Background Relationship between inflammatory lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical disease activity measures is still unclear in patients (pts) with spondyloarthritis (SpA). In some ...

Background Significant trauma and muscular tightness often result during Total Knee Artroplasty (TKA) surgery and thus act to restrict tissue fluid movement resulting with lower extremity oedema.

Correspondence to W B van den Bosch, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; W.B.van_den_Bosch{at}lumc.nl Objectives In daily ...

Correspondence to Dr Laura C Cappelli, Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; lcappel1{at}jhmi.edu Objective We sought to investigate the long-term outcomes of ...

Background A new autoinflammatory syndrome related to somatic mutations of UBA1 was recently described and called VEXAS syndrome. Objectives To describe clinical characteristics, laboratory findings ...

Objectives Exploring the associations between disease activity and medications with offspring birth weight, pre-eclampsia and preterm birth in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Data from the ...

Objectives To gain expert-judgement-free insight into the Gestalt of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), by investigating its ‘latent constructs’ and to test how well these latent constructs fit the ...

1 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beijing, China 2 Pingxiang People’s Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Pingxiang ...

1 Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases – OP09, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97201, USA 2 Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and Science ...

Background: Macrophage activation plays a crucial part in synovial inflammation, a driving force in osteoarthritis (OA) [1]. Our previous research has revealed that NOD2 attenuates OA by modulating ...

a Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands, b Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ...

Background: Methotrexate (MTX) is an anchor drug in the treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis. The literature review has shown that subcutaneous (SC) methotrexate has shown better efficacy, less adverse ...