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Early treatment in early undifferentiated arthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Potenza and Matera, Italy
Autoimmun Rev 11:589-92. 2012....- Pharmacoeconomic issues in psoriatic arthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol Suppl 89:103-5. 2012..Pharmacoeconomic studies on these drugs so far have shown that they are cost-effective on both the musculoskeletal and skin manifestations of psoriatic disease, offering good value for money... 
Low frequency of axial involvement in southern Italian Caucasian children with HLA-B27 positive juvenile onset undifferentiated spondyloarthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie of Matera, Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 30:290-6. 2012..To establish how many children with HLA B27-positive juvenile undifferentiated spondyloarthritis (JuSpA) living in southern Italy develop axial disease after 5 years of disease...- Efficacy of adalimumab in patients with Behçet's disease unsuccessfully treated with infliximabIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Potenza and Matera, Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 29:S54-7. 2011..To evaluate the clinical response after switching from infliximab to adalimumab in patients with Behçet's disease (BD)... - Psoriatic arthritis: pharmacoeconomic considerationsIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Ospedale San Carlo, Contrada Macchia Romana, Potenza, Italy
Curr Rheumatol Rep 11:263-9. 2009..Nevertheless, recent pharmacoeconomic studies have demonstrated that TNF-alpha blockers are cost-effective treatment options for the musculoskeletal and cutaneous manifestations of psoriatic disease... - Dactylitis of the thumb extending to the radial bursaIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 30:1626-7. 2003 - Late-onset rheumatoid arthritis and late-onset spondyloarthritisI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Potenza, Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 27:S139-45. 2009.... - Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: differentiation from ankylosing spondylitisIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Ospedale San Carlo, Contrada Macchia Romana, Potenza 85100, Italy
Curr Rheumatol Rep 11:321-8. 2009..This article reviews the clinical and radiologic characteristics that should help clinicians differentiate between the two diseases without much difficulty... - Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis may give the typical postural abnormalities of advanced ankylosing spondylitisI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Rheumatology (Oxford) 46:1709-11. 2007..To describe a case-series of patients who presented with the typical postural abnormalities of long-standing advanced ankylosing spondylitis (AS) but were instead found to suffer from diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)... - Switching tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitors in HLA-B27-associated severe heel enthesitisIgnazio Olivieri
San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 57:1572-4. 2007 - Successful treatment of severe Behçet's disease with infliximab in an Italian Olympic athleteIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 35:930-2. 2008..After the first 3 infusions, the mucocutaneous lesions disappeared and cystoid macular edema was much improved. Cyclosporine was stopped and the prednisone dose was progressively tapered until the cystoid macular edema disappeared... - Fast spin echo-T2-weighted sequences with fat saturation in toe dactylitis of spondyloarthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Contrada Macchia Romana, Potenza, Italy
Clin Rheumatol 27:1141-5. 2008..No lesions were observed in the 12 contralateral clinically normal toes. In SpA toe dactylitis there is no evidence of enthesitis of the flexor digitorum brevis and longus tendons and joint capsules... - RS3PE syndrome: an overviewI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 18:S53-5. 2000.... - Hepatitis C virus and arthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Lucania Department of Rheumatology, San Carlo Hospital, Contrada Macchia Romana, Potenza 85100, Italy
Rheum Dis Clin North Am 29:111-22. 2003..This topic should be more accurately studied in the future to exclude a spurious association between the two events... - Usefulness of plain film radiography in the diagnosis of dactylitis by history-takingIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100 Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 32:1379. 2005 - Lack of association with spondyloarthritis and HLA-B27 in Italian patients with Whipple's diseaseI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Ospedale S Carlo, Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100 Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 28:1294-7. 2001..To examine consecutive patients with Whipple's disease (WD) for the full clinical spectrum of spondyloarthritis... - Ankylosing spondylitis and undifferentiated spondyloarthropathies: a clinical review and description of a disease subset with older age at onsetI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Italy
