Objectives To assess the effects of Rituximab (RTX) on skin and lung fibrosis in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) belonging to the European Scleroderma Trial and Research (EUSTAR) cohort and ...

562 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada TG6 2S2 Whiplash associated disorders have become an international medicolegal and social dilemma. Physicians are ...

Objective Epidemiological studies of primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) are crucial for describing the burden to society and the public medical system and for shedding light on aetiology. Previous ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether continued methotrexate treatment increases the risk of postoperative infections or of surgical complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) within one year ...

Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, ...

1 Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, ...

Objectives The RITUXVAS trial reported similar remission induction rates and safety between rituximab and cyclophosphamide based regimens for antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated ...

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the commonest autoimmune diseases. It affects about 1% of the population worldwide (1). The prevalence of RA varies widely between different countries (2 ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, University College London Hospitals, Arthur Stanley House, 40-50 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4NJ, UK 2 Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals ...

Objective To assess to what extent time-dependent biases (ie, immortal time bias (ITB) and time-lag bias (TLB)) occur in the latest rheumatology observational studies, describe their main mechanisms ...

The multiple rheumatological faces of PsA (or PsA is more than just poly-arthritis? - Consequences for management in daily practice) ...

We read with interest the recent article by Singh and Cleveland on the hypersensitivity risk of allopurinol (ALP) and febuxostat (FBX) compared with colchicine.1 A common challenge when using ALP, ...