Performance of the preliminary classification criteria for cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis and clinical manifestations in hepatitis C virus-unrelated cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis.

PubWeight™: 1.41‹?› | Rank: Top 5%

🔗 View Article (PMID 22410397)

Published in Clin Exp Rheumatol on May 14, 2012

Authors

Luca Quartuccio1, Miriam Isola, Laura Corazza, Marta Maset, Giuseppe Monti, Armando Gabrielli, Athanasios G Tzioufas, Clodoveo Ferri, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Manuel Ramos-Casals, Michael Voulgarelis, Marco Lenzi, Maria Teresa Mascia, Domenico Sansonno, Patrice Cacoub, Matjia Tomsic, Antonio Tavoni, Maurizio Pietrogrande, Anna Linda Zignego, Salvatore Scarpato, Pietro Pioltelli, Sergi Steinfeld, Peter Lamprecht, Massimo Galli, Stefano Bombardieri, Salvatore De Vita

Author Affiliations

1: Clinic of Rheumatology, DSMB, University Hospital "Santa Maria della Misericordia", Udine, Italy. quartuccio.luca@aoud.sanita.fvg.it

Articles by these authors

2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: an American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative. Arthritis Rheum (2010) 18.82

Clopidogrel and aspirin versus aspirin alone for the prevention of atherothrombotic events. N Engl J Med (2006) 18.25

2010 rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: an American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative. Ann Rheum Dis (2010) 12.12

Nonalcoholic fatty liver, steatohepatitis, and the metabolic syndrome. Hepatology (2003) 9.36

Regression of splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes after treatment of hepatitis C virus infection. N Engl J Med (2002) 7.52

The NAFLD fibrosis score: a noninvasive system that identifies liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD. Hepatology (2007) 6.68

American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism provisional definition of remission in rheumatoid arthritis for clinical trials. Arthritis Rheum (2011) 6.28

2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis: an American College of Rheumatology/European League against Rheumatism collaborative initiative. Arthritis Rheum (2013) 5.99

Triple therapy in treatment-experienced patients with HCV-cirrhosis in a multicentre cohort of the French Early Access Programme (ANRS CO20-CUPIC) - NCT01514890. J Hepatol (2013) 5.64

Pegylated interferon alfa-2b vs standard interferon alfa-2b, plus ribavirin, for chronic hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA (2004) 5.28

Antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical and immunologic manifestations and patterns of disease expression in a cohort of 1,000 patients. Arthritis Rheum (2002) 5.12

Stimulatory autoantibodies to the PDGF receptor in systemic sclerosis. N Engl J Med (2006) 4.46

Regulatory T-cell responses to low-dose interleukin-2 in HCV-induced vasculitis. N Engl J Med (2011) 4.39

American College of Rheumatology/European League against Rheumatism provisional definition of remission in rheumatoid arthritis for clinical trials. Ann Rheum Dis (2011) 4.15

Headache in systemic lupus erythematosus: results from a prospective, international inception cohort study. Arthritis Rheum (2013) 4.02

Morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus during a 10-year period: a comparison of early and late manifestations in a cohort of 1,000 patients. Medicine (Baltimore) (2003) 4.00

Management of minor head injury in patients receiving oral anticoagulant therapy: a prospective study of a 24-hour observation protocol. Ann Emerg Med (2012) 3.55

Care of patients with hepatitis C and HIV co-infection. AIDS (2004) 3.46

Changes in causes of death among adults infected by HIV between 2000 and 2005: The "Mortalité 2000 and 2005" surveys (ANRS EN19 and Mortavic). J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2008) 3.44

Liver stiffness measurement predicts severe portal hypertension in patients with HCV-related cirrhosis. Hepatology (2007) 3.39

Changes in cancer mortality among HIV-infected patients: the Mortalité 2005 Survey. Clin Infect Dis (2009) 3.28

The risk of lymphoma development in autoimmune diseases: a meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med (2005) 3.26

2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis: an American college of rheumatology/European league against rheumatism collaborative initiative. Ann Rheum Dis (2013) 3.11

Peg-IFNα/ribavirin/protease inhibitor combination in hepatitis C virus associated mixed cryoglobulinemia vasculitis: results at week 24. Ann Rheum Dis (2013) 2.99

Systemic sclerosis: demographic, clinical, and serologic features and survival in 1,012 Italian patients. Medicine (Baltimore) (2002) 2.86

Characterization and clinical impact of antinuclear antibodies in primary biliary cirrhosis. Am J Gastroenterol (2003) 2.69

