Background Significant trauma and muscular tightness often result during Total Knee Artroplasty (TKA) surgery and thus act to restrict tissue fluid movement resulting with lower extremity oedema.

Background Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) syndrome is an acute inflammatory polyartritis and palpable pitting edema of the elderly patients. It dramatically ...

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...

Background A new autoinflammatory syndrome related to somatic mutations of UBA1 was recently described and called VEXAS syndrome. Objectives To describe clinical characteristics, laboratory findings ...

1 Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases – OP09, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97201, USA 2 Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and Science ...

Correspondence to Dr Laura C Cappelli, Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; lcappel1{at}jhmi.edu Objective We sought to investigate the long-term outcomes of ...

Background Vitamin D is important for bone, cartilage and muscle function but there are few studies on its association with joint pain. Objective To investigate whether serum vitamin D predicts change ...

Objectives To compare the use of glucocorticoids (GC) over time in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were or were not treated initially with GC bridging therapy. Methods Data from the BeSt, ...

1 Flinders University Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia 2 Physiotherapy Department, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia ...

Background Rituximab (RTX) is the most commonly used biologic for the treatment of SLE. However, there is are no clinically applicable predictors of response, which is of particular importance in this ...

Objectives Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common class of childhood rheumatic diseases, with distinct disease subsets that may have diverging pathophysiological origins. Both adaptive ...

1 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia 2 Graduate School of Medicine, Notre Dame University, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 3 Covance Pty ...