Professor, Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine

Rheumatology

Alfonse Masi works in the field of Rheumatology. He went to medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is one of the top medical schools in the US. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is ranked 8 in research and 52 in primary care medicine Alfonse Masi is also a published doctor. He has 100 paper published. The most recent paper is: Carpo:metacarpal ratio. A new quantitative measure of radiologic progression of wrist involvement in rheumatioid arthritis.

Publications

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• Greater Resting Lumbar Extensor Myofascial Stiffness in Younger Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients than Age-Comparable Normal Volunteers Quantified by Myotonometry.
• Progress in the evolution of systemic sclerosis classification criteria and recommendation for additional comparative specificity studies.
• Do women with premenopausal-onset rheumatoid arthritis have relative insufficiency or imbalance of adrenocortical steroids?
• A 50-year Revisit of the Initiation and Associations of Hashimoto's Disease: Might Findings Conform to a Concept of Multifactorial Physiopathologic Transitions?
• Serum Acute Phase Protein and Inflammatory Cytokine Network Correlations: Comparison of a Pre-Rheumatoid Arthritis and Non-Rheumatoid Arthritis Community Cohort.
• Controlled Cohort Study of Serum Gonadal and Adrenocortical Steroid Levels in Males Prior to Onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis (pre-RA): A Comparison to pre-RA Females and...
• The ''CREST'' syndrome. Comparison with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma).
• CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE L.E.-CELL PHENOMENON IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
• hERG1 channels are overexpressed in glioblastoma multiforme and modulate VEGF secretion in glioblastoma cell lines.
• Arthritis with an inflammatory dermatosis resembling Sweet''s syndrome. Report of a unique case and review of the literature on arthritis associated with the inflammat...
• Serological investigations for evidence of an infectious aetiology of rheumatoid arthritis.
• Evaluation of the cost of home care for terminally ill cancer patients.
• Seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. Fact or fiction?
• Hashimoto''s disease. A search for associated disorders in 170 clinically detected cases.
• Chronic synovitis in gout simulating rheumatoid arthritis. Demonstration of bilateral popliteal cysts and wrist synovial corrugation.
• Clinical correlation analysis of 137 patients with Raynaud''s phenomenon.
• Adrenal cortical adenomas and hypertension. A clinical pathologic analysis of 690 cases with matched controls and a review of the literature.
• The prevalence of adrenal cortical hyperplasia at autopsy and its association with hypertension.
• HLA-B27 antigen and rheumatoid factor negative (seronegative) peripheral arthritis. Studies in younger patients with early-diagnosed arthritis.
• HERG K+ channels and beta1 integrins interact through the assembly of a macromolecular complex.
• Population studies in rheumatic disease.
• Systemic lupus erythematosus: a family study of 25 probands.
• Systemic lupus erythematosus with a protein-losing enteropathy.
• Impaired cell-mediated immunity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A controlled study of 23 untreated patients.
• Discoid lupus erythematosus and tuberculosis simulating systemic lupus erythematosus.
• Jacques Forestier''s vanished bowstring sign in ankylosing spondylitis: a call to test its validity and possible relation to spinal myofascial hypertonicity.
• [Magnetic resonance with endorectal coil in the locoregional staging of rectal carcinoma].
• FAMILIAL AGGREGATION AND RHEUMATOID DISEASE.
• Reiter's syndrome. Evaluation of preliminary criteria for definite disease.
• Infectious agent arthritis (IAA): a continuing diagnostic and therapeutic problem.
• Acute infectious agent arthritis (IAA): a detailed comparison of proved gonococcal and other blood-borne bacterial arthritis.
• A study of classification criteria for a diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
• The critique and the skills.
• Gonococcal arthritis: clinical freatures and results of penicillin therapy.
• The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of vasculitis. Introduction.
• Letter: Roentgenographic prevalence of chondrocalcinosis.
• Preliminary criteria for the classification of the acute arthritis of primary gout.
• HLA B27 and other host interactions in spondyloarthropathy syndromes.
• Polymyositis and other myopathy staining patterns with the new hematoxylin-basic fuchsin-picric acid (HBFP) method and review of microvascular abnormalities in polymyo...
• Spectrum of gonococcal arthritis: evidence for sequential stages and clinical subgroups.
• Carpo:metacarpal ratio. A new quantitative measure of radiologic progression of wrist involvement in rheumatioid arthritis.
• Wrist arthrography: review and comparison of normals, rheumatoid arthritis and gout patients.
• Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) and gonococcal arthritis (GCA): I. Bacteriology, epidemiology, host factors, pathogen factors, and pathology.
• Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) and gonococcal arthritis (GCA): II. Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, complications, treatment, and prevention.
• Pigmented villonodular synovitis and tenosynovitis: a clinical epidemiologic study of 166 cases and literature review.
• Synthesis, conformation and biological activity of centrally modified pseudopeptidic analogues of For-Met-Leu-Phe-OMe.
