Objective While sustained remission is the treatment goal for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), its long-term remission remains ...

Objective Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experience an increased risk of infections, but the prognosis of infections is unclear. We examined if patients with RA have worse outcomes from ...

Purpose To characterise radiographic progression over 2 years and associated characteristics in patients with hand osteoarthritis. Methods Baseline and year 2 data from the Hand OSTeoArthritis in ...

Objective We aimed to compare the incidence of severe infections between mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and other immunosuppressants in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) on maintenance ...

Objective Methylprednisolone pulses (MP) help achieve prolonged remission in patients with moderate–severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but their potential effect in reducing damage accrual has ...

Objective A comparison of cryoneurolysis or radio frequency (RF) with placebo in patients with facetogenic chronic low back pain (LBP) for patient global impression of change (PGIC), pain intensity, ...

Objective To develop and validate a predictive model for distinguishing controls (Ctr), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) based on nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) ...

Objectives To assess the effect of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) delivered in physiotherapy primary care on the primary outcome of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in patients with ...

Background Non-synovial inflammation as detected by MRI is characteristic in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) with potentially high diagnostic value. Objective The objective is to describe inflammatory ...

Objective To test the reliability of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Giant cell arteritis (GCA) Ultrasonography Score (OGUS) and other composite scores in a patient-based exercise involving ...

Objective The first biomarker associated with the rheumatoid arthritis is rheumatoid factor (RF) and since the earliest reports a role has been proposed in the diagnosis and in the prediction of ...

Classification criteria have been developed for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic diseases in order to gather a homogeneous patient population for clinical studies and facilitate the ...