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

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 ...

4 Dr Fakhry-Al Mouhawis Hospital, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia Correspondence to: Dr M Kamel, Dr Fakhry-Al Mouhawis Hospital, PO Box 251, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia; mkamel56 ...

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

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 Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK 2 Rheumatology Unit, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK ...

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 Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is a severe, life-threatening complication of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) and adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD). The objective of ...

Objective To assess the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) relative to individuals without RA, and to investigate the relationship between aspects of clinical ...

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 ...