Safety and efficacy of rituximab in systemic lupus erythematosus: results from 136 patients from the French AutoImmunity and Rituximab registry. Arthritis Rheum (2010) 2.68

Leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava: experience in 22 cases. Ann Surg (2006) 2.65

CNS involvement and treatment with interferon-α are independent prognostic factors in Erdheim-Chester disease: a multicenter survival analysis of 53 patients. Blood (2011) 2.59

Ankylosing spondylitis: how diagnostic and therapeutic delay have changed over the last six decades. Clin Exp Rheumatol (2012) 2.56

Patients with prior myocardial infarction, stroke, or symptomatic peripheral arterial disease in the CHARISMA trial. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 2.56

Prevalence of bcl-2 rearrangement in patients with hepatitis C virus-related mixed cryoglobulinemia with or without B-cell lymphomas. Ann Intern Med (2002) 2.56

Imatinib for refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease with fibrotic features. Blood (2009) 2.51

Microbial translocation predicts disease progression of HIV-infected antiretroviral-naive patients with high CD4+ cell count. AIDS (2011) 2.45

Prednisone plus methotrexate for polymyalgia rheumatica: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Ann Intern Med (2004) 2.43

Treatment of primary Sjögren syndrome: a systematic review. JAMA (2010) 2.37

Safety and efficacy of additional courses of rituximab in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: an open-label extension analysis. Arthritis Rheum (2007) 2.31

Adverse events during longterm low-dose glucocorticoid treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica: a retrospective study. J Rheumatol (2012) 2.27

Cardiovascular involvement, an overlooked feature of Erdheim-Chester disease: report of 6 new cases and a literature review. Medicine (Baltimore) (2004) 2.27

Low blood concentration of hydroxychloroquine is a marker for and predictor of disease exacerbations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 2.22

Thyroid disorders in chronic hepatitis C. Am J Med (2004) 2.19

Cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the QUEST-RA study. Arthritis Res Ther (2008) 2.15

Repeatability and reproducibility of fast macular thickness mapping with stratus optical coherence tomography. Arch Ophthalmol (2005) 2.12

Antiviral therapy for hepatitis C virus--associated mixed cryoglobulinemia vasculitis: a long-term followup study. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 2.09

Clinical and echocardiographic correlations of exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension in systemic sclerosis: a multicenter study. Am Heart J (2012) 2.05

The role of biosimilars in the treatment of rheumatic diseases. Ann Rheum Dis (2012) 2.03

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase expression in follicular dendritic cell networks and interfollicular large B cells supports functionality of ectopic lymphoid neogenesis in autoimmune sialoadenitis and MALT lymphoma in Sjögren's syndrome. J Immunol (2007) 2.02

Regional Implantation of Autologous Adipose Tissue-Derived Cells Induces a Prompt Healing of Long-Lasting Indolent Digital Ulcers in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis. Cell Transplant (2014) 2.02

Efficacy and safety of rituximab in type II mixed cryoglobulinemia. Blood (2003) 2.02

Emerging role of hepatocellular carcinoma among liver-related causes of deaths in HIV-infected patients: The French national Mortalité 2005 study. J Hepatol (2009) 1.98

Relationship between HAART adherence and adipose tissue alterations. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2002) 1.97

Vasculitides associated with malignancies: analysis of sixty patients. Arthritis Rheum (2007) 1.97

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in myelofibrosis: the 20-year experience of the Gruppo Italiano Trapianto di Midollo Osseo (GITMO). Haematologica (2008) 1.97

Cyclophosphamide pulse regimen in the treatment of alveolitis in systemic sclerosis. J Rheumatol (2002) 1.97

Behçet's disease and pregnancy. Arthritis Rheum (2013) 1.96

Restoration of peripheral immune homeostasis after rituximab in mixed cryoglobulinemia vasculitis. Blood (2008) 1.94

Critical role of IL-21 in modulating TH17 and regulatory T cells in Behçet disease. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2011) 1.94

The 2010 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis: Phase 2 methodological report. Arthritis Rheum (2010) 1.94

Updated consensus statement on the use of rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis (2011) 1.93

Stable changes in CD4+ T lymphocyte miRNA expression after exposure to HIV-1. Blood (2012) 1.89

Hepatitis C virus infection: evidence for an association with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care (2005) 1.83

Adalimumab alone and in combination with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in clinical practice: the Research in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis (ReAct) trial. Ann Rheum Dis (2007) 1.83

