Publications by authors named "Laura Mirela Muntean"
Article Synopsis
- * Connections between genetic factors, inflammatory bowel diseases, and gut microbiota have informed advancements in medication for these conditions.
- * Diet plays a crucial role in disease management, affecting gut microbiota and inflammation, with various diets being explored for their impact on symptoms in spondyloarthritis patients.
Acro-osteolysis, or bony resorption of the terminal digital tufts, is a well-recognized, but under-researched, feature of systemic sclerosis. The mechanisms that disturbs local homeostatic balance of bone formation and resorption in favor of osteoclast activation and pathological bone loss remain to be established. Vascular alterations and reduced capillary density impair tissue oxygenation in systemic sclerosis, and the resulting hypoxia might contribute directly to the disease progression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The purpose of this study is to compare and correlate US evaluation with clinical scores of the disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and concomitant fibromyalgia (FM).
Material And Methods: Ten patients diagnosed with RA according to the 2010 ACR/EULAR classification criteria and associated FM based on the ACR 1990 classification criteria and two control groups, one with RA (10 patients) and one with FM (10 patients), were included. Clinical assessment was performed and the disease activity scores were calculated.