1. Letter from the editor

   • Paul Davis

   Editorial 16 March 2005 Pages: 95 - 95

2. Report and review on the achievements and future plans of the ILAR Standing Committee for Health Professionals

   • J. J. Rasker

   ILAR News 27 November 2004 Pages: 96 - 98

3. Clinical and laboratory features of scleroderma patients developing skeletal myopathy

   • Yoshihiro Mimura
   • Hironobu Ihn
   • Kunihiko Tamaki

   Original Article 20 August 2004 Pages: 99 - 102

4. Elevated serum homocysteine levels for gouty patients

   • Tien-Tsai Cheng
   • Han-Ming Lai
   • Shue-Fen Luo

   Original Article 16 September 2004 Pages: 103 - 106

   

5. Lymphocyte apoptosis and macrophage function: correlation with disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus

   • Ou Jin
   • Ling-yun Sun
   • Chak-sing Lau

   Original Article 28 July 2004 Pages: 107 - 110

   

6. Soluble adhesion molecules (sVCAM-1, sE-selectin), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and endothelin-1 in patients with systemic sclerosis: relationship to organ systemic involvement

   • Anna Kuryliszyn-Moskal
   • Piotr Adrian Klimiuk
   • Stanislaw Sierakowski

   Original Article 03 September 2004 Pages: 111 - 116

   

7. Health-related quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis in Northern Sweden: a comparison between patients with early RA, patients with medium-term disease and controls, using SF-36

   • Elisabet West
   • Solveig Wållberg Jonsson

   Original Article 31 August 2004 Pages: 117 - 122

   

8. The Turkish version of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index: reliability and validity

   • Huseyin T. E. Ozer
   • Tunay Sarpel
   • Eren Erken

   Original Article 31 August 2004 Pages: 123 - 128

   

9. Bone mineral density in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis treated with corticosteroids

   • George S. Habib
   • Shehadeh Haj

   Original Article 14 September 2004 Pages: 129 - 133

10. Arterial distensibility as determined by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity in patients with Behçet’s disease

    • Turhan Kürüm
    • Mustafa Yıldız
    • Binnur Tüzün

    Original Article 08 September 2004 Pages: 134 - 138

    

11. Content comparison of osteoporosis-targeted health status measures in relation to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

    • Michael Borchers
    • Alarcos Cieza
    • Gerold Stucki

    Original Article 14 September 2004 Pages: 139 - 144

12. Raynaud’s phenomenon in undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)

    • Rossella De Angelis
    • Angela Cerioni
    • Patrizia Blasetti

    Original Article 04 September 2004 Pages: 145 - 151

13. Microscopic polyangiitis sparing the kidneys in a long-term survivor after allogenic bone marrow transplantation and graft-versus-host disease

    • Hani Almoallim
    • A. Caroline Patterson

    Case Report 03 December 2004 Pages: 152 - 154

14. Avascular necrosis of the femoral head foreshadowing familial Mediterranean fever: apropos of three cases

    • Ahmet Mesut Onat
    • Levent Özçakar
    • Meral Çalgüneri

    Case Report 04 September 2004 Pages: 155 - 157

    

15. Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to systemic lupus erythematosus with hemophagocytic syndrome: an autopsy report

    • Kazuma Kaneko
    • Masayuki Matsuda
    • Shu-ichi Ikeda

    Case Report 26 August 2004 Pages: 158 - 161

    

16. Variable atrioventricular block in systemic lupus erythematosus

    • Sybille Liautaud
    • Ahmed J. Khan
    • Anekwe E. Onwuanyi

    Case Report 26 October 2004 Pages: 162 - 165

    

17. Thrombotic microangiopathy with liver, gut, and bone infarction (catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome) associated with HELLP syndrome

    • Martial Koenig
    • Michel Roy
    • Pascal Cathébras1

    Case Report 08 December 2004 Pages: 166 - 168

    

18. Takayasu’s arteritis and chronic autoimmune thyroiditis in a patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus

    • Josko Bulum
    • Nikica Car
    • Zeljko Metelko

    Case Report 11 November 2004 Pages: 169 - 171

    

19. Electric shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) as a pain control measure in dermatomyositis with calcinosis cutis—old method, new discovery

    • Alice YK Chan
    • Edmund Li

    Case Report 24 November 2004 Pages: 172 - 173

20. P-ANCA cranial pachymeningitis: a case report

    • D. Jacobi
    • F. Maillot
    • L. Guillevin

    Case Report 02 December 2004 Pages: 174 - 177

    

21. Systemic lupus erythematosus arising during interferon-alpha therapy for cryoglobulinemic vasculitis associated with hepatitis C

    • Timothy B. Niewold
    • William I. Swedler

    Case Report 24 November 2004 Pages: 178 - 181

22. Marked increase of serum hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA titer during treatment with high-dose prednisolone in a case of polymyositis

    • Takashi Kato
    • Takahiro Okai
    • Masao Tadokoro

    Case Report 30 November 2004 Pages: 182 - 186

    

23. Re: “Splenic marginal zone B-cell lymphoma associated with primary Sjögren’s syndrome”

    • Vito Franco
    • Emilio Iannitto
    • Ada Maria Florena

    Letter 10 September 2004 Pages: 187 - 187

24. Reply to letter by Franco et al.

    • Susumu Nishiyama
    • Shoji Miyawaki

    Letter 14 September 2004 Pages: 188 - 188