41 St. Joseph's Health Care London and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Objective The 1980 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for systemic sclerosis ...

Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of the type I interferon receptor antibody, anifrolumab, in patients with active, biopsy-proven, Class III/IV lupus nephritis. Methods This phase II ...

Correspondence to Dr Dimitrios T Boumpas, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National ...

Correspondence to Professor Hongwei Ouyang, 1. Dr. Li Dak Sum & Yip Yio Chin Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, and Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, ...

11 Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Dr Vivian P Bykerk, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th St., New York, NY 10021, USA; bykerkv{at}hss.edu Objective To ...

Objectives COVID-19 vaccination often triggers a constellation of transitory inflammatory symptoms. Gout is associated with several comorbidities linked to poor outcomes in COVID-19, and gout flares ...

3 Arthritis Research Institute, 1st Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China Background The infrapatellar fat pad (IPFP) is of uncertain significance for knee osteoarthritis.

Objective Despite the strong association between gout and pre-diabetes, the role of metformin in gout among individuals with pre-diabetes remains uncertain. We compared the incidence rates of gout in ...

Objectives To investigate the effect of the L-arginine metabolism on arthritis and inflammation-mediated bone loss. Methods L-arginine was applied to three arthritis models (collagen-induced arthritis ...

Objectives Hypocomplementaemia is common in patients with IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD). We aimed to determine the IgG4-RD features associated with hypocomplementaemia and investigate mechanisms of ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Maastricht and CAPHRI Research Institute University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of ...

Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) shares some similar clinical and pathological features with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA); indeed, the strategy of investigating whether RA susceptibility ...