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 ...

Objective: To assess, firstly, the validity of the enthesis index published by Mander (Mander enthesis index (MEI)) and, secondly, to investigate whether it is possible to define a new enthesis index ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 MAS is a severe, life-threatening form of secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis associated with rheumatic diseases such as Still’s disease (systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis or ...

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 ...