4 Hunan Key Laboratory of Joint Degeneration and Injury, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China 5 National Clinical Research Center of Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, ...

Objectives MAXIMISE (Managing AXIal Manifestations in psorIatic arthritis with SEcukinumab) trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy of secukinumab in the management of axial manifestations of ...

Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are synthetic proteins designed to direct an immune response toward a specific target and have been used in immunotherapeutic applications through the adoptive ...

Objective: To establish the incidence of clinically important inflammatory cervical spine abnormalities in radiographs of patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods: Patients were selected from ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of systemic autoimmune inflammatory disorders characterised by symmetrical skeletal muscle weakness and accelerated fatigue also in the early ...

Introduction Ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and carriage of HLA-B27 gene in otherwise healthy individuals, are reportedly associated with increased mortality. We evaluated this hypothesis, using data ...

Objectives Ultrasound of temporal and axillary arteries may reveal vessel wall inflammation in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). We developed a ultrasound scoring system to quantify the extent ...

Objectives Myositis is a heterogeneous family of diseases including dermatomyositis (DM), immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM), antisynthetase syndrome (AS) and inclusion body myositis (IBM).

6 Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Vrije Universiteit, Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands 7 Institute of Psychology, Health, Medical, & Neuropsychology Unit, ...

Objective: To determine whether a short course of prednisolone is superior to placebo for improving pain, function, and range of motion in adhesive capsulitis. Design: Double blind, randomised, ...

Background: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a key proinflammatory cytokine regulating the humoral immune response by inducing B lymphocyte differentiation into plasma cells and stimulating antibody production ...

Background The SELENA flare index (SFI) has functioned well in clinical and clinical trial settings (1), but has the limitation that it classifies only severe versus combined mild/moderate flares.