Clinical impact of non-organ-specific autoantibodies on the response to combined antiviral treatment in patients with hepatitis C. Clin Infect Dis (2005) 1.83

Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in celiac disease. JAMA (2002) 1.81

Mixed cryoglobulinemia: demographic, clinical, and serologic features and survival in 231 patients. Semin Arthritis Rheum (2004) 1.79

Rheumatoid factor positivity rather than anti-CCP positivity, a lower disability and a lower number of anti-TNF agents failed are associated with response to rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) (2009) 1.76

Remission and rheumatoid arthritis: data on patients receiving usual care in twenty-four countries. Arthritis Rheum (2008) 1.76

Management of noninfectious mixed cryoglobulinemia vasculitis: data from 242 cases included in the CryoVas survey. Blood (2012) 1.73

Properties and function of polyreactive antibodies and polyreactive antigen-binding B cells. J Autoimmun (2007) 1.71

The serological profile of the autoimmune hepatitis/primary biliary cirrhosis overlap syndrome. Am J Gastroenterol (2009) 1.70

A meta-analysis of genotypes and haplotypes of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Eur J Epidemiol (2006) 1.68

Pulmonary fibrosis in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis: a series of 49 patients and review of the literature. Medicine (Baltimore) (2014) 1.65

Non-organ-specific autoantibodies in children with chronic hepatitis C: clinical significance and impact on interferon treatment. Clin Infect Dis (2003) 1.65

Adherence to treatment and quality of life during hepatitis C therapy: a prospective, real-life, observational study. Liver Int (2011) 1.64

Rituximab plus Peg-interferon-alpha/ribavirin compared with Peg-interferon-alpha/ribavirin in hepatitis C-related mixed cryoglobulinemia. Blood (2010) 1.64

Efficacy and tolerability of rituximab with or without PEGylated interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin in severe hepatitis C virus-related vasculitis: a long-term followup study of thirty-two patients. Arthritis Rheum (2009) 1.64

WHO classification and WPSS predict posttransplantation outcome in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome: a study from the Gruppo Italiano Trapianto di Midollo Osseo (GITMO). Blood (2008) 1.63

Detection of Ebola virus in oral fluid specimens during outbreaks of Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever in the Republic of Congo. Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.62

Stimulatory autoantibodies to PDGF receptor in patients with extensive chronic graft-versus-host disease. Blood (2007) 1.60

New insights into the pathogenesis of Behçet's disease. Autoimmun Rev (2011) 1.60

BLyS upregulation in Sjogren's syndrome associated with lymphoproliferative disorders, higher ESSDAI score and B-cell clonal expansion in the salivary glands. Rheumatology (Oxford) (2012) 1.58

Helicobacter pylori serology in autoimmune diseases - fact or fiction? Clin Chem Lab Med (2013) 1.56

Microcirculatory effects of the transfusion of leukodepleted or non-leukodepleted red blood cells in patients with sepsis: a pilot study. Crit Care (2014) 1.56

Rituximab may form a complex with IgMkappa mixed cryoglobulin and induce severe systemic reactions in patients with hepatitis C virus-induced vasculitis. Arthritis Rheum (2009) 1.55

Mortality in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: causes of death and prognostic factors in a series of 250 patients. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 1.53

Low-dose prolonged intermittent interleukin-2 adjuvant therapy: results of a randomized trial among human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients with advanced immune impairment. J Infect Dis (2002) 1.52

Comparison of liver fibrosis blood tests developed for HCV with new specific tests in HIV/HCV co-infection. J Hepatol (2010) 1.51

Meta-analyses of FibroTest diagnostic value in chronic liver disease. BMC Gastroenterol (2007) 1.49

Work disability remains a major problem in rheumatoid arthritis in the 2000s: data from 32 countries in the QUEST-RA study. Arthritis Res Ther (2010) 1.49

Efficacy of selective B cell blockade in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: evidence for a pathogenetic role of B cells. Arthritis Rheum (2002) 1.48

B-cell compartment as the selective target for the treatment of immune thrombocytopenias. Haematologica (2003) 1.48

Heparin treatment in antiphospholipid syndrome with recurrent pregnancy loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Obstet Gynecol (2010) 1.47

Hypereosinophilic syndrome: another face of janus? Leuk Res (2008) 1.47

Upregulation of antiphospholipid antibodies following cyclophosphamide therapy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol (2008) 1.47

Classification criteria for Sjogren's syndrome: a critical review. J Autoimmun (2011) 1.46