• Screening of lung cancer with low dose spiral CT: results of a three year pilot study and design of the randomised controlled trial ''''Italung-CT''''.
• [Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast. Report of a case].
• Prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis. A longitudinal study of newly diagnosed younger adult patients.
• Survival with scleroderma. II. A life-table analysis of clinical and demographic factors in 358 male U.S. veteran patients.
• Prognostic importance of cardiac arrhythmias in systemic sclerosis.
• A rheumatology practice in a community-based medical school.
• The use of contemporary MMPI norms in the study of chronic pain patients.
• Family studies with HLA typing in Reiter's syndrome.
• Pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis: a vascular hypothesis.
• The epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis: a review. II. Incidence and diagnostic criteria.
• Epidemiology of fatal systemic sclerosis (diffuse scleroderma). A 15-year survey in Baltimore.
• Pathologic observations in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma). A study of fifty-eight autopsy cases and fifty-eight matched controls.
• Articular patterns in the early course of rheumatoid arthritis.
• Reiter''s syndrome versus seronegative rheumatoid arthritis.
• Prospective study of the early course of rheumatoid arthritis in young adults: comparison of patients with and without rheumatoid factor positivity at entry and identi...
• Proceedings: Comparison of early patterns of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in juveniles and young adults: data supporting a unified disease concept.
• Low dose glucocorticoid therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA): transitional or selected add-on therapy?
• Relapsing polychondritis: review of current status and case report,.
• Incidence of rheumatoid arthritis: do the observed age-sex interaction patterns support a role of androgenic-anabolic steroid deficiency in its pathogenesis?
• Are adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and ankylosing spondylitis counter-opposing conditions? A hypothesis on biomechanical contributions predisposing to these spinal di...
• The 1982 revised criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus.
• Regional cerebral blood flow in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus: a prospective SPECT study. Single photon emission computed tomography.
• Microtubular inclusions in normal skin of systemic lupus erythematosus patients.
• Proceedings: Impaired cell-mediated immunity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
• Preliminary criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Evaluation in early diagnosed SLE and rheumatoid arthritis.
• The epidemiology of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) among male U.S. veterans.
• Pathologic changes in muscle in primary fibromyalgia syndrome.
• Novel concepts of severity mechanisms in ankylosing spondylitis.
• Survival with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma). A life-table analysis of clinical and demographic factors in 309 patients.
• Primary fibromyalgia.
• Epidemiology of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma).
• The epidemiology of polymyositis.
• An intuitive person-centred perspective on fibromyalgia syndrome and its management.
• Estrogens, the immune response and autoimmunity.
• Fibromyalgia--which is the best treatment? A personalized, comprehensive, ambulatory, patient-involved management programme.
• Do elevated levels of serum C-reactive protein predict rheumatoid arthritis in men: correlations with pre-RA status and baseline positive rheumatoid factors.
• Do antifilaggrin antibodies within the "normal" range predict rheumatoid arthritis?
• The modified Rodnan skin score is an accurate reflection of skin biopsy thickness in systemic sclerosis.
• Polymyositis and dermatomyositis in children: an epidemiologic and clinical comparative analysis.
• Ulnar deviation of the fingers in gout simulating rheumatoid arthritis.
• Hypothalamic hypopituitarism presenting with rheumatologic symptoms.
• Aortic regurgitation in scleroderma.
• Is chronic pain a variant of depressive disease? The case of primary fibromyalgia syndrome.
• Rheumatoid factor negative (seronegative) rheumatoid arthritis: evolving clinical classification and immunogenetic associations.
• Concepts of illness in populations as applied to fibromyalgia syndromes: a biopsychosocial perspective.
• Psychiatric status of patients with primary fibromyalgia, patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and subjects without pain: a blind comparison of DSM-III diagnoses.
• Heavy cigarette smoking and RA.
• Does male:female sex ratio in ankylosing spondylitis change with age?
• Sex effects in systemic lupus erythematosus: a clue to pathogenesis.
• Age, sex, and race effects on mortality from systemic lupus erythematosus in the United States.
• Do sex hormones play a role in ankylosing spondylitis?
• Classification of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma): relationship of cutaneous subgroups in early disease to outcome and serologic reactivity.
• Muscle pathology in primary fibromyalgia syndrome: a light microscopic, histochemical and ultrastructural study.

Schools

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• Columbia University College of Physicians And Surgeons

• Johns Hopkins Hospital

• UCLA Med Center

• Johns Hopkins School HygampPh

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine
• Rheumatology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• UCLA Medical Center
• Johns Hopkins University
• Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

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