Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) shares some similar clinical and pathological features with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA); indeed, the strategy of investigating whether RA susceptibility ...

Correspondence to Martin Aringer, Medicine III, University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden D-01307, Germany; martin.aringer{at}uniklinikum-dresden.de; Dr ...

20 Amsterdam Rheumatology & Immunology Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Robert G W Lambert, Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University ...

Correspondence to Dr Sara Monti, Rheumatology, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico S Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy; sara.saramonti{at}gmail.com Different viral agents are associated with an increased risk of ...

2 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care ...

12 University of California, San Francisco/Synarc, San Francisco, California, USA 13 Synarc, Inc, San Francisco, California, USA Objectives: To assess the efficacy and safety of abatacept in ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine III and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany 2 Institute of Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Research Laboratory, ...

Study of the genetics of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) began about four decades ago with the discovery of HLA-DRB1. Since the beginning of this century, a number of non-HLA risk loci have been identified ...

Objective To investigate serum antibody reactivity against a panel of post-translationally modified vimentin peptides (PTMPs) in patients with early inflammatory arthritis. Methods A panel of PTMPs ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, Free University, Berlin, Germany 2 Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany and Department of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, Free University, ...

New bone formation of the vertebral column is pathognomonic for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), while acute and/or chronic changes in the sacroiliac joints are relevant for diagnosis. The ‘gold standard’ ...

11 Paris-Descartes University, Medicine Faculty, UPRES-EA 4058 & APHP, Cochin Hospital, Rheumatology B Department, Paris, France Correspondence to Professor Maxime Dougados, Paris-Descartes University ...