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2026
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Roxana Doina Ungureanu, Cristina Elena Biță, Mirela Voicu, Adina Turcu-Ştiolică et autres
Background/Objectives: Spondylarthritis (SA) is characterized by high clinical heterogeneity, often resulting in a discrepancy between systemic inflammation and patient-reported symptoms. While hematologic indices are emerging as cost-effective biomarkers, their role in phenotypic differentiation remains unclear. We investigated the utility of traditional inflammatory …
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2026
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Florentina Dumitrescu, Eugenia-Andreea Marcu, Pădureanu, Livia Dragonu et autres
Background: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is highly prevalent among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with reported rates of insufficiency and deficiency substantially higher than in many general-population cohorts. This study aims to assess the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and …
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2024
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Cristina Dorina Pârvănescu, Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Cristina Elena Biță, Ștefan Cristian Dinescu et autres
The accurate diagnosis of gout frequently constitutes a challenge in clinical practice, as it bears a close resemblance to other rheumatologic conditions. An undelayed diagnosis and an early therapeutic intervention using uric acid lowering therapy (ULT) is of the utmost importance for …
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2024
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Cristina Dorina Pârvănescu, Adina Turcu-Ştiolică, Ștefan Cristian Dinescu, Sineta Cristina Firulescu et autres
BACKGROUND: Hyperuricemia is classically defined as serum uric acid (SUA) value higher than 6.8 mg∕dL; between hyperuricemic patients, only 15-20% will develop gout. Our first goal was to find if there is a specificity of the "snowstorm" feature on ultrasound (US) for …
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2024
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Cristina Dorina Pârvănescu, Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Ștefan Cristian Dinescu, Cristina Elena Biță et autres
The current observational, prospective study enrolled 65 patients with gout, diagnosed according to 2015 ACR/EULAR criteria [17], evaluated in Rheumatology Clinic, Emergency County Hospital Craiova, and 40 healthy subjects. This research aimed to determine the presence of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis, revealed by …
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2022
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Dana Ciobanu, Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Beatrice Andreea Traşcǎ, Cristina Dorina Pârvănescu et autres
Objectives. We aimed to assess the presence of MetS and traditional CV risk factors in a group of RA patients, compared to controls and their possible inter-relation with disease activity variables. Methods. We performed an observational study on 38 consecutive patients diagnosed …
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2021
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Beatrice Andreea Chisălau, Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Cristina Dorina Pârvănescu, Sineta Cristina Firulescu et autres
Abstract Shoulder involvement is one of the most frequent findings in rheumatology and many of the rheumatic diseases can determine inflammatory lesions, as well as degenerative ones. Due to the non-specificity of clinical symptoms, imaging methods are emerging into the daily practice …
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2021
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Beatrice Andreea Chisălau, Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Cristina Dorina Pârvănescu, Sineta Cristina Firulescu et autres
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory potentially destructive disease that requires early diagnosis and therapeutic approach. Its main pathogenic event and the condition's hallmark is considered to be enthesitis. Clinical examination of the enthesis can be a challenge in the clinical practice; …
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2021
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Ștefan Cristian Dinescu, Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Paulina Lucia Ciurea, Roxana Mihaela Dumitraşcu et autres
Livedoid vasculopathy is a rare vascular disease which typically manifests as recurrent ulcerative lesions on the lower extremities. It is classified as a vasculopathy, not a true vasculitis, and defined as a vasooclusive syndrome, caused by non-inflammatory thrombosis of the upper and …
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2020
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Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Beatrice Andreea Chisălau, Cristina Dorina Pirvanescu, Sineta Cristina Firulescu et autres
Objectives.We aimed to assess the presence of liver fibrosis using transient elastography in a group of PsA patients, compared to controls, and its possible relationship with MTX treatment. Methods.We performed a prospective study on 41 patients diagnosed with PsA admitted to the …
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2020
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Beatrice Andreea Chisălau, Cristina Dorina Pârvănescu, Andreea Lili Bărbulescu, Sineta Cristina Firulescu et autres
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogeneous multifaceted inflammatory artropathy, associated or not with psoriasis, part of the spondyloarthropaties group. Beyond articular and skin manifestations, patients with psoriatic disease are prone to associated comorbidities, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), obesity and metabolic syndrome, diabetes, …
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2020
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Beatrice Andreea Chisălau, Laura-Ioana Cr�nguș, Florentin Ananu Vreju, Cristina P�rvănescu et autres
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a progressive common autoimmune inflammatory disease, part of the spondylarthritis group, characterized, besides clinical spinal and peripheral joint inflammation, by enthesitis and new bone formation, that can lead to severe functional impairment. Beyond intensive and continuous research on …
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