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Rheumatology / Original Article
Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Hyemin Kim, Soyoung Lee, Ji-Won Kim, Ju-Yang Jung, Chang-Hee Suh, Hyoun-Ah Kim
Korean J Intern Med. 2024;39(1):172-183. Published online November 30, 2023
Background/Aims: This study aimed to identify the clinical characteristics of patients with concurrent rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and suspected non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections as well as determine their prognostic factors.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 91..
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Rheumatology / Original Article
Comparative effectiveness of JAK inhibitors and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Soo-Kyung Cho, Hyoungyoung Kim, Yeo-Jin Song, Hye Won Kim, Eunwoo Nam, Shin-Seok Lee, Hye-Soon Lee, Sung-Hoon Park, Yeon-Ah Lee, Min-Chan Park, Sung Hae Chang, Hyoun-Ah Kim, Seung-Ki Kwok, Hae-Rim Kim, Hyun-Sook Kim, Bo Young Yoon, Wan-Sik Uhm, Yong-Gil Kim, Jae Hoon Kim, Jisoo Lee, Jeongim Choi, Yoon-Kyoung Sung
Korean J Intern Med. 2023;38(4):546-556. Published online June 20, 2023
Background/Aims: We aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety of Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi) vs. biologic disease- modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARD) in Korean patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who had an inadequate response to conventional synthetic DMARDs.
Methods: A quasi-exper..
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Rheumatology / Original Article
Standardized, musculoskeletal ultrasonographic reference values for healthy Korean adults
Hyun-Sook Kim, Hae-Rim Kim, Bo Young Kim, Yun Sung Kim, Young Ok Jung, Sung Jae Choi, Hyun-Ok Kim, Jiwon Hwang, Sunggun Lee, Hyoun-Ah Kim, So Young Bang, Ji-Young Chai, Sung-Hoon Park, Chong-Hyeon Yoon
Korean J Intern Med. 2019;34(6):1372-1380. Published online May 4, 2018
Background/Aims: To define standard reference values for musculoskeletal ultrasonography (MSUS) in Korea.
Methods: A total of 251 healthy adults were recruited for this study. Ultrasonography was performed by experienced rheumatologists who had undergone four appropriate training programs in Korea..
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Rheumatology / Original Article
The role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the assessment of disease activity of adult-onset Still’s disease
Young-Sil An, Chang-Hee Suh, Ju-Yang Jung, Hundo Cho, Hyoun-Ah Kim
Korean J Intern Med. 2017;32(6):1082-1089. Published online December 7, 2016
Background/Aims: 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) has been suggested as a reliable imaging technique for monitoring of disease activity in patients with adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD). Therefore, we investigated the ..
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Rheumatology / Original Article
Poor agreement between QuantiFERON-TB
Gold test and tuberculin skin test results for the
diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in
rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy controls
Joo-Hyun Lee, Hae Sook Sohn, Jin Ho Chun, Hyoun-Ah Kim, Chang Hee Suh, Yun Woo Lee, Bo Young Yoon
Korean J Intern Med. 2014;29(1):76-84. Published online January 2, 2014
Background/Aims: We investigated the agreement between the QuantiFERON-
TB Gold (QFT‑Gold) test and the tuberculin skin test (TST) in the diagnosis
of latent tuberculosis infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), compared
with healthy controls, in Korea.
Methods: We recruited 64 pa..
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Case Report
An Antinuclear Antibody-Negative Patient With Lupus Nephritis
Hyoun-Ah Kim, Jae-Wook Chung, Han-Jung Park, Dai-Yeol Joe, Hyun-Ee Yim, Hae-Sim Park, Chang-Hee Suh
Korean J Intern Med. 2009;24(1):76-79. Published online March 6, 2009
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a typical autoimmune disease that's characterized by various autoantibodies to nuclear and cytoplasmic antigens. The presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in serum is generally considered a decisive diagnostic sign of SLE. However, a small subset of SLE pa..
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