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Early combination disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy and tight disease control improve long-term radiologic outcome in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: the 11-year results of the Finnish Rheumatoid Arthritis Combination Therapy trialVappu Rantalaiho
Department of Internal Medicine, Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Tampere University Hospital, PO Box 2000, FI 33521 Tampere, Finland
Arthritis Res Ther 12:R122. 2010..The aim of this study was to evaluate the radiologic progression beyond that time in patients with early RA initially treated with a combination of three disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) or a single DMARD...
Comparison of combination therapy with single-drug therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised trial. FIN-RACo trial groupT Mottonen
Division of Rheumatology, Turku University Central Hospital, Finland
Lancet 353:1568-73. 1999....
Delay to institution of therapy and induction of remission using single-drug or combination-disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy in early rheumatoid arthritisTimo Möttönen
Department of Medicine, Turku University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland
Arthritis Rheum 46:894-8. 2002....
Combination DMARD therapy including corticosteroids in early rheumatoid arthritisT T Möttönen
Department of Medicine, Turku University Central Hospital, Finland
Clin Exp Rheumatol 17:S59-65. 1999..Although still preliminary, these results should encourage the rheumatological community to treat selected RA patients with DMARD combinations from the very start...
Early suppression of disease activity is essential for maintenance of work capacity in patients with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis: five-year experience from the FIN-RACo trialKari Puolakka
Department of Medicine, Lappeenranta Central Hospital, Valto Käkelän katu 1, Lappeenranta FIN 53130, Finland
Arthritis Rheum 52:36-41. 2005..To explore the impact of an early treatment response on maintenance of work capacity in patients with early, active rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
Willingness to pay for improvement of physical function among rheumatoid arthritis patients as measured by Health Assessment QuestionnaireRisto Tuominen
Department of Public Health, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
Rheumatol Int 31:347-52. 2011..In conclusion, monetary value is a concrete way of portraying subjective valuation. WTP method is suitable for assessing functional deficits of rheumatoid arthritis...
Relative importance of the functional abilities comprising Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index among rheumatoid arthritis patientsRisto Tuominen
Department of Public Health, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
Rheumatol Int 30:1477-82. 2010..Assessment of RA patients' functional status would benefit from further development of measures by giving relative weights from patients' perspective to those functional abilities which are used for index computations...
Increased serum soluble transferrin receptor concentration detects subclinical iron deficiency in healthy adolescent girlsTimo I Takala
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Turku University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland
Clin Chem Lab Med 41:203-8. 2003..We suggest that soluble transferrin receptor concentrations above 2.4 mg/l indicate clinically relevant iron deficiency in adolescents...
Use of positron emission tomography with methyl-11C-choline and 2-18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose in comparison with magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of inflammatory proliferation of synoviumAnne Roivainen
Turku Positron Emission Tomography Centre, Turku, Finland
Arthritis Rheum 48:3077-84. 2003..To compare positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of inflammatory proliferation of synovium...
Perceived functional disabilities among rheumatoid arthritis patientsRisto Tuominen
Department of Public Health, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
Rheumatol Int 30:643-9. 2010..Furthermore, the studied functional measures ought to be weighted according to the relative influence of each function to the patients...
Bacterial components in the synovial tissue of patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis: analysis with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and pan-bacterial polymerase chain reactionTong Chen
Department of Medical Microbiology, Turku University, Turku, Finland
Arthritis Rheum 49:328-34. 2003..To study the presence of bacterial components in the synovial tissue (ST) of patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
