ROME – Patients with rheumatoid arthritis in sustained remission on a biologic drug successfully remained in remission most of the time while gradually stepping down to a longer dosage interval or...
Pregnancy outcomes in women with systemic lupus erythematosus were better than expected in the largest study of the issue to date, according to a report published online June 22 in Annals of Internal...
Systemic lupus erythematosus patients who have just started drug therapy are at greater risk for needing acute care and possible hospitalization if they are nonadherent, based on an analysis of U.S....
ROME – The interval for assessing cardiovascular disease risk in patients with at least one inflamed joint can be as long as 5 years, depending on the patient, according to revised recommendations...
ROME – Women with rheumatoid arthritis who have never been treated with a biologic drug had a modest but statistically significant increased rate of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a...
Arthroscopic knee surgery in middle-aged or older patients with knee pain is associated with greater harm than good, according to a meta-analysis.
The analysis of nine randomized, controlled trials...
ROME – Patients with psoriasis were more likely to develop psoriatic arthritis if they had experienced physical trauma, based on data from a large, population-based study.
The crude incidence of...
ROME – Hydroxychloroquine should not be prescribed for patients with mild to moderate hand osteoarthritis (OA) according to data from a 24-week, randomized, multicenter, placebo-controlled...
ROME – The Montreal Cognitive Assessment provides a quick and easy-to-use screening tool to identify patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with cognitive impairment, <a...
ROME – Tenosynovitis detected by high-power ultrasound accurately predicted the chance of a disease flare in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were in clinical remission.
Those who had...