2 Rheumatology Department, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Rheumatology Department, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Background The ...

Correspondence to Dr Carmen Stolwijk, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center; School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), University of ...

3 Hospital Militar Central, Rheumatology and Immunology Department, Bogota, Colombia 4 Hospital Militar Central, Gastroenterology Department, Bogota, Colombia Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ...

Objective: To gain insight into patient experience of the disease course and health related quality of life during and after pregnancy in women with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.

Background Targeted inhibitors of B-cell activating factor (BAFF) have been evaluated in phase III trials in over 4000 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Post hoc analyses of these ...

1 Università degli Studi di Genova and Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy 2 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy ...

Correspondence to Dr Rishi J Desai, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; RDESAI{at}BWH.HARVARD.EDU Objectives Recent ...

Background: Patient reported outcome measures used in studies of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have been found to be inadequate for determining the impact of the disease from the patient’s perspective.

Objective: To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. Methods: A PMR activity score (AS) was ...

a Academic Ziekenhuis Leiden, Stafcentrum Reumatologie, Leiden, The Netherlands, b Division of Immunology and Allergy, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland Professor F C Breedveld, Academic ...

OBJECTIVES--To determine the feasibility of assessing patellofemoral osteoarthritis using the 'skyline' view and to compare its reproducibility with the standard lateral view. METHODS--Fifty patients ...

Aim: MRI provides unparalleled visualisation of all the anatomical structures involved in the osteoarthritis (OA) process. There is a need for reliable methods of quantifying abnormalities of these ...