Background and aim Juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis (JIAU) is a potentially blinding condition beginning in ...

Objectives To identify in a genetically susceptible population individuals at higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using a classification approach combining known epidemiological risk ...

Diagnosis made with an imaging technique is the result of two mainly sequential, variously and closely intertwined processes: ...

Objective To summarise and update evidence to inform the 2022 update of the European Alliance of Associations of Rheumatology (EULAR) recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic ...

Objectives To determine whether antecedent sinusitis is associated with incident rheumatic disease. Methods This population-based case–control study included all individuals meeting classification ...

Objective To develop and validate LUPIN, a self-administered, patient-centred questionnaire codesigned by patients and lupus specialists to assess disease activity and patient-reported outcomes in ...

Objectives This 1-year long-term extension (LTE) study (NCT04451772) followed the 48-week phase 2 SLEek study (NCT03978520) that evaluated upadacitinib (a Janus kinase inhibitor) alone or combined ...

Objectives To identify glucocorticoid (GC) treatment patterns in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and explore patient profiles that may benefit from GC-sparing interventions. Methods This ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that often evolves over several years, which in the presence of risk factors, is termed the at-risk phase. Several of the currently approved ...

Objectives Superb microvascular imaging (SMI) provides a more sensitive assessment of small vessels compared with power and colour Doppler ultrasonography (PDUS and CDUS). We aimed to investigate the ...

Objectives The impact of body mass index (BMI) on cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is unclear. RA characteristics may influence the association between BMI and risk. Disease activity, ...

Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are a group of severe autoimmune diseases, sharing some similarities, whose cause is unknown and treatment is empirical. While C-protein-induced myositis (CIM), the most ...