Background: Antimalarial drugs (AMs), chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), are frequently withdrawn in patients with lupus with either severe or remitting disease. However, additional ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, St Maartenshospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Medical ...

3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Montreal, Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, ...

Hepatic manifestations in autoimmune disease include chronic active hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia. These diseases are rare ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Lingyun Sun, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing University Medical School Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing 210008, China; ...

OBJECTIVES (a) To determine the topographical variations in cartilage thickness over the entire surfaces of cadaveric lower limb joints, and (b) to examine the correlations between: cartilage ...

Background Short chain fatty acids are generated in the colon by bacterial fermentation of dietary fibres and serve as natural agonists for the free fatty acid receptor 2 (FFA2R/GPR43) which belongs ...

Objectives Autoantibodies are used clinically to phenotype and subset patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. We detected a novel 60 kDa autoantibody specificity by immunoblotting using a ...

1 Institute of Cellular Medicine, Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Rheumatology, Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 3 Department ...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan H Yamada, Division of Host Defense, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1 ...

3 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Sweden 4 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, ...