Profile and course of early rheumatoid arthritis in Morocco: a two-year follow-up study.

Background: This study aimed to establish the profile and the evolution of an early Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cohort in the Moroccan population and also to search possible predictor factors of structural progression.

Methods: Patients with early RA (< 12 months) were enrolled in a 2-year follow-up study. Clinical, biological, immunogenetic, and radiographical data were analyzed at study entry and at 24 months.

Remission in early rheumatoid arthritis treated with conventional DMARDs. Results of a two-year follow-up study of El Ayachi Moroccan cohort.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate remission in patients with early RA treated by conventional DMARDs and to identify its possible predictor factors.

Methods: Patients with early RA (<12 months) were enrolled in a 2-year follow-up study. Standard evaluation completed at baseline and at 24 months included clinical, laboratory, functional and structural assessment.

HLA polymorphism and early rheumatoid arthritis in the Moroccan population.

Objectives: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune multifactorial disease which has a great socio-economic impact in Morocco. The association of HLA genes with RA was studied in various ethnic groups but not in the Moroccan population. Our study focused on evaluating the distribution of class I and class II HLA genes among Moroccan patients presenting early signs of RA.

Psychometric evaluation of a Moroccan version of health assessment questionnaire for use in Moroccan patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Objective of the study is to test the reliability and validity of a translated version of health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) on Moroccan patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We led a prospective study from July 2004 to September 2005. A total of 100 Moroccan patients were recruited.

[Leukemia revealed by polyarthritis].

Introduction: Ostéoarticular manifestation whose reveal leukaemia in 4% of the cases, regress completely with haematological remission.

Exegesis: We report two observations of leukaemia revealed by polyarthritis. A 22-year-old woman has presented a polyarthritis 8 months before de diagnosis of acute leukaemia.