Objectives The objectives are to evaluate variation in systemic disease activity (European Alliance of Associations For ...

Objectives To evaluate the sensitivity to change of ultrasound structural gout lesions, as defined by the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) ultrasound group, in patients with gout during ...

Objective To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the association between fibromyalgia and mortality and to pool the results in a meta-analysis. Methods The authors searched the PubMed, ...

Objectives To study the characteristics of B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) or Hodgkin lymphoma complicating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to identify RA-related factors associated with their ...

Objective In utero exposure of the fetus to Ro/La autoantibodies may lead to congenital heart block (CHB). In the mother, these autoantibodies are associated with activation of the type I interferon ...

Objectives This study aimed to identify risk factors contributing to diverse pregnancy outcomes in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) cases. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on pregnant ...

Objectives The objectives of this study are to identify a therapeutic serum level for adalimumab associated with remission and low disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Methods ...

1 The Centre for Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, EULAR Centre of Excellence, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin Academic Medical Centre, Dublin, Ireland 2 The Conway Institute of Biomolecular ...

Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often affects women in their fertile age, and is known to compromise female fertility. Serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels are a proxy for the total number of ...

Background The effectiveness of intra-articular hyaluronic acid (IAHA) injection for knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is debated. Objectives To evaluate the effect of IAHA for patients with KOA by analysing ...

Objectives Further knowledge about typical hand osteoarthritis (OA) characteristics is needed for the development of new classification criteria for hand OA. Methods In a cross-sectional multi-centre ...