Study of the genetics of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) began about four decades ago with the discovery of HLA-DRB1. Since the beginning of this century, a number of non-HLA risk loci have been identified ...

Background Inflammatory activity may be quantified using Spectral Doppler (sD), which detects power Doppler (PD) signal through the internal resistance index (RI) in microcirculation 1,2. Objectives ...

A young adult patient with gout was incidentally found to have a large mass on the right lumbar spine and sacrum during an ...

Correspondence to Lisa Ehlers, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany; lisa.ehlers{at}charite.de Giant cell arteritis (GCA) ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Maasland Hospital Sittard, The Netherlands 3 ...

Objectives To determine the relationship between synovial versus skin transcriptional/histological profiles in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and ...

20 Amsterdam Rheumatology & Immunology Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Robert G W Lambert, Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University ...

Correspondence to Dr Keishi Fujio, Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; fujiok-int{at}h.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Dr Yukiko Iwasaki, Department of Palliative ...

Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Service of Internal Medicine, “Virgen de las Nieves” University Hospital, Granada, Spain Correspondence to: Dr C Hidalgo-Tenorio 9th floor, Hospital Universitario ...

Background: Although disease-specific health status measures are available for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), no instrument exists for assessing quality of life (QoL) in the condition. Objective: To ...

Objectives The severity of skin involvement in diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) depends on stage of disease and differs between anti-RNA-polymerase III (ARA) and anti-topoisomerase ...