Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common monogenic autoinflammatory disease, but many rheumatologists are not well acquainted with its management. The objective of this report is to ...
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 ...
Correspondence to Dr Paul P Tak, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, Stevenage SG1 2NY, UK; Paul-peter.x.tak{at}gsk.com Objectives Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is implicated in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ...
Background Since the publication of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) in 2009, several relevant randomised clinical ...
Objectives: To measure hyaluronic acid (HA) levels, which are raised in active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in patients with early RA, and to assess the correlation with clinical and laboratory indices ...
a Department of Rheumatology/Internal Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands, b Department of Clinical Epidemiology, VU University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Professor M ...
Background Osteoarthritis (OA) generally is regarded clinically as asymmetrical, and monoarticular or pauciarticular, in contrast to symmetrical, polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the ...
Dr G Peat, Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, School of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele University, The Medical Institute, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST7 4NY, UKg.m.peat{at}hfac.keele.ac.uk ...
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flares remain poorly understood at a mechanistic level and have been difficult to study because of their sporadic nature. BIO-FLARE (BIOlogical Factors that Limit ...