• 2017 recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the pharmacological treatment of rheumatoid arthritis 

      Mota, Licia Maria Henrique da; Kakehasi, Adriana Maria; Reis, Ana Paula Monteiro Gomides; Duarte, Angela Luzia B. Pinto; Cruz, Boris Afonso; Brenol, Claiton Viegas; Albuquerque, Cleandro Pires de; Pinheiro, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar; Laurindo, Iêda Maria Magalhães; Pereira, Ivânio Alves; Bertolo, Manoel Barros; Souza, Mariana Peixoto Guimarães Ubirajara e Silva de; Freitas, Max Victor Carioca de; Louzada Junior, Paulo; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Giorgi, Rina Dalva Neubarth (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      The objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive update of the recommendations of Brazilian Society of Rheumatology on drug treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), based on a systematic literature review and ...
    • Artrite reumatoide e síndrome metabólica 

      Cunha, Viviane Roseli da; Brenol, Claiton Viegas; Brenol, João Carlos Tavares; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2011) [Artigo de periódico]
      Nos ultimos 20 anos, tem sido demonstrado que a artrite reumatoide (AR) pode reduzir a expectativa de vida de 3 a 10 anos em comparacao com a populacao em geral. Atualmente, a doenca cardiovascular (DCV) e a principal causa ...
    • Association between tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and the risk of hospitalization or death among patients with immune-mediated inflammatory disease and covid-19 

      Izadi, Zara; Kappelman, Michael D.; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Psoriasis Patient Registry for Outcomes, Therapy and Epidemiology of COVID-19 Infection (PsoProtect); Secure Epidemiology of Coronavirus Under Research Exclusion for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SECURE-IBD); COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance (GRA) (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      IMPORTANCE: Although tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors are widely prescribed globally because of their ability to ameliorate shared immune pathways across immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs), the impact of ...
    • A Brazilian cohort of patients with immuno-mediated chronic inflammatory diseases infected by SARS-CoV-2 (ReumaCoV-Brasil Registry) : protocol for a prospective, observational study 

      Marques, Cláudia Diniz Lopes; Kakehasi, Adriana Maria; Gomides, Ana Paula Monteiro; Paiva, Eduardo dos Santos; Reis Neto, Edgard Torres dos; Pileggi, Gecilmara Cristina Salviato; Provenza, José Roberto; Mota, Licia Maria Henrique da; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Ferreira, Gilda Aparecida; Pinheiro, Marcelo Medeiros (2020) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: Patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (IMRD) are at increased risk of infections, including significant morbidity and high mortality. Considering the potential for unfavorable outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 ...
    • Burden of rheumatoid arthritis on patients’ work productivity and quality of life 

      Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Zerbini, Cristiano Augusto de Freitas; Pollak, Daniel Feldman; Morales-Torres, Jorge Luis Alberto; Chalem, Philippe; Molina Restrepo, José Fernando; Duhau, Javier A.; Amado, Jacqueline Rodríguez; Abello, Maurício; Vega, María Celina de la; Dávila, Adriana Pérez; Biegun, Priscila Martin; Arruda, Maysa Silva; Ramos-Remus, Cesar (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: To determine the burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) on patients’ work productivity and health related quality of life (HRQoL), and examine the influence of several exposure variables; to analyze the progression ...
    • Capilaroscopia periungueal pode sugerir atividade de doença pulmonar na esclerose sistêmica 

      Bredemeier, Markus; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Capobianco, Karina Gatz; Restelli, Vicente Gregório; Rohde, Luis Eduardo Paim; Pinotti, Antonio Fernando Furlan; Pitrez, Eduardo Hennemann; Vieira, Marcelo Vasconcelos; Fontoura, Maria Ângela; Brenol, João Carlos Tavares (2004) [Artigo de periódico]
      Objetivo: Estudar a associação entre alterações capilaroscópicas e lesões em órgãos-alvo na esclerose sistêmica (ES). Métodos: Noventa e um pacientes com ES foram avaliados através de entrevista, exame físico, capilaroscopia ...
    • Características de atividade das células natural killer em pacientes com esclerose sistêmica 

