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Morbidity and mortality in the antiphospholipid syndrome during a 5-year period: a multicentre prospective study of 1000 patients

Objectives: To identify the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) during a 5-year period and to determine clinical and immunological parameters with ...
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The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for peripheral spondyloarthritis and for spondyloarthritis in general

Objective To evaluate new classification criteria for peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA) in patients with SpA with peripheral manifestations only. Methods In this Assessment of SpondyloArthritis ...
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2016 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives To develop and validate an international set of classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) using guidelines from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European ...
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EULAR recommendations for calcium pyrophosphate deposition. Part II: Management

Objectives To develop evidence-based recommendations for management of calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD). Methods A multidisciplinary guideline development group of 15 experts, representing 10 ...
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Scoring the nailfold microvascular changes during the capillaroscopic analysis in systemic sclerosis patients

Research Laboratory and Academic Unit of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy Dr M Cutolo, Research Laboratory and Academic Unit of Clinical ...
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A randomised controlled trial of the efficacy and safety of allopurinol dose escalation to achieve target serum urate in people with gout

Correspondence to Professor Lisa K Stamp, Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, P.O. Box 4345, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand; lisa.stamp{at}cdhb.health.nz Objectives To determine ...
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In early rheumatoid arthritis, patients with a good initial response to methotrexate have excellent 2-year clinical outcomes, but radiological progression is not fully ...

1 Unit of Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Rheumatology, The Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University ...
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Efficacy of a single ultrasound-guided injection for the treatment of hip osteoarthritis

Background Intra-articular injection is effective for osteoarthritis, but the best single injection strategy is not known, nor are there established predictors of response. The objectives of this ...
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EULAR/EFORT recommendations for the diagnosis and initial management of patients with acute or recent onset swelling of the knee

Correspondence to R B M Landewé, Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, PO Box 5800, 6202AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands; r.landewe{at}mumc.nl Objectives: ...
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AB1628 THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN ITALY IN THE LAST DECADE

2 Azienda Zero, Veneto Region, Clinical governance Unit, Padua, Italy 3 Azienda Zero, Veneto Region, Epidemiological Department, Padua, Italy 4 Azienda Zero, Veneto Region, Clinical governance Unit, ...
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PPARγ preservation via promoter demethylation alleviates osteoarthritis in mice

Objectives Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disease in aged population and its development is significantly influenced by aberrant epigenetic modifications of numerous OA ...
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F8: Back to the future: how to mix the old and new treatments for SLE, Sjögren's and APS ...