Curr Opin Rheumatol 13:280-4. 2001..In these cases spondyloarthropathy must be differentiated from other inflammatory rheumatic diseases with elderly onset showing the same distal inflammatory swelling with pitting edema... - Pharmacological management of SAPHO syndromeIgnazio Olivieri
S Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Potenza, Italy
Expert Opin Investig Drugs 15:1229-33. 2006..In any case, larger, multi-centre, controlled, double-blind studies are required to emerge from the present pioneering phase... - Dactylitis, a term for different digit diseasesI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Potenza, Italy
Scand J Rheumatol 35:333-40. 2006..There is no evidence of enthesitis of flexor digitorum tendons and joint capsule... - Dactylitis of the thumb and the little finger extending to the carpal tunnelIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenta and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital, Matera, Italy
J Rheumatol 34:1155-6. 2007 - Imaging of psoriatic arthritisI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Potenza and Matera, Italy
Reumatismo 59:73-6. 2007..There is no evidence of enthesitis of the insertion of the flexor digitorum tendons and of the attachment of the capsule of the digit joints... - Seronegative spondyloarthritidesIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Ospedale San Carlo, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Evazie Hospital of Matera, 85100, Potenza, Italy
Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol 16:723-39. 2002..Of the patients studied, 18% met these criteria. Undifferentiated spondyloarthritis is one of the most frequent spondyloarthritides. It also includes a number of different subtypes... - Management issues with elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis: an updateIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Matera and Potenza S Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Chieti, Italy
Drugs Aging 22:809-22. 2005..Recently marketed compounds such as leflunomide and tumour necrosis factor-alpha antagonists have also increased the therapeutic opportunities for aged RA patients... - Sensitivity of the classification of psoriatic arthritis criteria in early psoriatic arthritisSalvatore D'Angelo
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Ospedale San Carlo, Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100 Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 36:368-70. 2009..To determine the sensitivity of the CASPAR criteria in patients with early psoriatic arthritis (PsA)... - Etanercept in spondyloarthopathies. Part II: safety and pharmacoeconomic issuesSalvatore D'Angelo
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 29:865-70. 2011..Recent pharmacoeconomic studies have demonstrated its cost-effectiveness in the treatment of SpA... - Hepatitis C virus-related arthritisCarlo Palazzi
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Potenza, Italy
Autoimmun Rev 8:48-51. 2008..Specific anti-viral therapy (interferon-alpha+ribavirin) must be accurately evaluated because interferon-alpha can induce the development or the worsening of several autoimmune HCV-related disorders including arthritis... - Treatment strategies for early psoriatic arthritisIgnazio Olivieri
San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Rheumatology Department Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100, Potenza, Italy
Expert Opin Pharmacother 10:271-82. 2009..This changed with the introduction of the TNF-alpha-blocking agents, as a result of which the early diagnosis of PsA is now a topic of great interest... - Fast spin echo-T2-weighted sequences with fat saturation in dactylitis of spondylarthritis. No evidence of entheseal involvement of the flexor digitorum tendonsIgnazio Olivieri
San Carlo Hospital, Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital, Matera, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 46:2964-7. 2002..No lesions were observed in the 11 contralateral, clinically normal fingers. CONCLUSION: In SpA dactylitis there is no evidence of enthesitis of the flexor digitorum tendons and joint capsules... - Pharmacological management of undifferentiated spondyloarthropathiesCarlo Palazzi
Division of Rheumatology, Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti, Italy
Expert Opin Investig Drugs 15:39-46. 2006..Local administration of corticosteroids is useful when a small number of joints are involved, as is also the case for the extra-articular localisations of soft tissues... - Hepatitis C virus infection in psoriatic arthritisCarlo Palazzi
Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 53:223-5. 2005..To evaluate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), compared with patients affected by non HCV-related rheumatic degenerative disorders... - Emerging drugs for psoriatic arthritisIgnazio Olivieri
