Objective MRI depicts inflammation and structural damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The validity of MRI-scoring of wrist-joints and metacarpophalangeal-joints according to the RA MRI score (RAMRIS) ...

Introduction Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogeneous chronic inflammatory musculoskeletal disorder that manifests as peripheral arthritis, dactylitis, enthesitis and spondylitis. PsA results in ...

Objectives To investigate short-term prognosis and prognostic factors for connective tissue disease-associated pneumocystis pneumonia (CTD-PCP) using the Japanese nationwide diagnosis procedure ...

Introduction In the management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), there is a lack of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. This study assesses the use of serum calprotectin (sCal) as a marker to ...

Background There is significant interest in determining risk factors in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A core set of risk factors for clinical arthritis development has not been ...

Introduction To characterise the detailed phenotypic and comorbid characteristics of participants with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the large population-based UK Biobank, thereby enabling future ...

Objectives To characterise the comparative effectiveness of combination therapy (a tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) and a conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (csDMARD) ...

Background Long-term effectiveness of tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors (TNFi) has mainly been explored in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the data available on patients with ...

Gout is a common inflammatory arthritis that has been increasing in both prevalence and incidence. Consequently, management of refractory and chronic gout has been gaining attention. Onset of gout is ...

Objectives Clinical features of Behçet’s disease (BD) exhibit significant variability, not only from patient to patient but also according to gender and geographical region. This study aims to ...

Background Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA) are at an increased risk for infection related to the use of immunomodulatory therapies (ITs). The objective of this ...

Objective To investigate and distinguish detailed nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) findings in patients with limited (lcSSc) and diffuse (dcSSc) cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc).Methods A total of ...