Joint, bone, spine : revue du rhumatisme
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Letter Case Reports
Toxidermia under treatment with tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of unstable shoes on chronic low back pain in health professionals: a randomized controlled trial.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of unstable shoes in reducing low back pain in health professionals. ⋯ The results of this clinical trial suggest that wearing unstable shoes for 6 weeks significantly decreases low back pain in patients suffering from chronic low back pain but had no significant effect on quality of life and disability scores.
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This study aimed to evaluate the utility of imaging techniques, including 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT), in immunoglobulin (IgG)4-related disease (IgG4-RD). ⋯ When FDG-PET/CT shows FDG accumulation, characteristic of IgG4-RD in organs, without evidence of an associated inflammatory reaction, a diagnosis of IgG4-RD can be made. Treatment effects can be assessed by the disappearance of FDG uptake. A routine brain MRI is useful for detecting asymptomatic hypertrophic pachymeningitis. EBUS may also be useful for differentiating among the etiologies of lymphadenopathy with characteristic sonographic imaging findings.
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To measure catastrophizing scores in patients on biotherapy for spondyloarthritis (SpA) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA). ⋯ One-fourth of patients with SpA or RA had very high pain catastrophizing scores despite biotherapy. Pain catastrophizing was missed by the physicians in half the cases and was relatively independent from other follow-up parameters. Pain catastrophizing can jeopardize treatment outcomes and deserves specific management.