Antipolymer antibody in Italian fibromyalgic patients

Concise report Fibromyalgic rheumatoid arthritis and disease assessment

Objective. We evaluated fibromyalgic RA to determine its clinical impact, identification using core clinical assessments and influence identifying active disease using disease activity scores (DAS-28). Methods. We examined the impact and identification using core clinical assessments (tender minus swollen joint counts) of fibromyalgic RA (511 tender points) in initial (105 patients) and replica...

Harm Avoidance and Self-Directedness Characterize Fibromyalgic Patients and the Symptom Severity

OBJECTIVE Evidence in the literature suggests peculiar personality traits for fibromyalgic (FM) patients, and it has been suggested that personality characteristics may be involved in patients' different symptomatic events and responses to treatment. The aim of the study is to investigate the personality characteristics of Italian FM patients and to explore the possibility of clustering them co...

Antipolymer antibodies in Danish fibromyalgia patients.

OBJECTIVE To use a new immunologic assay to investigate antipolymer antibody (APA) levels in women with fibromyalgia (FM). METHODS The study population consisted of 35 patients with FM and 129 controls. The controls were selected based on a prior history of breast surgery and the presence or absence of a prior hospital diagnosis of soft tissue rheumatism. Study subjects underwent blood sampli...

Muscle Modifications in Fibromyalgic Patients Revealed Byy Surface Electromyographyy (semg)analysis

The effect on treatment response of fibromyalgic symptoms in early rheumatoid arthritis patients: results from the ESPOIR cohort.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether patients with RA who belong to the spectrum of fibromyalgic RA (FRA) have an impaired response to treatment measured by traditional activity scores. METHODS Patients from the ESPOIR cohort were analysed. This prospective cohort included 813 patients with early arthritis not initially receiving DMARDs. Among the 697 patients who met RA classification criteria, we ...