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Ultrasound-detected musculoskeletal urate crystal deposition: which joints and what findings should be assessed for diagnosing gout?

1 Department of Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain 2 Department of Rheumatology, Hospìtal Universitario Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain 3 ...
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THU0504 Clinical and Functional Outcomes in Patients with Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Following Treatment with Adalimumab

Background The Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (JADAS) is increasingly accepted for defining a treat-to-target strategy in patients (pts) with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) 1 ...
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THU0471 The effects of tapping therapy on pain, symptom severity, dysfunctions in daily life, depression, and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized ...

Background Fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain, often accompanied by fatigue, cognitive disturbance, psychiatric symptoms, and multiple somatic symptoms ...
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Senescence marker killer cell lectin-like receptor G1 (KLRG1) contributes to TNF-α production by interaction with its soluble E-cadherin ligand in chronically inflamed joints

1 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Rheumatology, Laboratory for Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine and Health ...
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Healing of erosions in rheumatoid arthritis

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Cutaneous adverse events with febuxostat after previous reactions to allopurinol: comment on the article by Singh and Cleveland

We read with interest the recent article by Singh and Cleveland on the hypersensitivity risk of allopurinol (ALP) and febuxostat (FBX) compared with colchicine.1 A common challenge when using ALP, ...
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Real-life use of the PEXIVAS reduced-dose glucocorticoid regimen in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis

3 Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques (CRESS), Unité Inserm 1153, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France ...
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Peripheral blood immunophenotypic diversity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and its impact on therapeutic responsiveness

Objective Considering the diverse aetiologies and immunodysregulatory statuses observed in each patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), stratification based on peripheral blood immunophenotyping holds ...
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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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Evidence that autoantibody production may be driven by acute Epstein-Barr virus infection in Sjögren’s disease

Objectives Sjögren’s disease (SD) is an autoimmune disease affecting the exocrine glands that is associated with autoantibodies against Ro60/SS-A, anti-Ro52/TRIM21, La/SS-B and others. We examined the ...
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EULAR recommendations for the management of Behçet disease

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey Objectives: To develop evidence-based European League Against Rheumatism ...