• Assessment of Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Spondyloarthritis 

      Prados-Ojeda, Juan L.; Luque-Luque, Rogelio; Gordillo-Urbano, Rafael M.; Guler, Ipek; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; Escudero Contreras, Alejandro (MDPI, 2021)
      Inflammatory and autoimmune processes have been associated with the onset of depressive and psychotic symptoms. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA) are rheumatic diseases with an inflammatory etiology. A ...
    • Evaluación de comorbilidades en las espondiloartritis 

      López Medina, Eloísa Clementina (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2017)
      Las Espondiloartritis (EspA) son un grupo de enfermedades inflamatorias crónicas que pueden expresarse en forma de diferentes fenotipos dependiendo de la presencia de afectación axial (EspA axial), artritis periférica ...
    • Measuring Spinal Mobility Using an Inertial Measurement Unit System: A Validation Study in Axial Spondyloarthritis 

      Aranda-Valera, I. Concepción; Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio; Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Gardiner, Philip V.; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Machado, Pedro M.; Condell, Joan; Connolly, James; Williams, Jonathan M.; Muñoz-Esquivel, Karla; O’Dwyer, Tom; Castro Villegas, María del Carmen; González-Navas, Cristina; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; iMaxSpA Study Group (MDPI, 2020)
      Portable inertial measurement units (IMUs) are beginning to be used in human motion analysis. These devices can be useful for the evaluation of spinal mobility in individuals with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). The ...
    • Mechanical Properties of Lumbar and Cervical Paravertebral Muscles in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Case-Control Study 

      Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Aranda-Valera, I. Concepción; Peña Amaro, J.; Martínez Galisteo, A.; González-Navas, Cristina; Rodrigues-de-Souza, Daiana Priscila; Alcaraz-Clariana, Sandra; García-Luque, Lourdes; Martínez Sánchez, Iago R.; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; Alburquerque Sendín, Francisco (MDPI, 2021)
      Background: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) affects spinal muscles, due to inflammation and structural damage. The mechanical properties of the muscles, such as tone or stiffness, could be altered in axSpA. The aim of this ...
    • Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis Show an Altered Flexion/Relaxation Phenomenon 

      Aranda-Valera, I. Concepción; Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Martínez Galisteo, A.; Peña Amaro, J.; González-Navas, Cristina; Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio; Jiménez Reina, L.; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina (MDPI, 2021)
      Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic rheumatic disease characterized by the presence of inflammatory back pain. In patients with chronic low back pain, the lumbar flexion relaxation phenomenon measured by surface ...
    • Prevalence and Associated Factors of Low Bone Mineral Density in the Femoral Neck and Total Hip in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Data from the CASTRO Cohort 

      Bautista-Aguilar, Laura; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Ladehesa-Pineda, Lourdes; Ábalos-Aguilera, María del Carmen; Ruiz-Vilchez, Desirée; Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Gómez-García, Ignacio; Puche-Larrubia, María Ángeles; Salmoral-Chamizo, Asunción; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; Escudero Contreras, Alejandro; Font-Ugalde, Pilar (MDPI, 2021)
      Studies on osteoporosis in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) have focused on the lumbar segment, and few studies have assessed bone mineral density (BMD) in the hip and femoral neck in these patients. The aim of this study ...
    • Subclinical Atherosclerosis Measure by Carotid Ultrasound and Inflammatory Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Spondylarthritis 

      Rojas-Giménez, Marta; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Ladehesa-Pineda, Lourdes; Puche-Larrubia, María Ángeles; Gómez-García, Ignacio; Calvo Gutiérrez, Jerusalém; Seguí-Azpilcueta, Pedro; Ábalos-Aguilera, María del Carmen; Ruiz-Vilchez, Desirée; Escudero Contreras, Alejandro; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo (MDPI, 2022)
      Objective: To compare the effect of inflammation on subclinical atherosclerosis using carotid ultrasound in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: Cross-sectional study including 347 ...
    • The clinical and molecular cardiometabolic fingerprint of an exploratory psoriatic arthritis cohort is associated with the disease activity and differentially modulated by methotrexate and apremilast 

      Arias de la Rosa, Iván; López-Montilla, María Dolores; Román-Rodríguez, Cristobal; Pérez Sánchez, Carlos; Gómez-García, Ignacio; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Ladehesa-Pineda, Lourdes; Ábalos-Aguilera, María del Carmen; Ruiz, Desireé; Patiño-Trives, Alejandra Mª; Luque-Tévar, María; Añón-Oñate, Isabel; Pérez-Galán, María José; Guzmán Ruiz, R.; Malagón, María M.; López-Pedrera, Ch.; Escudero Contreras, Alejandro; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; Barbarroja, Nuria (Wiley, 2022)
      Objectives: (1) To evaluate clinical and molecular cardiovascular disease (CVD) signs and their relationship with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) features and (2) to identify a clinical patient profile susceptible to benefit ...