3 Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 4 Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands ...

3 Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany 4 Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center ...

Objective Remission in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an increasingly attainable goal, but there is no widely used definition of remission that is stringent but achievable and could be applied uniformly ...

Psoriasis is a common chronic, recurrent, immune mediated disease of the skin and joints. It can have a significant negative impact on the physical, emotional, and, psychosocial wellbeing of affected ...

MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr K T Palmer, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, ...

Correspondence to Dr Adi Diab, Melanoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center FC3004, 1515 Holcombe Blvd Houston, Texas; adiab{at}mdanderson.org Background Immune ...

Objectives To develop and validate an international set of classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) using guidelines from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European ...

Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Correspondence to Dr Sherine E Gabriel, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Foundation, 200 First Street SW, ...

Objective To investigate whether an intensive early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treat-to-target (T2T) strategy could be improved through the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) assessment of ...

Objective: To determine whether a short course of prednisolone is superior to placebo for improving pain, function, and range of motion in adhesive capsulitis. Design: Double blind, randomised, ...

Aims Treating to low disease activity is routine in rheumatoid arthritis, but no comparable goal has been defined for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We sought to define and validate a Lupus Low ...

Objective To synthesise, quantify and compare risks for incident myocardial infarction (MI) across five major types of arthritis in population-based studies. Methods A systematic search was performed ...