Correspondence to Dr Michael M Ward, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, NIAMS/NIH, Building 10 CRC, Room ...

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common class of childhood rheumatic diseases, with distinct disease subsets that may have diverging pathophysiological origins. Both adaptive ...

Objectives To compare the use of glucocorticoids (GC) over time in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were or were not treated initially with GC bridging therapy. Methods Data from the BeSt, ...

Background Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) syndrome is an acute inflammatory polyartritis and palpable pitting edema of the elderly patients. It dramatically ...

Correspondence to Dr Antje Bischof, Immunology Clinic, Neurologic Clinic and Policlinic, Departments of Medicine, Clinical Research and Biomedicine, University Hospital and University of Basel, Basel, ...

Background Rituximab (RTX) is the most commonly used biologic for the treatment of SLE. However, there is are no clinically applicable predictors of response, which is of particular importance in this ...

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 ...

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 ...