Background Nailfold capillary microscopy is used for diagnostic purposes in rheumatology since many years. Abnormal nailfold capillaries are also listed in the 2013 ACR/EULAR classification criteria ...
1 Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Division of Rheumatology, Santander, Spain 2 Hospital Universitario Donostia, Division of Rheumatology, Donostia, Spain 3 Hospital de ...
Correspondence to Dr Antonis Fanouriakis, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens 12462, Greece; afanour{at}med.uoa.gr Our objective was to update the EULAR ...
Objective Innate lymphoid cells-2 (ILC2) were shown to be involved in the development of lung or hepatic fibrosis. We sought to explore the functional and phenotypic heterogeneity of ILC2 in skin ...
Background Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) die prematurely compared with the general population, primarily because of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Interleukin-33 (IL-33) is a member of the ...
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 Despite treatment according to the current management recommendations, a significant proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remain symptomatic. These patients can be ...
1 West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, The Reproductive Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chengdu, China 2 The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yet-Sen ...
Only a minority of patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) can be weaned-off glucocorticoids (GC) using conventional treatment strategies. The development of biological ...
Background Common extra musculoskeletal manifestations (EMM) of axSpA include uveitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis; and some of the uncommon manifestations include aortic incompetence, ...
2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (RKU), University of Ulm, Germany 3 Department of Internal Medicine II—Cardiology, University of Ulm, Germany Correspondence to: Dr T Stürmer Department of ...
Correspondence to Dr Keishi Fujio, Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; fujiok-int{at}h.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Dr Yukiko Iwasaki, Department of Palliative ...