Objective: To validate and refine two sets of candidate criteria for the classification/diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: All Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society ...
OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...
Objectives To report the level and trends of prevalence, incidence and years lived with disability (YLDs) for osteoarthritis (OA) in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017 by age, sex and ...
MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr K T Palmer, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, ...
Background The SELENA flare index (SFI) has functioned well in clinical and clinical trial settings (1), but has the limitation that it classifies only severe versus combined mild/moderate flares.
Background Significant trauma and muscular tightness often result during Total Knee Artroplasty (TKA) surgery and thus act to restrict tissue fluid movement resulting with lower extremity oedema.
Background Immunosuppressive therapy may potentially alter the natural disease course of scleroderma. There have been reports of using mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for the treatment of scleroderma skin ...
Background: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare type of ANCA associated Vasculitis (AAVs). Cyclophosphamide (CYC) is generally recommended for the induction of remission in ...
Background Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) syndrome is an acute inflammatory polyartritis and palpable pitting edema of the elderly patients. It dramatically ...
Background Relationship between inflammatory lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical disease activity measures is still unclear in patients (pts) with spondyloarthritis (SpA). In some ...
Background: Macrophage activation plays a crucial part in synovial inflammation, a driving force in osteoarthritis (OA) [1]. Our previous research has revealed that NOD2 attenuates OA by modulating ...
Objectives To update the 2017 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) recommendations for treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), incorporating new evidence and therapies. Methods An ...