      Salim, Patrícia Hartstein; Wilson, Mariana de Sampaio Leite Jobim; Bredemeier, Markus; Chies, Jose Artur Bogo; Brenol, João Carlos Tavares; Jobim, Luiz Fernando Job; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2013) [Artigo de periódico]
      Estudos têm relatado um aumento da expressão das células natural killer (NK) no sangue periférico de pacientes com esclerose sistêmica (ES). Essas células fazem parte da imunidade inata, reconhecendo células infectadas por ...
    • Causes of synthetic disease-modifying drug discontinuation in rheumatoid arthritis : data from a large real-life cohort 

      Gomides, Ana Paula Monteiro; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Pinheiro, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has evolved rapidly in recent years. Nonetheless, conventional synthetic disease-modifying drugs (csDMARDs) remain the gold standard for RA treatment. The treatment for RA is ...
    • Changes in physical function over time in rheumatoid arthritis patients : a cohort study 

      Espírito Santo, Rafaela Cavalheiro do; Baker, Joshua Frederick; Santos, Leonardo Peterson dos; Silva, Jordana Miranda de Souza; Filippin, Lidiane Isabel; Portes, Juliana Katarina Schoer; Brenol, Claiton Viegas; Chakr, Rafael Mendonça da Silva; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2023) [Artigo de periódico]
      Introduction Self-reported disability is potentially influenced by many factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this sense, we evaluated the association between self-reported disability and (1) clinical ...
    • Characteristics and outcomes of people with gout hospitalized due to COVID-19: data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Physician - reported registry 

      Jatuworapruk, Kanon; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Robinson, Philip C. (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Objective. To describe people with gout who were diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and hospitalized and to characterize their outcomes. Methods. Data on patients with gout hospitalized for COVID-19 between ...
    • Chronic use of hydroxychloroquine did not protect against COVID-19 in a large cohort of patients with rheumatic diseases in Brazil 

      Pileggi, Gecilmara Cristina Salviato; Espírito Santo, Rafaela Cavalheiro do; Monticielo, Odirlei André; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Pinheiro, Marcelo de Medeiros (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background There is a lack of information on the role of chronic use of hydroxychloroquine during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. Our aim was to compare the occurrence of COVID-19 between rheumatic disease patients on hydroxychloroquine ...
    • Collagen-induced arthritis as an animal model of rheumatoid cachexia 

      Alabarse, Paulo Vinicius Gil; Lora, Priscila Schmidt; Silva, Jordana Miranda de Souza; Espírito Santo, Rafaela Cavalheiro do; Freitas, Eduarda Correa; Oliveira, Mayara Souza de; Almeida, Andrelise Simões de; Immig, Mônica Luiza; Teixeira, Vivian de Oliveira Nunes; Filippin, Lidiane Isabel; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by chronic polyarticular synovitis and presents systemic changes that impact quality of life, such as impaired muscle function, seen in up to 66% of the patients. This can ...
    • Combined effects of CXCL8 and CXCR2 gene polymorphisms on susceptibility to systemic sclerosis 

      Salim, Patrícia Hartstein; Wilson, Mariana de Sampaio Leite Jobim; Bredemeier, Markus; Chies, Jose Artur Bogo; Brenol, João Carlos Tavares; Jobim, Luiz Fernando Job; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2012) [Artigo de periódico]
      A previous study suggested that the CXCR2 (+1208) TT genotype was associated with increased risk of systemic sclerosis (SSc). In the present study, we investigated the influence of variation in the CXCL8 and CXCR2 genes ...
    • A combined enrichment/polymerase chain reaction based method for the routine screening of streptococcus agalactiae in pregnant women 

