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Global social media use among rheumatology professionals: the EULAR SoMeR Study Group survey

Background/purpose Social media (SM) has become an indispensable tool in healthcare, providing platforms for networking and ...
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Evaluating the role of lipopolysaccharides in the joint: fibronectin as a novel protective mechanism

Objective To investigate the presence and bioactivity of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in synovial fluid (SF) of osteoarthritis (OA) patients and elucidate mechanisms modulating their inflammatory ...
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DEUS Enthesitis Index (DEI): a new tool integrating ultrasound and clinical examination for enthesitis assessment in spondyloarthritis

Objectives (1) To develop a composite score, the DEUS (Defining Enthesitis on Ultrasound in Spondyloarthritis) Enthesitis Index (DEI), which integrates ultrasound and clinical examination findings for ...
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PERFECTRA: a pragmatic, multicentre, real-life study comparing treat-to-target strategies with baricitinib versus TNF inhibitors in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis ...

Objective To compare the effectiveness of a strategy administering baricitinib versus one using TNF-inhibitors (TNFi) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) after conventional synthetic ...
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Novel vascular damage markers in SLE: insights from carotid colour Doppler ultrasound and aortic oscillometry in the LUPCARD cohort

Objectives To assess for the first time a combination of new and established markers of macrovascular damage in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using oscillometry and greyscale/colour ...
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Association between social deprivation and disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature review

Physical and mental illnesses are driven by ethnicity, social, environmental and economic determinants. Novel theoretical frameworks in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) focus on links and adverse ...
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Cardiac involvement in adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) include the main subgroups polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), inclusion body myositis (IBM) and juvenile DM (JDM). The mentioned subgroups are ...
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Correction:A multicenter study to improve clinical interpretation of rheumatoid factor and anti-citrullinated protein/peptide antibodies test results

Van Hoovels L, Vander Cruyssen B, Sieghart D, et al. A multicenter study to improve clinical interpretation of rheumatoid factor and anti-citrullinated protein/peptide antibodies test results. RMD ...
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Discrepancies between routine sacroiliac joint MRI reporting and current expert recommendations in patients with spondyloarthritis

Background Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) MRI is commonly used in diagnosing spondyloarthritis (SpA). Current Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) recommendations on reporting SIJ MRIs ...
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Opportunistic screening for osteoporosis and vertebral fracture using CT attenuation from 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT in patients with prostate cancer

Objective Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer (PCa) induces bone loss and increases fracture risk, yet baseline bone mineral density (BMD) assessment is rarely performed.
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Major adverse cardiovascular, thromboembolic and malignancy events in the filgotinib rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis clinical development programmes

Objectives Long-term safety is fundamental for treatment decision-making. This integrated analysis of filgotinib clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ulcerative colitis (UC) assessed ...