background: periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis (ra) share a number of clinical and pathologic features, one of which is the presence of the tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-α)-induced bone resorption that is involved in the pathogenesis of both. objectives: to investigate the effect of tnf-α blockade on periodontal conditions in patients with active ra. method: the periodontal statuses of 3...

sjogren syndrome (ss) can occur alone, primary sjogren syndrome, or in association with other rheumatic diseases, secondary sjogren syndrome (sss), such as rheumatoid arthritis (ra). the occurrence of sjogren syndrome with ra makes it course worse and increases high morbidity and mortality of ra. in this exploratory study we aim to determine the prevalence of sss (diagnosed based on the revised...

please cite this article as: shafeian sh, bandehpour m, mirzaahmadi s, tofighi a. identification of anaerobic bacteria in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. . novel biomed 2013;1(2):39-42. background : there is a report about the 2-5% prevalence for septic arthritis by anaerobic bacteria. the relevance between synivitis and intestinal microbial flora has been a hypothesis for ten years. the pc...

to confirm the side-effects of gold sodium thiomalate (gstm), we carried out a retrospective study examining 102 consecutive patients with rheumatoid arthritis attending the rheumatology unit of hafez hospital, shiraz, iran, in whom gstm was initiated between 1983-1989. only patients with classical or definite ra (ara criteria) we(e included in this study. patients were categorized as having de...

multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) are mainly isolated from bone marrow or fat tissue. because of their potential of multilineage differentiation towards bone, cartilage and fat tissue, they were initially evaluated to develop innovative strategies for tissue engineering applications. more recently, they have gained interest based on their immunomodulatory pr...

background: reactive oxygen species (ros) have important role in the etiology and pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (ra). we investigated the effect of conjugated linoleic acids (clas) and vitamin e on lipid peroxidation. methods: in a randomized, double-blind placebo, controlled, clinical trial 87 patients with active ra were enrolled. they were divided into 4 groups, received one of the fo...

Background: Obesity is one of the causes of onset and exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis. However, limited studies have examined the association between body composition and severity of disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between severity of rheumatoid arthritis with various types of obesity and the comparison of anthropometric indices between patients with rheumato...