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... 9. Gordon D, Beastall GH, Thomson JA, Sturrock RD. Prolonged hypogonadism in male patients with rheumatoid arthritis during lares in disease activity. Rev Bras Reumatol 1988; 27:440-4. 10. Silva CA, ... See full document

... Brazilian tick borne disease caused possibly by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochete at its L form ( mutant), transmitted by ticks not belonging to Ixodes ricinus[r] ... See full document

... 8. Wilson WA, Gharavi AE, Koike T, Locksin MD, Branch DW, Piette JC et al. International consensus statement on preliminary classiication criteria for deinite antiphospholipid syndrome: report of an international ... See full document

... A patient with a diagnosis of AS since 1998 with axial involvement and history of pulmonary tuberculosis treated in 2002 and 2007, developed bilateral aspergillosis of the pulmonary [r] ... See full document

... We present a case of leprosy in which the patient presented, initially, asthenia and weight loss followed by symmetrical polyarthritis, involving small and large joints, a[r] ... See full document

... This is a 49 years old white female, divorced, from São Paulo, SP, Brazil, previously healthy, and sexually active. Initially, she was evaluated on a basic health unit where, during routine Papanicolau test, a ... See full document

... We undertook a systematic review of the main Brazilian studies using the LILACS, Scielo, and Medline databases searching for expressions like Febre Reumática and Rheumatic[r] ... See full document

... related to antiphospholipid syndrome in patients with chronic viral infections (hepatitis C virus/HIV infection): description of 82 cases. Cofactor dependence and isotype distributi[r] ... See full document

... All patients evaluated in the present study, regardless of the type of leishmaniasis (visceral or cutaneous), tested negative for anti-Sm antibodies.. Surprisingly, Argo[r] ... See full document

... Clinical manifestations were classiied into neurological syndromes and meningitis was found in half of the patients (50%), peripheral radiculitis in 16 (53.3%) and cranial neur[r] ... See full document

... evaluated the frequency of rheumatoid factor (RF), anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP), antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anti- neutrophil cytoplsmic ant[r] ... See full document

... The objective of the present study was to demonstrate the frequency of antibodies against a few infectious diseases (HIV, HBV, HCV, Chagas’ disease, and syphilis) in a [r] ... See full document

... 9. Gordon D, Beastall GH, Thomson JA, Sturrock RD. Prolonged hypogonadism in male patients with rheumatoid arthritis during lares in disease activity. Rev Bras Reumatol 1988; 27:440-4. 10. Silva CA, ... See full document

... The diagnosis or association of secondary hyperparathyroidism was ruled out in the present study, since all patients had elevated serum levels of calcium and normalization of PT[r] ... See full document

... Therefore, a review of the literature on the presence of a personality pattern in lupus patients is inconclusive. The results of studies on personality changes secondary to the disease[r] ... See full document

... In the present study, we observed that SLE patients had the same coronary artery disease risk as the control group according to the Framingham risk score, despite the elevated[r] ... See full document

... The results of the present study demonstrate that patients with Behçet’s disease do not have anti-lipoprotein lipase antibodies, although some of those individuals have at least one li[r] ... See full document

... Table 2 shows the demographic and socio-economic-cultural data, pubertal landmarks, sexual function, menstrual cycle, and cervicovaginal cytology of the 12 adolescents with JSLE [r] ... See full document

... Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP) is the most common type of vasculitis in children 3 to 10 years old, and it is characterized by the development of purpuric lesions, mainly on the lower [r] ... See full document

... alcohol abuse, intermittent bouts of arthritis, and high serum levels of uric acid, suggestive of gout, the differential diagno- sis between gout and rheumatoid arthritis (or the concom[r] ... See full document