Arthritis Care & Research
Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
Volume 47, No. 4, August 2002
EDITORIAL COMMENTARY
349 The
Risk of Cardiovascular Thrombotic Events With Selective Cyclooxygenase-2
Inhibitors
Vibeke
Strand and Marc C. Hochberg
ORIGINAL
ARTICLES
Gout
356 Effect
of Urate-Lowering Therapy on the Velocity of Size Reduction of Tophi in
Chronic Gout
Fernando
Perez-Ruiz, Marcelo Calabozo, Jose I. Pijoan, Ana M. Herrero-Beites, and
Ana Ruibal
Health
Services
361 Short-Term
Outcomes of Acute Knee Injuries: Does the Provider Make a Difference?
Peter
C. Amadio, Sherine E. Gabriel, Barbara P. Yawn, W. Scott Harmsen, Duane
M. Ilstrup, and Jeannie Hill
366 Racial
Differences in Social Network Experience and Perceptions of Benefit of
Arthritis Treatments Among New York City Medicare Beneficiaries With Self-Reported
Hip and Knee Pain
Valerie
A. Blake, John P. Allegrante, Laura Robbins, Carol A. Mancuso, Margaret
G. E. Peterson, John M. Esdaile, Stephen A. Paget, and Mary E. Charlson
Low
Back Pain
372 Acute
Low Back Pain Self-Management Intervention for Urban Primary Care Patients:
Rationale, Design, and Predictors of Participation
Teresa
M. Damush, Morris Weinberger, Daniel O. Clark, William M. Tierney, Jaya
K. Rao, Susan M. Perkins, and Kelly Verel
Osteoarthritis
380 Effects
of Video Information on Preoperative Anxiety Level and Tolerability of
Joint Lavage in Knee Osteoarthritis
Xavier
Ayral, Claudine Gicquere, Annie Duhalde, Denis Boucheny, and Maxime Dougados
Rheumatoid
Arthritis
383 Long-Term
Outcome in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Simple Algorithm of Baseline Parameters
Can Predict Radiographic Damage, Disability, and Disease Course at 12-Year
Followup
K.
W. Drossaers-Bakker, A. H. Zwinderman, T. P. M. Vliet Vlieland, D. van
Zeben, K. Vos, F. C. Breedveld, and J. M. W. Hazes
391 Preferences
for Improved Health Examined in 1,024 Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis:
Pain Has Highest Priority
Turid
Heiberg and Tore K. Kvien
398 Development
and Evaluation of a Single Value Score to Assess Global Range of Motion
in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Heather
Epps, Mike Hurley, and Martin Utley
403 Relationship
Among the HLA-DRB1 Shared Epitope, Smoking, and Rheumatoid Factor Production
in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Derek
L. Mattey, Peter T. Dawes, Sheila Clarke, June Fisher, Ann Brownfield,
Wendy Thomson, Ali H. Hajeer, and William E. R. Ollier
Systemic
Lupus Erythematosus
408 Systemic
Lupus Erythematosus in Three Ethnic Groups. XI. Sources of Discrepancy
in Perception of Disease Activity: A Comparison of Physician and Patient
Visual Analog Scale Scores
Graciela
S. Alarcon, Gerald McGwin, Jr, Kemi Brooks, Jeffrey M. Roseman, Barri
J. Fessler, Martha L. Sanchez, Holly M. Bastian, Alan W. Friedman, Bruce
A. Baethge, and John D. Reveille, For the LUMINA Study Group
414 Anti-[beta]2-Glycoprotein
I Antibodies in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Antiphospholipid
Syndrome
Emily
von Scheven, David V. Glidden, and Melissa E. Elder
421 Patient
Preferences for Treatment of Lupus Nephritis
Liana
Fraenkel, Sidney Bogardus, and John Concato
SPECIAL
ARTICLES
429 Guidelines
for Immunologic Laboratory Testing in the Rheumatic Diseases: An Introduction
American
College of Rheumatology Ad Hoc Committee on Immunologic Testing Guidelines
434 Evidence-Based
Guidelines for the Use of Immunologic Tests: Antinuclear Antibody Testing
Daniel
H. Solomon, Arthur J. Kavanaugh, Peter H. Schur, and the American College
of Rheumatology Ad Hoc Committee on Immunologic Testing Guidelines
TRAINEE
ROUNDS
445 Accelerated
Nodulosis and Vasculitis Following Etanercept Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Gaye
Cunnane, Martha Warnock, Kenneth H. Fye, and David I. Daikh
REVIEW
450 What
Do We Know About Lupus Membranous Nephropathy? An Analytic Review
Sharon
L. Kolasinski, James B. Chung, and Daniel A. Albert
LETTERS
456 Complementary
and Alternative Medicine Use and Fibromyalgia
Alan
C. Logan
457 Sociocultural
Issues in Clinical Research: Unraveling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Robert
M. White
18A ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cover
image: These are award-winning images from the 2001 American College
of Rheumatology slide contest. This composite slide demonstrates the vasculitic
rash of Henoch-Schonlein purpura in a 32-year-old man. The rash is typically
an erythematous palpable purpuric eruption on the lower extremities. The
skin biopsy shows intense immunofluorescent IgA deposition in cutaneous
vessel walls. Submitted by Tawatchai Paisansinsup, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
