User profiles for Rajalingham Sakthiswary

Sakthiswary Rajalingham

Professor, University Kebangsaan Malaysia
Verified email at ppukm.ukm.edu.my
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[HTML][HTML] Effects of tumour necrosis factor antagonists on insulin sensitivity/resistance in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AN Burska, R Sakthiswary, N Sattar - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Objective Beyond the joints, TNFi (tumour necrosis factor inhibitor) therapy may confer systemic
benefits in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Several studies have investigated the role of TNFi …

[HTML][HTML] Stem cell therapy in neurodegenerative diseases: From principles to practice

R Sakthiswary, AA Raymond - Neural regeneration research, 2012 - journals.lww.com
… Author contributions: Rajalingham Sakthiswary was involved in the manuscript composition
and performed the literature search. Azman Ali Raymond contributed to the conceptual …

[HTML][HTML] The clinical significance of vitamin D in systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review

R Sakthiswary, AA Raymond - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Vitamin D deficiency is more prevalent among SLE patients than the general
population. Over the past decade, many studies across the globe have been carried out to …

[HTML][HTML] Intravenous immunoglobulin in the therapeutic armamentarium of systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Sakthiswary, D D'Cruz - Medicine, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Prepared from the plasma of thousands of blood donors, therapeutic intravenous immunoglobulin
(IVIg) mostly consists of human polyspecific immunoglobulin G (IgG). The use of IVIg …

[HTML][HTML] Methotrexate-associated nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with transaminitis in rheumatoid arthritis

R Sakthiswary, GYL Chan, ET Koh, KP Leong… - The Scientific World …, 2014 - hindawi.com
Background. The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors of MTX-associated
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with transaminitis in a cohort of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) …

[HTML][HTML] Damage in the multiethnic Malaysian systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) cohort: comparison with other cohorts worldwide

SS Shaharir, H Hussein, S Rajalingham… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease and despite the
improvement in the survival in the past few decades, the morbidity due to disease damage …

[HTML][HTML] Pathomechanisms of bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis

R Sakthiswary, R Uma Veshaaliini, KY Chin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease, in which the inflammatory processes
involve the skeletal system and there is marked destruction of the bones and the surrounding …

COVID-19 in systemic lupus erythematosus: A pooled analysis and systematic review of case reports and series

R Sakthiswary, HY Chuah, KS Chiang, YS Liew… - Lupus, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective In the recent months, there have been several case reports and case series on
COVID-19 in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE). We conducted a pooled …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for symptomatic Avascular Necrosis (AVN) in a multi-ethnic Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) cohort

…, MM Noh, NS Shahril, MSM Said, S Rajalingham - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Avascular necrosis of bone (AVN) is increasingly being recognized as a complication of
SLE and causes significant disability due to pain and mobility limitations. We studied the …

Cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) in rheumatoid arthritis and its correlation with sonographic knee cartilage thickness and disease activity

R Sakthiswary, S Rajalingam, H Hussein… - Clinical …, 2017 - Springer
The aim of the study is to investigate the correlation of serum cartilage oligomeric matrix
protein (COMP) levels with articular cartilage damage based on sonographic knee cartilage …