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Long-Term Persistence of Serum-Specific Anti-Chikungunya IgM Antibody - A Case ...
Costa,Denise Maria do Nascimento; Coêlho,Maria Rosângela Cunha Duarte; Gouveia,Pedro Alves da Cruz; Bezerra,Luan Araújo; Marques,Claudia Diniz LopesAbstract The persistence of serum-specific anti-chikungunya IgM antibodies (CHIKV-IgM) can vary after chikungunya fever (CHIK) infection. However, the factors related to its production are not yet known. We described a case series drawn up from data collected from 57 patients between 12 and 36 months after the acute phase of CHIK infection in Northeastern Brazil. CHIKV-IgM was detectable in 7/57 (12.3%) patient...
Update on the treatment of musculoskeletal manifestations in chikungunya fever:...
Brito,Carlos Alexandre Antunes de; Marques,Cláudia Diniz Lopes; Falcão,Melissa Barreto; Cunha,Rivaldo Venâncio da; Simon,FabriceAbstract Since the emergence of the chikungunya virus in Brazil in 2014, more than 700,000 cases have been reported throughout the country, corresponding to one-third of all cases reported in the Americas. In addition to its high attack rates, resulting in hundreds of thousands of cases, the disease has high chronicity rates with persistent joint manifestations for more than 3 months, which can spread to more t...
Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for diagnosis and trea...
Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Ranzolin,Aline; Dantas,Andrea Tavares; Cavalcanti,Nara GualbertoAbstract Chikungunya fever has become a relevant public health problem in countries where epidemics occur. Until 2013, only imported cases occurred in the Americas, but in October of that year, the first cases were reported in Saint Marin island in the Caribbean. The first autochthonous cases were confirmed in Brazil in September 2014; until epidemiological week 37 of 2016, 236,287 probable cases of infection w...
Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the diagnosis and ...
Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Ranzolin,Aline; Dantas,Andrea Tavares; Cavalcanti,Nara GualbertoAbstract Chikungunya fever has become an important public health problem in countries where epidemics occur because half of the cases progress to chronic, persistent and debilitating arthritis. Literature data on specific therapies at the various phases of arthropathy caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection are limited, lacking quality randomized trials assessing the efficacies of different therapies. The...
Avaliação de dor e qualidade de vida de pacientes com fibromialgia
Lorena,Suélem Barros de; Pimentel,Eduardo Augusto dos Santos; Fernandes,Vanessa Medeiros; Pedrosa,Márcio Botelho; Ranzolin,AlineRESUMO JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: Sabe-se que a fibromialgia é uma síndrome musculoesquelética caracterizada por dor crônica e generalizada. Considerando que a dor é um sintoma que traz implicações diretas na vida dos pacientes acometidos, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a dor e a qualidade de vida de pacientes com fibromialgia para melhor compreender a correlação entre essas variáveis. MÉTODOS: Estudo tran...
High frequency of asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism in patients with fibromyalgi...
Costa,Juliana Maria de Freitas Trindade; Ranzolin,Aline; Costa Neto,Cláudio Antônio da; Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco PintoABSTRACT Fibromyalgia (FM) and hyperparathyroidism may present similar symptoms (musculoskeletal pain, cognitive disorders, insomnia, depression and anxiety), causing diagnostic confusion. Objectives: To determine the frequency of asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism in a sample of patients with FM and to evaluate the association of laboratory abnormalities to clinical symptoms. Methods: Cross-sectional study with ...
Intake of antioxidants in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Silva,Bruna Nolasco Siqueira; Araújo,Ísis Lucília Santos Borges de; Queiroz,Pedrita Mirella Albuquerque; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco PintoObjective: to investigate dietary intake of antioxidants in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Methods: this is a cross-sectional case series study with 53 women accompanied at the Rheumatology Outpatient Clinic, Hospital das Clínicas/UFPE, from January to October 2012. Demographic and anthropometric parameters (weight, height, body mass index, weight change) were collected by means of a form. The assessment o...
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonists (PPARs): a promising prospe...
Lima,Emerson de Andrade; Lima,Mariana Modesto Dantas de Andrade; Marques,Cláudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Pita,Ivan da RochaPsoriasis is a polygenic, inflammatory and progressive disease, characterized by an abnormal differentiation and hyperproliferation of keratinocytes, associated with impaired immunologic activation and systemic disorders, while psoriatic arthritis is a chronic inflammatory articular disease. Pathophysiology of psoriasis comprises a dysfunction of the immune system cells with an interactive network between cells...
Níveis séricos de 25-hidroxivitamina D3 e sua associação com parâmetros clínico...
Fragoso,Thiago Sotero; Dantas,Andrea Tavares; Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Rocha Junior,Laurindo Ferreira da; Melo,José Humberto de LimaINTRODUÇÃO: O papel imunorregulatório da vitamina D tem sido alvo de um crescente número de estudos em pacientes com lúpus eritematoso sistêmico (LES). Objetivos: Determinar os níveis séricos de 25-hidroxivitamina D3 [25(OH)D] em pacientes com LES e verificar a associação da insuficiência/deficiência de 25(OH)D com parâmetros clínicos e laboratoriais. MÉTODOS:Estudo de corte transversal, prospectivo, realizado ...
Abordagem diagnóstica da tuberculose latente na artrite reumatóide
Marques,Cláudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Cavalcanti,Fernando de Souza; Carvalho,Eduardo Maia Freese de; Gomes,Yara de MirandaApesar de terem revolucionado a prática reumatológica, o uso dos inibidores do fator de necrose tumoral (anti-TNFs) no tratamento da artrite reumatóide (AR) fez surgir um problema considerado solucionado em muitos países desenvolvidos: o risco elevado de reativação de infecção tuberculosa latente (ITBL). Desse modo, a identificação de casos de ITBL passou a ser obrigatória antes do início da terapêutica com ant...