acute care Research and Transitions C SMART, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Curr Opin Rheumatol 23:192-202. 2011
..Data from relevant articles meeting inclusion criteria were extracted using standardized forms...
- Botulinum toxin for shoulder pain: a cochrane systematic review
Jasvinder A Singh
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294 3408, USA
J Rheumatol 38:409-18. 2011
..To perform a Cochrane Systematic Review of benefits and harms of botulinum toxin for shoulder pain...
- Predictors of moderate-severe functional limitation after primary Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA): 4701 TKAs at 2-years and 2935 TKAs at 5-years
J A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 18:515-21. 2010
..Investigate whether body mass index (BMI), comorbidity, gender and age predict patient-reported functional limitation 2- and 5-years after primary Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)...
- A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of biologics for rheumatoid arthritis: a Cochrane overview
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, USA
CMAJ 181:787-96. 2009
..We sought to compare the benefits and safety of 6 biologics (abatacept, adalimumab, anakinra, etanercept, infliximab and rituximab) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis...
- Assessment of the methodologic quality of medical and surgical clinical trials in patients with arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, and Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
J Rheumatol 36:2642-54. 2009
..To assess the methodological quality of randomized controlled trials (RCT) of medical and surgical therapy in patients with arthroplasty...
- Intra-articular botulinum toxin A for refractory shoulder pain: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial
Jasvinder A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Medicine Service at the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Transl Res 153:205-16. 2009
..These data provide evidence to support the efficacy of this novel neurotoxin therapy that needs to be confirmed in a multicenter, randomized trial...
- Effect of resistance exercise on bone mineral density in premenopausal women
Jasvinder A Singh
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Rheumatology, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, 55417 MN, USA
Joint Bone Spine 76:273-80. 2009
..To assess the effect of 9 months of strength training on total body and regional bone mineral density (BMD, g/cm(2)) in 58 premenopausal women aged 30-50 years...
- Health care utilization in patients with spondyloarthropathies
J A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Medicine Service, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Rheumatology (Oxford) 48:272-6. 2009
..To study health care utilization in veterans with SpAs...
- Intra-articular botulinum toxin A as an adjunctive therapy for refractory joint pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving biologics: a report of two cases
Jasvinder A Singh
Minneapolis VA Medical Center and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Joint Bone Spine 76:190-4. 2009
..Intra-articular BoNT/A may be an additional therapeutic option in RA patients with persistent monoarthritis. A randomized study is underway to confirm these findings...
- Health-related quality of life in veterans with prevalent total knee arthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty
J A Singh
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Rheumatology 111R, One Veteran s Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Rheumatology (Oxford) 47:1826-31. 2008
..To study the HRQOL in veterans with prevalent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA) and compare them with age- and gender-matched US population and control veteran population without these procedures...
- Association of peptic ulcer disease and pulmonary disease with risk of periprosthetic fracture after primary total knee arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Birmingham VA Medical Center and University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:1471-6. 2011
..To assess the association of specific comorbidities with periprosthetic fractures after primary total knee replacement (TKR)...
- Quality of life and quality of care for patients with gout
Jasvinder A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Medicine Service, VA Medical Center, Rheumatology 111R, One Veteran s Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Curr Rheumatol Rep 11:154-60. 2009
..Further, evidence suggests that the quality of care provided to patients with gout may also impact health-related quality of life. This article reviews evidence concerning quality of care and quality of life for patients with gout...
- Effect of comorbidity on quality of life of male veterans with prevalent primary total knee arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Medicine Service, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Clin Rheumatol 28:1083-9. 2009
..Medical and psychiatric comorbidity impacts physical and mental/emotional HRQoL in patients with primary TKA. The impact differs by comorbidity. Higher comorbidity load negatively impacts both physical and mental/emotional HRQoL...
- Discordance between self-report of physician diagnosis and administrative database diagnosis of arthritis and its predictors
Jasvinder A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs VA Medical Center, and the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
J Rheumatol 36:2000-8. 2009
..To study predictors of discordance between self-reported physician diagnosis and administrative database diagnosis of arthritis...
