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To assess the relationship between patients' expectations for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and satisfaction with surgical outcome.
This prospective cohort study recruited patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) ages ≥30 years who were referred for TKA at 2 hip/knee surgery centers in Alberta, Canada. Those who received primary, unilateral TKA completed questionnaires pre-TKA to assess TKA expectations (17-item Hospital for Special Surgery [HSS] TKA Expectations questionnaire) and contextual factors (age, sex, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index pain score, Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score physical function short form [KOOS-PS], 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale, body mass index [BMI], comorbidities, and prior joint replacement), and 1-year post-TKA to assess overall satisfaction with TKA results. Using multivariate logistic regression, we examined the relationship between TKA expectations (HSS TKA outcomes considered to be very important) and posto the level of TKA satisfaction at 1 year. Ensuring that patients' expectations are achievable may enhance appropriate provision of TKA.
In patients with TKA, preoperative expectations regarding kneeling and psychological well-being were significantly associated with the level of TKA satisfaction at 1 year. Ensuring that patients' expectations are achievable may enhance appropriate provision of TKA.
Higher self-reported disability (high Health Assessment Questionnaire [HAQ] score) has been associated with hospitalizations and mortality in established rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but associations in early RA are unknown.
Patients with early RA (symptom duration <1 year) enrolled in the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort who initiated disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and had completed HAQ data at baseline and 1 year were included in the study. Discrete-time proportional hazards models were used to estimate crude and multi-adjusted associations of baseline HAQ and HAQ at 1 year with all-cause mortality in each year of follow-up.
A total of 1,724 patients with early RA were included. The mean age was 55 years, and 72% were women. Over 10 years, 62 deaths (3.6%) were recorded. Deceased patients had higher HAQ scores at baseline (mean ± SD 1.2 ± 0.7) and at 1 year (0.9 ± 0.7) than living patients (1.0 ± 0.7 and 0.5 ± 0.6, respectively; P < 0.001). Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28) was higa large early RA cohort.Lupus nephritis (LN) is a major cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD) in the younger population. There is marked ethnic disparity in the burden of renal disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with the highest prevalence observed in Africans, Hispanics and Asians. In a US registry study, 73% of patients with LN who developed ESRD were African and Hispanic Americans.
To evaluate the role of urinary epidermal growth factor (EGF) as a biomarker of chronic kidney damage in lupus nephritis (LN).
A proteomics approach was used to identify urinary EGF as a biomarker of interest in a discovery cohort of patients with LN. The expression of urinary EGF was characterized in 2 large multiethnic LN cohorts, and the association between urinary EGF levels at the time of flare and kidney outcomes was evaluated in a subset of 120 patients with long-term follow-up data. For longitudinal studies, the expression of urinary EGF over time was determined in 2 longitudinal cohorts of patients with LN from whom serial urine samples were collected.
Discovery analysis showed the urinary EGF levels as being low in patients with active LN (median peptide count 8.4, interquartile range [IQR] 2.8-12.3 in patients with active LN versus median 48.0, IQR 45.3-64.6 in healthy controls). The peptide sequence was consistent with that of proEGF, and this was confirmed by immunoblotting. The discovery flevel of <5.3 ng/mg.
Urinary EGF levels are correlated with histologic kidney damage in patients with LN. Low urinary EGF levels at the time of flare and decreasing urinary EGF levels over time are associated with adverse long-term kidney outcomes.
Urinary EGF levels are correlated with histologic kidney damage in patients with LN. Low urinary EGF levels at the time of flare and decreasing urinary EGF levels over time are associated with adverse long-term kidney outcomes.
RAR-related orphan receptor (RORA) involves in regulation of several biological processes including inflammation and circadian rhythm that probably are involved in migraine pathophysiology. In the current study, the association between RORA rs11639084 and rs4774388 variants and susceptibility to migraine were investigated in a sample of Iranian migraine patients for the first time.
In a case-control study including 400 participants, 200 migraineurs and 200 healthy controls, genotyping of RORA rs4774388 and rs11639084 polymorphisms was performed using tetra-primer amplification refractory mutation system-polymerase chain reaction (TP-ARMS-PCR).
The distribution of rs4774388 C/T and T/T genotypes differed significantly between the studied groups. Ruboxistaurin inhibitor Moreover, an association was observed between rs4774388 and migraine under the recessive mode of inheritance (P=0.002; OR=1.89.; CI=1.25-2.87). The distribution of rs11639084 alleles and genotypes was not significantly different between migraineurs and healthy controls.
Current results suggest RORA, as a molecular link, may explain inflammation and circadian rhythm dysfunction in migraine. Further studies in different ethnicities are required to confirm the function of RORA in migraine development.
Current results suggest RORA, as a molecular link, may explain inflammation and circadian rhythm dysfunction in migraine. Further studies in different ethnicities are required to confirm the function of RORA in migraine development.We read with interest the article by Orange et al. (1) assessing whether histologic parameters of synovium were related to symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The authors analyzed synovial tissue samples of 176 RA patients who underwent hip or knee arthroplasty. The detection of neutrophils and fibrin in synovial tissue was associated with patient-reported morning stiffness of >1 hour. They suggested that ongoing neutrophil recruitment in synovial tissue may be associated with prolonged morning stiffness.
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