Objective A panel of antibodies against three antigens, University Hasselt (UH)-rheumatoid arthritis (RA).305, 318 and 329, has been associated with lack of response to first-line therapy in the Care ...

Neuropathic pain is a devastating type of pain that significantly reduces the quality of life of affected people.

Background Remission and low-disease activity are recommended targets in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet many ...

Background Psoriatic disease has a complex effect on bone metabolism, resulting in both pathological bone formation and bone resorption. However, microstructural changes in cortical and trabecular ...

Objective Autoimmune rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), have recently been associated with an increased risk of cancer, particularly head and neck cancer (HNC). This study aimed ...

Objective To develop and validate a predictive model for distinguishing controls (Ctr), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) based on nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) ...

Objective To characterise patients with ‘very early’ axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), defined as a duration ≤1 year of back pain and to determine the effectiveness of a first tumour necrosis factor ...

Background The Leiden group and the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS)-MRI study group have proposed definitions for structural (SL) and active (AL) lesions typical for axial ...

Objective To describe the clinical, biological and genetic characteristics of paediatric-onset A20 haploinsufficiency (HA20) and to identify key clinical features that may guide early diagnosis and ...

Objectives Current therapeutic paradigms for treatment-refractory rheumatic diseases rely on chronic immunosuppression with variable efficacy and potential for cumulative toxicity. We systematically ...