Intralesional steroid injection: General considerations

Local steroid injection is commonly used as an adjunctive therapy in articular disease and soft tissue rheumatism. It may also be used as a bridge for earlier symptomatic relief in inflammatory arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis. In this article, we describe some of the general considerations of this procedure. In the next issues, we will describe specific techniques of injection of specific joints and soft tissue rheumatism lesions.published_or_final_versio

Review of the effectiveness of a 4-week intensive pulmonary rehabilitation program in COAD patients

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Late-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in southern Chinese

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ACR/SLICC damage scores in an inception cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and their relationship with disease flares and various clinical variables

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Late-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in southern Chinese

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Immunoglobulin G4–related disease in Hong Kong: clinical features, treatment practices, and its association with multisystem disease

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Rationale and design of the screening of pulmonary hypertension in systemic lupus erythematosus (SOPHIE) study

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Energy-efficient precoding in multicell networks with full-duplex base stations

© 2017, The Author(s). This paper considers multi-input multi-output (MIMO) multicell networks, where the base stations (BSs) are full-duplex transceivers, while uplink and downlink users are equipped with multiple antennas and operate in a half-duplex mode. The problem of interest is to design linear precoders for BSs and users to optimize the network’s energy efficiency. Given that the energy efficiency objective is not a ratio of concave and convex functions, the commonly used Dinkelbach-type algorithms are not applicable. We develop a low-complexity path-following algorithm that only invokes one simple convex quadratic program at each iteration, which converges at least to the local optimum. Numerical results demonstrate the performance advantage of our proposed algorithm in terms of energy efficiency