Publications by authors named "L Zabraniecki"
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- A study compared two methods for stopping glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis patients with low disease activity: replacing prednisone with hydrocortisone or tapering prednisone down gradually.
- The trial included 102 patients and found that after 12 months, 55% in the hydrocortisone group and 47% in the tapering group successfully discontinued glucocorticoids, showing no significant difference between the groups.
- The results indicated that neither strategy was superior for achieving discontinuation, and there were no serious side effects related to adrenal insufficiency observed.
Objectives: Tropheryma whipplei infection can manifest as inflammatory joint symptoms, which can lead to misdiagnosis of inflammatory rheumatic disease and the use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. We investigated the impact of diagnosis and treatment of Tropheryma whipplei infection in patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease.
Methods: We initiated a registry including patients with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs-treated inflammatory rheumatic disease who were subsequently diagnosed with Tropheryma whipplei infection.
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- - The study aimed to evaluate cardiovascular risk factors and events in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) compared to a control group, focusing on how adjustments to cardiovascular risk equations affect these comparisons and the percentage of patients who meet LDL cholesterol targets.
- - Using data from 207 PsA patients and 414 controls, the results showed that PsA patients had higher prevalence rates of cardiovascular risk factors and events, particularly after factoring in age and gender, leading to an increased risk as measured by modified risk scoring equations.
- - Despite the higher risk percentages observed in the PsA group when using adjusted scoring methods, the overall percentages of high LDL cholesterol levels between PsA patients and controls did not significantly differ, although there was a slight
Objective: To analyse Fcγ receptor (FcγR) expression on monocytes and macrophages from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients versus healthy controls (HC), and to compare their responses to immune complexes containing RA-specific anti-citrullinated proteins auto antibodies (ACPA).
Methods: Monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages were obtained from the peripheral blood of 34 RA patients and 69 HC. FcγR expression was studied by flow cytometry.