Objectives To determine if disease duration and number of prior disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) affect response to therapy in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Correspondence to Professor Annette van der Helm-van Mil, Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; A.H.M.van_der_Helm{at}lumc.nl Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is ...

Background: Glucocorticoids (GC) are the cornerstone of the treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA), but they are associated with several adverse events (AEs).

1 University of Science and Technology of China, Rheumatology and Immunology, Hefei, China 2 Bengbu Medical University, Rheumatology and Immunology, Bengbu, China Background: The past decade has ...

11 University of Pennsylvania, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America 12 University of Pennsylvania, Division ...

Objectives Evaluation of rituximab and glucocorticoids as therapy to induce remission after relapse in ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) in a prospective observational cohort of patients enrolled into ...

Background: About 20% of individuals in the USA have asymptomatic hyperuricaemia [1]. However, Urate-lowering therapy in asymptomatic hyperuricaemia condition is still controversial considering the ...

This lecture introduces basic elements of poster design, and is followed after the session by a special poster tour devoted to design. It strongly links to the concepts discussed in my workshop on ...

Background: Individuals with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) that are receiving treatment with rituximab (RTX) are at higher risk of severe outcomes upon infection with SARS-CoV-2 [1,2]. However, ...

Correspondence to Alberto Martini, University of Genoa, Pediatria II, Istituto G Gaslini, Largo Gaslini 5, Genova 16147, Italy; albertomartini{at}ospedale-gaslini.ge.it Juvenile idiopathic arthritis ...

Introduction Genome-wide association studies of multiple autoimmune diseases, including Sjögren’s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis have identified associations in the ...

2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (RKU), University of Ulm, Germany 3 Department of Internal Medicine II—Cardiology, University of Ulm, Germany Correspondence to: Dr T Stürmer Department of ...