Issue 12/2024
Content (52 Articles)
Synovial fluid analysis with compensated polarization light microscopy: a physics approach to quantitative understanding of birefringence, polarization, and Maltese crosses
- EDITORIAL
Tom Niessink, Tim L. Jansen, Madé Kleinherenbrink, Matthijs Janssen, Cees Otto
Functional disability and disease activity are affected by social determinants of health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Mohammad Movahedi, Kangping Cui, George Tomlinson, Angela Cesta, Xiuying Li, Claire Bombardier
Associations of accelerated biological aging and metabolic heterogeneity of obesity with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Chan-Na Zhao, Ling-Qiong Jiang, Harry Asena Musonye, Shi-Yin Meng, Yi-Sheng He, Peng Wang, Jing Ni, Hai-Feng Pan
Incidence and risk factors of discontinuation of tofacitinib and biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs among patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A population-based cohort study
- Tofacitinib
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Po-Cheng Shih, Po-Cheng Hung, Pui-Ying Leong, Jui-Ning Hsu, Chieh-Chun Yang, James Cheng Chung Wei, Hsin-Hua Chen
Frailty and its association with readmissions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A national readmissions database study
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Muhammad Waqas Tahir, Yenny Rosli, Christopher Leung, Katherine D. Wysham, Jiha Lee, Rachael Stovall, Radjiv Goulabchand, Una E. Makris, Siddharth Singh, Namrata Singh
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) loss associated with self-perceived anxiety/depression in seropositive rheumatoid arthritis
- Open Access
- Anxiety
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Diego Fernando Rojas-Gualdrón, Carolina Franco-Salazar, Clara Ángela Gómez-Henck, Maria Camila Manrique-Castrillón, Yennifer Carime Hoyos-Méndez, Susana Vélez-Romero, Juan Camilo Díaz-Coronado
A prospective randomized-controlled non-blinded comparative study of the JAK inhibitor (baricitinib) with TNF-α inhibitors and conventional DMARDs in a sample of Egyptian rheumatoid arthritis patients
- Open Access
- Baricitinib
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Esraa M. Mahmoud, Abdullah Radwan, Sahar A. Elsayed
Altered serum metabolome is associated with disease activity and immune responses in rheumatoid arthritis
- Open Access
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Xuanlin Cai, Jiayang Jin, Hua Ye, Xiaohong Xiang, Li Luo, Jing Li
Characterization of systemic lupus erythematosus subtypes using cluster analysis: insights from lymphocyte subpopulations
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Zheng Yu, Yan Zheng, Jianping Yang, Guangzhi Xiao, Xing Luo, Yuemeng Xu, Zhaohui Zheng
The clinical characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus-related thoracic duct obstruction: a retrospective case–control study from China
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Lingling Zhang, Ran An, Guohua Zhang, Lan Gao, Wenbin Shen, Yuhua Wang
Clinical features, imaging findings, and outcomes of acute abdominal pain in systemic lupus erythematosus: comparing mesenteric vasculitis, non-mesenteric vasculitis, and surgical conditions
- Abdominal Pain
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Worawit Louthrenoo, Wanitcha Gumtorntip, Piyanut Thanunchai, Amonlaya Amantakul, Nuntana Kasitanon, Suwalee Pojchamarnwiputh
Phenotypes of patients with lupus-associated pulmonary hypertension in the Chinese Han population: a cluster analysis
- Lupus Nephritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Yaqi Zhao, Xinya Li, Liya Wang, Wei Xu, Baocheng Liu, Suyan Yan, Zhenzhen Ma, Qingrui Yang
Factors predicting treatment response to biological and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in psoriatic arthritis – a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Open Access
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Tabea Künzler, Manuel Bamert, Haiko Sprott
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Zhejun Xu, Can Huang, Hui Jiang, Yuan Zhao, Yangzhong Zhou, Chaojun Hu, Fei Han, Ming Yao, Jun Ni, Mengtao Li, Xiaofeng Zeng, Lixin Zhou, Jiuliang Zhao
The diagnostic value and clinical relevance of high frequency ultrasound and shear wave elastography in systemic sclerosis: an observational monocentric study
- Open Access
- Systemic Sclerosis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Shengnan Yu, Haiting Peng, Xiaoyun Yang, Sha Ma, Juan Yu, Dachen Zuo, Fayou Li, Juan Wang, Yonghong Yang, Zijing Yin, Weiqing Zhao, Jing Wang
Can unstimulated whole salivary flow objectively classify salivary gland secretory function in Sjögren’s syndrome?
