Dr C H M van den Ende, Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Rheumatology, C4-R, Postbox 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands Email:e.vandenende{at}nivel.nl OBJECTIVE To investigate the ...

Background TNFα inhibitors are highly effective drugs for the treatment of inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. Biosimilars are approved biologics with comparable quality, safety and ...

3 University of Sfax, Laboratory of Biochimie, Hedi Chaker Hospital Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia 4 Hedi Chaker Hopital, Laboratory of Biochimie, Sfax, Tunisia 5 Habib Bourguiba Hopital, Laboratory of Histology ...

Background Total knee replacement (TKR) revolutionized management of patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, in order to help them overcome pain and functional limitation, ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate in a prospective study whether patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with PMR-like onset show distinctive clinical and laboratory ...

Correspondence to Dr Haijun Wu, Department of Radiology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong 515041, China; 15876530875{at}163.com We report on a ...

1 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2 Department of Radiology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Correspondence ...

Objectives To examine trends in the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from 2005 to 2014 overall and by serological status as compared with 1995–2004 and 1985–1994. Methods We evaluated RA ...

11 Departments of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospitals at Herlev and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to: Prof M Østergaard Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University ...

Correspondence to Dr James Bluett, Versus Arthritis Centre for Genetics and Genomics, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; ...

Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is defined as a chronic syndrome characterized by diffuse musculoskeletal pain and several symptoms that reflect on the functional capacity and quality of life of the ...