San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Contrada Macchia Romana, Potenza, Italy
Expert Opin Emerg Drugs 15:399-414. 2010.... - The HLA-B*2709 subtype in a woman with early ankylosing spondylitisIgnazio Olivieri
San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 56:2805-7. 2007 - Etanercept in spondyloarthropathies. Part I: current evidence of efficacyCarlo Palazzi
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie of Matera, Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 29:858-64. 2011..Furthermore, although only a few studies are available, very interesting results have been obtained in patients suffering from undifferentiated spondyloarthropathies and severe enthesitis... - Late onset undifferentiated spondyloarthritis presenting with polymyalgia rheumatica features: description of seven casesIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Rheumatol Int 27:927-33. 2007..The possibility that late onset uSpA may have PMR-like features at the beginning of the disease should be taken into account. The diagnosis is not difficult if the entire clinical spectrum of SpA is considered... - Purpura and serum mixed cryoglobulinemia in psoriatic arthritisCarlo Palazzi
Division of Rheumatology, Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti, Italy
Rheumatol Int 27:187-9. 2006..The presence of type III mixed cryoglobulinemia in serum was the only possible detected cause. Discrepancies with the hepatitis C virus-related mixed cryoglobulinemia picture are discussed... - Autoantibodies in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: pitfalls for the diagnosis of rheumatic diseasesCarlo Palazzi
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Italy
Autoimmun Rev 11:659-63. 2012.... - Inconstant bursa between head of 5th metatarsal bone and tendon of abductor digiti minimi in psoriatic arthritisGiovanni Ciancio
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Hospital of Matera, Italy
J Rheumatol 29:851-2. 2002 - New insights in occult psoriatic arthritisCarlo Palazzi
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol Suppl 89:22-3. 2012..Since an asymptomatic course was also reported for other spondyloarthropathies, the concept of occult arthritis could be expanded to the whole field of such conditions... - Dactylolysis spontanea or ainhum involving the big toeIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 32:2437-9. 2005..It usually affects the fifth toe bilaterally, but in rare cases other toes may be involved. The disease occurs in Black people living in tropical regions but occasionally has been reported in persons having fair skin... - Psoriatic arthritis sine psoriasisIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, 85100 Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol Suppl 83:28-9. 2009..The ClASiffication of Psoriatic ARthritis (CASPAR) criteria of PsA include PsA sine psoriasis... - Management of reactive arthritisCarlo Palazzi
Unità Operativa Reumatologia, Casa di Cura, Villa Pini d Abruzzo, Via Dei Frentani, 228, Chieti, Italy
Expert Opin Pharmacother 5:61-70. 2004..In more aggressive cases, or when ReA evolves towards ankylosing spondylitis, TNF-alpha blockers could represent an effective choice... - The HLA-B*2709 subtype confers susceptibility to spondylarthropathyIgnazio Olivieri
San Carlo Hospital de Potenza and Hospital of Matera, Matera, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 46:553-4. 2002 - Aortitis and periaortitis in ankylosing spondylitisCarlo Palazzi
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Potenza and Matera, Italy
Joint Bone Spine 78:451-5. 2011..Both aortitis (with conduction system alterations) and periaortitis should be kept in mind by the physicians because they can significantly influence the prognosis of ankylosing spondylitis patients and they can need a rapid treatment... - Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriasis Projects in Italy: A Report from the GRAPPA 2011 Annual MeetingAlberto Cauli
From the Department of Medical Science, Policlinico di Monserrato, University of Cagliari, Monserrato Rheumatology Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso Research Unit and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Federico II, Naples and Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza, Potenza, and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Matera, Italy
J Rheumatol 39:2201-3. 2012.... - Supernumerary metatarsal boneFrancesco Borraccia
Radiology Department, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 33:633. 2006 
The psoriatic arthritis cost evaluation study: a cost-of-illness study on tumour necrosis factor inhibitors in psoriatic arthritis patients with inadequate response to conventional therapyI Olivieri