- Open Access
- Primary Sjögren Syndrome
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Li-Qin Peng, Xing-Huan Chen, Wen-Jing Yang, Wen-Ke Huang, Zhi-Ming Ouyang, Li-Yuan Cai, Lie Dai, Ying-Qian Mo
Autoantibody against aquaporin-5 may be a new diagnostic biomarker for primary Sjögren’s syndrome
- Open Access
- Primary Sjögren Syndrome
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Xiaoyu Wang, Hong Wu, Bing Zhong, Ligai Zhang, Yong Wang
Metabolic impact of low dose IL-2 therapy for primary Sjögren’s Syndrome in a double-blind, randomized clinical trial
- Open Access
- Primary Sjögren Syndrome
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Ruiling Feng, Xian Xiao, Yifan Wang, Bo Huang, Jiali Chen, Gong Cheng, Yuebo Jin
Validation of the 2018 (New) ENMC Classification Criteria for Dermatomyositis in Chinese Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
- Dermatomyositis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Puli Zhang, Chao Sun, Qinglin Peng, Wei Jiang, Xiaolan Tian, Ying Li, Zhen Cao, Guochun Wang, Wei Qiao, Xin Lu
Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis in granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a case report
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
- BRIEF REPORT
Difei Lian, Hui Xu, Tianqi Wang, Qiyuan Hao, Hang Zhou, Yanying Liu
Characteristics associated with anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) in giant cell arteritis (GCA)
- Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
- BRIEF REPORT
Jenna L. Thomason, Ingeborg Sacksen, R. Eugene Zierler, Courtney E. Francis, P. Scott Pollock, Alison M. Bays
Clinical associations with thyroid disease in ANCA-associated vasculitis
- Thyroid Disease
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Zhihuan Zhang, Wenhan Huang, Feifeng Ren, Lei Luo, Jun Zhou, Dongmei Huang, Dandan Chen, Kechen Qian, Yuanyuan Wang, Lin Tang
Postoperative complications in patients with Behçet’s disease
- Open Access
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
You Jin Jung, Eun Hye Park, Ju Yeon Kim, Eun Kyoung Lee, Yunhee Choi, Eun Bong Lee
Increased risk of adverse events among patients with vs. without systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease prescribed sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors: a retrospective cohort study
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Emily G. Oakes, Jack Ellrodt, Hongshu Guan, Jeong Yee, May Y. Choi, Karen H. Costenbader
Relationship between SLCO1B1 polymorphisms and methotrexate intolerance in Mexican children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- BRIEF REPORT
Jimena Garcia-Silva, Beatriz Silva-Ramirez, Ana V. Villarreal-Treviño, Viviana Mata-Tijerina, Nadina E. Rubio-Perez, Fernando Garcia-Rodriguez
Nailfold capillaroscopic assessment in pediatric patients with autoimmune uveitis: a case–control study
- Open Access
- Uveitis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Maha S. I. Abdelrahman, Dalia Tohamy, Naglaa S. Osman, Mohamed G. A. Saleh
Gout diagnoses uncertain when made by general practitioners without serum uric acid testing: an observational study
- Gout
- BRIEF REPORT
Hein Janssens, Lisanne Houtappels, Tjard Schermer
Dual-energy computed tomography-based radiomics for differentiating patients with and without gout flares
- Gout
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Yabin Hu, Shunli Liu, Wei Ren, Nicola Dalbeth, Rui Zhou, Yizhe Chen, Yuehai Pan, Yuwei He, Zhen Liu, Zhaotong Jia, Yaqiong Ge, Yue Du, Lin Han
Efficacy and safety of 10 mg versus 30 mg of oral prednisolone for acute CPP crystal arthritis: findings of a randomized controlled trial
- Arthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Wuttirak Leelasattakul, Wanjak Pongsittisak, Siriporn Manavathongchai, Panchalee Satpanich
A cross-sectional study of the association between blood metal mixtures exposure and hyperuricemia
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Jierui Wang, Weixuan Wang, Liufu Cui, Fan Yang, Xinying Li, Shouling Wu, Yanshu Zhang
Exploring genetic links between blood metabolites and gout susceptibility
- Gout
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Wenxing Zeng, Minhua Hu, Lin Zhou, Dejun Cun, Luyao Ma, Jingtao Zhang, Feng Huang, Ziwei Jiang
Assessment of validity, reliability, and feasibility of OMERACT ultrasound knee osteoarthritis scores in Egyptian patients with primary knee osteoarthritis
- Open Access
- Knee Osteoarthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Manal Abd El Moniem El Menyawi, Galila Gamal, Hoda Abdelbadie, Rasmia Elgohary
Impact of prior knee surgery on change in knee pain, quality of life, and walking speed following supervised education and exercise therapy: an analysis of 30,545 people with knee osteoarthritis
- Open Access
- Exercise Therapy
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Dorte T. Grønne, Dilara M. Sari, Søren T. Skou, Ewa M. Roos, Ilksan Demirbüken, Jonas B. Thorlund
Mitigating overuse of antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing through educational intervention: a study in internal medicine and neurology departments
- Open Access
