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OP0164 SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF UPADACITINIB FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH POLYARTICULAR COURSE JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS: AN INTERIM ANALYSIS OF AN OPEN ...

Background Novel treatment options are needed for pediatric patients with polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pcJIA). Upadacitinib (UPA) is an oral, selective Janus kinase (JAK) ...
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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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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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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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2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis: an American college of rheumatology/European league against rheumatism collaborative initiative

41 St. Joseph's Health Care London and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Objective The 1980 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for systemic sclerosis ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis in Spain: occurrence of extra-articular manifestations and estimates of disease severity

5 Rheumatology Department, H Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain 6 Rheumatology Department, H Clinic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain Correspondence to: Dr L Carmona, Sociedad Española de ...
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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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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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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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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 ...