Abstract Introduction: Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) are described in individuals with leprosy without the clinical features of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), a condition involving thromboembolic phenomena. We have described the persistence of these antibodies for over 5 years in patients...
Abstract Objective: Determine food intake and levels of serum magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca) and correlate these minerals with pain, quality of life and depression risk in women with and without fibromyalgia (FM). Patients and methods: Fifty-three women diagnosed with FM and 50 healthy women participa...
Abstract Background: The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0 is a generic instrument to assess disability. Pain and psychological factors seem to play a pronounced disabling role in fibromyalgia (FM). There are few studies that investigate the factors associated with di...
Abstract Background/objective: Digital ulcers (DUs) represent a frequent complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc). The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical, serological and capillaroscopy features that are associated with DUs in patients with SSc. Methods: In this bicentric cross-sectional study,...
Abstract Objective: To compare the short-term effects of pulsed laser and pulsed and continuous ultrasound on pain and functional disability in women with chronic non-specific low back pain. Methods: The sample was composed of 100 volunteers randomly allocated into four groups: The Pulsed Laser Group (...
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the frequency of anti-collagen type V in humans with early systemic sclerosis (SSc) compared to defined SSc patients and healthy controls, since collagen type V was shown to be overexpressed in early SSc patients' skin and there is no data concerning the presence of this ...
Cruvinel, Wilson de Melo;
Andrade, Luis Eduardo Coelho;
von Mühlen, Carlos Alberto;
Dellavance, Alessandra;
Ximenes, Antônio Carlos;
Bichara, Carlos David;
Bueno, Cleonice;
Mangueira, Cristóvão Luis Pitangueira;
Bonfá, Eloísa;
Brito, Fabiano de Almeida;
Flumian, Fernanda Bull;
Silva, Glaucielen Gomes da;
Rêgo, Jozelia;
Anjos, Lisiane Maria Ericoni dos;
Slhessarenko, Natasha;
Pasoto, Sandra Gofinet;
Neves, Suzane Pretti Figueiredo;
Valim, Valéria;
Santos, Wilton Silva dos;
Francescantonio, Paulo Luiz Carvalho.
Abstract Background: The V Brazilian Consensus for determination of autoantibodies against cellular constituents on HEp-2 cells, held in Brasilia (DF, Brazil) on August 27, 2016, discussed the harmonization between the Brazilian Consensus on ANA (BCA) guidelines and the International Consensus on ANA Pa...
Abstract Background: The Indian Takayasu Clinical Activity Score (ITAS2010) was developed in 2010 as an assessment tool for disease activity in patients with Takayasu arteritis (TA). It has since been widely used in different studies and in clinical practice for the management of patients with TA. The p...
Abstract Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and severe complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This study aimed to evaluate clinical and laboratory risk factors associated with PAH in SLE patients. Methods: This was a retrospective case-control study in which patien...
