Objectives To investigate short-term prognosis and prognostic factors for connective tissue disease-associated pneumocystis pneumonia (CTD-PCP) using the Japanese nationwide diagnosis procedure ...

Introduction In the management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), there is a lack of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. This study assesses the use of serum calprotectin (sCal) as a marker to ...

Jih-Jin Tsai, Li-Teh Liu, Chun-Hong Chen, et al. COVID-19 outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs. RMD Open 2023;9:e003038. This article has been ...

Objective To identify the best evidence on the efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions in reducing fatigue in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMDs) and to ...

The EULAR Sjögren's syndrome (SS) disease activity index (ESSDAI) is a systemic disease activity index that was designed to measure disease activity in patients with primary SS. With the growing use ...

Background There is significant interest in determining risk factors in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A core set of risk factors for clinical arthritis development has not been ...

Objective Here, we assess the usage of high throughput sequencing (HTS) in rheumatic research and the availability of public HTS data of rheumatic samples.Methods We performed a semiautomated ...

Objective To study the pathophysiological differences of EGPA and IgG 4-related disease (RD) by clarifying their clinical, pathological and immunological features.Methods Clinical and pathological ...

Introduction To characterise the detailed phenotypic and comorbid characteristics of participants with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the large population-based UK Biobank, thereby enabling future ...

Objective To determine the non-inferiority of nurse-led care (NLC) in patients with anticitrullinated protein antibody (ACPA)-positive and/or rheumatoid factor (RF)-positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ...

Background Long-term effectiveness of tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors (TNFi) has mainly been explored in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the data available on patients with ...

Objective The expression and experience of sexuality is a key part of an individual’s self-identity, yet it is often overlooked in clinical settings. This study aims to evaluate the impact of ...