- Higher comorbidity, poor functional status and higher health care utilization in veterans with prevalent total knee arthroplasty or total hip arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Medicine Service, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Clin Rheumatol 28:1025-33. 2009
..Poorer function and higher comorbidity and utilization in veterans with TKA/THA suggest that this group is appropriate for interventions targeted at improving function and decreasing utilization...
- Accuracy of Veterans Affairs databases for diagnoses of chronic diseases
Jasvinder A Singh
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A126. 2009
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- Age, gender, obesity, and depression are associated with patient-related pain and function outcome after revision total hip arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
Clin Rheumatol 28:1419-30. 2009
..7 (1.1, 2.7). Obesity and depression, considered modifiable clinical factors, were important independent predictors of pain, functional limitation and use of pain medications, following revision THA...
- Trial sample size, but not trial quality, is associated with positive study outcome
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Rheumatology Office 111 R, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis MN 55417, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 63:154-62. 2010
..To assess whether the reported trial quality or trial characteristics are associated with the trial outcome...
- Revision surgery following total shoulder arthroplasty: Analysis of 2588 shoulders over three decades (1976 to 2008)
J A Singh
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 510 20th Street South, Faculty Office Tower 805B, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Br 93:1513-7. 2011
..We concluded that male gender and rotator cuff disease are independent risk factors for revision after TSA. Future studies are needed to understand the biological rationale for these differences...
- Health-related quality of life predicts future health care utilization and mortality in veterans with self-reported physician-diagnosed arthritis: the veterans arthritis quality of life study
Jasvinder A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Medicine Service, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 34:755-65. 2005
..To investigate whether health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures predict health care utilization and mortality in a cohort of veterans with self-reported physician-diagnosed arthritis...
- Quality of care for gout in the US needs improvement
Jasvinder A Singh
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55417, USA
Arthritis Rheum 57:822-9. 2007
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- Minimally important differences of the gout impact scale in a randomized controlled trial
Dinesh Khanna
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 90095, USA
Rheumatology (Oxford) 50:1331-6. 2011
..Our objective was to assess minimally important differences (MIDs) for the GIS administered in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessing rilonacept vs placebo for prevention of gout flares during initiation of allopurinol therapy...
- Accuracy of the diagnoses of spondylarthritides in veterans affairs medical center databases
Jasvinder A Singh
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55417, USA
Arthritis Rheum 57:648-55. 2007
..To study the accuracy of diagnoses of spondylarthritides in computerized databases at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center...
- Higher body mass index is not associated with worse pain outcomes after primary or revision total knee arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
J Arthroplasty 26:366-374.e1. 2011
..Lack of association of higher BMI with poor pain outcomes post-TKA implies that TKA should not be denied to obese patients for fear of suboptimal outcomes...
- Predictors of moderate-severe functional limitation 2 and 5 years after revision total knee arthroplasty
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
J Arthroplasty 25:1091-5, 1095.e1-4. 2010
..At both 2 and 5 years of follow-up, BMI of 40 or higher, higher Deyo-Charlson score, female sex, and age greater than 80 years, each significantly predicted higher odds of moderate-severe overall activity limitation...
- Spondyloarthritis is associated with poor function and physical health-related quality of life
Jasvinder A Singh
heumatology Section, Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis 55417, USA
J Rheumatol 36:1012-20. 2009
..To study physical function and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in US veterans with spondyloarthritis (SpA)...
- Efficacy of intra-articular botulinum toxin type A in painful knee osteoarthritis: a pilot study
Andrea J Boon
Department of Physical Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
PM R 2:268-76. 2010
..The study investigators hypothesized that intra-articular BoNT-A would result in statistically significant improvements in pain and function at 8 weeks...
