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The 2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for IgG4-related disease

Correspondence to Dr John H Stone, Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; jhstone{at}mgh.harvard.edu IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can cause ...
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2016 Classification Criteria for Macrophage Activation Syndrome Complicating Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

1 Università degli Studi di Genova and Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy 2 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy ...
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Development and initial validation of a screening questionnaire for psoriatic arthritis: the Toronto Psoriatic Arthritis Screen (ToPAS)

1 Toronto Western Research Institute, Psoriatic Arthritis Program, Centre for Prognosis Studies in The Rheumatic Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ...
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Survival in adults and children with systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of studies from 1950 to 2016

Objective To determine trends in survival among adult and paediatric patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) from 1950 to the present. Methods We performed a systematic literature review to ...
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Gout: why is this curable disease so seldom cured?

3 Department of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 4 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Alicante ...
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EULAR definition of arthralgia suspicious for progression to rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Dr Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; AvdHelm{at}lumc.nl Background ...
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Validation of the Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) Questionnaire and its potential as a single-item outcome measure in clinical practice

Objectives The Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) Questionnaire is a recently developed patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) of disease impact in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). We set out to ...
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Predictors of patient relevant outcome after total hip replacement for osteoarthritis: a prospective study

Department of Orthopaedics, Lund University Hospital, Spenshult Hospital of Rheumatic Diseases, Halmstad, Sweden Correspondence to: Dr A-K Nilsdotter, Department of Orthopaedics, Lund University ...
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Specificity of anti-Sm antibodies by ELISA for systemic lupus erythematosus: increased sensitivity of detection using purified peptide antigens.

Clinical Immunology Division, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Hammersmith, London. Sm antigen was purified by immunoaffinity chromatography using a murine monoclonal anti-Sm antibody and was ...
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Glucosamine and chondroitin for knee osteoarthritis: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial evaluating single and combination regimens

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 ...
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Diagnosis and management of adult onset Still’s disease

1 Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ 07101, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell ...
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Ultrasound definition of enthesitis in spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis: arrival or starting point?

Correspondence to Dr Emilio Filippucci, Rheumatology Unit, Polytechnic University of Marche - Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, "Carlo Urbani" Hospital, 60035 Jesi, Ancona, Italy; ...