RMD Open: 3 (2)

Editorial

Editorial: Switching from originator biological agents to biosimilars: what is the evidence and what are the issues? (12 September, 2017)
Eric Toussirot, Hubert Marotte

Autoinflammatory disorders

Clinical case: Autoimmune-autoinflammatory rheumatoid arthritis overlaps: a rare but potentially important subgroup of diseases (1 November, 2017)
Sinisa Savic, Anoop Mistry, Anthony G Wilson, Gabriela Barcenas-Morales, Rainer Doffinger, Paul Emery, Dennis McGonagle

Animal models

Original article: Suramin increases cartilage proteoglycan accumulation in vitro and protects against joint damage triggered by papain injection in mouse knees in vivo (30 November, 2017)
Laura-An Guns, Silvia Monteagudo, Maryna Kvasnytsia, Greet Kerckhofs, Jennifer Vandooren, Ghislain Opdenakker, Rik J Lories, Frederic Cailotto
Original article: Effect of celastrol on bone structure and mechanics in arthritic rats (14 September, 2017)
Rita Cascão, Bruno Vidal, Mikko Arttu Jalmari Finnilä, Inês Pascoal Lopes, Rui Lourenço Teixeira, Simo Saarakkala, Luis Ferreira Moita, João Eurico Fonseca

Connective tissue diseases

Original article: Long-term efficacy and safety of antitumour necrosis factor alpha treatment in rhupus: an open-label study of 15 patients (29 December, 2017)
François Danion, Laetitia Sparsa, Laurent Arnaud, Ghada Alsaleh, François Lefebvre, Vincent Gies, Thierry Martin, Cédric Lukas, Jean Durckel, Marc Ardizzone, Rose-Marie Javier, Jean-François Kleinmann, Paul Moreau, Gilles Blaison, Joelle Goetz, Emmanuel Chatelus, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Jean Sibilia, Christelle Sordet
Original article: EULAR/ACR classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups: a methodology report (14 November, 2017)
Matteo Bottai, Anna Tjärnlund, Giola Santoni, Victoria P Werth, Clarissa Pilkington, Marianne de Visser, Lars Alfredsson, Anthony A Amato, Richard J Barohn, Matthew H Liang, Jasvinder A Singh, Rohit Aggarwal, Snjolaug Arnardottir, Hector Chinoy, Robert G Cooper, Katalin Danko, Mazen M Dimachkie, Brian M Feldman, Ignacio García-De La Torre, Patrick Gordon, Taichi Hayashi, James D Katz, Hitoshi Kohsaka, Peter A Lachenbruch, Bianca A Lang, Yuhui Li, Chester V Oddis, Marzena Olesinka, Ann M Reed, Lidia Rutkowska-Sak, Helga Sanner, Albert Selva-O’Callaghan, Yeong Wook Song, Jiri Vencovsky, Steven R Ytterberg, Frederick W Miller, Lisa G Rider, Ingrid E Lundberg

Crystal arthropathies

Original article:
Multiple common and rare variants of ABCG2 cause gout
(29 August, 2017)
Toshihide Higashino, Tappei Takada, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Yu Toyoda, Blanka Stiburkova, Hiroshi Miyata, Yuki Ikebuchi, Hiroshi Nakashima, Seiko Shimizu, Makoto Kawaguchi, Masayuki Sakiyama, Akiyoshi Nakayama, Airi Akashi, Yuki Tanahashi, Yusuke Kawamura, Takahiro Nakamura, Kenji Wakai, Rieko Okada, Ken Yamamoto, Kazuyoshi Hosomichi, Tatsuo Hosoya, Kimiyoshi Ichida, Hiroshi Ooyama, Hiroshi Suzuki, Ituro Inoue, Tony R Merriman, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Hirotaka Matsuo

Inflammatory arthritis

Original article: Associations between coronary and carotid artery atherosclerosis in patients with inflammatory joint diseases (17 September, 2017)
Mona Svanteson, Silvia Rollefstad, Nils Einar Kløw, Jonny Hisdal, Eirik Ikdahl, Anne Grete Semb, Ylva Haig

