Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of long‐term intraarticular (IA) steroid injections
for knee pain related to osteoarthritis (OA). Methods In a randomized, double‐blind trial, 68 …

Objective: To study the relationship between viral infections and the induction of antiphospholipid
(aPL) antibodies. Methods: We reviewed the medical literature from 1968 until 2000 …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a highly heritable complex disease with unknown etiology. Multi-ancestry
genetic research of RA promises to improve power to detect genetic signals, fine-…

The medical literature was reviewed from 1968–2002 using Medline and the key words “intra-articular”
and “osteoarthritis” to determine the various intra-articular therapies used in the …

Thalassemia is a congenital hemolytic disease caused by defective globin synthesis
resulting in decreased quantity of globin chains. Although the life expectancy of β-thalassemia …

APS is an autoimmune disease that leads to arterial and/or venous thrombosis, recurrent
pregnancy loss and persistently positive aPLs. Patients with clinical manifestations highly …

Antiphospholipid syndrome, also known as ‘Hughes Syndrome’, is an autoimmune disease
characterised by a set of clinical manifestations, almost all of which are direct or indirect …

Various hematological pathologies have been described in association with antiphospholipid
syndrome (APS). Thrombocytopenia is frequently found in APS patients, its incidence has …

The diversity in our genome is crucial to understanding the demographic history of worldwide
populations. However, we have yet to know whether subtle genetic differences within a …

Background and objectives Behçet’s disease (BD) is a multi-system inflammatory disorder
that can cause vasculitis. Here we questioned whether Neutrophils in BD cause vasculitis via …