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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510076

Foot Pain and Lesions in Systemic Sclerosis: Prevalence and Association with Organ Involvement

Hadi Poormoghim, Elham Andalib, Arash Jalali, Maryam Salimi-beni and Gholam Hossein Ghafarpour

Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5

In this cross-section study 133 scleroderma patients were probed throughout a survey in which both forms of digital and non-digital plantar lesions were included. Chi-square test and student’s t-test were used to determine the associations of foot pain and lesion with clinical features and serologic findings of the disease. multivariate analysis was used for determining independent factors associated with foot lesion and pain. Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic devastating multi organ disea...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510075

Hidden Toxicity of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Ingredients

Arthur E Brawer, MD

Article Type: Case Report | Indexed Archive: Volume 5

Over the past five years clinicians from numerous countries have implicated human papillomavirus (HPV) immunizations as the cause of diverse systemic ailments, egregious injuries, and even death. Vaccine ingredients in Gardasil and Cervarix contain hidden organosiloxanes (organosilicones) and silica (silicon dioxide), all of which are capable of creating biochemical disturbances that are strikingly similar to the metabolic disruptions identified in both chronic fatigue syndrome and the recurrent...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510074

Optimise: An Austrian Multicentre Study on the Effectiveness and Safety of Tocilizumab in Combination with Methotrexate versus Tocilizumab for Mild/Moderate Rheumatoid Arthritis and an Inadequate Response to Methotrexate

Burkhard F Leeb, Raimund Lunzer, Peter Fasching, Manfred Herold, Omid Zamani, Ute Riedlmair, Wolfgang Schimetta and Winfried B Graninger

Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5

As data on the efficacy of biologics in patients with mild/moderate rheumatoid arthritis are limited, this study was performed to assess the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab plus methotrexate versus tocilizumab monotherapy on disease activity. Additional tocilizumab treatment led to improvement in patients with mild/moderate rheumatoid arthritis. The study results give no indication that the combination of Tocilizumab with Methotrexate induces a better outcome (preserving the level of disease ...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510073

ANA-Hep2 Positive with Anti-Rods and Rings Pattern in a Child without Hepatitis C under Treatment: Case Report

Mariana Magerl, Rinaldo Ferreira Gandra and Rafael Andrade Menolli

Article Type: Case Report | Indexed Archive: Volume 5

The immunofluorescence pattern of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) called rings and rods (RR) has only recently been described. This pattern has been associated with patients with Hepatitis C at treatment. There are few studies that demonstrate their appearance in healthy individuals or with other health conditions. This study reports positivity of this autoantibody in a patient never exposed to the HCV virus, in order to understand its clinical significance....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510072

Dietary Habits of Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis Differ from that of Women without the Disease: Results from a Population-Based Study

Klara Nypelius Standley, Inger Gjertsson, Anna Winkvist and Helen M Lindqvist

Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5

Nutritional status of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often poor. In addition, popular trends in avoiding certain foods have been noted among patients with RA yet recent data on dietary intake is lacking. The aim of the present study was to examine possible differences in food intake between Swedish women with and without RA. In total 150 women with RA, selected from the Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register, and 163 women without RA, answered a postal food frequency questionnaire inc...

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