Subtype-specific gout susceptibility loci and enrichment of selection pressure on ABCG2 and ALDH2 identified by subtype genome-wide meta-analyses of clinically defined gout patients. 3rd April 2020 Genome-wide meta-analyses of clinically defined gout were performed to identify subtype-specific susceptibility […]
Improving Hydroxychloroquine Dosing and Toxicity Screening at a Tertiary Care Ambulatory Centre: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 3rd April 2020 Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a commonly used weight-based medication with a risk of […]
Subcutaneous tanezumab for osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: efficacy and safety results from a 24-week randomised phase III study with a 24-week follow-up period. 3rd April 2020 Tanezumab, a nerve growth factor inhibitor, was investigated for osteoarthritis (OA) of […]
The renal resistive index, a new biomarker for the follow up of vascular modifications in Systemic Sclerosis. 3rd April 2020 The aim of the present retrospective observational study was to evaluate in […]
Long-term safety and effectiveness of tacrolimus in lupus nephritis patients: 5- year interim post-marketing surveillance study in Japan (TRUST). 3rd April 2020 To assess the long-term safety and effectiveness of tacrolimus for treating lupus […]
Utility of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire to Monitor Patient Beliefs in Systemic Vasculitis. 3rd April 2020 To assess the validity and clinical utility of the Brief Illness Perception […]
Diagnostic value of axillary artery ultrasound in patients with suspected giant cell arteritis. 3rd April 2020 To compare colour duplex ultrasonography (CDU) findings with axillary 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT […]
Pilot study of the juvenile dermatomyositis consensus treatment plans: a CARRA Registry study. 3rd April 2020 To determine the feasibility of comparing the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research […]
Impact of disease activity on organ damage progression in systemic lupus erythematosus: University of Toronto Lupus Clinic Cohort. 3rd April 2020 To examine the role of disease activity on organ damage over 5 […]
Diagnostic value of optical spectral transmission in rheumatoid arthritis: associations with clinical characteristics and comparison with joint ultrasonography. 3rd April 2020 To examine the value of optical spectral transmission (OST) in detecting joint […]
Negative associations for fasting blood glucose, cholesterol and triglyceride levels with the development of giant cell arteritis. 3rd April 2020 To investigate metabolic features that may predispose to GCA in a nested […]
Hydroxychloroquine-induced Retinal Toxicity. 3rd April 2020 Click here to read the full article @ The Journal of rheumatology […]
The utility of magnetic resonance imaging lesion combinations in the sacroiliac joints for diagnosing patients with axial spondyloarthritis. A prospective study of 204 participants including post-partum women, patients with disc herniation, cleaning staff, runners and healthy persons. 3rd April 2020 To investigate the diagnostic utility of different combinations of SI joint MRI […]
Clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with acne fulminans associated to chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis. 3rd April 2020 Acne fulminans (AF) is a rare, explosive systemic form of acne. Chronic […]
Tumour Necrosis Factor Inhibitor monotherapy versus combination therapy for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis: combined analysis of European biologics databases. 3rd April 2020 To investigate whether tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) combination therapy with conventional […]
Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Lupus Nephritis: Is Dialysis Inevitable? 3rd April 2020 Advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) carries an increased risk for progression to […]
Smoking in spondyloarthritis: unravelling the complexities. 3rd April 2020 Tobacco smoking is a major threat to health. There is no doubt […]
High impact of burnout on rheumatology practitioners. 3rd April 2020 Burnout among physicians is common and has important implications. We assessed the […]
The Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials in High Impact Rheumatology Journals, 1998-2018. 3rd April 2020 Well-designed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) mitigate bias and confounding, but prior evaluations […]
Lymphopenia in primary Sjögren’s syndrome is associated with premature aging of naïve CD4+ T cells. 1st April 2020 To investigate peripheral lymphopenia, a frequent finding in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) […]
Prognostic factors of pulmonary hypertension associated with connective tissue disease: pulmonary artery size measured by chest CT. 30th March 2020 Pulmonary artery enlargement is a common manifestation of chest CT in patients […]
Association between depression and anxiety with skin and musculoskeletal clinical phenotypes in systemic lupus erythematosus. 30th March 2020 To study the clinical phenotypes, determined based on cumulative disease activity manifestations, […]
2019 Update of the Joint European League Against Rheumatism and European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (EULAR/ERA-EDTA) recommendations for the management of lupus nephritis. 30th March 2020 To update the 2012 EULAR/ERA-EDTA recommendations for the management of lupus nephritis […]
Inverse Gottron’s sign in anti-MDA5 antibody-associated dermatomyositis. 28th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Response to: ‘Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies and interstitial lung disease are predominant characteristics in anti-Ku positive patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies’ by Yang et al. 28th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Annals of the rheumatic […]
Response to: ‘Can sexual dimorphism in rheumatoid arthritis be attributed to the different abundance of Gardnerella?’ by Liu et al. 28th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Annals of the rheumatic […]
Hyperspectral imaging for skin assessment in systemic sclerosis: a pilot study. 28th March 2020 Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a novel technology for obtaining quantitative measurements from […]
Targeting JAK/STAT pathway in Takayasu’s arteritis. 28th March 2020 Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) is a large vessel vasculitis with important infiltration of […]
Ultrasound Doppler and tenosynovial fluid analysis in tenosynovitis. 28th March 2020 To assess Doppler ultrasound (US) and tenosynovial fluid (TSF) characteristics in tenosynovitis […]
Biomarker panels may be superior over single molecules in prediction of renal flares in systemic lupus erythematosus: an exploratory study. 27th March 2020 Recent evidence suggests that some urinary biomarkers, namely Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 […]
