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Remission in systemic lupus erythematosus: durable remission is rare

Introduction Remission is the ultimate goal in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In this study, we applied four definitions of remission agreed on by an international collaboration (Definitions of ...
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Scoring hypoechogenic areas in one parotid and one submandibular gland increases feasibility of ultrasound in primary Sjögren’s syndrome

Correspondence to Professor Hendrika Bootsma, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, The Netherlands; h.bootsma{at}umcg.nl ...
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Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS): defining cut-off values for disease activity states and improvement scores

2 Rheumatology Department, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Rheumatology Department, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Background The ...
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AB0727 Increased Rates of Hypertension in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Compared To Psoriasis Alone: Results from The UK Biobank

1 Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics and Genomics, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre 2 Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Manchester ...
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Impact of anti-interleukin-6 receptor blockade on circulating T and B cell subsets in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

1 Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 Sjögren's Syndrome Clinic, Molecular ...
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Incidence of severe knee and hip osteoarthritis in relation to different measures of body mass: a population-based prospective cohort study

Objective: To determine in a prospective population-based cohort study relationships between different measures of body mass and the incidence of severe knee and hip osteoarthritis defined as ...
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Primary Sjögren's syndrome and malignancy risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Dr Yang Zaixing and Professor Renqian Zhong, Department of Laboratory ...
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Treatment of autoinflammatory diseases: results from the Eurofever Registry and a literature review

23 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Pediatria II, Reumatologia and Universià degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy 24 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Pediatria II, Reumatologia, Genova, Italy Correspondence to ...
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Safety of synthetic and biological DMARDs: a systematic literature review informing the 2022 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis

Objectives To perform a systematic literature review (SLR) concerning the safety of synthetic(s) and biological (b) disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) to inform the 2022 update of the ...
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Low density of sympathetic nerve fibres and increased density of brain derived neurotrophic factor positive cells in RA synovium

3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany 4 Department of Trauma Surgery, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany Correspondence to: ...
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Plasminogen activation in synovial tissues: differences between normal, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis joints

a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Laboratoire de Rhumatologie, Lausanne, Switzerland , b Centre Medical Universitaire, Division d’Oncologie, Geneva, Switzerland Dr N Busso, Centre ...
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All-cause, cause-specific and age-specific standardised mortality ratios of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in Ontario, Canada over 43 years (1971–2013)

Correspondence to Dr Murray Urowitz, Center for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; ...