Correspondence to Dr Chuan-ju Liu, Rm 1608, HJD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Medical Center, 301 East 17th Street, New York NY10003, USA; chuanju.liu{at}nyumc.org Objective ...

For more than three decades, low-dose methotrexate (MTX) has been the first-line treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Even after the introduction of biologics/biosimilars and janus ...

Background Osteoarthritis is the most common degenerative bone and joint disease. Hypothesis has been widely accepted that osteoarthritis (OA) starts from cartilage injury and loss, while emerging ...

2 Mohammed V University Rabat, Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Epidemiology (LBRCE), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat, Morocco 3 Mohammed V University Rabat, Military ...

1 Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey 2 Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, ...

Background: Rowell syndrome is a rather rare and highly debated entity, initially defined by Rowell et all as discoid lupus associated with erythema multiforme-like (EM) lesions, positive speckled ANA ...

Background The SAPHO syndrome has to be considered as a rare subtype of the disease entity of the seronegative spondylarthritis. The characteristic defining symptoms are synovitis, acne, palmoplantar ...

Background Microplastics (MPs) have been identified in different types of tissue, including lung, bowel, placenta and as well in human whole blood [1]. During analysis of synovial fluid samples with ...

‘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 ...

Ivarmacitinib, a selective Janus kinase 1 inhibitor, in patients with moderate-to-severe active rheumatoid arthritis and inadequate response to conventional synthetic DMARDs: results from a phase III ...

Correspondence to Kevin L Winthrop, MD, MPH, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Rd, Portland, OR 97239, USA; winthrop{at}ohsu.edu Current American College of Rheumatology ...

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 ...