To compare the prevalence of and predictors for sustained drug-free remission in two cohorts of patients with recent-onset RA treated with DAS-driven therapy or non-DAS-driven therapy.Methods. Sust...
The excess cardiac risk, found in RA has been attributed to biological inflammation. Effective control of inflammation may be of benefit in reducing cardiovascular risk in RA patients. The aim of t...
The aim of the study was to assess the effect of long-term prednisolone on fasting and post-glucose load glucose concentration in patients with inflammatory rheumatological disease. We hypothesized...
To determine patterns on pain diagrams and corresponding diagnoses in patients referred to a rheumatology clinic and their sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values (PPV...
Bone marrow oedema (BMO) and HLA-B27 are poor prognostic factors in axial SpA, and psoriasis is a poor prognostic factor in small-joint polyarthropathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the...
To test the diagnostic accuracy of modified American–European classification criteria (AEC) for primary SS (pSS) by replacing sialoscintigraphy (sSC) with ultrasonography of the major salivar...
The autopsy and clinical information on children dying with anti-SSA/Ro-associated cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus (cardiac NL) were examined to identify patterns of disease, gain insight ...
To describe the clinical, laboratory, histopathological presentations and final diagnoses for children presenting to a tertiary paediatric rheumatology service with an inflammatory lesion of the or...
To investigate the differential expression of MMP-1, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in clinically involved (affected) and uninvolved (unaffected...
We have previously reported distinct symptom clusters among our patients with Behçet's syndrome (BS). The presence of such clusters suggests that more than one pathogenetic mechanism might b...
Dysfunctional angiogenesis is a pathogenetic marker of SSc. Circulating levels of endothelial progenitor cells are reduced, and mesenchymal stromal cells show a reduced differentiation into endothe...
Internal organ involvement reduces the life expectancy of SSc patients. Cardiopulmonary manifestations are currently the primary cause of death. We aimed to perform a systematic review and meta-ana...
Serum samples taken before the onset of RA suggest that one of the first features of RA is BMD loss. We determined the ability of radiographic BMD loss to predict RA development and arthritis persi...
Evidence shows that defensins are involved in the pathogenesis of SLE and ANCA-associated small vasculitis (AASV). The copy number variation of DEFB4 has been proposed to be susceptible to inflamma...
To study the phenotypic characteristics of and the balance between systemic IL-7 receptor (IL-7R)α+ and IL-7Rα– Tregs in primary SS (pSS) patients as compared with control subject...
