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Extended report

• Right ventricular diastolic abnormalities in systemic sclerosis. Relation to left ventricular involvement and pulmonary hypertension (1 February, 2000)

  Anna Giunta, Enrico Tirri, Stefania Maione, Sara Cangianiello, Alessandro Mele, Amalia De Luca, Gabriele Valentini
• The clinical relevance of antibodies to ribosomal-P common epitope in two targeted systemic lupus erythematosus populations: a large cohort of consecutive patients and patients with active central nervous system disease (1 February, 2000)

  A G Tzioufas, N G Tzortzakis, E Panou-Pomonis, K A Boki, M Sakarellos-Daitsiotis, C Sakarellos, H M Moutsopoulos
• Hormone replacement therapy and patterns of osteoarthritis: baseline data from the Ulm Osteoarthritis Study (1 February, 2000)

  Andrea Erb, Hermann Brenner, Klaus-Peter Günther, Til Stürmer
• Bone mineral density in systemic lupus erythematosus: comparison with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy controls (1 February, 2000)

  Inge-Margrethe Gilboe, Tore K Kvien, Glenn Haugeberg, Gunnar Husby
• Racial group, socioeconomic status, and the development of persistent proteinuria in systemic lupus erythematosus (1 February, 2000)

  N D Hopkinson, C Jenkinson, K R Muir, M Doherty, R J Powell
• Transverse myelopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus: an analysis of 14 cases and review of the literature (1 February, 2000)

  Birgit Kovacs, Thomas L Lafferty, Lawrence H Brent, Raphael J DeHoratius
• Angiotensin converting enzyme in human synovium: increased stromal [¹²⁵I]351A binding in rheumatoid arthritis

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  David Andrew Walsh, John Catravas, John Wharton
• Soluble thrombomodulin concentration is raised in scleroderma associated pulmonary hypertension (1 February, 2000)

  Richard J Stratton, Lucie Pompon, John G Coghlan, Jeremy D Pearson, Carol M Black
• Quantitative analyses of sacroiliac biopsies in spondyloarthropathies: T cells and macrophages predominate in early and active sacroiliitis— cellularity correlates with the degree of enhancement detected by magnetic resonance imaging (1 February, 2000)

  M Bollow, T Fischer, H Reiβhauer, M Backhaus, J Sieper, B Hamm, J Braun