Immunosuppression and the risk of readmission and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing hip fracture, abdominopelvic and cardiac surgery. 27th March 2020 The impact of immunosuppression on postoperative outcomes has primarily been studied in […]
Gastrointestinal involvement in adult IgA vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein purpura): updated picture from a French multicentre and retrospective series of 260 cases. 27th March 2020 To describe the clinical presentation, treatments and prognosis of gastrointestinal (GI) involvement […]
Splicing factor SRSF1 controls T cell homeostasis and its decreased levels are linked to lymphopenia in systemic lupus erythematosus. 25th March 2020 Lymphopenia is a frequent clinical manifestation and risk factor for infections in […]
Diagnosis of fibromyalgia: comparison of the 2011/2016 ACR and AAPT criteria and validation of the modified Fibromyalgia Assessment Status. 25th March 2020 To compare the concordance of the three diagnostic criteria, respectively the 2011 […]
Faecal microbiota transplantation from metabolically compromised human donors accelerates osteoarthritis in mice. 25th March 2020 Emerging evidence suggests that the microbiome plays an important role in the […]
Joint trajectories of disease activity, and physical and mental health-related quality of life in an inception lupus cohort. 20th March 2020 To examine for latent patterns of SLE disease activity trajectories that associate […]
A molecular taxonomy for systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs): learning lessons from oncology? 18th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Tocilizumab treatment for polyarteritis nodosa. 18th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
The effect of reducing systemic inflammation on serum urate. 18th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Controversies in Hip Arthroplasty: Using Registries to Answer Difficult Questions. 18th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ JAMA
Regional variations in adverse event reporting rates and ACR responses in placebo/standard-of-care arms of rheumatoid arthritis trials. 18th March 2020 Clinical trials are increasingly globalized, and adverse event (AE) rates and treatment […]
Association Between Uncemented vs Cemented Hemiarthroplasty and Revision Surgery Among Patients With Hip Fracture. 18th March 2020 Consensus guidelines and systematic reviews have suggested that cemented fixation is more […]
Association Between Surgical Approach and Major Surgical Complications in Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty. 18th March 2020 Controversy exists about the preferred surgical approach for total hip arthroplasty (THA).To […]
Not every picture tells a story: a content analysis of visual images in patient educational resources about gout. 17th March 2020 To evaluate what concepts about gout and its treatment are reflected in […]
The Association of an Increasing Waist Circumference and Risk of Incident Low Physical Function in Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis. 17th March 2020 To investigate an eight-year change in waist circumference (WC) with the risk […]
Association between celiac disease and systemic lupus erythematosus: a Mendelian randomization study. 17th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
The value of the squeeze test for detection of subclinical synovitis in patients with arthralgia suspicious for progression to RA. 17th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Comment on: Pregnancy and undifferentiated connective tissue disease: outcome and risk of flare in 100 pregnancies: reply. 17th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Comment on: Pregnancy and undifferentiated connective tissue disease: outcome and risk of flare in 100 pregnancies. 17th March 2020 Click here to read the full article @ Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Rituximab and Cyclophosphamide in anti-synthetase syndrome (ASyS)-related ILD: an observational retrospective study. 17th March 2020 Anti-synthetase syndrome (ASyS)-related interstitial lung disease (ILD) has a poor prognosis. Intravenous […]
Enthesitis-related arthritis: prevalence and complications of associated uveitis in children and adolescents from a population-based nation-wide study in Germany. 17th March 2020 Enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) represents a subgroup of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) which […]
Correlation of a Modified Disease Activity Score with the Validated Original Disease Activity Score in Patients with Juvenile Dermatomyositis. 17th March 2020 Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare disease in children that is treatable, […]
Analysis of anti-RNA polymerase III antibody positive systemic sclerosis suggests altered GPATCH2L and CTNND2 expression in scleroderma renal crisis. 17th March 2020 Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is a life-threatening complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc) […]
Five-year evolution patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior in patients with lower-limb osteoarthritis and their sociodemographic and clinical correlates. 17th March 2020 The present study aimed to identify trajectories of physical activity (PA) components […]
Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA) Testing Method Variability: A Survey of Participants in the College of American Pathologists’ (CAP) Proficiency Testing Program. 17th March 2020 This study was conducted to determine the spectrum of laboratory practices in […]
The challenge of Very Early Systemic Sclerosis: a Combination of Mild and Early Disease? 17th March 2020 To address the hypothesis that very early patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) […]
Initial combination therapy of ambrisentan and tadalafil in connective tissue disease-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (CTD-PAH) in the modified intention-to-treat population of the AMBITION study: post hoc analysis. 13th March 2020 To evaluate initial combination therapy with ambrisentan plus tadalafil (COMB) compared with […]
Risk of breast cancer before and after rheumatoid arthritis, and the impact of hormonal factors. 13th March 2020 To examine the risk of incident breast cancer in women with rheumatoid […]
Risk of neuroinflammatory events in arthritis patients treated with tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors: a collaborative population-based cohort study from Denmark and Sweden. 13th March 2020 To investigate whether tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors (TNFis) are associated with […]
Immunological characteristics and possible pathogenic role of urinary CD11c+ macrophages in lupus nephritis. 13th March 2020 Kidney-infiltrating immune cells can contribute to the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis (LN). […]
