• Paediatric minor facial trauma resulting in invasive group A streptococcal orofacial infections: two case reports. 

  Maarouf, Marwa; Hanji, Chandan; Mohindra, Aneesh; Shetty, Suresh (Oral Surgery, Wiley, 2019-03-11)

  Invasive Group A Streptococcus infections can be underestimated and develop rapidly into serious necrotising soft tissue infections associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We report two children who presented ...

• Gestalt theory in education and practice. 

  Sirakaya, Mert (Academic Radiology, Elsevier, 2019-04-01)

  No abstract available.

• The impact of COVID-19 on rheumatology patients in a large UK centre using an innovative data collection technique: prevalence and effect of social shielding. 

  Cleaton, Natasha; Raizada, Sabrina; Barkham, Nick; Vernkatachalam, Srinivasan; Sheeran, Thomas; Adizie, Tochukwu; Sakopta, Hem Rag; Singh, Baldev; Bateman, James (Rheumatology International, Springer Nature, 2021-04-01)

  Objectives: We sought to gain insight into the prevalence of COVID-19 and the impact stringent social distancing (shielding) has had on a large cohort of rheumatology (RD) follow-up patients from a single large UK ...

• Development, spread and impact of primary care and musculoskeletal communities of practice to assist rapid translation of evidence into practice. 

  Hadley-Barrows, Tina (Musculoskeletal Care, Wiley Online, 2021-03-23)

  Background: Embedding research into practice is challenging. Barriers include: a shortage of time, lack of understanding of the evidence and a poor support in the clinical setting. A community of practice (CoP) model has ...

• Weight loss and hyponatraemia. 

  Othonos, Nantia; Sulaiman, Raashda; D'Costa, Domnick; Gama, Rousseau (British Medical Journal, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2011-03-02)

  No abstract available.

• Transient pseudohypoaldosteronism masquerading as congenital adrenal hyperplasia. 

  Manikam, Logan; Cornes, Michael P; Kalra, Deepak; Ford, Clare; Gama, Rousseau (Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Sage Journals, 2011-07-01)

  We report a six-week-old boy with genitourinary structural abnormalities who presented with profound hyponatraemia and hyperkalaemia due to transient type 1 pseudohypoaldosteronism (PHA) precipitated by a urinary tract ...

• The effect of the systemic inflammatory response, as provoked by elective orthopaedic surgery, on serum uric acid in patients without gout: a prospective study. 

  Waldron, Jenna Louise; Ashby, Helen L; Razavi, Cyrus; Thomas, Osmond L; Chung, Sanjiv; Deshpande, Shreeram; Ford, Clare; Gama, Rousseau (Rheumatology, Oxford Academic, 2013-04-01)

  Objective: Acute gout is associated with a decrease in serum uric acid (SUA) that is considered to be in response to acute inflammation but it may be a feature of gout itself. We, therefore, aimed to investigate the effect ...

• Influence of agents and mechanisms of injury on anatomical burn locations in children <5 years old with a scald. 

  Johnson, Emma (Archives of Disease in Childhood, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2021-03-16)

  Objective: To demonstrate how the mechanism and agent of injury can influence the anatomical location of a scald. Design: Prospective multicentre cross-sectional study. Setting: 20 hospital sites across England and ...

• Direct healthcare resource utilisation, health-related quality of life, and work productivity in patients with moderate rheumatoid arthritis: an observational study. 

  Edwards, Julie (BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, Springer Nature, 2021-03-13)

  Background: The aim was to describe the population of patients with moderate rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the United Kingdom and the burden of disease from the perspectives of the patient, caregiver, and health ...

• Monitoring nurse prescribing - safe practice or intrusive bureaucracy? 

  Tittensor, Phil (Epilepsy Care, Neuroeducation, 2010-12-01)

  No abstract available.

• Antidepressant prescribing in England: patterns and costs 

  Livingston, Mark (Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders, Physician Postgraduate Press, 2020-04-16)

  Objective: The number of prescriptions for antidepressants (ADs) in England and Wales has almost doubled in the past decade. The objective of this article is to describe the current prescribing rates of different antidepressants ...

• Outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with abatacept: a UK multi-centre observational study. 

  Venkatachalam, Srinivasan (BMC Rheumatology, Springer Nature, 2021-02-04)

  Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that causes chronic synovitis, resulting in progressive joint destruction and functional disability and affects approximately 400,000 people in ...

• Managing patients using telerheumatology: lessons from a pandemic. 

  Bateman, James; Cleaton, Natasha (Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology, Elsevier, 2021-03-01)

  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented unique challenges to rheumatology provision. Measures to control the pandemic have limited face-to-face contact with rheumatology healthcare professionals. One ...

• Neck as mediastinal extension: diagnosis of sarcoidosis by core biopsy of cervical lymph nodes. 

  Fahim, Ahmed; Qasim, Muhammad Mahzooz; Rosewarne, David (Clinical Respiratory Journal, Wiley, 2020-01-01)

  Background: Sarcoidosis is a multi-system granulomatous disease. The diagnostic procedures for histological confirmation are invasive and a less invasive approach to diagnostic pathway is warranted. The utility of diagnostic ...

• Citrullination facilitates cross-reactivity of rheumatoid factor with non-IgG1 Fc epitopes in rheumatoid arthritis. 

  Sheeran, Thomas; Rylance, Paul (Scientific Reports, Nature Research, 2019-08-19)

  Rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) are the two most prevalent autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and are thought to have distinct autoantigen targets. Whilst RF targets the ...

• Impact of COVID-19 on rheumatology practice in the UK-a pan-regional rheumatology survey. 

  Sapkota, Hem Raj (Clinical Rheumatology, Springer, 2021-02-09)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare services and rheumatology staff were redeployed to the frontline. The purpose of this survey was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of rheumatology ...

• Continuation of therapy of secukinumab (SEC): evidence from a tertiary referral centre. 

  Abadie, Mohammed; Ibrahim, Rangeen (International Journal of Current Medical & Pharmaceutical Research., IJCMPR - International Journal of Current Medical & Pharmaceutical Research., 2019-04-28)

  A clinical pathway was created to feed information into a clinical audit checklist, and was adopted as the patient-management model for biological therapies. From this, the data was reviewed concerning 41 patients who ...

• Randomized controlled trial of topical corticosteroid and home-based narrowband ultraviolet B for active and limited vitiligo: results of the HI-Light Vitiligo Trial. 

  Hamad, Hamdi (British Journal of Dermatology, Wiley, 2020-10-02)

  Background: Evidence for the effectiveness of vitiligo treatments is limited. Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of (i) handheld narrowband UVB (NB-UVB) and (ii) a combination of potent topical corticosteroid ...

• Recurrent sudden unexpected death in infancy: a case series of sibling deaths. 

  Moore, Angela (Archives of Disease in Childhood, BMJ Journals, 2020-10-01)

  Objectives: To determine the rate of sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) for infants born after a previous SUDI in the same family, and to establish the causes of death and the frequency of child protection concerns ...

• The dietary practices and beliefs of British South Asian people living with inflammatory bowel disease: a multicenter study from the United Kingdom. 

  Brookes, Matthew James (Intestinal Research, Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases, 2021-01-06)

  Background/aims: Epidemiological associations have implicated factors associated with Westernization, including the Western diet, in the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The role of diet in IBD etiopathogenesis, ...

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