Background Oral contraceptive (OC) and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have been reported to have a protective and preventive effect on the progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Although these ...
Background: RTX-GRT7039 (resiniferatoxin; RTX), is a potent and selective agonist of the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) being developed for treatment of pain related to knee ...
20 Amsterdam Rheumatology & Immunology Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Robert G W Lambert, Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University ...
Background: Xanthine oxidase inhibitors (XOI) are commonly used as urate lowering therapy (ULT) for the treatment of gout. Allopurinol, the first-line treatment, demonstrates low response rate (< 40%) ...
Background Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionised the management of several cancers, enhancing the anti-tumoral immune response. However they are responsible for many Immune Related ...
Background Interleukin-23 (IL-23), a key regulator of multiple effector cytokines, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of psoriatic lesions, synovitis, enthesitis, and bone erosion. Risankizumab ...
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 ...
We read with great interest the article by Zhu et al .1 It was based on a national study regarding the association between idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and the subsequent development of ...
Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Dr Yang Zaixing and Professor Renqian Zhong, Department of Laboratory ...
Correspondence to Professor Sergey Moiseev, Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow 119435, Russian Federation; clinpharm{at}mtu-net.ru ...
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 ...
Background Studying the epidemiology of rare conditions such as the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) can assist in the identification of risk factors, disease associations and temporal trends.