Correspondence to Dr Naotomo Kambe, Department of Dermatology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan; nkambe{at}kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp Results The study population ...
Objectives The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) aimed to develop a set of quality standards (QS) to help improve the quality of healthcare provided to adult patients ...
Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...
1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...
Correspondence to Professor Ling Qin, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China; lingqin{at}cuhk.edu.hk; Professor Kingston King-lun Mak, Joint Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Guangzhou ...
Objectives Although T cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a comprehensive study of T-cell-mediated immune responses in the affected skin of patients with ...
3 Department of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 4 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Alicante ...
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 ...
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of adding sulfasalazine to leflunomide treatment compared with switching to sulfasalazine alone in patients with RA with an inadequate response to ...
1 Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Department of Medicine, Tai Po, Hong Kong (SAR) 2 The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, ...
1 Team GIMAP, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (UDL, UJM, UCBL1, INSERM U1111, CNRS UMR530) & Department of Internal Medicine, Saint-Etienne University Hospital, Saint-Etienne, ...
Background Fatigue is one of the most disabling symptoms in primary Sjogren’s syndrome (pSS) and it significantly impacts patient’s quality of life[1]. However, the cause of this symptom remains ...