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AP Cairns, JG McVeigh. A systematic review of the effects of dynamic exercise in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatol Int. 2009 Aug 22. [Epub ahead of print].

Riddell CM, Elliott M, Cairns AP. An unusual "gouty" case of back pain and fever.
J Rheumatol. 2008; 35(10):2076-7

McVeigh CM, Bell AL, Cairns AP. TNF inhibitors for ankylosing spondylitis in the real world. Rheumatol Int. 2007; 28(2):199-200

CM McVeigh, AP Cairns.
Diagnosis and management of ankylosing spondylitis. Clinical review. British Medical Journal 2006; 333:581-585

AP Cairns, E Filippucci, CM McVeigh, W Grassi
An electronic logbook for rheumatologists performing musculoskeletal ultrasound. Rheumatology 2006; 45:1042

A Taggart, E Filippucci, G Wright, A Bell, A Cairns, G Meenagh, A Pendleton, M Rooney, S Wright, A Grey, W Grassi.
Musculoskeletal ultrasound training in rheumatology: the Belfast experience. Rheumatology. 2006;45:102-5.

AP Cairns, SA Wright, AJ Taggart, SM Coward, GD Wright.
An open study of pulse pamidronate therapy in severe ankylosing spondylitis, and its effect on biochemical markers of bone turnover. Ann Rheum Dis 2005 Feb;64:338-9.

AP Cairns, AJ Taggart.
Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: maximising patient safety. Rheumatology 2003;42:188-9

AP Cairns, AJ Taggart.
Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors for severe inflammatory arthritis: 2 years of experience in Northern Ireland. Ulster Medical Journal 2002;71:101-105.

AP Cairns, SA McMillan, AD Crockard, G Meenagh, EM Duffy, DJ Armstrong, AL Bell.
Anti-nucleosome antibodies in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003;62:272-273.

AP Cairns, MKJ Duncan, AE Hinder, AJ Taggart.
New onset SLE in a patient receiving etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2002;61:1031-2.

AP Cairns, SA Wright, JD Patton, E Campalani, AJ Taggart.
Rheumatology day care and the impact of biological therapies – the Belfast experience. Rheumatology 2002; 41:356-357.

AP Cairns, JR McConnell, PA Courtney, AD Crockard, AL Bell.
Reduced expression of CD44 on monocytes and neutrophils in systemic lupus erythematosus: Relations with apoptotic neutrophils and disease activity. Annals of Rheumatic Diseases 2001; 60:950-5.

AP Cairns, AD Crockard, AL Bell.
The CD14+ CD16+ monocyte subset in rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology International 2002; 21:189-192.

JR McConnell, AD Crockard, AP Cairns, AL Bell.
Neutrophils from systemic lupus erythematosus patients demonstrate increased nuclear DNA damage. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 2002;20:653-660

AP Cairns, AD Crockard, AL Bell.
Interleukin-10 receptor expression in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 2003;21:83-86.

AP Cairns, AD Crockard, AL Bell.
Complement receptor expresssion of relevance to apoptotic cell clearance in SLE. Rheumatology 2003;42:487-488.

GJ Gormley, WK Steele, M Stevenson, R McKane, I Ryans, AP Cairns, A Pendleton, GD Wright, AJ Taggart.
A randomised study of two training programmes for General Practitioners in the techniques of shoulder injection. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003;62:1006-9.

AP Cairns, EM Borthwick, H Murtagh, GD Wright.
Lesson of the month: “Monoarthritis in a young man”. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003;62:920-921.

PA Courtney, AD Crockard, SA McMillan, AP Cairns, AL Bell.
Apoptotic neutrophils and anticardiolipin antibodies (letter). Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 2001;19:476.

AP Cairns, AD Crockard, AL Bell.
CD36-mediated apoptotic cell clearance in SLE. Lupus 2001;10:656-657.

AP Cairns, PM O’Donoghue, VH Patterson, JH Brown.
Very-Long-Chain Acyl-Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency – A new cause of acute myoglobinuric renal failure. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2000;15:1232-1234.