Reasons for hospitalisation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in a university hospital in Buenos Aires.

Objective: To determine the reasons for hospitalisation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) admitted to the Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín" Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Methods: We retrospectively analysed the clinical histories of SLE patients (SLICC 2012) during or prior to hospitalisation, from 1-2014 to 12-2017. Demographic data, reasons for hospitalisation, treatments, SLEDAI-2 K and comorbid conditions.

Reasons for Hospitalisation in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a University Hospital in Buenos Aires.

Objective: To determine the reasons for hospitalisation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) admitted to the Hospital de Clínicas «José de San Martín» Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Methods: We retrospectively analysed the clinical histories of SLE patients (SLICC 2012) during or prior to hospitalisation, from 1-2014 to 12-2017. Demographic data, reasons for hospitalisation, treatments, SLEDAI-2K and comorbid conditions.

Associations between disease activity, markers of HDL functionality and arterial stiffness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Background And Aims: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory disease associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Measures of HDL metabolism/function were shown to be altered in RA patients with high disease activity. We aimed at evaluating the effect of HDL characteristics on arterial stiffness in RA patients classified according to the inflammatory disease activity.

Altered lipidome and antioxidative activity of small, dense HDL in normolipidemic rheumatoid arthritis: relevance of inflammation.

Objective: High-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles exert potent antiatherogenic activities, including antioxidative actions, which are relevant to attenuation of atherosclerosis progression. Such activities are enriched in small, dense HDL and can be compromised under conditions of chronic inflammation like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, structure-function relationships of HDL largely remain indeterminate.

Work instability in rheumatoid arthritis patients from Argentina: prevalence and associated factors.

To determine the prevalence of and associated factors to work instability (WI) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) Argentinean patients. Observational cross-sectional study that assessing employment status in currently working RA patients. They answered the validated version of RA work instability scale (RA-WIS).

[Pachydermoperiostosis (primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy)].

Pachydermoperiostosis or primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is a rare disease characterized by cutaneous and osteoarthicular involvement. We describe two patients with finger clubbing, watch crystal nails, bones thickenings, arthritis and different grades of skin affection, without other clinical manifestations. Both did not know of having relatives with the same alterations.