Objective: To validate and refine two sets of candidate criteria for the classification/diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: All Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society ...

Background: Since the 2015 GRAPPA treatment recommendations were published, therapeutic options and management strategies for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have advanced considerably. Objectives: The goal ...

Correspondence to Dr Yuan-yuan Qi, Department of Nephrology, 1. Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou Henan, 450052 P. R. China 2. Zhengzhou ...

1 The DANBIO registry and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark Objectives ...

Objective T cell receptor (TCR) diversity determines the autoimmune responses in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is closely associated with autoimmune diseases ...

10 Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bologna, S Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy 11 Section of Internal Medicine and Clinical Oncology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human ...

1 Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 2 Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Hospital and ...

11 Université Paris 7, UFR médicale, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Lariboisière, Fédération de Rhumatologie, Paris, Cedex 10, France 12 Inserm U1132, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, ...

Objective Pyrin-Associated Autoinflammation with Neutrophilic Dermatosis (PAAND) is a recently described monogenic autoinflammatory disease. The causal p.S242R MEFV mutation disrupts a binding motif ...

Correspondence to Dr Xiang Xu, Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, Daping Hospital, Army Military Medical University, Chongqing, China; xiangxu{at}tmmu.edu.cn; Dr Song Guo Zheng, Division ...

Correspondence to Dr Pedro M Machado, Centre for Rheumatology and MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London WC1B 5EH, UK; p.machado{at}ucl.ac.uk Contributors PMM drafted ...

Background: Patient reported outcome measures used in studies of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have been found to be inadequate for determining the impact of the disease from the patient’s perspective.