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Kurt de Vlam

university hospitals leuven
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[HTML][HTML] Progress in spondylarthritis. Mechanisms of new bone formation in spondyloarthritis

RJU Lories, FP Luyten, K De Vlam - Arthritis research & therapy, 2009 - Springer
Targeted therapies that neutralize tumour necrosis factor are often able to control the signs
and symptoms of spondyloarthritis. However, recent animal model data and clinical …

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH): where we are now and where to go next

R Mader, JJ Verlaan, I Eshed, BA Jacome, PS Puttini… - RMD open, 2017 - rmdopen.bmj.com
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a well-recognised entity characterised by
calcifications and ossifications of the entheses affecting mainly the spine and peripheral …

Infliximab improves signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis: results of the IMPACT 2 trial

C Antoni, GG Krueger, K de Vlam, C Birbara… - Annals of the …, 2005 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives: To evaluate further in a phase III, double blind trial the efficacy of infliximab in
patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA), as observed in the smaller IMPACT trial …

Current concepts in psoriatic arthritis: pathogenesis and management.

K De Vlam, AB Gottlieb… - Acta dermato …, 2014 - search.ebscohost.com
Psoriatic arthritis occurs in a subset of psoriasis patients and is therefore commonly
encountered in dermatology practice. Although its exact pathogenesis is unknown, psoriatic …

Treating axial spondyloarthritis and peripheral spondyloarthritis, especially psoriatic arthritis, to target: 2017 update of recommendations by an international task force

JS Smolen, M Schöls, J Braun, M Dougados… - Annals of the …, 2018 - ard.bmj.com
Therapeutic targets have been defined for axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA) in
2012, but the evidence for these recommendations was only of indirect nature. These …

[PDF][PDF] Relative value of erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein in assessment of disease activity in ankylosing spondylitis.

A Spoorenberg, D van der Heijde, E de Klerk… - Outcome and disease …, 2003 - core.ac.uk
Objective: Our aim was to determine whether C-reactive protein (CRP) or erythrocyte
sedimentation rate (ESR) is more appropriate in measuring disease activity in ankylosing …

A patient-derived and patient-reported outcome measure for assessing psoriatic arthritis: elaboration and preliminary validation of the Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of …

L Gossec, M de Wit, U Kiltz, J Braun… - Annals of the …, 2014 - ard.bmj.com
Introduction The objective was to develop a questionnaire that can be used to calculate a
score reflecting the impact of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) from the patients' perspective: the PsA …

Spondyloarthropathy is underestimated in inflammatory bowel disease: prevalence and HLA association.

K De Vlam, H Mielants, C Cuvelier… - The Journal of …, 2000 - europepmc.org
Objective To determine the overall prevalence of spondyloarthropathy (SpA) among patients
with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)[Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC)] …

Hip involvement in ankylosing spondylitis: epidemiology and risk factors associated with hip replacement surgery

B Vander Cruyssen, E Munoz-Gomariz, P Font… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Objectives. Although clinicians recognize hip involvement, which frequently leads to hip
replacement surgery, as an important feature of AS, data on the epidemiology, nature of the …

The development of candidate composite disease activity and responder indices for psoriatic arthritis (GRACE project)

PS Helliwell, O FitzGerald, J Fransen… - Annals of the …, 2013 - ard.bmj.com
Objective To develop new composite disease activity indices for psoriatic arthritis (PsA).
Methods Data from routine clinic visits at multiple centres were collected in a systematic …