Objective The primary objective was to assess sex differences in long-term functional deterioration and permanent work ...

Objective Recent advances in giant cell arteritis (GCA) management aim to reduce glucocorticoid (GC). We described changes in ...

Objective Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a heterogenous group of conditions with substantial morbidity but ...

Background Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic autoinflammatory disorder lacking a gold-standard diagnostic ...

Objective To evaluate the diagnostic pathway of patients affected by large vessel vasculitis (LVV) and to determine factors ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare, heterogeneous, systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease characterised by vasculopathy, ...

Objectives To assess clinical effectiveness, safety and in vivo effects on cytokines, chemokines and low-density neutrophils (LDNs) in patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated ...

Adenosine deaminase 2 deficiency (DADA2) is an inborn error of immunity leading to systemic vasculitis, haematological manifestations, immune deficiency and/or autoimmunity. We report the case of a 26 ...

Objective To evaluate chest high-resolution CT (HRCT) images in idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) using both quantitative CT and visual assessment. Methods HRCT images from a single-centre ...

Objective Sarcopenia, defined by reductions in muscle mass and strength, increases the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)—driven in part by chronic inflammation—and is ...

Objectives Whether treatment response differs across affected joints in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains unclear. We sought to determine whether responses to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) ...

Objective To examine the role of low-dose glucocorticoids (GCs) in major relapse, hospitalisation and damage accumulation risk during maintenance therapy in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) ...