rmdopen.bmj11d
Serious infection risk in rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: a US national cohort study
Objectives To identify serious infection (SI) risk by aetiology and site in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with those with non-inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases ...
rmdopen.bmj12d
Influence of sacroiliac joint variation on clinical features of axial spondyloarthritis: a comparative analysis
Objectives Anatomical variation of the sacroiliac (SI) joints is common and specific variants are associated with erosions and bone marrow oedema on imaging. Our investigation aims to evaluate whether ...
rmdopen.bmj16d
Dual neutralisation of IL-17F and IL-17A with bimekizumab blocks inflammation-driven osteogenic differentiation of human periosteal cells
Objectives Interleukin (IL)-17 signalling has been shown to be a key regulator of disease in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with several IL-17 blockers currently clinically approved. Despite this, the ...
rmdopen.bmj17d
Association between diabetes mellitus and osteoarthritis: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Objectives To investigate the prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and prevalence of DM in patients with OA and whether OA and DM are associated. Design A ...
rmdopen.bmj17d
Lymph nodes as gatekeepers of autoimmune diseases
3 Amsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious diseases, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Centre (ARC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Secondary lymphoid organs such ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Low apolipoprotein A1 and high apolipoprotein B levels indicate specific lipid changes in treatment naïve early psoriatic arthritis
Objectives To investigate serum lipid profile in early, treatment-naïve psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and to determine whether changes in classical lipids or apolipoproteins are specific to PsA. Methods ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Possible role for IL-40 and IL-40-producing cells in the lymphocytic infiltrated salivary glands of patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome
Objectives Aim of this study was to investigate the expression of interleukin (IL)-40, a new cytokine associated with B cells homoeostasis and immune response, in primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS) and in ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Mixed connective tissue disease: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a complex overlap disease with features of different autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs) namely systemic sclerosis, poly/dermatomyositis and systemic ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Use of artificial intelligence in imaging in rheumatology – current status and future perspectives
After decades of basic research with many setbacks, artificial intelligence (AI) has recently obtained significant breakthroughs, enabling computer programs to outperform human interpretation of ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Impact of baseline C-reactive protein levels on the response to secukinumab in ankylosing spondylitis: 3-year pooled data from two phase III studies
Objective To evaluate the magnitude of response to secukinumab treatment over 3 years in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) grouped by baseline C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in a pooled study ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Ehlers-Danlos syndromes: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines
Objective To report the effort of the European Reference Network for Rare and Complex CONnective tissue and musculoskeletal diseases NETwork working group on Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and related ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Why does the gout attack stop? A roadmap for the immune pathogenesis of gout
Gout is one of the most severe and frequent rheumatic diseases. Clinical manifestations of gout arise from uric acid crystal deposition in the musculoskeletal tissue. At high concentrations of uric ...