- Intra-articular Botulinum Toxin Type A: a new approach to treat arthritis joint pain
Maren Lawson Mahowald
Rheumatology Section, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Univ of Minnesota, MN 55417, USA
Toxicon 54:658-67. 2009
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- Comparison of patient-reported and clinician-assessed outcomes following total knee arthroplasty
Gaurav Khanna
Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 93:e117(1)-(7). 2011
..We hypothesized that patients would self-report worse pain and function and a similar range of knee motion than clinicians would...
- Effect of health-related quality of life on women and men's Veterans Affairs (VA) health care utilization and mortality
Jasvinder A Singh
Rheumatology Section, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1260-7. 2007
..Although women will account for almost 11% of veterans by 2040, we know little about their health and functioning, particularly compared to men...
- A population-based study of trends in the use of total hip and total knee arthroplasty, 1969-2008
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Mayo Clin Proc 85:898-904. 2010
..To study the rates of use of total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) during the past 4 decades...
- Accuracy of Veterans Administration databases for a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
Jasvinder A Singh
Minneapolis VA Medical Center and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55417, USA
Arthritis Rheum 51:952-7. 2004
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- The impact of gender, age, and preoperative pain severity on pain after TKA
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 466:2717-23. 2008
..LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, prognostic study. See the Guidelines for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence...
- Gout in the Hmong in the United States
Salman Wahedduddin
Division of Rheumatology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Clin Rheumatol 16:262-6. 2010
..To compare characteristics of gout in Hmong patients versus whites, and examine if Hmong ethnicity is associated with risk of tophaceous gout...
- Health-related quality of life, functional impairment, and healthcare utilization by veterans: veterans' quality of life study
Jasvinder A Singh
Medicine Service, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:108-13. 2005
..To describe the health status of veterans receiving care in a veterans integrated service network (VISN)...
- Pegloticase for chronic gout
Amy Anderson
Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center and University of Minnesota, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 55417
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3:CD008335. 2010
..AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: There are no published double-blind, placebo-controlled RCTs of pegloticase. More evidence is needed to assess risks/benefits of pegloticase in patients with chronic gout...
- Opioid use by patients in an orthopedics spine clinic
Maren L Mahowald
Rheumatology Section 111R, Minneapolis VAMC, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Arthritis Rheum 52:312-21. 2005
..The purpose of this study was to replicate our previous study in another large cohort of patients with nonmalignant pain due to well-defined spinal diseases...
- Anakinra for rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review
Marty Mertens
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Rheumatology 111R, One Veteran s Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
J Rheumatol 36:1118-25. 2009
..To perform a systematic review of clinical effectiveness and safety of anakinra in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
- Use of breath carbon monoxide measurements to assess erythrocyte survival in subjects with chronic diseases
Benjamin L Mitlyng
Department of Medicine, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1 Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
Am J Hematol 81:432-8. 2006
..We conclude that a modest (approximately 25%) reduction in RBC life span commonly occurs in patients with chronic disease, and this reduction becomes clinically relevant in subjects whose marrow cannot respond with increased RBC output...
- Spondyloarthropathy: an independent risk factor for kidney stones
Benjamin K Canales
Department of Urologic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0392, USA
J Endourol 20:542-6. 2006
..This finding suggests that SpA is an independent risk factor for nephrolithiasis. Future studies will evaluate urinary risk factors and polymorphisms in the ANKH gene that may predispose to stone formation in this high-risk group...
- Adverse effects of biologics: a network meta-analysis and Cochrane overview
Jasvinder A Singh
Department of Medicine, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Faculty Office Tower 805B, 510 20th Street South, Birmingham, USA, AL 35294
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2:CD008794. 2011
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- Use of biologics in rheumatoid arthritis: current and emerging paradigms of care
Jeffrey R Curtis
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Clin Ther 33:679-707. 2011
..Improved understanding of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathogenesis has led to the development of new biologic treatments that target specific elements of RA inflammatory response...
- Quantitative analysis of immunohistologic features of very early rheumatoid synovitis in disease modifying antirheumatic drug- and corticosteroid-naïve patients
Jasvinder A Singh
Division of Rheumatology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Rheumatol 31:1281-5. 2004
..Thus, there appear to be some potentially important differences from findings reported in well established disease...
