A phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept study of oral seletalisib in primary Sjögren’s syndrome. 19th September 2020 This phase 2 proof-of-concept study (NCT02610543) assessed efficacy, safety and effects on […]
Sialendoscopy increases saliva secretion and reduces xerostomia up to 60 weeks in Sjögren’s syndrome patients: a randomized controlled study. 19th September 2020 To assess the effect of sialendoscopy of the major salivary glands on […]
The cut-off values for the intima-media complex thickness assessed by colour Doppler sonography in seven cranial and aortic arch arteries. 18th September 2020 Colour Doppler sonography (CDS) is becoming ever more important in the diagnosis […]
Circulating adiponectin levels and systemic lupus erythematosus: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study. 18th September 2020 Several studies have reported increased serum/plasma adiponectin levels in SLE patients. This […]
Systemic autoimmune disease as a cause of death: mortality burden and comorbidities. 18th September 2020 Systemic autoimmune diseases (SAIDs) have chronic trajectories and share characteristics of self-directed […]
Morbidity and mortality in antiphospholipid syndrome based on cluster analysis: a 10-year longitudinal cohort study. 18th September 2020 Using cluster analysis, to identify the subgroup of patients with APS with […]
Power and spectral Doppler ultrasound in suspected active sacroiliitis: a comparison with magnetic resonance imaging as gold standard. 18th September 2020 The objectives of this study were to study with Power Doppler US […]
Association of altered folylpolyglutamate synthetase pre-mRNA splicing with methotrexate unresponsiveness in early rheumatoid arthritis. 17th September 2020 An efficient pharmacological response to MTX treatment in RA patients relies on […]
Access to paediatric rheumatology care in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: what do we know? A systematic review. 17th September 2020 This review examines time to access appropriate care for JIA patients and […]
Prevalence, outcome and management of patients with SLE and secondary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome after aPL seroconversion. 17th September 2020 The withdrawal of oral anticoagulation (OAC) in patients with SLE and secondary […]
Ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy compared with open biopsy: a new diagnostic approach to salivary gland enlargement in Sjögren’s syndrome? 17th September 2020 Persistent (≥2 months) major salivary gland enlargement in primary SS (pSS) patients is […]
The association between psychological factors and pain exacerbations in hip osteoarthritis. 17th September 2020 To evaluate the association between psychological factors and pain exacerbations in people […]
Possible misclassification of cardiovascular risk by SCORE in antisynthetase syndrome: results of the pilot multicenter study RI.CAR.D.A. 17th September 2020 To test the ability of an established traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk prediction […]
Covid-19 in Patients with Connective Tissue Disease-Related Interstitial Lung Disease. 16th September 2020 Infection with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), caused by the severe acute […]
Elevated Levels of G-CSF in Patients with Active Phase of Adult-onset Still’s Disease. 16th September 2020 Neutrophilia is a hallmark of adult-onset Still’s disease (AoSD). We aimed to […]
Prediction of work impact in axial spondylarthritis by the Work instability Scale, a prospective cohort study of 101 patients. 16th September 2020 Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) may have an impact on work. The Ankylosing Spondylitis […]
Whole-body MRI Quantification for Assessment of Bone Lesions in CNO Patients Treated with Pamidronate: A Prevalence, Reproducibility, and Responsiveness Study. 16th September 2020 The purpose of this study was 1) to assess the inter-reader reliability […]
Intramuscular Pressure is Almost Three Times Higher in Fibromyalgia Patients: A Possible Mechanism for Understanding the Muscle Pain and Tenderness. 16th September 2020 Widespread pain in the fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is conventionally viewed as arising […]
Salivary Gland Focus Score is Associated with Myocardial Fibrosis in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome Assessed by a Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Approach. 16th September 2020 The risk of clinically manifested major cardiovascular events in primary Sjögren’s syndrome […]
National Sjӧgren’s Foundation Survey: Burden of Oral and Systemic Involvement on Quality of Life. 16th September 2020 To define the association between oral and systemic manifestations of Sjӧgren’s syndrome […]
