In patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, combining the 2010 RA classification criteria with bone marrow edema as seen on MRI was a more sensitive and accurate diagnostic approach than using the...
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are at significantly greater risk of pneumonia compared with the general population, particularly those with more severe disease and those with the FCGR2A...
Patients with psoriatic arthritis who began taking disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs often changed regimens soon afterward, especially if they had started with nonbiologic treatments, researchers...
Aggressive anti-inflammatory treatment correlated with slowed bone loss in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, according to findings from a prospective cohort study.
The results show that...
Patients undergoing cardiac surgery who took colchicine had significantly less postpericardiotomy syndrome than did those on placebo, but this protective effect did not extend to postoperative atrial...
Comprehensive disease control in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with meaningful benefits such as short- and long-term improvements in quality of life, pain, fatigue, and work attendance, a...
The presence of antibodies against the NR2 subtype of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor in cerebrospinal fluid had a significantly negative effect on the gray matter volume of the hippocampus of...
Rheumatoid arthritis patients who tested positive for both rheumatoid factor and anticitrullinated protein antibodies showed a greater prevalence and size of bone erosions than did patients who came...
Psoriatic arthritis patients with detectable anti-adalimumab antibodies have significantly lower serum adalimumab concentrations and poorer clinical outcomes at 28 weeks and 52 weeks of treatment,...