Objectives The International League of Associations for Rheumatology classification criteria define systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) by the presence of fever, rash and chronic arthritis.
Background SLE is a difficult to treat autoimmune disease due to clinical heterogeneity, unpredictability of disease flares and limited therapeutics. These challenges are worsened in a low-middle ...
Objective: To determine whether serum levels of a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) are raised in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and correlate with autoantibody titres or disease ...
Background Knee osteoarthritis is a common disease which mainly concerns aged population and impairs the quality of life in all aspects. Apart from causing pain or other related biomechanical ...
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk compared to the general population, due to classical and novel risk factors. It is unclear whether ...
Objectives To report the 10-year outcome of lupus nephritis (LN) treated with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) or tacrolimus (TAC) induction in a randomised controlled trial. Methods Patients with active ...
Background Nailfold capillary microscopy is used for diagnostic purposes in rheumatology since many years. Abnormal nailfold capillaries are also listed in the 2013 ACR/EULAR classification criteria ...
1 Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Division of Rheumatology, Santander, Spain 2 Hospital Universitario Donostia, Division of Rheumatology, Donostia, Spain 3 Hospital de ...
Correspondence to Dr Antonis Fanouriakis, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens 12462, Greece; afanour{at}med.uoa.gr Our objective was to update the EULAR ...
Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is one of the most prevalent chronic inflammatory diseases in children. Evidence suggests that early effective treatment minimises the burden of disease during ...
Objective Innate lymphoid cells-2 (ILC2) were shown to be involved in the development of lung or hepatic fibrosis. We sought to explore the functional and phenotypic heterogeneity of ILC2 in skin ...
Background: Effective treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires early diagnosis and early disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment to have an impact on long term morbidity ...