Pegloticase in combination with methotrexate in patients with uncontrolled gout: A multicenter, open-label study (MIRROR). 16th September 2020 To examine the efficacy and safety of pegloticase in combination with methotrexate […]
Machine learning predicts stem cell transplant response in severe scleroderma. 16th September 2020 The Scleroderma: Cyclophosphamide or Transplantation (SCOT) trial demonstrated clinical benefit of haematopoietic […]
Evaluating quality of care for rheumatoid arthritis for the population of Alberta using system-level performance measures. 16th September 2020 We evaluated 4 national rheumatoid arthritis (RA) system-level performance measures (PMs) in […]
Reliability and Change in Erosion Measurements by High-Resolution peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography in a Longitudinal Dataset of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. 16th September 2020 The aim of this multi-reader exercise was to assess the reliability and […]
CanVasc consensus recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis: 2020 update. 16th September 2020 In 2015, the Canadian Vasculitis Research Network (CanVasc) created recommendations for the […]
Biologic Switching among Non-Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patients: A Cohort Study in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry. 16th September 2020 Biologic medications have significantly improved disease control and outcomes of patients with […]
Predictors of joint damage progression and stringent remission in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis in clinical remission. 15th September 2020 To study if clinical, radiographic and MRI markers can predict MRI and […]
Factors associated with progression to inflammatory arthritis in first-degree relatives of individuals with RA following autoantibody positive screening in a non-clinical setting. 15th September 2020 Little is known about the likelihood of developing inflammatory arthritis (IA) in […]
Impact of overweight and obesity on patient-reported health-related quality of life in systemic lupus erythematosus. 12th September 2020 Associations between BMI and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in SLE have […]
Dorsal horn disinhibition and movement-induced behaviour in a rat model of inflammatory arthritis. 10th September 2020 Alterations beyond joint inflammation such as changes in dorsal horn (DH) excitability […]
Epidemiologic study of patients with psoriatic arthritis in a real-world analysis: a cohort study of the French health insurance database. 10th September 2020 PsA is a chronic inflammatory arthritis with heterogeneous disease manifestations. Data on […]
Association of differentially expressed genes and autoantibody type in patients with systemic sclerosis. 10th September 2020 The aims of this study were to investigate the relationship between the […]
Untargeted lipidomics reveals specific lipid abnormalities in Sjögren’s syndrome. 10th September 2020 The relationship between serum lipid variations in SS and healthy controls was […]
Occupational silica exposure in an Australian systemic sclerosis cohort. 10th September 2020 To determine the frequency of self-reported occupational exposure to silica in SSc […]
New biomarkers in SLE: from bench to bedside. 10th September 2020 Biomarkers may have a diagnostic or monitoring value, or may predict response […]
Long-term efficacy of adding intravenous immunoglobulins as treatment of refractory dysphagia related to myositis: a retrospective analysis. 10th September 2020 Dysphagia is a life-threating manifestation of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). However, we […]
Two-year cost effectiveness between two gradual tapering strategies in rheumatoid arthritis: cost-utility analysis of the TARA trial. 10th September 2020 The aim of the current study was to evaluate the 2-year cost-utility […]
Activation of acid-sensing ion channel 3 by lysophosphatidylcholine 16:0 mediates psychological stress-induced fibromyalgia-like pain. 10th September 2020 Fibromyalgia is commonly considered a stress-related chronic pain disorder, and daily stressors […]
Study of miRNA interactome in active rheumatoid arthritis patients reveals key pathogenic roles of dysbiosis in the infection-immune network. 10th September 2020 To characterize serum microRNA (miR) and the miR interactome of active RA […]
Efficacy and serious adverse events profile of the adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine in adults with pre-existing potential immune-mediated diseases: a pooled post hoc analysis on two parallel randomized trials. 10th September 2020 In the ZOE-50 (NCT01165177) and ZOE-70 (NCT01165229) phase 3 clinical trials, the […]