Rheumatology Department, Ospedale San Carlo, Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Rheumatology (Oxford) 47:1664-70. 2008..To evaluate costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness of anti-TNF agents in PsA patients with inadequate response to conventional treatment...- Italian evidence-based recommendations for the management of ankylosing spondylitis: the 3E Initiative in RheumatologyS D' Angelo
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Potenza Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 26:1005-11. 2008..The objective of the Italian part of the 3E Initiative was to develop new recommendations designed to help Italian rheumatologists in everyday clinical practice management of patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis (AS)... - Non-rheumatoid erosive arthritis associated with type I hereditary angioedemaC Palazzi
Division of Rheumatology, Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti, Italy
Clin Rheumatol 24:632-3. 2005..A concomitance with pure arthritis was previously reported only in two adult patients. Here, we describe for the first time the association between HAE and a non-rheumatoid erosive oligoarthritis involving hips and wrists... - Hepatitis C virus infection in Italian patients with fibromyalgiaC Palazzi
Division of Rheumatology, Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti, Italy
Clin Rheumatol 27:101-3. 2008..Our present report does not confirm previous data indicating an increased prevalence of HCV in FM patients and does not seem to support a significant pathogenetic role of HCV under this condition... - Juvenile onset psoriatic arthritis in a patient with X-linked agammaglobulinemia (Bruton's disease)C Palazzi
Division of Rheumatology, Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti, Italy
Scand J Rheumatol 32:309-11. 2003..Chronic inflammatory (bacterial?) involvement of the bowel could represent a pathogenetic connection between X-linked agammaglobulinemia and PsA... - Association between vitiligo and spondyloarthritisA Padula
Rheumatology Department of Lucania, S. Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
J Rheumatol 28:313-4. 2001..CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that vitiligo and SpA do not coexist by chance and that vitiligo should be included in the list of diseases associated with SpA... - Aortic involvement in ankylosing spondylitisC Palazzi
Department of Internal Medicine, Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti, Italy
Clin Exp Rheumatol 26:S131-4. 2008..Rheumatologists managing AS patients should carefully consider, both in late and in early phases of the disease, the occurrence of an aortic involvement in order to promptly administer adequate treatment... - Persistent efficacy of tumor necrosis factor alpha blockage therapy in SAPHO syndrome: comment on the article by Wagner et alIgnazio Olivieri
Arthritis Rheum 48:1467; author reply 1467-8. 2003 - Dactylitis or "sausage-shaped" digitIgnazio Olivieri
J Rheumatol 34:1217-22. 2007 - Juvenile onset isolated HLA-B27-associated dactylitisAngela Padula
Semin Arthritis Rheum 32:341-2. 2003 - Efficacy of tumor necrosis factor alpha blockade for enthesitis in spondylarthropathy: comment on the article by Marzo-Ortega et alIgnazio Olivieri
Arthritis Rheum 46:3396-8; author reply 3398. 2002 - Fat suppression magnetic resonance imaging in shoulders of patients with polymyalgia rheumaticaFabrizio Cantini
2nd Divisione di Medicina, Unita Reumatologica, Ospedale di Prato, Bologna, Italy
J Rheumatol 31:120-4. 2004..To evaluate the sites of inflammatory process in the shoulders of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) using fat suppressed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)... - Involvement of an inconstant bursa under the head of the second metatarsal bone in spondyloarthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Clin Rheumatol 23:93-4. 2004 - Effects of a combination treatment of an intensive rehabilitation program and etanercept in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a pilot studyEnnio Lubrano
Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Unit, Maugeri Foundation IRCCS, Research Institute for Rehabilitative Medicine, Telese Terme, Italy
J Rheumatol 33:2029-34. 2006..To determine the effects of a combination treatment including rehabilitation and etanercept versus rehabilitation only, on function, disability, and quality of life in a group of patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS)... - Switching from infliximab to once-weekly administration of 50 mg etanercept in resistant or intolerant patients with ankylosing spondylitis: results of a fifty-four-week studyFabrizio Cantini
Unita Reumatologica, Hospital of Prato, Prato, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 55:812-6. 2006 - New approaches in the treatment of Adamantiades-Behçet's diseaseNicolo Pipitone
Unità Operativa di Reumatologia, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Policlinico Universitario, Palermo, Italy
Curr Opin Rheumatol 18:3-9. 2006..To update clinicians on the recent advances in the treatment of Adamantiades-Behçet's disease... - Management of hepatitis C virus-related arthritisCarlo Palazzi
