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Gastric antral vascular ectasia in systemic sclerosis: complete resolution with methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide

Dr A Gough, Department of Rheumatology, Harrogate District Hospital, Lancaster Road, Harrogate HG2 7SX, UK A case of severe, transfusion dependent anaemia in a 72 year old woman, which on endoscopy ...
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Primary Sjögren's syndrome and malignancy risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Dr Yang Zaixing and Professor Renqian Zhong, Department of Laboratory ...
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Cutaneous adverse events with febuxostat after previous reactions to allopurinol: comment on the article by Singh and Cleveland

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, ...
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Physician global assessment in systemic lupus erythematosus: can we rely on its reliability?

We read with great interest the recent paper by Aranow et al 1 about the impact of laboratory results on scoring of the Physician Global Assessment (PGA) of disease activity in systemic lupus ...
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Cure as a treatment target in rheumatoid arthritis and systemic sclerosis—achievable aim or mission impossible? FOREUM stimulates new industry-academia collaboration

The past 25 years have witnessed a remarkable revolution in outcomes for patients living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Historically, uncontrolled joint inflammation was commonplace leading to ...
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Real-life use of the PEXIVAS reduced-dose glucocorticoid regimen in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis

3 Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques (CRESS), Unité Inserm 1153, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France ...
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Evidence that autoantibody production may be driven by acute Epstein-Barr virus infection in Sjögren’s disease

Objectives Sjögren’s disease (SD) is an autoimmune disease affecting the exocrine glands that is associated with autoantibodies against Ro60/SS-A, anti-Ro52/TRIM21, La/SS-B and others. We examined the ...
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Peripheral blood immunophenotypic diversity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and its impact on therapeutic responsiveness

Objective Considering the diverse aetiologies and immunodysregulatory statuses observed in each patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), stratification based on peripheral blood immunophenotyping holds ...
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FRI0446 VIRAL ARTHRITIS: DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF A SERIES OF 131 PATIENTS

Background: Arthritis of viral aetiology is considered the most frequent cause of acute arthritis. The most common etiologic agent is parvovirus B19 (B19). Besides, other viruses can lead to ...
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The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part II): validation and final selection

Objective: To validate and refine two sets of candidate criteria for the classification/diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: All Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society ...
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2023 EULAR classification criteria for hand osteoarthritis

Objectives The objective of this study is to develop classification criteria for overall hand osteoarthritis (OA), interphalangeal OA and thumb base OA based on self-reported data and radiographic ...
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EULAR Sjögren's Syndrome Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI): development of a consensus patient index for primary Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives To develop a score for assessment of patients' symptoms in primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS): the EULAR SS Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI). Methods Dryness, pain, somatic and mental fatigue ...