Short report

Short report: Influence of aromatase inhibitors therapy on the occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis in women with breast cancer: results from a large population-based study of the Italian Society for Rheumatology (28 September, 2017)
Marta Caprioli, Greta Carrara, Garifallia Sakellariou, Ettore Silvagni, Carlo Alberto Scirè
Short report: TRPA1 expression is downregulated by dexamethasone and aurothiomalate in human chondrocytes: TRPA1 as a novel factor and drug target in arthritis (4 September, 2017)
Elina Nummenmaa, Mari Hämäläinen, Lauri J Moilanen, Teemu Moilanen, Katriina Vuolteenaho, Eeva Moilanen

Rheumatoid arthritis

Review: Synovial tissue macrophages: friend or foe? (6 December, 2017)
Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska, Stefano Alivernini
Review: Which patients presenting with arthralgia eventually develop rheumatoid arthritis? The current state of the art (14 November, 2017)
Debbie M Boeters, Karim Raza, Annette H M vander Helm-van Mil
Review: Synovial fibroblasts in 2017 (15 October, 2017)
Caroline Ospelt
Original article: Real-world predictors of 12–month intravenous abatacept retention in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the ACTION observational study (29 December, 2017)
Rieke Alten, Xavier Mariette, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Mauro Galeazzi, Alain Cantagrel, Hubert G Nüßlein, Melanie Chartier, Yedid Elbez, Christiane Rauch, Manuela Le Bars
Original article: Safety and maintenance of response for tofacitinib monotherapy and combination therapy in rheumatoid arthritis: an analysis of pooled data from open-label long-term extension studies (18 December, 2017)
Roy Fleischmann, Jürgen Wollenhaupt, Liza Takiya, Anna Maniccia, Kenneth Kwok, Lisy Wang, Ronald F van Vollenhoven
Original article: Evaluation of the joint distribution at disease presentation of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a large study across continents (10 December, 2017)
Sytske Anne Bergstra, Arvind Chopra, Manjit Saluja, David Vega-Morales, Nimmisha Govind, Tom W J Huizinga, Annette van der Helm-van Mil
Original article: Impact of gender on the response and tolerance to abatacept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the ‘ORA’ registry (1 November, 2017)
Cynthia Nourisson, Martin Soubrier, Aurélien Mulliez, Athan Baillet, Thomas Bardin, Alain Cantagrel, Bernard Combe, Maxime Dougados, René-Marc Flipo, Thierry Schaeverbeke, Jean Sibilia, Olivier Vittecoq, Philippe Ravaud, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Xavier Mariette, Anne Tournadre
Original article:
Effect of Fcγ-receptor 3a (FCGR3A) gene polymorphisms on rituximab therapy in Hungarian patients with rheumatoid arthritis
(1 November, 2017)
Ildikó Pál, Szilvia Szamosi, Katalin Hodosi, Zoltan Szekanecz, László Váróczy
Original article: Discordant patient–physician assessments of disease activity and its persistence adversely impact quality of life and work productivity in US Hispanics with rheumatoid arthritis (25 October, 2017)
George A Karpouzas, Sera N Ramadan, Chelsie E Cost, Taylor L Draper, Elizabeth Hernandez, Vibeke Strand, Sarah R Ormseth
Original article: Cost-utility of COBRA-light versus COBRA therapy in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: the COBRA-light trial (25 October, 2017)
Marieke M ter Wee, Veerle MH Coupé, Debby den Uyl, Birgit S Blomjous, Esmee Kooijmans, Pit JSM Kerstens, Mike T Nurmohamed, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Maarten Boers, Willem F Lems
Original article: Infection rates in patients from five rheumatoid arthritis (RA) registries: contextualising an RA clinical trial programme (10 October, 2017)
Hisashi Yamanaka, Johan Askling, Niklas Berglind, Stefan Franzen, Thomas Frisell, Christopher Garwood, Jeffrey D Greenberg, Meilien Ho, Marie Holmqvist, Laura Novelli Horne, Eisuke Inoue, Kaleb Michaud, Dimitrios A Pappas, George Reed, Deborah Symmons, Eiichi Tanaka, Trung N Tran, Suzanne M M Verstappen, Eveline Wesby-van Swaay, Fredrik Nyberg
Original article: Variants of genes implicated in type 1 interferon pathway and B-cell activation modulate the EULAR response to rituximab at 24 weeks in rheumatoid arthritis (28 September, 2017)
Pierre-Antoine Juge, Steven Gazal, Arnaud Constantin, Xavier Mariette, Bernard Combe, Jacques Tebib, Maxime Dougados, Jean Sibilia, Xavier Le Loet, Philippe Dieudé
Original article: Risks of smoking and benefits of smoking cessation on hospitalisations for cardiovascular events and respiratory infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (26 September, 2017)
Rebecca M Joseph, Mohammad Movahedi, William G Dixon, Deborah PM Symmons
Original article: Achieving comprehensive disease control in patients with early and established rheumatoid arthritis treated with adalimumab plus methotrexate versus methotrexate alone (26 September, 2017)
Edward C Keystone, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Désirée van der Heijde, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Paul Emery, Josef S Smolen, Iain Sainsbury, Stefan Florentinus, Hartmut Kupper, Kun Chen, Arthur Kavanaugh
Original article: Treatment efficacy and methotrexate-related toxicity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving methotrexate in combination with adalimumab (17 September, 2017)
Gerd R Burmester, Gurjit S Kaeley, Arthur F Kavanaugh, Cem Gabay, Daryl K MacCarter, Peter Nash, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Sandra L Goss, Ramona Rodila, Kun Chen, Hartmut Kupper, Jasmina Kalabic
Original article: Impact of tocilizumab monotherapy on patient-reported outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis from two randomised controlled trials (14 September, 2017)
Vibeke Strand, Margaret Michalska, Christine Birchwood, Jinglan Pei, Katie Tuckwell, Rebecca Finch, Cem Gabay, Arthur Kavanaugh, Graeme Jones
Original article: Sustainability of TNF-blocker tapering in rheumatoid arthritis over 3 years: long-term follow-up of the STRASS (Spacing of TNF-blocker injections in Rheumatoid ArthritiS Study) randomised controlled trial (12 September, 2017)
Johanna Sigaux, Florian Bailly, David Hajage, Xavier Mariette, Jacques Morel, Frédérique Gandjbakhch, Violaine Foltz, Laure Gossec, Florence Tubach, Bruno Fautrel
Original article: Influence of disease activity on RA treatment choices in countries with restricted access to expensive, innovative drugs: a discrete choice experiment among rheumatologists (4 September, 2017)
Monika Hifinger, Mickael Hiligsmann, Sofia Ramiro, Verity Watson, Florian Berghea, Márta Péntek, Andrew Keat, Johan L Severens, Bruno Fautrel, Annelies Boonen
Original article: Relationship between shift work and the onset of rheumatoid arthritis (29 August, 2017)
Anna Karin Hedström, Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson
Original article: Working in cold environment and risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis: results from the Swedish EIRA case–control study (16 August, 2017)
Pingling Zeng, Camilla Bengtsson, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson
Original article: Efficacy of embedded nurse-led versus conventional physician-led follow-up in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (16 August, 2017)
Annette de Thurah, Bente Appel Esbensen, Ida Kristiane Roelsgaard, Tove Faber Frandsen, Jette Primdahl
Original article: Obesity is a strong predictor of worse clinical outcomes and treatment responses in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from the SWEFOT trial (9 August, 2017)
Adrian Levitsky, Kerstin Brismar, Ingiäld Hafström, Karen Hambardzumyan, Cecilia Lourdudoss, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Saedis Saevarsdottir

Short report

Short report: Safety and efficacy of baricitinib in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis (10 October, 2017)
Roy Fleischmann, Jahangir Alam, Vipin Arora, John Bradley, Douglas E Schlichting, David Muram, Josef S Smolen

Paediatric rheumatology

Original article: ProNGF-p75NTR axis plays a proinflammatory role in inflamed joints: a novel pathogenic mechanism in chronic arthritis (12 September, 2017)
Gaetana Minnone, Marzia Soligo, Ivan Caiello, Giusi Prencipe, Luigi Manni, Denise Pires Marafon, Silvia Magni-Manzoni, Antonio Manzo, Fabrizio De Benedetti, Luisa Bracci-Laudiero

Psoriatic arthritis

Original article: Real-world burden of comorbidities in US patients with psoriatic arthritis (28 December, 2017)
Kamal Shah, Maria Paris, Lillian Mellars, Arun Changolkar, Philip J Mease
Original article: Ixekizumab efficacy and safety with and without concomitant conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (cDMARDs) in biologic DMARD (bDMARD)-naïve patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA): results from SPIRIT-P1 (22 December, 2017)
Laura C Coates, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Alice Gottlieb, Catherine L Shuler, Chen-Yen Lin, Chin Hyok Lee, Philip J Mease
Original article: Achilles enthesitis defined by ultrasound is not associated with clinical enthesitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis (16 August, 2017)
Brigitte Michelsen, Andreas P Diamantopoulos, Dag Magnar Soldal, Hilde Berner Hammer, Arthur Kavanaugh, Glenn Haugeberg

Sjögren’s syndrome

Original article: Health-related quality of life and depression among participants in the Sjögren’s International Collaborative Clinical Alliance registry (26 September, 2017)
Annie Chou, John A Gonzales, Troy E Daniels, Lindsey A Criswell, Stephen C Shiboski, Caroline H Shiboski
Original article: Patient burden of Sjögren’s: a comprehensive literature review revealing the range and heterogeneity of measures used in assessments of severity (17 September, 2017)
Katherine M Hammitt, April N Naegeli, Remon W M van den Broek, Julie A Birt

Systemic sclerosis

Original article: Rituximab in early systemic sclerosis (28 July, 2017)
Maaike Boonstra, Jessica Meijs, Annemarie L Dorjée, Nina Ajmone Marsan, Anne Schouffoer, Maarten K Ninaber, Koen D Quint, Femke Bonte-Mineur, Tom W J Huizinga, Hans U Scherer, Jeska K de Vries-Bouwstra

Spondyloarthritis

Original article: Secukinumab provides sustained improvements in the signs and symptoms of active ankylosing spondylitis with high retention rate: 3-year results from the phase III trial, MEASURE 2 (28 December, 2017)
Helena Marzo-Ortega, Joachim Sieper, Alan Kivitz, Ricardo Blanco, Martin Cohen, Evie-Maria Delicha, Susanne Rohrer, Hanno Richards
Original article: Chronic but not inflammatory changes at the Achilles’ tendon differentiate patients with peripheral spondyloarthritis from other diagnoses – Results from a prospective clinical trial (22 December, 2017)
Xenofon Baraliakos, Uta Kiltz, Heiner Appel, Friedrich Dybowski, Manfred Igelmann, Ludwig Kalthoff, Claudia Klink, Dietmar Krause, Ertan Saracbasi, Elmar Schmitz-Bortz, Feras Rahmeh, Juergen Braun
Original article: Is there a relationship between spondyloarthritis and periodontitis? A case–control study (10 December, 2017)
Wilson Bautista-Molano, Desirée van der Heijde, Robert Landewé, Gloria I Lafaurie, Juliette de Ávila, Rafael Valle-Oñate, Consuelo Romero-Sanchez
Original article: Switching biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: results from a systematic literature review (10 October, 2017)
Victoria Navarro-Compán, Chamaida Plasencia-Rodríguez, Eugenio de Miguel, Petra Diaz del Campo, Alejandro Balsa, Jordi Gratacós
Original article: Relationships between ultrasound enthesitis, disease activity and axial radiographic structural changes in patients with early spondyloarthritis: data from DESIR cohort (7 September, 2017)
Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, Bénédicte Jamard, Alain Cantagrel, Delphine Nigon, Damien Loeuille, Yannick Degboe, Arnaud Constantin

Short report

Short report: Relationship between the gut and the spine: a pilot study of first-degree relatives of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (16 August, 2017)
Amy S Kehl, Thomas J Learch, Dalin Li, Dermot P B McGovern, Michael H Weisman

Osteoporosis

Original article: Do we need bone mineral density to estimate osteoporotic fracture risk? A 10-year prospective multicentre validation study (26 September, 2017)
Andréa Marques, Raquel Lucas, Eugénia Simões, Suzanne M M Verstappen, Johannes W G Jacobs, Jose A P da Silva

Osteoarthritis

Original article: Association between osteoarthritis and dyslipidaemia: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis (29 August, 2017)
Pauline Baudart, Karine Louati, Christian Marcelli, Francis Berenbaum, Jérémie Sellam
Original article: Ultrasound-detected osteophytes predict the development of radiographic and clinical features of hand osteoarthritis in the same finger joints 5 years later (16 August, 2017)
Alexander Mathiessen, Barbara Slatkowsky-Christensen, Tore K Kvien, Ida K Haugen, Hilde Berner Hammer

Treatments

Review: Pneumococcal vaccination in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (14 September, 2017)
Éva Rákóczi, Zoltan Szekanecz

Early arthritis

Original article: Diagnostic spectrum and 2-year outcome in a cohort of patients with very early arthritis (22 December, 2017)
Ellen Sauar Norli, Gina Hetland Brinkmann, Tore Kristian Kvien, Olav Bjørneboe, Anne Julsrud Haugen, Halvor Nygaard, Cathrine Thunem, Elisabeth Lie, Maria Dahl Mjaavatten

Vasculitis

Original article: Serum osteopontin: a biomarker of disease activity and predictor of relapsing course in patients with giant cell arteritis. Potential clinical usefulness in tocilizumab-treated patients (22 December, 2017)
Sergio Prieto-González, Nekane Terrades-García, Marc Corbera-Bellalta, Ester Planas-Rigol, Chie Miyabe, Marco A Alba, Ariel Ponce, Itziar Tavera-Bahillo, Giuseppe Murgia, Georgina Espígol-Frigolé, Javier Marco-Hernández, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Ana García-Martínez, Sebastian H Unizony, Maria C Cid
Original article: Geo-epidemiology of temporal artery biopsy-positive giant cell arteritis in Australia and New Zealand: is there a seasonal influence? (29 August, 2017)
Elisabeth De Smit, Linda Clarke, Paul G Sanfilippo, Tony R Merriman, Matthew A Brown, Catherine L Hill, Alex W Hewitt

Lupus

Original article: Endothelial dysfunction is associated with activation of the type I interferon system and platelets in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (25 October, 2017)
Helena Tydén, Christian Lood, Birgitta Gullstrand, Christoffer Tandrup Nielsen, Niels H H Heegaard, Robin Kahn, Andreas Jönsen, Anders A Bengtsson
Original article: Environmental and lifestyle factors influencing risk of congenital heart block during pregnancy in anti-Ro/SSA-positive women (7 September, 2017)
Sabrina Meisgen, Joanna Tingström, Amanda Skog Andreasson, Sven-Erik Sonesson, Ingrid Kockum, Marie Wahren-Herlenius

Miscellaneous

Viewpoint: Person-focused care for young people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: young rheumatologists' and EULAR Young PARE perspectives (26 September, 2017)
Alessia Alunno, Paul Studenic, Elena Nikiphorou, Petra Balážová, Linda van Nieuwkoop, Sofia Ramiro, Francesco Carubbi, Christophe Richez, Nele Caeyers, Laure Gossec, Marios Kouloumas
Original article: Targeting danger molecules in tendinopathy: the HMGB1/TLR4 axis (28 July, 2017)
Moeed Akbar, Derek S Gilchrist, Susan M Kitson, Briana Nelis, Lindsay A N Crowe, Emma Garcia-Melchor, James H Reilly, Shauna C Kerr, George A C Murrell, Iain B McInnes, Neal L Millar

Correction

Correction: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH): where we are now and where to go next
(14 November, 2017)
Correction: Rheumatic immune-related adverse events of checkpoint therapy for cancer: case series of a new nosological entity
(6 December, 2017)

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Table of contents

October 2017 - Volume 3 - 2

Editorial

Autoinflammatory disorders

Animal models

Connective tissue diseases

Crystal arthropathies

Inflammatory arthritis

Short report

Rheumatoid arthritis

Short report

Paediatric rheumatology

Psoriatic arthritis

Sjögren’s syndrome

Systemic sclerosis

Spondyloarthritis

Short report

Osteoporosis

Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Early arthritis

Vasculitis

Lupus

Miscellaneous

Correction

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Table of contents

October 2017 - Volume 3 - 2

Editorial

Autoinflammatory disorders

Animal models

Connective tissue diseases

Crystal arthropathies

Inflammatory arthritis

Short report

Rheumatoid arthritis

Short report

Paediatric rheumatology

Psoriatic arthritis

Sjögren’s syndrome

Systemic sclerosis

Spondyloarthritis

Short report

Osteoporosis

Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Early arthritis

Vasculitis

Lupus

Miscellaneous

Correction