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Yael Pri-Paz Basson, Eran Neumark, Shaye Kivity, Oshrat E. Tayer-Shifman
Structured and prompt treatment of early arthritis in clinical practice leverages window of opportunity and leads to excellent clinical outcomes: an innovative retrospective cohort study
- Open Access
- Arthritis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
R. L. Teixeira, R. da Silva Vieira, M. J. Saavedra, J. Polido-Pereira, R. A. Moura, I. Alcobia, J. E. Fonseca, V. C. Romão
Defining a core outcome set for hypermobility spectrum disorders and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: A Delphi consensus study
- Open Access
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Natalie L. Clark, Melissa Johnson, Amar Rangan, Lucksy Kottam, Andrea Hogarth, Sarah Scott, Katherine Swainston
Development and validation of the RQLQ: a Raynaud’s disease–specific measure of health-related quality of life
- Open Access
- Raynaud's Disease
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Balázs Fábián, Zoltán Csiki, Antal Bugán
Association of magnesium deficiency scores with risk of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis in adults: a cross-sectional population-based study
- Osteoarthrosis
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Shuxiang Li, Zhuo Chen, Haoyun Yu, Wenliao Chang, Jian Zhou, Guofeng Wu, Xiaoliang Sun, Han Sun, Kun Wang
Familial Mediterranean fever in children from central-southern Italy: a multicentric retrospective cohort study
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Saverio La Bella, Roberta Loconte, Marina Attanasi, Mario Muselli, Giulia Di Donato, Armando Di Ludovico, Marco Natale, Violetta Mastrorilli, Andrea Giugno, Santi Papa, Rossella Ferrante, Carlotta Buccolini, Ivana Antonucci, Francesco Chiarelli, Stefano Necozione, Patrizia Barone, Francesco La Torre, Luciana Breda
Study on the changes and significance of CXCL10 level in serum of isolated polymyalgia rheumatica
- Open Access
- Polymyalgia Arteritica
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
X. U. Shuai, FENG Dandan, X. U. Liang
Salivary gland ultrasound features in sicca syndrome secondary to immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors
- Primary Sjögren Syndrome
- CLINICAL IMAGE
Camille Bourgeois, Marina Sánchez Lucas, Pablo Rodríguez Merlos, Juan Carlos Nieto-González, José María Álvaro-Gracia, Juan Molina-Collada
Not just a knot: giant cell myositis presenting as widespread tender intramuscular masses
- Thymoma
- CLINICAL IMAGE
Roko Nikolic, Peter Schutz, Kun Huang
90-day readmission risk, but not in-hospital mortality is lower in female patients who undergo elective primary total hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis
- Hip-TEP
- LETTERS OF BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH
Sumanth R. Chandrupatla, Jasvinder A. Singh
Infliximab rather than tocilizumab for HLA-B52-positive Takayasu arteritis?
- Takayasu's Arteriitis
- LETTERS OF BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH
Eisuke Takamasu, Naoto Yokogawa, Hiroshi Furukawa, Shomi Oka, Kota Shimada
Reply to “Letter to the Editor”: Prognostic analysis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in patients with systemic vasculitides: a retrospective cohort study
- Open Access
- Vasculitis
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Ruxuan Chen, Hui Huang
Comparative performance of artificial intelligence models in rheumatology board-level questions: evaluating Google Gemini and ChatGPT-4o: correspondence
- Artificial Intelligence
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Hinpetch Daungsupawong, Viroj Wiwanitkit
Comments on “Single nucleotide polymorphism of Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 gene associates with juvenile idiopathic arthritis”
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Omar Íñiguez-Mosqueda, Lorena Lisset Peña-Rodríguez, Itzel Viridiana Reyes-Pérez, Sonia Sifuentes-Franco, José Javier Morales-Nuñez, Omar Graciano-Machuca
Letter to the editor—long-term outcomes of infliximab treatment in neuro-Behçet syndrome: a single-center retrospective study
- Infliximab
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Jian-long Guan, Hui Wang
The ineffectiveness of stretching exercises in patients with fibromyalgia: a systematic review discussion
- Fibromyalgia
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
André Pontes-Silva
Response to: comparative performance of artificial intelligence models in rheumatology board-level questions: evaluating Google Gemini and ChatGPT-4o: correspondence
- Artificial Intelligence
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Enes Efe Is, Ahmet Kivanc Menekseoglu
Response to the letter to the editor: Long-term outcomes of infliximab treatment in neuro-Behcet syndrome patients: a single-center retrospective study
- Infliximab
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Emine Rabia Koc, Gizem Güllü, Furkan Saridas, Sanja Gluscevic, Belkıs Coskun, Yavuz Pehlivan, Fatma Zehra Calikusu, Omer Faruk Turan
Social determinants of health influence patients’ access to care for vasculitis
- Vasculitis
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Yang Zhang