      Munari, Fernanda Mosena; Paris, Fernanda de; Salton, Gabrielle Dias; Lora, Priscila Schmidt; Grazziotin, Patricia Giovanella; Machado, Alice Beatriz Mombach Pinheiro; Laybauer, Letícia Saldanha; Oliveira, Kátia Ruschel Pilger de; Ferri, Cleusa; Silveira, João Lúcio dos Santos; Laurino, Claudia Cilene Fernandes Correia; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Barth, Afonso Luis; Echeverrigaray, Sergio; Laurino, Jomar Pereira (2012) [Artigo de periódico]
      Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the most common cause of life-threatening infection in neonates. Guidelines from CDC recommend universal screening of pregnant women for rectovaginal GBS colonization. The objective of this ...
    • Comparison of rheumatoid arthritis composite disease activity indices and residual activity in a Brazilian multicenter study - REAL study 

      Santos, Isabela Araujo; Brenol, Claiton Viegas; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Pinheiro, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) composite disease activity indices have become handy tools in daily clinical practice and crucial in defining remission or low disease activity, the main target of the RA treatment. ...
    • Correlação entre expressão celular de proteínas reguladoras do complemento com a depleção e repopulação de linfócitos B no sangue periférico de pacientes com artrite reumatoide tratada com rituximabe 

      Viecceli, Daniela; Garcia, Mariana Pires; Schneider, Laiana; Alegretti, Ana Paula; Silva, Cristiano Köhler; Ribeiro, Andre Lucas; Brenol, João Carlos Tavares; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      Objetivos: Correlacionar a expressão basal das proteínas reguladoras do complemento (PRC)CD55, CD59, CD35 e CD46 nos linfócitos B do sangue periférico de uma coorte de 10 pacientescom artrite reumatoide (AR) iniciando ...
    • Correlation of enthesitis indices with disease activity and function in axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis : a cross-sectional study comparing MASES, SPARCC and LEI 

      Palominos, Penelope Esther; Campos, Ana Paula Beckhauser de; Ribeiro, Sandra Lúcia Euzébio; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Xavier, Jady Wroblewski; Oliveira, Felipe Borges de; Guerra, Bruno Meira; Saldanha, Carla Forgiarini; Mancuso, Aline Castello Branco; Kohem, Charles Lubianca; Gasparin, Andrese Aline; Barros, Percival Degrava Sampaio (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: The presence of enthesitis is associated with higher disease activity, more disability and incapacity to work and a poorer quality of life in spondyloarthritis (SpA). There is currently no consensus on which ...
    • Desenvolvimento de artrite induzida por colágeno em camundongos DBA/1J entre os gêneros 

      Xavier, Laura de Lima; Viacava, Paula Ramos; Teixeira, Vivian de Oliveira Nunes; Munhoz, Marília Romero; Lora, Priscila Schmidt; Oliveira, Patricia Gnieslaw de; Filippin, Lidiane Isabel; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2012) [Artigo de periódico]
      Introdução: A artrite reumatoide (AR) é uma doença autoimune inflamatória sistêmica de etiologia desconhecida. Modelos animais de artrite são extremamente úteis para o estudo da fisiopatologia da doença e de novas terapias. ...
    • Diminished expression of complement regulatory proteins on peripheral blood cells from systemic lupus erythematosus patients 

      Alegretti, Ana Paula; Schneider, Laiana; Piccoli, Amanda Kirchner; Monticielo, Odirlei André; Lora, Priscila Schmidt; Brenol, João Carlos Tavares; Xavier, Ricardo Machado (2012) [Artigo de periódico]
      CD55, CD59, CD46, and CD35 are proteins with complement regulatory (Creg) properties that ensure cell and tissue integrity when this system is activated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Creg expression on peripheral ...
    • Discordance between the patient’s and physician’s global assessment in rheumatoid arthritis : data from the REAL study—Brazil 

      Guimarães, Maria Fernanda Brandão de Resende; Xavier, Ricardo Machado; Pinheiro, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar (2020) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background Discordance between patient’s global assessment (PtGA) and physician’s global assessment (PhGA) has been described in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Understanding the reasons for this discrepancy is important in the ...