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Filter by:The majority of patients diagnosed with rheumatic disease, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, inflammatory myositis, and vasculitis, will experience fever or infection during their course of therapy. The most common microbiologically documented infection is bacterial, virus, and fungal, which can be associated with the severity and mortality of disease. Current methods of diagnosis require a significant load of pathogen making early detection difficult. Delayed diagnosis and delayed optimal therapy of infection are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. This study seeks to identify whether next generation sequencing (NGS) of pathogens can identify patients with infection treated with corticosteroid and immunosuppressive agents. This would enable preemptive targeted therapy to replace prophylaxis treatment which often leads to some adverse events and antibiotic resistance.
The aim of this study is to investigate the value of several hematological indices such as: - neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio. - platelet-lymphocyte ratio. - red blood cell distribution width. - mean platelet volume (MPV), RDW/platelet ratio. - neutrophil / C3 ratio. - All these as biomarkers of activity in systemic lupus erythematosis patients.
Patients new to a rheumatology practice will be asked if they want to consent to their blood sample, medical records, and hand/foot x-rays (with sharp scores) for the analysis and correlation with the diagnosis they will receive from the rheumatologist.
Assessment of disease activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic lupus patients related to muscle performance, fatigue and blood parameters
Rheumatic heart disease remains a major health problem in developing countries. It is the most important sequel of rheumatic fever and occurs in about 30% of patients with rheumatic fever.Rheumatic heart disease presents with different degrees of pancarditis and associated valve failure. Involvement of the mitral leaflets can cause mitral regurgitation (MR) or stenosis and eventually can lead to heart failure. Mitral repair or replacement is therefore recommended before left ventricular (LV) dysfunction develops. Study Objectives/Specific Aims Overall Goal: To determine the benefit the patient with pulmonary hypertension will get from mitral valve replacement as regard function improvement and remodeling of the right ventricle. - Objective1: Identify risk factors that are predictive of outcomes.(Type and severity of Mitral valve pathology , severity of pulmonary hypertension, tricuspid regurge, preoperative RV dysfunction) - Objective2: Determine the value of management strategies (Mitral valve replacement in pulmonary hypertension i.e. : decrease RV pressure overload and enhance RV remodeling) - Objective3: Assessment of the outcomes clinically & Echocardiographically : postoperative results during hospital stay and follow up (short term up to 3 months).
By this project, the investigators are going to try to demonstrate that to use objects connected to make a physical activity can have an impact on the clinical activity of the disease by bringing the subjects which present a spondyloarthritis to make a physical activity. The investigators shall show furthermore, than the use of connected objects also has better chances to glue the patients presenting a spondyloarthritis to a practice of regular physical activity that a simple recommendation.
This study aims, by means of a randomized control trial, to investigate which treatment method (corticoid injection + physiotherapy with a focus on manual therapy and home-exercises versus corticosteroid injection + physiotherapy with focus on education and supported home exercises) gives better results on clinically relevant outcomes (range of glenohumeral motion, psychological factors, pain, shoulder function, quality of life) and on parameters derived from arthroscopic glenohumeral investigation by means of MRI. Furthermore, associations between (1) the results on the MRI investigation, (2) the range of glenohumeral motion, (3) shoulder function and pain, and (4) psychological factors will be assessed at different time-points (before and at 6-12-18 and 52 weeks after the first injection).
The purpose of this study is get to know what and how Sanwujiaowan capsule in hospital results in drug-induced liver injury or adverse drug reactions from a cohort event monitoring as registration research.
According to American Heart Association criteria, patients who have had Rheumatic Fever (RF) should be treated with antibiotic prophylaxis. Continuous prophylaxis is recommended in patients with well-documented histories of RF and in those with evidence of rheumatic heart disease. There is a limited data regarding adherence of patients to treatment and efficacy of treatment. In this study, patients with RF who are older than 21 years will be collected from a computerized database of 'Maccabi Healthcare Services', one of the biggest Israeli Health Funds. Patients will be assigned to the study after obtaining informed consent. Previous adherence to antibiotic prophylaxis will be examined according to computerized database of drugs which were issued to the patient since RF diagnosis. Past history of cardiac involvement, including past Echocardiograms, will be collected from computerized database. In addition, the current cardiac state will be assessed by an experienced cardiologist, including a full new Echocardiogram examination.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether daily treatment with Streptococcus Salivarius BLIS K-12 prevents streptococcal throat infection in children that have had an episode of rheumatic fever.