Objectives To assess the effect of treatment on haemostatic parameters in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Original research: Reliability of the OMERACT Giant cell arteritis Ultrasonography Score (OGUS): results of a patient-based exercise involving experts and non-experts in vascular ultrasonography (2 ...

Objective Standard assessment of interferon (IFN) system activity in systemic rheumatic diseases depends on the availability of RNA samples. In this study, we describe and evaluate alternative methods ...

Objective The objective of this study was to analyse the association between body composition and changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients followed for hip and knee osteoarthritis ...

Objectives To describe the prevalence of degenerative changes on MRI and conventional radiographs of the spine in a young population with suspicion of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and assess ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are newly approved treatments for advanced malignancies that are increasing survival. The mechanism of these drugs, non-specifically activating T cells, also leads ...

4 INFINITY-Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, INSERM UMR1291- CNRS UMR5051- University Toulouse III, Toulouse, France; Department of Dermatology and Mastocytosis Expert ...

Objective Animal models for human diseases are especially valuable for clarifying molecular mechanisms before or around the onset. As a model for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we utilise knock-in mice ...

Objectives The objective of this study is to investigate lipopolysaccharid-binding protein (LBP), zonulin and calprotectin as markers of bacterial translocation, disturbed gut barrier and intestinal ...

Objective The first biomarker associated with the rheumatoid arthritis is rheumatoid factor (RF) and since the earliest reports a role has been proposed in the diagnosis and in the prediction of ...

Objective Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) high impairment. Pain is of paramount importance to be targeted by therapeutical approaches. Our ...

Background This study aims to establish a reliable prediction model of progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease (PF-ILD) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc)-ILD, to achieve early risk ...