OBJECTIVE To describe the typical sites of stress fractures in the lower extremities and pelvis in rheumatoid patients (rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile chronic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis). METHODS Thirty-three patients with 52 stress fractures [mean age 44 years (range 11-73)] were studied at the authors' institution when they were being treated for their rheumatic ...

The American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) JCA Special Issue Writing Committee is charged with reviewing, updating and categorizating indications for therapeutic apheresis. Beginning with the 2007 ASFA Special Issue (Fourth Edition), the committee has incorporated systematic review and evidence-based approach in the grading and categorization of indications. This Sixth Edition of the ASFA Specia...

One of the main objectives of the ABC4Trust project was to define a common, unified architecture for Privacy-ABC systems to allow comparing their respective features and combining them into common platforms. The chapter presents an overview of features and concepts of Privacy-ABCs and introduces the architecture proposed by ABC4Trust, describing the layers and components as well as the highleve...

One hundred and seventy patients with rheumatological disease diagnosed before their 16th birthday and still on follow up were studied retrospectively. They were seen within the last 3 years at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National Skin Centre or Singapore General Hospital. Of these, 89 were still less than 16 years old at the time of study. The majority had syste...

Various studies have empirically shown that the majority of Java and Android applications misuse cryptographic libraries, causing devastating breaches data security. It is crucial to detect such misuses early in development process. To cryptography misuses, one must define secure uses first, a ...

hip arthroplasty for primary osteoarthrosis in younger patients in the Finnish Ar-throplasty Register – 4661 primary replacements followed for 0-22 years.cemented total hip arthroplasty in young patients – a mid-to long-term follow-up study from the Finnish Arthroplasty Register. Total hip arthro-plasty for rheumatoid arthritis in younger patients. 2557 replacements in the Finnish Arthroplasty ...

When a vulnerability is discovered in a cryptographic algorithm, or in a specific implementation of that algorithm, it is important that software using that algorithm or implementation is upgraded quickly. Hence, modern cryptographic libraries such as the Java Cryptographic Architecture and Extensions (JCA/JCE) and the .NET crypto libraries are designed to be extensible with new algorithms. In ...

OBJECTIVE The national registry of spondyloarthropathies (REGISPONSER) is launched to classify patients with this group of diseases treated in Spanish rheumatology clinics. This manuscript describes the methodological and organizational background as well as characteristics of patients finally included, and provides a comparative analysis between characteristics of both ankylosing spondylitis a...