Muscle deterioration due to rheumatoid arthritis: assessment by quantitative MRI and strength testing. 10th September 2020 RA patients often present with low muscle mass and decreased strength. Quantitative […]
Variation in the pharmacokinetics of glucosamine in healthy individuals. 9th September 2020 Clinical trial data for the efficacy of glucosamine in OA are conflicting. […]
Highly sensitive serum cardiac troponin T and cardiovascular events in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (TROPOPLUS study). 9th September 2020 Identification of biological markers able to better stratify cardiovascular risks in SLE […]
Serum urate is related to subclinical inflammation in asymptomatic hyperuricaemia. 9th September 2020 Asymptomatic hyperuricaemia (AHU) is associated with inflammatory disorders, including cardiovascular disease. Uric […]
TRIM24-RIP3 axis perturbation accelerates osteoarthritis pathogenesis. 8th September 2020 Recently, necroptosis has attracted increasing attention in arthritis research; however, it remains […]
Telemedicine in rheumatology: a reliable approach beyond the pandemic. 7th September 2020 The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has imposed considerable restrictions on people’s mobility, which affects […]
Prognosis of adult idiopathic inflammatory myopathy-associated interstitial lung disease: a retrospective study of 679 adult cases. 7th September 2020 Few studies have investigated the prognostic factors for idiopathic inflammatory myopathy-associated interstitial […]
Telemedicine in rheumatology: a reliable approach beyond the pandemic. 7th September 2020 The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has imposed considerable restrictions on people’s mobility, which affects […]
Prognosis of adult idiopathic inflammatory myopathy-associated interstitial lung disease: a retrospective study of 679 adult cases. 7th September 2020 Few studies have investigated the prognostic factors for idiopathic inflammatory myopathy-associated interstitial […]
Distinct features between HLA-DR+ and HLA-DR- PD-1hi CXCR5- T peripheral helper cells in seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. 5th September 2020 PD-1hi CXCR5- T peripheral helper (Tph) cells are newly identified pathogenic CD4 […]
Identification and characterization of two consistent osteoarthritis subtypes by transcriptome and clinical data integration. 5th September 2020 To identify OA subtypes based on cartilage transcriptomic data in cartilage tissue […]
Ruling out septic arthritis risk in a few minutes using mid-infrared spectroscopy in synovial fluids. 5th September 2020 The aim of this study was to show the usefulness of a […]
Mining social media data to investigate patient perceptions regarding DMARD pharmacotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis. 5th September 2020 We hypothesise that patients have a positive sentiment regarding biological/targeted synthetic disease […]
Genomic risk scores for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and its subtypes. 5th September 2020 Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an autoimmune disease and a common cause […]
Changes in bone formation regulator biomarkers in early axial spondyloarthritis. 5th September 2020 The hallmark of advanced axial SpA (axSpA) is spine ankylosis due to […]
Risk factors associated with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in juvenile myositis in North America. 5th September 2020 Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in […]
Genetic and clinical basis for two distinct subtypes of primary Sjögren’s syndrome. 5th September 2020 Clinical presentation of primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) varies considerably. A shortage of […]
Serum amyloid A1 genotype associates with adult-onset familial Mediterranean fever in patients homozygous for mutation M694V. 5th September 2020 FMF shows considerable variability in severity and type of clinical manifestations by […]
Distal phalangeal bone erosions observed by HR-pQCT in patients with psoriatic onycholysis. 5th September 2020 PsA prevalence among skin psoriasis is ∼30%. Nail psoriasis, especially onycholysis, is […]
EULAR/eumusc.net standards of care for rheumatoid arthritis: cross-sectional analyses of importance, level of implementation and care gaps experienced by patients and rheumatologists across 35 European countries. 3rd September 2020 As part of European League against Rheumatism (EULAR)/European Musculoskeletal Conditions Surveillance and […]
