rmdopen.bmj1d
Anti-RNP positivity in primary Sjögren’s syndrome is associated with a more active disease and a more frequent muscular and pulmonary involvement
1 Department of Rheumatology, AP-HP, Paris-Sud University Hospitals, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France 2 INSERM U1184, Center for Immunology of Viral Infections and Autoimmune ...
rmdopen.bmj2d
Assessing the sensitivity to change of the OMERACT ultrasound structural gout lesions during urate-lowering therapy
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 ...
rmdopen.bmj15d
Mixed connective tissue disease: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a complex overlap disease with features of different autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs) namely systemic sclerosis, poly/dermatomyositis and systemic ...
rmdopen.bmj19d
Use of a bDMARD or tsDMARD for the management of inflammatory arthritis under checkpoint inhibitors: an observational study
Objective There is limited experience regarding the use of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (bDMARD) and JAK inhibitor (JAKi) for the management of immune checkpoint inhibitors ...
rmdopen.bmj23d
Applying the 2019 EULAR/ACR lupus criteria to patients from an established cohort: a Latin American perspective
Objective To evaluate the performance of the 2019 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) criteria in terms of earlier ...
rmdopen.bmj24d
Role of synovial fibroblast subsets across synovial pathotypes in rheumatoid arthritis: a deconvolution analysis
Objectives To integrate published single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data and assess the contribution of synovial fibroblast (SF) subsets to synovial pathotypes and respective clinical ...
rmdopen.bmj25d
Body composition is associated with changes in health-related quality of life in patients with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis
Objective The objective of this study was to analyse the association between body composition and changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients followed for hip and knee osteoarthritis ...
rmdopen.bmj26d
Autoinflammatory granulomatous diseases: from Blau syndrome and early-onset sarcoidosis to NOD2-mediated disease and Crohn's disease
3 Interdepartmental Research Center of Systemic Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Diseases, Rheumatology Unit, Policlinico Le Scotte, University of Siena, Siena, Italy Blau syndrome (BS) and early-onset ...
rmdopen.bmj27d
Associations of infection burden with Kawasaki disease in a population-based setting during 30 years
Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate the role of infections in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease.
rmdopen.bmj27d
New pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-40 is produced by activated neutrophils and plays a role in the early stages of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis
Objective Interleukin (IL)-40 is a new cytokine related to immune system function and malignancies. Recently, an association of IL-40 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and externalisation of neutrophil ...
rmdopen.bmj27d
Physical workload is associated with increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis: results from a Swedish population-based case–control study
Objectives This study investigated: (1) the association of physical workload (PW) and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA); (2) the potential interactions between PW and the genes in the human leucocyte ...
rmdopen.bmj28d
Systemic disease activity measured with ESSDAI varies largely over 5 years in a prospective, longitudinal cohort of patients with Sjögren’s disease
Objectives The objectives are to evaluate variation in systemic disease activity (European Alliance of Associations For ...