Article
Adult seronegative arthritis with antinuclear antibodies: a distinct group of patients with a different immunogenetic pattern from seropositive rheumatoid arthritis and a good outcome.
Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.) - 1 May 1996
Saudan-Kister A, Gabay C, Tiercy J M, Mermillod B, Guerne P A, Vischer T L
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether patients with rheumatoid factor (RF)-negative, antinuclear antibody (ANA)-positive oligo/polyarthritis are clinically and immunogenetically distinct from RF-positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and whether this subset of patients is the adult counterpart of early-onset pauciart...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Antibodies, Antinuclear
- Antirheumatic Agents
- Arthritis
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- Cohort Studies
- Female
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DRB1 Chains
- Humans
- Immunogenetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Retrospective Studies
- Rheumatoid Factor