Pr Patrick Cherin - CHU Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris Articles commentés : Palm O, Moum B, Ongre A, Gran JT. Prevalence of ankylosing spondylitis and other spondyloarthropathies among patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a population study (the IBSEN study). J Rheumatol 2002 ;29 :511-515. Palm O, Moum B, Jahnsen J, Gran JT. The prevalence and incidence of peripheral arthritis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, a prospective population-based study (the IBSEN study). Rheumatology (Oxford) 2001; 40 : 1256-1261

Pr Patrick Cherin - CHU Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris Article commenté : Sekimoto T, Hamada K, Oike Y, Matsuoka T, Matsumoto M, Chosa E, Suda T, Tajima N, Yamamura K. Effect of direct angiogenesis inhibition in rheumatoid arthritis using a soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 chimeric protein. J Rheumatol 2002; 29 : 240-5.

Pr Patrick Cherin - CHU Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris Article commenté : Englund P, Nennesmo I, Klareskog L, Lundberg IE. Interleukin-1alpha expression in capillaries and major histocompatibility complex class I expression in type II muscle fibers from polymyositis and dermatomyositis patients: important pathogenic features independent of inflammatory cell clusters in muscle tissue. Arthritis Rheum 2002 Apr;46(4):1044-55.

Véra Lemaire, Hôpital Lariboisière - Paris Articles commentés : Drossaers KW, Zwinderman AH, Van Zeben D et coll. - Pregnancy and oral contraceptive use do not significantly influence outcome in long term rheumatoid arthritis - Ann Rheum Dis 2002;61:405-408 Silman AJ - Contraceptives, pregnancy, and RA - Ann Rheum Dis 2002;61:383