The latest rheumatology articles
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- IL-17A and IL-17F expression and functional responses in rheumatoid arthritis and peripheral spondyloarthritis.Targeting the IL-17-axis is efficacious in psoriasis (PsO) and spondyloarthritis (SpA) but not in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated potential differences in tissue expression and function of IL-17A … Read more
- A multicentre study of 244 pregnancies in undifferentiated connective tissue disease: maternal/fetal outcomes and disease evolution.To investigate fetal/perinatal and maternal outcomes from a large multicentre cohort of women diagnosed with UCTD.This multicentre retrospective cohort study describes the outcomes of 224 pregnancies in 133 … Read more
- Extensive large vessel vasculitis presenting with pyrexia of unknown origin.Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
- Sacroiliitis in a patient with Rosai-Dorfman disease: new bone location or overlap with axial spondylarthritis?Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
- Bidirectional Relationship Between Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome and Non- Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: A Nationwide Population-based Study.Bidirectional relationships between some autoimmune diseases and non- Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) may exist. We conducted this nationwide populationbased study in Taiwan to investigate whether there is a bidirectional … Read more
Bone diseases
- Response to: ‘Association between osteoporosis and statin therapy: the story continues’ by Burden and Weiler.Click here to read the full article @ Annals of the rheumatic diseases
- Response to: ‘The association between osteoporosis and statins therapy’ by Lai.Click here to read the full article @ Annals of the rheumatic diseases
- The jigsaw puzzle of chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis: are anti-IL17 therapies the next piece?Abstract: Abstract empty Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
- Trabecular bone score improves fracture risk assessment in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.Abstract: To analyse the clinical utility of trabecular bone score (TBS) evaluation for fracture risk assessment in glucocorticoid (GC)-treated patients compared with BMD assessment.One hundred and twenty-seven patients … Read more
- Analysis of bone impairment by 3D DXA hip measures in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism: a pilot study.Abstract: primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) has been related to bone loss. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) cannot distinguish between trabecular and cortical bone compartments but the recently developed 3D-DXA software … Read more
Inflammatory arthropathies
- High genetic risk score is associated with early disease onset, damage accrual and decreased survival in systemic lupus erythematosus.To investigate associations between a high genetic disease risk and disease severity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).Patients with SLE (n=1001, discovery cohort and n=5524, replication cohort) … Read more
- Response to: ‘NCF1-339 polymorphism and systemic lupus erythematosus’ by Joob and Wiwanitkit.Click here to read the full article @ Annals of the rheumatic diseases
- Clinical characteristics of rheumatic syndromes associated with checkpoint inhibitors therapy.Compared with conventional cancer therapies, the spectrum of toxicities observed with checkpoint inhibitors is unique and can affect any organ system. Arthralgia and myalgia were by far the … Read more
- Hydroxychloroquine is associated with a lower risk of polyautoimmunity: data from the RELESSER Registry.This article estimates the frequency of polyautoimmunity and associated factors in a large retrospective cohort of patients with SLE.RELESSER (Spanish Society of Rheumatology Lupus Registry) is a nationwide … Read more
- Increased monohexosylceramide levels in the serum of established rheumatoid arthritis patients.To identify serum sphingolipids that could act as candidate biomarkers in RA.We performed lipidomic analyses in the serum of 82 participants: 19 established RA patients, 18 untreated early … Read more
Osteoarthritis (OA)
- The bulge sign – a simple physical examination for identifying progressive knee osteoarthritis: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative.Abstract: To examine whether the presence of bulge sign or patellar tap was associated with frequent knee pain, progression of radiographic OA (ROA) and total knee replacement (TKR).This … Read more
- Total Hip Arthroplasty or Hemiarthroplasty for Hip Fracture.Abstract: Globally, hip fractures are among the top 10 causes of disability in adults. For displaced femoral neck fractures, there remains uncertainty regarding the effect of a total … Read more
- Self-reported painful joint count and assessor-reported tender joint count as instruments to assess pain in hand osteoarthritis.Abstract: To evaluate self-reported and assessor-reported joint counts for pain and their value in measuring pain and joint activity in hand OA patients.A total of 524 patients marked … Read more
- Knee osteoarthritis risk in non-industrial societies undergoing an energy balance transition: evidence from the indigenous Tarahumara of Mexico.Abstract: Here, we propose that knee osteoarthritis is one such disease for which susceptibility is amplified by this energy balance transition.Support for our hypothesis comes from comparisons of … Read more
- Discovery of an autoantibody signature for the early diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative.Abstract: To find autoantibodies (AAbs) in serum that could be useful to predict incidence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA).A Nucleic-acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) platform was used to … Read more