OBJECTIVE Subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS) is a frequent cause of shoulder pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests, in patients with SIS ...

Background The European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group (EUSTAR) recently developed a preliminarily revised activity index (AI) that performed better than the European Scleroderma Study Group ...

The increasing prevalence of autoimmune and immune-mediated diseases (AIMDs) underscores the need to understand environmental ...

2 Key Laboratory of Immune Response and Immunotherapy, Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China 3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ...

Background Studies examining the relationship between serological status (rheumatoid factor and/or anticitrullinated antibody) and rituximab treatment outcome in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been ...

Objectives The objective of this study is to develop classification criteria for overall hand osteoarthritis (OA), interphalangeal OA and thumb base OA based on self-reported data and radiographic ...

2 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Background and objectives Instruments for measuring disease activity in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are not ...

1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...

4 Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitario Lisboa Norte, Universidade de Lisboa, and Centro Académico deMedicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 5 Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre ...

Objective To develop and validate revised classification criteria for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an ...

Objectives Single-cell level analysis of articular cartilage and meniscus tissues from human healthy and osteoarthritis (OA) knees. Methods Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analyses were ...

Objective Randomised trials of type I anti-CD20 antibodies rituximab and ocrelizumab failed to show benefit in proliferative lupus nephritis (LN). We compared obinutuzumab, a humanised type II ...