OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of sacroiliitis in patients who have back pain in
Crohn's disease (CD) using computed tomography (CT); and to reassess the association of …

Renal tubular handling of uric acid is dependent on tubular transporters, one of which is
GLUT9. Mutations of its gene SLC2A9 are associated with aberrations of uric acid disposal. …

Recent population surveys have strongly supported the association of gout and hyperuricaemia
with hypertension. The prevailing explanation that renal dysfunction causes both …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the 10 year outcome of hospital patients with established rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) treated with disease modifying drugs (DMARD). METHODS: All patients …

SIR, Improved therapies have dramatically increased our ability to suppress RA disease
activity. Short-term goaldirected therapy or treat-to-target, central to the management of …

India has a population of 1.2 billion and growing. It will overtake China by 2030. Neighbouring
Pakistan has a rapidly expanding population estimated at 188 million. The frequency and …

… Ryan, Terence Gibson, and Ignac Fogelman … Ryan PJ, Sherry M, Gibson 1, Fogelman I.
Treatment of Paget's disease by weekly infusions of 3 amino-hydroxypropylidene 1-1 …

Bone SPECT has acquired a useful role in the evaluation of acute and chronic back pain.
Spinal pain is also a characteristic of chronic ankylosing spondylitis. The authors investigated …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The abdomen is the sixth most common extrapulmonary site
after lymphatic, genitourinary, bone, joint and meningeal infection (Chaudery et al, 2010). …

Arthritis is a common feature of leprosy and contributes to disability. Direct invasion of joints
and bones by mycobacteria may lead to a destructive arthritis in lepromatous disease. The …