Objectives: To validate the WOMAC 3.1 in a touch screen computer format, which applies each question as a cartoon in writing and in speech (QUALITOUCH method), and to assess patient acceptance of the ...

Anti-Golgi antibodies were first described in 1982 in a patient with Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) with a lymphoma.1 They have mainly been reported in patients with SjS and systemic lupus erythematosus ...

Objective To describe the disease course after the cessation of infliximab in early rheumatoid arthritis patients with disease activity score (DAS)-steered treatment and to identify predictors of ...

Objectives To estimate the incidence and prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the UK over the period 1999–2012. Methods A retrospective cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research ...

Background: Although disease-specific health status measures are available for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), no instrument exists for assessing quality of life (QoL) in the condition. Objective: To ...

Background: Doubts have been expressed about the performance of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) clinical classification criteria for osteoarthritis when applied in the general population.

Background: Patient reported outcome measures used in studies of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have been found to be inadequate for determining the impact of the disease from the patient’s perspective.

Background: Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies are considered highly specific markers of rheumatoid arthritis. Despite the high specificity of the test, anti-CCP antibodies have ...

Very recently Durez et al convincingly demonstrated that tumour necrosis factor blockade is, in comparison with glucocorticoid pulse therapy, promising, improving not only clinical measures of disease ...

Background A new autoinflammatory syndrome related to somatic mutations of UBA1 was recently described and called VEXAS syndrome. Objectives To describe clinical characteristics, laboratory findings ...

Objectives: To determine whether calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals can be found in the synovial fluid of non-inflamed joints in patients with CPPD related arthropathy; if so, to ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and SLE-PAH is the most common connective tissue disease (CTD)-associated PAH in Chinese ...