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EULAR/PRINTO/PRES criteria for Henoch–Schönlein purpura, childhood polyarteritis nodosa, childhood Wegener granulomatosis and childhood Takayasu arteritis: Ankara 2008. Part ...

33 Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Tbilisi Hospital #1 and Georgian Scientific-Practical Rheumatology Centre, Tblisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia 34 Dipartimento di ...
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CCL2/CCR2, but not CCL5/CCR5, mediates monocyte recruitment, inflammation and cartilage destruction in osteoarthritis

5 Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA Correspondence to Dr William H Robinson, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, ...
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Serum levels of BAFF, but not APRIL, are increased after rituximab treatment in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome: data from a placebo-controlled clinical trial

1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, ...
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Efficacy and safety of tanezumab monotherapy or combined with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of knee or hip osteoarthritis pain

Objective To evaluate whether subjects with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA) pain on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) received greater benefit when tanezumab monotherapy replaced or was ...
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F8: Back to the future: how to mix the old and new treatments for SLE, Sjögren's and APS ...
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EULAR recommendations for the treatment of systemic sclerosis: 2023 update

Objectives To update the 2017 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) recommendations for treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), incorporating new evidence and therapies. Methods An ...
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Assessing the performance of AI chatbots in answering patients’ common questions about low back pain

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy and readability of the answers generated by large language model (LLM)-chatbots to common patient questions about low back pain (LBP).
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Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial

Objectives Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating ...
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Tenosynovitis of the extensor carpi ulnaris tendon predicts erosive progression in early rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Siri Lillegraven, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23 Vinderen, N-0319 Oslo, Norway; siri.lillegraven{at}gmail.com In secondary analyses, focusing on vdHSS and ...
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CD-19 CAR-T cells for polyrefractory rheumatoid arthritis

‘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 ...
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Relationship between serum urate and changes in dual-energy CT monosodium urate crystal volume over 1 year in people with gout: an individual participant data analysis

Objectives The dynamics of monosodium urate (MSU) crystal changes across a range of serum urate concentrations in people with gout are unknown. This study aimed to systematically examine the ...
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The squeeze test of MCP joints: a scarcity of scientific data, especially from primary care

1 Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to A H M van der ...