In professional football, most of the injuries are traumatic; however, these athletes may suffer from rheumatologic diseases, that present as sports-related injuries. Reactive arthritis (ReA) is classified a sub-group spondyloarthritis family and relatively rare. this article, we highlight successful return to play (RTP) process after ReA diagnosis in an elite football player Portuguese first l...

CONTEXT A detailed evaluation of the correlation and linearity of industrial hygiene retrospective exposure assessment (REA) for cumulative asbestos exposure with asbestos lung burden analysis (LBA) has not been previously performed, but both methods are utilized for case-control and cohort studies and other applications such as setting occupational exposure limits. OBJECTIVE (a) To correlate...

Synovial fluid cells from 12 patients with reactive arthritis (ReA) triggered by Chlamydia trachomatis were studied for the presence of Chlamydia DNA using the ligase chain reaction (LCR) LCx (Abbott) and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Amplicor (Roche). In addition, peripheral blood leucocytes from 11 of these patients were analysed by LCR. As controls, seven patients with newly diagnosed ...

The presentation of visual stimuli of moving mouth is known to affect the phoneme perception of the auditory stimuli during natural speech, and provides important insights into the scientific and technological study of speech. In order to investigate the laterality of the audio-visual integration we studied the relationship between the McGurk effect (McGurk and McDonaold 1976) and Right Ear Adv...

This paper describes an approach, which uses formal specifications, for the classification of REA patterns and their building blocks. In general, classification is essential – especially when the number of patterns of a collection increases. Budgen [Bud03] stresses the need and importance of exploring and evaluating “the most effective ways to index and classify patterns.” The number of pattern...

On a population-based level, the incidence of reactive arthritis (ReA) is 0.6-27/100,000. The definition of ReA varies and its pathogenesis is not yet clear. Attempts in basic immunology to suggest hypotheses for proliferation of forbidden B cell clones, molecular mimicry, and involvement of cross-reactive antibodies are helpful but not sufficient. Importantly, for the clinical diagnosis of the...

We find that prothymosin alpha (PTalpha) selectively enhances transcriptional activation by the estrogen receptor (ER) but not transcriptional activity of other nuclear hormone receptors. This selectivity for ER is explained by PTalpha interaction not with ER, but with a 37-kDa protein denoted REA, for repressor of estrogen receptor activity, a protein that we have previously shown binds to ER,...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic performance of classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and reactive arthritis (ReA) in an early synovitis outpatient clinic. METHODS In a prospective two year survey consecutive patients with early synovitis of less than one year duration were documented using a standardised registry and were classified after an expert diagnosis. Of a total o...

The extraordinary ability of Cryptococcus species to cause disease has focused the attention of scientists on finding ways to improve their identification methods. In this study, PCR-REA, manual methods (morphological and biochemical characteristics), API 20C and VITEK 2 were used to test identify a total of 30 Cryptococcus spp. from human and veterinary sources. PCR-REA was performed using the...

The design of a compact all-permanent magnet electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source injector for the ReAccelerator Facility (ReA) at the Michigan State University (MSU) National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) is currently being carried out. The ECR ion source injector will augment the electron beam ion trap (EBIT) charge breeder as an off-line stable ion beam injector for th...