Relationship between duration of rheumatoid arthritis before knee joint surgery and HLA-DRB1 alleles: a retrospective study.

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Relationship between duration of rheumatoid arthritis before knee joint surgery and HLA-DRB1 alleles: a retrospective study.

The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Dec 1997

Toda Y, Takemura S, Komuro H, Ono H, Tanabe T, Nakagawa T, Morimoto T, Ogawa R

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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether genetically determined factors can be used as predictors of requirement for knee joint surgery in the early phase of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: We determined HLA-DRB1 alleles in 322 patients with seropositive RA by polymerase chain reaction and allele specif...

Topics

Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Alleles
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Female
HLA-DR Antigens
HLA-DRB1 Chains
Humans
Knee Joint
Male
Middle Aged
Prognosis
Retrospective Studies
Time Factors

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PMID: 9415632

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