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Guidelines for musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatology

aDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, bDepartment of Rheumatology and Physical Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, ...
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Novel and reliable DACTylitis glObal Sonographic (DACTOS) score in psoriatic arthritis

Correspondence to Professor Annamaria Iagnocco, Scienze Cliniche e Biologiche, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin 10043, Italy; annamaria.iagnocco1{at}gmail.com Objectives Dactylitis is one of ...
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Paracetamol and cyclooxygenase inhibition: is there a cause for concern?

1 Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany 2 Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Friedrich Alexander University ...
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ASAS modification of the Berlin algorithm for diagnosing axial spondyloarthritis: results from the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early (SPACE)-cohort and from the Assessment of ...

Correspondence to Professor Désirée van der Heijde, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center,P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; mail{at}dvanderheijde.nl Objective To ...
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The multiple rheumatological faces of PsA (or PsA is more than just poly-arthritis? - Consequences for management in daily practice) ...
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F8: Back to the future: how to mix the old and new treatments for SLE, Sjögren's and APS ...
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FRI0693 Fears and misconceptions of women with chronic rheumatic diseases on their journey to motherhood

Background: Recent EULAR ‘Points to Consider’ provide guidance on management and treatment of Women of Childbearing Age (WoCBA) with chronic rheumatic diseases (CRD: RA, axSpA, PsA). However, it is ...
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Physician global assessment in systemic lupus erythematosus: can we rely on its reliability?

We read with great interest the recent paper by Aranow et al 1 about the impact of laboratory results on scoring of the Physician Global Assessment (PGA) of disease activity in systemic lupus ...
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Correspondence on ‘Anticardiolipin and other antiphospholipid antibodies in critically ill COVID-19 positive and negative patients’

The Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, National Health Commission, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of ...
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Infections and the risk of incident giant cell arteritis: a population-based, case-control study

Objectives Alterations in the immune system and infections are suspected to increase susceptibility to giant cell arteritis (GCA). Recently herpes zoster has been directly implicated in the ...
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Correspondence on ‘Rheumatoid arthritis-associated DNA methylation sites in peripheral blood mononuclear cells’

Correspondence to Dr Lei Niu, Department of Microscopic Orthopaedic, Hefei Second People's Hospital, Hefei 230000, China; leiniu_hfry{at}qq.com First, 43 subjects (RA:healthy controls=25:18) were ...
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Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial

Objectives Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating ...