RMD Open: 10 (1)

Autoimmunity

Original research:
Human leucocyte antigens and Japanese patients with polymyalgia rheumatica: the protective effect of DRB1*09:01
(22 January, 2024)
Shinichi Nogi, Shomi Oka, Takashi Higuchi, Hiroshi Furukawa, Kota Shimada, Takanori Azuma, Takao Sugiyama, Fuminori Hirano, Akira Okamoto, Misuzu Fujimori, Yoshiro Horai, Atsushi Ihata, Atsushi Hashimoto, Akiko Komiya, Toshihiro Matsui, Naoshi Fukui, Masao Katayama, Kiyoshi Migita, Shigeto Tohma
Original research: Association between sinusitis and incident rheumatic diseases: a population-based study (22 February, 2024)
Vanessa L Kronzer, John M Davis, Andrew C Hanson, Jeffrey A Sparks, Elena Myasoedova, Ali Duarte-Garcia, Alicia M Hinze, Ashima Makol, Mattew J Koster, Robert Vassallo, Kenneth J Warrington, Kerry Wright, Cynthia S Crowson

Autoinflammatory disorders

Original research: The development and initial validation of IgG4-related disease damage index: a consensus report from Chinese IgG4-RD Consortium (8 March, 2024)
Linyi Peng, Jingna Li, Jiaxin Zhou, Yunyun Fei, lingli Dong, Yan-Ying Liu, Dingding Zhang, Yanhong Wang, Shuhong Chi, Fang Wang, Yunxia Hou, Xiaoping Hong, Hongsheng Sun, Yujin Ye, Nan Che, Rong Zhang, Changyan Liu, Zongfei Ji, Wenjia Sun, Cheng Zhao, Ning Ma, Yamin Lai, Mengtao Li, Yan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zeng, Liwei Lu, Wen Zhang
Original research: Long-term safety and effectiveness of canakinumab in patients with monogenic autoinflammatory diseases: results from the interim analysis of the RELIANCE registry (15 February, 2024)
Jasmin B Kuemmerle-Deschner, Tilmann Kallinich, Joerg Henes, Birgit Kortus-Götze, Prasad T Oommen, Juergen Rech, Tobias Krickau, Frank Weller-Heinemann, Gerd Horneff, Aleš Janda, Ivan Foeldvari, Catharina Schuetz, Frank Dressler, Michael Borte, Markus Hufnagel, Florian Meier, Michael Fiene, Ioana Andreica, Julia Weber-Arden, Norbert Blank

Connective tissue diseases

Original research: Chronic abdominal aortic occlusive disease related to antiphospholipid syndrome: a rare presentation (4 January, 2024)
Hui Jiang, Yu Shi, Wei Liu, Bao Liu, Yue-Xin Chen, Yangzhong Zhou, Can Huang, Qian Wang, Xinping Tian, Yan Zhao, Mengtao Li, Xiaofeng Zeng, Jiuliang Zhao

Crystal arthropathies

Original research: Safety and efficacy of colchicine in crystal-induced arthritis flare in 54 patients with severe chronic kidney disease (31 January, 2024)
Johanna Bausson, Nicolas Keller, Jean-Jacques Von Hunolstein, Matthieu Sacrez, Bruno Michel, Bénédicte Gourieux, Marion Fourtage, Renaud Felten

Education

Original research: Intensive training programme for ultrasound-guided minimally invasive synovial tissue biopsy on knees and wrists in different phases of inflammation (13 February, 2024)
Lavinia Agra Coletto, Valentina Marino, Chiara Rizzo, Natacha Goulas, Pietro Rubortone, Lucrezia Verardi, Emanuela Gaggiano, Dario Bruno, Arianna D’Antonio, Marco Gessi, Clara Di Mario, Barbara Tolusso, Laura Bui, Roberta Benvenuto, Maria Sole Chimenti, Giuliana Guggino, Francesco Ciccia, Roberto Caporali, Elisa Gremese, Marco Maria Lizzio, Maria-Antonietta D’Agostino, Stefano Alivernini

Epidemiology

Original research: Medication utilisation trends during pregnancy and factors influencing adverse pregnancy outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (22 March, 2024)
Yeo-Jin Song, Soo-Kyung Cho, Yu-Seon Jung, Sun-Young Jung, Jihyun Keum, Eunwoo Nam, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Dae Hyun Yoo
Original research: Risk-stratified monitoring for sulfasalazine toxicity: prognostic model development and validation (7 March, 2024)
Abhishek Abhishek, Matthew Grainge, Tim Card, Hywel C Williams, Maarten W Taal, Guruprasad P Aithal, Christopher P Fox, Christian D Mallen, Matthew D Stevenson, Georgina Nakafero, Richard Riley
Original research: Prevalence and clinical characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis with interstitial lung disease using unstructured healthcare data and machine learning (30 January, 2024)
Jose A Román Ivorra, Ernesto Trallero-Araguas, Maria Lopez Lasanta, Laura Cebrián, Leticia Lojo, Belén López-Muñíz, Julia Fernández-Melon, Belén Núñez, Lucia Silva-Fernández, Raúl Veiga Cabello, Pilar Ahijado, Isabel De la Morena Barrio, Nerea Costas Torrijo, Belén Safont, Enrique Ornilla, Juliana Restrepo, Arantxa Campo, Jose L Andreu, Elvira Díez, Alejandra López Robles, Elena Bollo, Diego Benavent, David Vilanova, Sara Luján Valdés, Raul Castellanos-Moreira
Original research: Pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatoid arthritis: an 11-year French nationwide study (19 January, 2024)
Laura Pina Vegas, Jérôme Drouin, Alain Weill, Rosemary Dray-Spira
Original research: Increased prevalence of hearing loss, tinnitus and sudden deafness among patients with Sjögren’s syndrome (19 January, 2024)
Tzong-Hann Yang, Sudha Xirasagar, Yen-Fu Cheng, Chin-Shyan Chen, Herng-Ching Lin
Original research: National burden of rheumatoid arthritis in Canada, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 – a GBD collaborator-led study (12 January, 2024)
Nejat Hassen, Diane Lacaille, Alice Xu, Amani Alandejani, Sophia Sidi, Marjan Mansourian, Zahid A Butt, Leah E Cahill, Ihoghosa Osamuyi Iyamu, Justin J Lang, Juwel Rana, Ranjani Somayaji, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Jacek A Kopec
Original research:
Neoehrlichia mikurensis is uncommon in rheumatological patients receiving tumour necrosis factor inhibitors and in blood donors: a retrospective cohort study
(4 January, 2024)
Rosa Gynthersen, Mathilde Ørbæk, Estrid Høgdall, Bente Glintborg, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Lene Harritshøj, Merete Lund Hetland, Anne-Mette Lebech, Helene Mens

Imaging

Original research: Learning imaging in axial spondyloarthritis: more than just a matter of experience (4 March, 2024)
Felix Radny, Katharina Ziegeler, Iris Eshed, Juliane Greese, Dominik Deppe, Carsten Stelbrink, Robert Biesen, Hildrun Haibel, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Judith Rademacher, Mikhail Protopopov, Fabian Proft, Kay Geert A Hermann, Denis Poddubnyy, Torsten Diekhoff, Sevtap Tugce Ulas
Review: Metabolic and molecular imaging in inflammatory arthritis (9 February, 2024)
Rita Noversa de Sousa, Koray Tascilar, Giulia Corte, Armin Atzinger, Ioanna Minopoulou, Sarah Ohrndorf, Maximilian Waldner, Christian Schmidkonz, Torsten Kuwert, Ferdinand Knieling, Arnd Kleyer, Andreas Ramming, Georg Schett, David Simon, Filippo Fagni
Original research: Atlas for the CT Syndesmophyte Score (CTSS) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (10 January, 2024)
Mary Lucy Marques, Sofia Ramiro, Désirée van der Heijde, Monique Reijnierse, Torsten Diekhoff, Kay Geert A. Hermann, Floris A van Gaalen, Manouk de Hooge

Inflammatory arthritis

Original research: Concordance and agreement between different activity scores in polymyalgia rheumatica (15 March, 2024)
Justine D'Agostino, Aghiles Souki, Anne Lohse, Guillermo Carvajal Alegria, Emanuelle Dernis, Christophe Richez, Marie-Elise Truchetet, Daniel Wendling, Eric Toussirot, Aleth Perdriger, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Renaud Felten, Bruno Fautrel, Laurent Chiche, Pascal Hilliquin, Catherine Le Henaff, Benjamin Dervieux, Guillaume Direz, Isabelle Chary-Valckenaere, Divi Cornec, Dewi Guellec, Thierry Marhadour, Emmanuel Nowak, Alain Saraux, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec
Original research: Adenosine metabolic signature in circulating CD4+ T cells predicts remission in rheumatoid arthritis (17 February, 2024)
Philip M Brown, Amy E Anderson, Najib Naamane, Dennis W Lendrem, Ann W Morgan, John D Isaacs, Arthur G Pratt
Original research: Prevalence of anxiety and depression and the association with self-management behaviour in >12 000 patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease: a cross-sectional nationwide study (22 January, 2024)
Sofie Bech Vestergaard, Bente Appel Esbensen, Julie Midtgaard Klausen, Bente Glintborg, Lene Lau, Connie Yilmaz Jantzen, Mette Aadahl, Pernille Fevejle Cromhout, Annette de Thurah
Original research: Effect of high-intensity interval training in physiotherapy primary care for patients with inflammatory arthritis: the ExeHeart randomised controlled trial (18 January, 2024)
Kristine Røren Nordén, Anne Grete Semb, Hanne Dagfinrud, Jonny Hisdal, Joseph Sexton, Camilla Fongen, Emilie Bakke, Sigrid Ødegård, Jon Skandsen, Thalita Blanck, George S Metsios, Anne Therese Tveter
Original research: Personalised care packages for people with rheumatoid arthritis: a mixed-methods study (8 January, 2024)
Mrinalini Dey, Amanda Busby, John D Isaacs, Arthur Pratt, Mwidimi Ndosi, Adam Young, Heidi Lempp, Elena Nikiphorou

Infections

Original research: Risk of serious infection associated with different classes of targeted therapies used in psoriatic arthritis: a nationwide cohort study from the French Health Insurance Database (SNDS) (14 March, 2024)
Léa Bastard, Pascal Claudepierre, Laetitia Penso, Emilie Sbidian, Laura Pina Vegas
Original research: Risk of severe infection associated with immunoglobulin deficiency under rituximab therapy in immune-mediated inflammatory disease (30 January, 2024)
Claire Rempenault, Cédric Lukas, Léa Tardivon, Claire Immediato Daien, Bernard Combe, Philippe Guilpain, Jacques Morel

Lupus

Original research:
PD-1/PD-L1 governed cross-talk of exhausted CD8⁺ T and memory B cells in systemic lupus erythematosus
(17 January, 2024)
Kaiwen Wang, Jiangfeng Zhao, Xuemei Feng, Shuangjun He, Jia Li, Fangfang Sun, Zhangling Xu, Haiting Yang, Jiaer Ye, Liou Cao, Shuang Ye
Original research: Prevalence, risk factors and echocardiographic predictors of pulmonary hypertension in systemic lupus erythematosus: towards a screening protocol (8 January, 2024)
Jorge Álvarez Troncoso, Clara Soto Abánades, Ángel Robles-Marhuenda, Sergio Alcolea Batres, María Fernández Velilla Peña, Santiago Jiménez Valero, Raquel Sorriguieta Torre, Juan José Rios-Blanco

Myositis

Short report: Upadacitinib therapy in refractory inflammatory myositis: a case series of 10 patients (18 January, 2024)
Madelaine Beckett, Jan Dutz, Kun Huang
Original research: Severe gastrointestinal involvements in patients with adult dermatomyositis with anti-NXP2 antibody (10 January, 2024)
Yakai Fu, Liyang Gu, Jie Chen, Yuting Dai, Qi Feng, Zhiwei Chen, Jie Fan, Mingshi Gao, Xiaodong Wang, Qiong Fu, Shuang Ye

Paediatric rheumatology

Original research: Disease activity trajectories from childhood to adulthood in the population-based Nordic juvenile idiopathic arthritis cohort (8 March, 2024)
Veronika Rypdal, Mia Glerup, Martin Rypdal, Ellen Arnstad, Kristiina Aalto, Lillemor Berntson, Anders Fasth, Troels Herlin, Charlotte Myrup, Suvi Peltoniemi, Marite Rygg, Ellen Berit Nordal
Original research: Validity of an ultrasonographic joint-specific scoring system in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a cross-sectional study comparing ultrasound findings of synovitis with whole-body magnetic resonance imaging and clinical assessment (1 March, 2024)
Nina Krafft Sande, Eva Kirkhus, Vibke Lilleby, Anders Høye Tomterstad, Anna-Birgitte Aga, Berit Flatø, Pernille Bøyesen
Original research: Defining criteria for disease activity states in juvenile dermatomyositis based on the Juvenile Dermatomyositis Activity Index (2 February, 2024)
Silvia Rosina, Alessandro Consolaro, Angela Pistorio, Ana Rebollo-Giménez, Claudia Bracaglia, Pavla Dolezalova, Ana Guilaisne Bernard-Medina, Troels Herlin, Maria Trachana, Veronika Vargová, Carine Wouters, Laura Carenini, Nicolino Ruperto, Angelo Ravelli

Pain

Original research: Health inequities and societal costs for patients with fibromyalgia and their spouses: a Danish cohort study (2 February, 2024)
Kirstine Amris, Rikke Ibsen, Pernille Hurup Duhn, Judi Olsen, Karoline Lolk, Jakob Kjellberg, Lars Erik Kristensen

Psoriatic arthritis

Original research: Guselkumab provides durable improvement across psoriatic arthritis disease domains: post hoc analysis of a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (26 March, 2024)
Laura C Coates, Laure Gossec, Miriam Zimmermann, May Shawi, Emmanouil Rampakakis, Natalie J Shiff, Alexa P Kollmeier, Xie L Xu, Peter Nash, Philip J Mease, Philip S Helliwell
Short report: Sex differences in cytokines and adipokines in obese patients with PsA and controls undergoing a weight loss intervention (22 March, 2024)
Anton Jonatan Landgren, Charlotte A Jonsson, Annelie Bilberg, Björn Eliasson, Linda Torres, Mats Dehlin, Lennart Jacobsson, Inger Gjertsson, Ingrid Larsson, Eva Klingberg
Original research: Window of opportunity in psoriatic arthritis: the earlier the better? (27 February, 2024)
Selinde V J Snoeck Henkemans, Pascal H P de Jong, Jolanda J Luime, Marc R Kok, Ilja Tchetverikov, Lindy-Anne Korswagen, Sjoerd M van der Kooij, Maikel van Oosterhout, Paul Baudoin, Jessica Bijsterbosch, Jos H van der Kaap, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Marijn Vis
Original research: Bimekizumab treatment in patients with active psoriatic arthritis and prior inadequate response to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: 52-week safety and efficacy from the phase III BE COMPLETE study and its open-label extension BE VITAL (22 February, 2024)
Laura C Coates, Robert Landewé, Iain B McInnes, Philip J Mease, Christopher T Ritchlin, Yoshiya Tanaka, Akihiko Asahina, Frank Behrens, Dafna D Gladman, Laure Gossec, Ana-Maria Orbai, Alice B Gottlieb, Richard B Warren, Barbara Ink, Rajan Bajracharya, Vishvesh Shende, Jason Coarse, Joseph F Merola
Original research: Validity and score interpretation of the 12-item Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease: an analysis of pooled data from two phase 3 trials of bimekizumab in patients with psoriatic arthritis (31 January, 2024)
Laure Gossec, Ana-Maria Orbai, Laura C Coates, Dafna D Gladman, Alexis Ogdie, Christopher G Pelligra, Valérie Ciaravino, Barbara Ink, Vanessa Taieb, Jérémy Lambert, Maarten de Wit
Original research: Evaluating the efficacy of biologics with and without methotrexate in the treatment of psoriatic arthritis: a network meta-analysis (31 January, 2024)
Philip J Mease, Soumya Reddy, Sarah Ross, Jeffrey R Lisse, Paulo Reis, Kirstin Griffing, Christophe Sapin, Aisha Vadhariya, Daniel E Furst
Original research: Dynamics of inflammation-associated plasma proteins following faecal microbiota transplantation in patients with psoriatic arthritis and healthy controls: exploratory findings from the FLORA trial (30 January, 2024)
Maja Skov Kragsnaes, Jennifer Rugaard Bregndahl Jensen, Anna Christine Nilsson, Muhammad Irfan Malik, Heidi Lausten Munk, Jens Kristian Pedersen, Hans Christian Horn, Mogens Kruhøffer, Karsten Kristiansen, Benjamin H Mullish, Julian R Marchesi, Jens Kjeldsen, Richard Röttger, Torkell Ellingsen
Original research: Increased vascular inflammation on PET/CT in psoriatic arthritis patients in comparison with controls (30 January, 2024)
Nienke J Kleinrensink, Julia Spierings, Harald E Vonkeman, Negina Seddiqi, Amin Herman, Karijn P M Suijkerbuijk, Marloes W Heijstek, Mylène P Jansen, Pim A de Jong, Wouter Foppen
Original research: Difficult-to-treat psoriatic arthritis (D2T PsA): a scoping literature review informing a GRAPPA research project (8 January, 2024)
Shikha Singla, Andre Ribeiro, Murat Torgutalp, Philip J Mease, Fabian Proft

Rheumatoid arthritis

Original research: Pain sensitisation and joint inflammation in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (19 March, 2024)
Khaldoun Chaabo, Estee Chan, Toby Garrood, Zoe Rutter-Locher, Alex Vincent, James Galloway, Sam Norton, Bruce W Kirkham
Original research: Long-term efficacy of a 2-year MRI treat-to-target strategy on disease activity and radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in clinical remission: 5-year follow-up of the IMAGINE-RA randomised trial (15 March, 2024)
Signe Møller-Bisgaard, Kim Hørslev-Petersen, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Bo Ejbjerg, Merete Lund Hetland, Jakob Møllenbach Møller, Sabrina Mai Nielsen, Daniel Glinatsi, Mikael Boesen, Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen, Ole Rintek Madsen, Bente Jensen, Jan Alexander Villadsen, Ellen Margrethe Hauge, Oliver Hendricks, Hanne Lindegaard, Niels Steen Krogh, Anne Grethe Jurik, Henrik Thomsen, Robin Christensen, Mikkel Østergaard
Original research: Internalisation of neutrophils extracellular traps by macrophages aggravate rheumatoid arthritis via Rab5a (14 March, 2024)
Haixin Ye, Qian Yang, Huaxia Guo, Xing Wang, Lifang Cheng, Bingqi Han, Mukeng Hong, Fopei Ma, Meng Li, Xianghui Wu, Feilong Chen, Junqing Zhu, Shixian Chen, Songyuan Zheng, Juan Li
Original research: Impact of filgotinib on pain control in the phase 3 FINCH studies (12 March, 2024)
Peter C Taylor, Arthur Kavanaugh, Peter Nash, Janet Pope, Georg Pongratz, Bruno Fautrel, Rieke Alten, Ken Hasegawa, Shangbang Rao, Dick de Vries, Pieter-Jan Stiers, Chris Watson, Rene Westhovens
Original research: Remission definitions guiding immunosuppressive therapy in rheumatoid arthritis: which is best fitted for the purpose? (4 March, 2024)
Catia Duarte, Ricardo J O Ferreira, Paco M J Welsing, Johannes W G Jacobs, Laure Gossec, Pedro M Machado, Désirée van der Heijde, Jose Antonio Pereira da Silva
Viewpoint: Re-evaluating the mythical divide between traditional and novel cardiovascular risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis (1 March, 2024)
Eirik Ikdahl, Mats Julius Stensrud
Original research: Altered dynamic functional network connectivity in rheumatoid arthritis associated with peripheral inflammation and neuropsychiatric disorders (29 February, 2024)
Yanmin Zheng, Zhiduo Hou, Shuhua Ma, Zikai Huang, Jianhua Peng, Shuxin Huang, Ruiwei Guo, Jinzhuang Huang, Zhirong Lin, Zelin Zhuang, Jingjing Yin, Lei Xie
Original research: Long-term effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention for rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: 1-year follow-up of the ‘Plants for Joints’ randomised clinical trial (27 February, 2024)
Carlijn A Wagenaar, Wendy Walrabenstein, Marike van der Leeden, Franktien Turkstra, Martijn Gerritsen, Jos W R Twisk, Maarten Boers, Martin van der Esch, Henriët van Middendorp, Peter J M Weijs, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg
Original research: Association between disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and risk of incident dementia: a systematic review with meta-analysis (27 February, 2024)
Wenhui Xie, Yue Hou, Shiyu Xiao, Xiaolin Zhang, Zhuoli Zhang
Original research: Exploring the influence of baseline rheumatoid factor levels on TNF inhibitor retention rate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multicentre and retrospective study (23 February, 2024)
Clementina López-Medina, Jerusalem Calvo-Gutiérrez, M Carmen Ábalos-Aguilera, Francisco Cepas, Chamaida Plasencia-Rodríguez, Ana Martínez-Feito, Alejandro Balsa, Regina Faré-García, Antoni Juan-Mas, Virginia Ruiz-Esquide, Luis Sainz, César Díaz-Torné, Francisco Javier Godoy-Navarrete, Isabel Añón-Oñate, Natalia Mena-Vázquez, Sara Manrique-Arija, Marina Soledad Moreno-García, Rafaela Ortega-Castro, Alejandro Escudero-Contreras
Original research: Immunogenicity and influence on disease activity of recombinant zoster vaccine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with DMARDs (21 February, 2024)
Shotaro Kojima, Taro Iwamoto, Yoshihisa Kobayashi, Manami Kato, Fumiyoshi Takizawa, Tomoaki Ida, Junya Suzuki, Yosuke Toda, Kazusa Miyachi, Arifumi Iwata, Shunsuke Furuta, Kei Ikeda, Hiroshi Nakajima
Original research: Rheumatoid arthritis, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and risk of major osteoporotic fracture: prospective data from the HUNT Study, Norway (20 February, 2024)
Ingebjørg Tronstad, Mari Hoff, Julie Horn, Sigrid Anna Aalberg Vikjord, Vibeke Videm, Jonas Johansson, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Arnulf Langhammer
Original research: Patient-reported outcomes and radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in sustained remission versus low disease activity (20 February, 2024)
Selinde V J Snoeck Henkemans, Marijn Vis, Agnes E M Looijen, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Pascal H P de Jong
Original research:
PM₁₀ increases mortality risk in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease
(8 February, 2024)
Soo Han Kim, Sun-Young Kim, Hee-Young Yoon, Jin Woo Song
Original research: Comparison of the efficacy and safety of a proposed biosimilar MSB11456 with tocilizumab reference product in subjects with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis: results of a randomised double-blind study (5 February, 2024)
Anna Zubrzycka-Sienkiewicz, Kamilla Klama, Martin Ullmann, Corinne Petit-Frere, Peter Baker, Joëlle Monnet, Andras Illes
Original research: Gut microbiome and intestinal inflammation in preclinical stages of rheumatoid arthritis (30 January, 2024)
Benoît Thomas P Gilbert, Raul Yhossef Tito Tadeo, Celine Lamacchia, Olivia Studer, Delphine Courvoisier, Jeroen Raes, Axel Finckh
Original research: Patterns of comorbidities differentially affect long-term functional evolution and disease activity in patients with ‘difficult to treat’ rheumatoid arthritis (19 January, 2024)
Antonios Bertsias, Irini D Flouri, Argyro Repa, Nestor Avgoustidis, Eleni Kalogiannaki, Sofia Pitsigavdaki, George Bertsias, Prodromos Sidiropoulos
Original research: Diurnal production of cortisol and prediction of treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis: a 6-month, real-life prospective cohort study (17 January, 2024)
Maria P Yavropoulou, Maria G Filippa, Nikolaos I Vlachogiannis, George E Fragoulis, Katerina Laskari, Aimilia Mantzou, Stylianos Panopoulos, Antonis Fanouriakis, Vasiliki-Kalliopi Bournia, Gerasimos Evangelatos, Aggeliki Papapanagiotou, Maria G Tektonidou, George P Chrousos, Petros P Sfikakis
Original research: When does obesity exert its effect in conferring risk of developing RA: a large study in cohorts of symptomatic persons at risk (12 January, 2024)
Quirine A Dumoulin, Anna M P Boeren, Doortje I Krijbolder, A Willemze, Pascal H P de Jong, Elise van Mulligen, Hanna W van Steenbergen, Annette H M van der Helm - van Mil
Original research: Determination of the factors associated with antigen-specific CD4+ T-cell responses to BNT162b2 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (12 January, 2024)
Fumiaki Sagawa, Hisakata Yamada, Masahiro Ayano, Yasutaka Kimoto, Hiroki Mitoma, Nobuyuki Ono, Yojiro Arinobu, Masakazu Kondo, Yasuharu Nakashima, Koichi Akashi, Takahiko Horiuchi, Hiroaki Niiro
Original research: Performance of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score in relation to flares in disease activity (12 January, 2024)
Karen Holten, Nina Paulshus Sundlisæter, Joseph Sexton, Lena Bugge Nordberg, Till Uhlig, Tore K Kvien, Daniel H Solomon, Espen A Haavardsholm, Siri Lillegraven, Anna-Birgitte Aga
Original research: Moderate and high disease activity levels increase the risk of subclinical atherosclerosis progression in early rheumatoid arthritis: a 5-year prospective study (10 January, 2024)
Huan Meng, Isaac T Cheng, Bryan Ping Yen Yan, Alex P Lee, Ho So, Lai-Shan Tam
Original research: What benefit–risk trade-offs are acceptable to rheumatoid arthritis patients during treatment selection? Evidence from a multicountry choice experiment (9 January, 2024)
Rieke Alten, Juan Carlos Nieto-Gonzalez, Peggy Jacques, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Robert Moots, Helga Radner, Harald E Vonkeman, Sebastian Heidenreich, Chiara Whichello, Nicolas Krucien, Katrien Van Beneden
Original research: Hormonal and reproductive factors in relation to the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in women: a prospective cohort study with 223 526 participants (9 January, 2024)
Ling-Qiong Jiang, Ruo-Di Zhang, Harry Asena Musonye, Hao-Yun Zhao, Yi-Sheng He, Chan-Na Zhao, Tian He, Tian Tian, Zhao-Xing Gao, Yang Fang, Peng Wang, Jing Ni, Hai-Feng Pan

Sjögren syndrome

Original research: Hyperactivation and altered selection of B cells in patients with paediatric Sjogren’s syndrome (6 March, 2024)
Alessandra Boni, Rebecca Nicolai, Ivan Caiello, Francesca Marinaro, Luciapia Farina, Denise Pires Marafon, Rita Carsetti, Fabrizio De Benedetti, Claudia Bracaglia, Emiliano Marasco
Original research: Characterisation of airway disease associated with Sjögren disease (29 February, 2024)
Loïc Meudec, Marie-Pierre Debray, Antoine Beurnier, Cindy Marques, Pierre-Antoine Juge, Robin Dhote, Claire Larroche, Anne Laure Fauchais, Emanuelle Dernis, Olivier Vittecoq, Alain Saraux, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Eric Hachulla, Véronique Le Guern, Philippe Dieudé, Raphaele Seror, Xavier Mariette, Gaétane Nocturne
Original research: Estimated prevalence, incidence and healthcare costs of Sjögren’s syndrome in France: a national claims-based study (2 February, 2024)
Raphaele Seror, Laurent Chiche, Maxime Beydon, Guillaume Desjeux, Joe Zhuo, Virginie Vannier-Moreau, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec

Spondyloarthritis

Short report: Impact of the time of initiation and line of biologic therapy on the retention rate of secukinumab in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA): data from the French multicentre retrospective FORSYA study (29 February, 2024)
Maxime Dougados, Audrey Lardy-Cléaud, Emilie Desfleurs, Pascal Claudepierre, Philippe Goupille, Adeline Ryussen-Witrand, Alain Saraux, Anne Tournadre, Daniel Wendling, Cédric Lukas
Original research: Exploring radiographic patterns of the cervical spine, including zygapophyseal joints, in axial spondyloarthritis (23 February, 2024)
Laura Berbel-Arcobé, Diego Benavent, Xabier Michelena, José Antonio Narváez, Joan Miquel Nolla, Xavier Juanola
Original research: Patients with ankylosing spondylitis present a distinct CD8 T cell subset with osteogenic and cytotoxic potential (23 February, 2024)
Veronica Martini, Ylenia Silvestri, Adrian Ciurea, Burkhard Möller, Gabriela Danelon, Flavio Flamigni, David Jarrossay, Ivo Kwee, Mathilde Foglierini, Andrea Rinaldi, Valentina Cecchinato, Mariagrazia Uguccioni
Original research: Association of nociplastic and neuropathic pain components with the presence of residual symptoms in patients with axial spondyloarthritis receiving biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (15 February, 2024)
Fares Al Mohamad, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Hildrun Haibel, Mikhail Protopopov, Judith Rademacher, Joachim Sieper, Murat Torgutalp, Henriette Käding, Fabian Proft, Denis Poddubnyy
Review: Entry point of machine learning in axial spondyloarthritis (15 February, 2024)
Yuening Chen, Hongxiao Liu, Qing Yu, Xinning Qu, Tiantian Sun
Original research: Validation of SPARCC MRI-RETIC e-tools for increasing scoring proficiency of MRI sacroiliac joint lesions in axial spondyloarthritis (13 February, 2024)
Walter Maksymowych, Anna Enevold Fløistrup E F Hadsbjerg, Mikkel Østergaard, Raphael Micheroli, Susanne Juhl Pedersen, Adrian Ciurea, Nora Vladimirova, Michael S Nissen, Kristyna Bubova, Stephanie Wichuk, Manouk de Hooge, Ashish J Mathew, Karlo Pintaric, Monika Gregová, Ziga Snoj, Marie Wetterslev, Karel Gorican, Burkhard Möller, Iris Eshed, Joel Paschke, Robert GW Lambert
Original research: Impact of biological therapy in reducing the risk of arthritis development in inflammatory bowel diseases (31 January, 2024)
Mauro Fatica, Benedetta Monosi, Paola Conigliaro, Arianna D’Antonio, Sara Essofi, Elisa Cuccagna, Alberto Bergamini, Livia Biancone, Giovanni Monteleone, Paola Triggianese, Emma Calabrese, Maria Sole Chimenti
Original research: Comparison of the ASAS Health Index in patients classified as radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) or non-radiographic axSpA in the ASAS Health Index international validation study (31 January, 2024)
Warren Fong, Ting Hui Woon, Yu Heng Kwan, Jürgen Braun, Désirée van der Heijde, Annelies Boonen, Uta Kiltz
Original research: Sex differential impact of comorbidities in spondyloarthritis: data from COMOSPA study (30 January, 2024)
Maria Llop, Jordi Gratacós, Mireia Moreno, Marta Arevalo Salaet, Joan Calvet, Antoni Berenguer-Llergo, Maxime Dougados, Anna Molto, Clementina López-Medina
Original research: Frequency of irritable bowel syndrome in spondyloarthritis: a multicentric cross-sectional study and meta-analysis (12 January, 2024)
Jessika Bernard, Thomas Barnetche, Charlotte Amory, Jerome Despres, Maxime Vandersmissen, Justine Landrin, Cecile Gaujoux-Viala, Cédric Lukas, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, Marie-Elise Truchetet, Pascale Vergne-Salle, Sylvain Mathieu, Anne Tournadre
Short report: Identification of patient endotypes and adalimumab treatment responders in axial spondyloarthritis using blood-derived extracellular matrix biomarkers (10 January, 2024)
Helena Port, Frederik Christiansen, Signe Holm Nielsen, Peder Frederiksen, Anne-C Bay-Jensen, Morten Asser Karsdal, Sengul Seven, Inge Juul Sørensen, Anne Gitte Loft, Ole Rintek Madsen, Mikkel Ostergaard, Susanne J Pedersen
Original research: Clinically relevant differences in spinal mobility related to daytime performance in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (8 January, 2024)
David Kiefer, Lucia Schneider, Jürgen Braun, Uta Kiltz, Niklas Kolle, Ioana Andreica, Styliani Tsiami, Bjoern Buehring, Philipp Sewerin, Susanne Herbold, Xenofon Baraliakos

Systemic sclerosis

Original research: Prediction of progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease in patients with systemic sclerosis: insight from the CRDC cohort study (22 March, 2024)
Min Hui, Xinwang Duan, Jiaxin Zhou, Mengtao Li, Qian Wang, Jiuliang Zhao, Yong Hou, Dong Xu, Xiaofeng Zeng
Original research: Factors associated with satisfaction with social roles and activities among people with systemic sclerosis: a Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort cross-sectional study (29 February, 2024)
Tiffany Dal Santo, Danielle Rice, Marie-Eve Carrier, Gabrielle Virgili-Gervais, Brooke Levis, Linda Kwakkenbos, Susan J Bartlett, Amy Gietzen, Karen Gottesman, Genevieve Guillot, Marie Hudson, Laura K Hummers, Vanessa Malcarne, Maureen Mayes, Luc Mouthon, Michelle Richard, Maureen Sauve, Robyn Wojeck, Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Andrea Benedetti, Brett Thombs
Original research: Clinical trajectories of hand function impairment in systemic sclerosis: an unmet clinical need across disease subsets (12 January, 2024)
Enrico De Lorenzis, Vishal Kakkar, Stefano Di Donato, Michelle Wilson, Theresa Barnes, Chris Denton, Emma Derrett-Smith, Karen Douglas, Philip Helliwell, Ariane L Herrick, Benazir Saleem, Muhammad Nisar, Catherine Morley, Lorraine Green, Begonya Alcacer-Pitarch, Francesco Del Galdo
Original research: Characteristics and disease course of untreated patients with interstitial lung disease associated with systemic sclerosis in a real-life two-centre cohort (9 January, 2024)
Moritz Scheidegger, Marouane Boubaya, Alexandru Garaiman, Imon Barua, Mike Becker, Hilde Jenssen Bjørkekjær, Cosimo Bruni, Rucsandra Dobrota, Håvard Fretheim, Suzana Jordan, Oyvind Midtvedt, Carina Mihai, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Oliver Distler, Muriel Elhai
Original research: History of pre-eclampsia does not appear to be a risk factor for vascular phenotype in women with systemic sclerosis (4 January, 2024)
Claire De Moreuil, Elizabeth Diot, Christian Agard, Nicolas Belhomme, Alain Lescoat, Viviane Queyrel, Nathalie Tieulie, Marie-Elise Truchetet, Grégory Pugnet, Sabine Berthier, Perrine Smets, Benjamin Subran, Olivier Lidove, Jeremy Keraen, Arsène Mekinian, Emmanuel Chatelus, Elisabeth Pasquier, Emilie Brenaut, Bénedicte Rouvière, Mathieu Delplanque, Sandy Lucier, Emmanuelle Courtois-Communier, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec, Eric Hachulla

Treatments

Original research: Persistence and safety of anti-TNF biosimilars versus originators in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: an observational study on the French National Health Data System (6 March, 2024)
Hugo Jourdain, Léa Hoisnard, Emilie Sbidian, Mahmoud Zureik
Letter: Eosinopenia and routine inflammatory biomarkers are helpful for the diagnosis of infection in patients treated with IL-6 pathway antagonists (9 February, 2024)
Audrey Glatre, Madeline Pascard, Maxime Hentzien, Jean Hugues Salmon, Amélie Servettaz, Ailsa Robbins
Original research: Prognostic factors for liver, blood and kidney adverse events from glucocorticoid sparing immune-suppressing drugs in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: a prognostic systematic review (10 January, 2024)
Joanna Leaviss, Christopher Carroll, Munira Essat, Danielle van der Windt, Matthew J Grainge, Tim Card, Richard Riley, Abhishek Abhishek
Original research: Severe methotrexate toxicity in elderly patients under diuretics (4 January, 2024)
Cara Kumar, Matthias Kuhn, Kristine Herrmann, Nicolai Leuchten, Martin Aringer

Vasculitis

Original research: Incidence and clinical manifestations of giant cell arteritis in Spain: results of the ARTESER register (26 March, 2024)
Delia Fernández-Lozano, Iñigo Hernández-Rodríguez, Javier Narvaez, Marta Domínguez-Álvaro, Eugenio De Miguel, Maite Silva-Díaz, Joaquín María Belzunegui, Clara Moriano Morales, Julio Sánchez, Eva Galíndez-Agirregoikoa, Vicente Aldaroso, Lydia Abasolo, Javier Loricera, Noemi Garrido-Puñal, Patricia Moya Alvarado, Carmen Larena, Vanessa Andrea Navarro, Joan Calvet, Ivette Casafont-Solé, Francisco Ortiz-Sanjuán, Tarek Carlos Salman Monte, Santos Castañeda, Ricardo Blanco
Original research: DWI scrolling artery sign for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis: a pattern recognition approach (22 March, 2024)
Luca Seitz, Susana Bucher, Lukas Bütikofer, Britta Maurer, Harald M Bonel, Fabian Lötscher, Pascal Seitz
Original research: Baricitinib for refractory Takayasu arteritis: a prospective cohort study in a tertiary referral centre (22 March, 2024)
Ziyue Zhou, Chenglong Fang, Li Wang, Jing Li, Yunjiao Yang, Li Zhang, Shangyi Jin, Xiaofeng Zeng, Xinping Tian
Original research: Effectiveness and safety of adalimumab compared with leflunomide in patients with Takayasu arteritis: a retrospective cohort study (4 March, 2024)
Faustino Peron Filho, Andressa de Souza Moreira, Anna Larissa Faria Janes, Alexandre W S de Souza
Original research: Prospective study of complications and sequelae of glucocorticoid therapy in ANCA-associated vasculitis (29 February, 2024)
Paul J Scherbacher, Bernhard Hellmich, You-Shan Feng, Christian Löffler
Viewpoint: New blood biomarkers and imaging for disease stratification and monitoring of giant cell arteritis (23 February, 2024)
Alessandro Tomelleri, Christian Dejaco
Original research: Non-invasive biomarkers of disease activity and organ damage in ANCA-associated vasculitis: a systematic review (9 February, 2024)
Thomas Renson, Margaret M Kelly, Hallgrimur Benediktsson, Nele Grundhoefer, Nadia Luca, Paivi Miettunen, Marinka Twilt, Silviu Grisaru, Andrew Wade, Anke Banks, Aurore Fifi-Mah, Lorraine Hamiwka, Susanne Benseler
Original research: Reappraisal of large artery involvement in giant cell arteritis: a population-based cohort over 70 years (8 February, 2024)
Mohanad M Elfishawi, Mahmut S Kaymakci, Sara J Achenbach, Cynthia S Crowson, Tanaz A Kermani, Cornelia M Weyand, Matthew J Koster, Kenneth J Warrington
Original research: Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of biopsy-confirmed adult-onset IgA vasculitis in southern Sweden (5 February, 2024)
Michaela Thalen, Karl Gisslander, Mårten Segelmark, Jacob Sode, David Jayne, Aladdin J Mohammad

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February 2024 - Volume 10 - 1

Autoimmunity

Autoinflammatory disorders

Connective tissue diseases

Crystal arthropathies

Education

Epidemiology

Imaging

Inflammatory arthritis

Infections

Lupus

Myositis

Paediatric rheumatology

Pain

Psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Spondyloarthritis

Systemic sclerosis

Treatments

Vasculitis

Correction

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Table of contents

February 2024 - Volume 10 - 1

Autoimmunity

Autoinflammatory disorders

Connective tissue diseases

Crystal arthropathies

Education

Epidemiology

Imaging

Inflammatory arthritis

Infections

Lupus

Myositis

Paediatric rheumatology

Pain

Psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Spondyloarthritis

Systemic sclerosis

Treatments

Vasculitis

Correction