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 ...
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 Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is one of the most prevalent chronic inflammatory diseases in children. Evidence suggests that early effective treatment minimises the burden of disease during ...
Objective: To determine whether serum levels of a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) are raised in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and correlate with autoantibody titres or disease ...
Background Knee osteoarthritis is a common disease which mainly concerns aged population and impairs the quality of life in all aspects. Apart from causing pain or other related biomechanical ...
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: Effective treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires early diagnosis and early disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment to have an impact on long term morbidity ...
Background SLE is a difficult to treat autoimmune disease due to clinical heterogeneity, unpredictability of disease flares and limited therapeutics. These challenges are worsened in a low-middle ...
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 ...
Objectives To report the 10-year outcome of lupus nephritis (LN) treated with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) or tacrolimus (TAC) induction in a randomised controlled trial. Methods Patients with active ...
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk compared to the general population, due to classical and novel risk factors. It is unclear whether ...
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 ...