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 ...

Objectives The objectives are to evaluate variation in systemic disease activity (European Alliance of Associations For ...

Objectives To evaluate radiographic progression of structural joint damage over 2 years in patients with rheumatoid arthritis from baricitinib clinical trials who were disease-modifying antirheumatic ...

1 The Centre for Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, EULAR Centre of Excellence, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin Academic Medical Centre, Dublin, Ireland 2 The Conway Institute of Biomolecular ...

Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate the role of infections in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease.

Objectives Further knowledge about typical hand osteoarthritis (OA) characteristics is needed for the development of new classification criteria for hand OA. Methods In a cross-sectional multi-centre ...

Objective Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is defined by the association of thromboembolic and/or obstetrical clinical manifestations and the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies. The objective of ...

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 ...

Background Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, possibly due to a chronic inflammatory state. Objectives The main objective of this study was to ...

Objective Recent studies have reported that gout is associated with a risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) later in life. However, the predictive value of genetic predisposition to gout combined with ...

Objectives While important progress was made regarding the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), there is still no evidence-based disease-modifying treatment available for SSc-related ...

1 Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) 2 Rheumatology, St. Vincent’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Korea (the Republic of) ...