BMJ1d
2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for IgG4-related disease by Wallace et al
Correspondence to Professor Sang-Won Lee, Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea (the Republic of); SANGWONLEE{at}yuhs.ac The mean age of the patients was 60.2 ...
BMJ1d
Imaging in immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced polymyalgia rheumatica
Correspondence to Dr. Kornelis S M van der Geest, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9712 CP Groningen, Netherlands; ...
BMJ5d
Efficacy and safety of risankizumab for active psoriatic arthritis: 24-week results from the randomised, double-blind, phase 3 KEEPsAKE 2 trial
Objectives Risankizumab is an interleukin-23 inhibitor under study for the treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). The phase 3 KEEPsAKE 2 trial investigated the efficacy and safety of ...
BMJ6d
Axial spondyloarthritis
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) encompasses both radiographic and non-radiographic axSpA. It is a chronic inflammatory disease with a predilection for involving the axial skeleton. The most common ...
BMJ7d
Association of Epstein-Barr virus serological reactivation with transitioning to systemic lupus erythematosus in at-risk individuals
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease with unknown aetiology. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an environmental factor associated with SLE. EBV maintains latency in ...
BMJ13d
Single-cell RNA-seq analysis identifies meniscus progenitors and reveals the progression of meniscus degeneration
Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...
BMJ18d
Synovial macrophage M1 polarisation exacerbates experimental osteoarthritis partially through R-spondin-2
Correspondence to Professor Daozhang Cai and Dr Xiaochun Bai, Department of Orthopedics, Academy of Orthopedics - Guangdong Province, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated ...
BMJ21d
Effect of disease duration and prior disease-modifying antirheumatic drug use on treatment outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Objectives To determine if disease duration and number of prior disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) affect response to therapy in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
BMJ24d
Uncovering specific genetic-respiratory disease endotypes for rheumatoid arthritis risk
Objective We aimed to identify specific genetic-respiratory disease endotypes for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk. Methods This case–control study used the Mass General Brigham (MGB) and Mayo Clinic ...
BMJ27d
Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial
Objectives Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating ...
BMJ27d
Evidence that autoantibody production may be driven by acute Epstein-Barr virus infection in Sjögren’s disease
Objectives Sjögren’s disease (SD) is an autoimmune disease affecting the exocrine glands that is associated with autoantibodies against Ro60/SS-A, anti-Ro52/TRIM21, La/SS-B and others. We examined the ...
BMJ1mon
Revised European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group Activity Index is the best predictor of short-term severity accrual
Background The European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group (EUSTAR) recently developed a preliminarily revised activity index (AI) that performed better than the European Scleroderma Study Group ...