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Understanding sex-related differences in healthcare utilisation among patients with inflammatory arthritis: a population-based study
Objectives Our aim was to compare patterns of musculoskeletal-related healthcare utilisation between male and female patients before and after the diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis (IA). Methods We ...
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ASAS consensus definition of early axial spondyloarthritis
Objectives To develop a consensual definition for the term ‘early axial spondyloarthritis—axSpA’—and ‘early peripheral spondyloarthritis—pSpA’. Methods The ASAS (Assessment of SpondyloArthritis ...
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Efficacy of pharmacological treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature research informing the 2019 update of the EULAR recommendations for management of ...
Objectives To inform the 2019 update of the European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods A systematic literature research (SLR) ...
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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 ...
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POS0835 EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY OF JAK INHIBITORS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS-INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE. NATIONAL MULTICENTER STUDY OF 57 PATIENTS
1 Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Division of Rheumatology, Santander, Spain 2 Hospital Universitario Donostia, Division of Rheumatology, Donostia, Spain 3 Hospital de ...
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Systematic literature review and meta-analysis informing the EULAR points to consider on the initiation of targeted therapies in patients with inflammatory arthritis and a ...
Background Targeted therapies have been associated with potential risk of malignancy, which is a common concern in daily rheumatology practice in patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) and a ...
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Expert consensus recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic non-bacterial osteitis (CNO) in adults
Background There is considerable practice variation in labelling, diagnosis and treatment of adults with sterile bone inflammation. We developed a expert consensus recommendations on the disease ...
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CD-19 CAR-T cells for polyrefractory rheumatoid arthritis
‘Poly-refractory’ disease affects 2.7% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have failed different groups of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b-DMARDS) and targeted synthetic ...
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Psoriatic arthritis phenotype clusters and their association with treatment response: a real-world longitudinal cohort study from the psoriatic arthritis research consortium
Objectives To identify phenotype clusters and their trajectories in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and examine the association of the clusters with treatment response in a real-world setting. Methods In ...
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Real-life use of the PEXIVAS reduced-dose glucocorticoid regimen in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis
3 Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques (CRESS), Unité Inserm 1153, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France ...
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Cure as a treatment target in rheumatoid arthritis and systemic sclerosis—achievable aim or mission impossible? FOREUM stimulates new industry-academia collaboration
The past 25 years have witnessed a remarkable revolution in outcomes for patients living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Historically, uncontrolled joint inflammation was commonplace leading to ...
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Molecular basis for the disease-modifying effects of belimumab in systemic lupus erythematosus and molecular predictors of early response: blood transcriptome analysis ...
Objectives Belimumab is a putative disease-modifying agent in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet the molecular underpinnings of its effects and the ability to predict early clinical response ...