1 Doutor em Medicina Otorrinolaringologia (Professor adjunto e Chefe do Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás). 2 Doutora em Ciências da Saúde. (Fonoaudióloga Epidemiologista. Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO). 3 Otorrinolaringologista. (Médica otorrinolaringologista. Hospital das C...

BACKGROUND Chronic diseases are usually accompanied by psychological abnormalities. Anxiety and depression occur in a significant number of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These psychological problems are likely, to be the results of chronic physical symptoms such as pain and disability. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was the evaluation of mental health in patients with rheumatoid ...

OBJECTIVE An open-label, prospective, uncontrolled study created to investigate clinical response, serological changes and side effects in Greek patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after B-cell depletion with rituximab. METHODS Patients with high disease activity (disease activity score [DAS]-28 > 5.1) were selected for treatment with rituximab and received two infusions, 1 gr each, 2 we...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy and safety profiles of two different rituximab retreatment regimens in patients with RA. METHODS Four hundred and ninety-three RA patients with an inadequate response to MTX recruited into rituximab Phase II/III studies received further courses of open-label rituximab based on two approaches: (i) treatment to target (TT): patients assessed 24 weeks after each ...

The aim of this study is to assess the variations of the RF and ACCP in RA patients treated with biologics in actual clinical practice (real) conditions for a one-year follow-up from the first biologic medication. The evaluated patients with a diagnosis of RA, according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1987 were selected from the outpatient consult of Rheumatology of the “Hospital ...

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1Department of Neurology, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo SP, Brazil; 2Psychology Division, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo SP, Brazil. Correspondence: Eliane Correa Miotto; Divisão de Neurologia Clínica; Departamento de Neurologia; Avenida Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar 255; 05403-900 São Paulo SP Brasil; E-mail: [email protected]...

background: this study aims to investigate the effect of antioxidants supplement on clinical outcomes and antioxidant parameters in rheumatoid arthritis (ra). methods: the pre‑post study was conducted on 40 female patients with ra in 12 weeks that taken daily one “selenplus” capsule contained 50 μg selenium, 8 mg zinc, 400 μg vitamin a, 125 mg vitamin c, and 40 mg vitamin e. about 5 ml venous b...

Continuing the work K. C. Das, I. Gutman, B. Furtula, On second geometric-arithmetic index of graphs, Iran. J. Math Chem., 1(2) (2010) 17-28, in this paper we present lower and upper bounds on the third geometric-arithmetic index GA3 and characterize the extremal graphs. Moreover, we give Nordhaus-Gaddum-type result for GA3.

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic and chronic disease. Combined indicators, such as disease activity score or DAS-28, can be used to categorize quantitative status recovery. But in this calculation there no difference between using ESR CRP. Some studies have showed that CRP instead of will cause the severity underestimated. The aim study was comparison DAS-28 determining patients w...