Villa Pini Clinic, Division of Rheumatology, Via Dei Frentani, 228, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Expert Opin Pharmacother 6:27-34. 2005..On the basis of the poor available data, the administration of anti-TNF-alpha agents seems safe in HCV patients, but the usually non-aggressive course of HCVrA does not justify their use as a current therapy... - Infliximab for the treatment of Neuro-Behçet's disease: a case series and review of the literatureNicolo Pipitone
Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 59:285-90. 2008 - Lateral epicondylitis with marked soft tissue swelling in spondyloarthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Clin Rheumatol 23:275-6. 2004 - Enthesitis of spondylarthritis can masquerade as Osgood-Schlatter disease by radiographic findingsIgnazio Olivieri
Arthritis Rheum 49:147-8. 2003 - Ileal pouchitis-related arthritisIgnazio Olivieri
Semin Arthritis Rheum 32:204-5. 2002 - Epidemiology and clinical course of Behçet's disease in the Reggio Emilia area of Northern Italy: a seventeen-year population-based studyCarlo Salvarani
Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 57:171-8. 2007..To investigate the epidemiology and clinical course of Behçet's disease (BD) over a 17-year period in a defined area of northern Italy... - Renal cell carcinoma mimicking polymyalgia rheumatica. Clues for a correct diagnosisLaura Niccoli
2nd Divisione di Medicina, , Ospedale di Prato, Italy
Scand J Rheumatol 31:103-6. 2002.... - Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphisms in Behçet's diseaseCarlo Salvarani
Laboratorio di Biologia Molecolare, Ospedale di Reggio Emilia, Italy
J Rheumatol 29:535-40. 2002..To analyze potential associations of Glu-Asp298 polymorphism in exon 7 and 4 a/b polymorphism in intron 4 of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene with susceptibility for Behçet's disease (BD)... - Treatment of refractory polymyalgia rheumatica with infliximab: a pilot studyCarlo Salvarani
Unita Reumatologica, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
J Rheumatol 30:760-3. 2003..To investigate whether infliximab has a steroid-sparing effect in the treatment of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) who are resistant to corticosteroid (CS) therapy and have had CS-related side effects... - EnthesitisIgnazio Olivieri
Rheumatology Department, , UVSQ University, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol 20:473-86. 2006..This advance has been occurring simultaneously with the therapeutic advances in spondyloarthritis due to the introduction of anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha agents... - Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, or psoriatic disease?Raffaele Scarpa
J Rheumatol 33:210-2. 2006 - Efficacy of infliximab in resistant psoriatic arthritisCarlo Salvarani
Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 49:541-5. 2003..To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha monoclonal antibody infliximab in the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) resistant to previous symptom modifying antirheumatic drugs... - Colour duplex ultrasonography in the management of giant cell arteritisGiuseppe Nicoletti
Clin Rheumatol 22:508-9. 2003 - Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs reduce radiographic progression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a randomized clinical trialAstrid Wanders
University Hospital, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Arthritis Rheum 52:1756-65. 2005..CONCLUSION: A strategy of continuous use of NSAIDs reduces radiographic progression in symptomatic patients with AS, without increasing toxicity substantially... - The challenge of early diagnosis of psoriatic arthritisIgnazio Olivieri
J Rheumatol 35:3-5. 2008 - Vascular endothelial growth factor gene polymorphisms in Behçet's diseaseCarlo Salvarani
Unità di Reumatologia and Laboratorio di Biologia Molecolare, Ospedale di Reggio Emilia, Bologna, Italy
J Rheumatol 31:1785-9. 2004..To evaluate potential associations of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene polymorphisms with Behçet's disease (BD) and disease expression... - Are polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis the same disease?Fabrizio Cantini
2nd Divisione de Medicina, Unita Reumatologica, Ospedale di Prato, Prato, Italy
Semin Arthritis Rheum 33:294-301. 2004..To summarize the evidence about the relationship between polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA)... - Factor V Leiden and prothrombin gene G20210A mutations in Italian patients with Behçet's disease and deep vein thrombosisMauro Silingardi
Ospedale di Reggio Emilia, Regio Emilia, Italy
Arthritis Rheum 51:177-83. 2004..To evaluate the frequency and type of vascular lesions and to study the association of factor V gene G1691A (Leiden) and prothrombin gene G20210A polymorphisms with venous thrombosis in Italian patients with Behçet's disease (BD)...