RMD Open: 4 (1)

Autoinflammatory disorders

Editorial: Polymyalgia rheumatica: an autoinflammatory disorder? (4 June, 2018)
Alberto Floris, Matteo Piga, Alberto Cauli, Carlo Salvarani, Alessandro Mathieu

Crystal arthropathies

Original article: Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic effects and safety of verinurad in combination with febuxostat in adults with gout: a phase IIa, open-label study (9 April, 2018)
Roy Fleischmann, Peter Winkle, Jesse Hall, Shakti Valdez, Sha Liu, Xiaohong Yan, Liz Hicks, Caroline Lee, Jeffrey N Miner, Michael Gillen, Martha Hernandez-Illas
Original article: Identification of monosodium urate crystal deposits in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia using dual-energy CT (9 March, 2018)
Penny Wang, Stacy E Smith, Rajesh Garg, Fengxin Lu, Alyssa Wohlfahrt, Anarosa Campos, Kathleen Vanni, Zhi Yu, Daniel H Solomon, Seoyoung C Kim
Original article: Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic effects and safety of verinurad in combination with allopurinol in adults with gout: a phase IIa, open-label study (8 February, 2018)
Roy Fleischmann, Peter Winkle, Jeffrey N Miner, Xiaohong Yan, Liz Hicks, Shakti Valdez, Jesse Hall, Sha Liu, Zancong Shen, Michael Gillen, Martha Hernandez-Illas

Epidemiology

Review: Opportunities and challenges for real-world studies on chronic inflammatory joint diseases through data enrichment and collaboration between national registers: the Nordic example (12 April, 2018)
Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Merete Lund Hetland, Thomas Frisell, Daniela Di Giuseppe, Karin Hellgren, Bente Glintborg, Dan Nordström, Kalle Aaltonen, Minna RK Törmänen, Eirik Klami Kristianslund, Tore K Kvien, Sella A Provan, Bjorn Guðbjörnsson, Lene Dreyer, Lars Erik Kristensen, Tanja Schjødt Jørgensen, Lennart Jacobsson, Johan Askling

Education

Viewpoint: Improving the peer review skills of young rheumatologists and researchers in rheumatology: the EMEUNET Peer Review Mentoring Program (16 February, 2018)
Javier Rodríguez-Carrio, Polina Putrik, Alexandre Sepriano, Anna Moltó, Elena Nikiphorou, Laure Gossec, Tore K Kvien, Sofia Ramiro

Inflammatory arthritis

Original article: Depressive mood and low social support are not associated with arthritis development in patients with seropositive arthralgia, although they predict increased musculoskeletal symptoms (27 June, 2018)
Jasmijn F M Holla, Marian H van Beers-Tas, Lotte A van de Stadt, Robert Landewé, Jos W R Twisk, Joost Dekker, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg

Imaging

Original article: Atlas for the OMERACT thumb base osteoarthritis MRI scoring system (TOMS) (8 February, 2018)
Féline P B Kroon, Charles G Peterfy, Philip G Conaghan, Violaine Foltz, Frédérique Gandjbakhch, Iris Eshed, Harry K Genant, Mikkel Østergaard, Monique Reijnierse, Johan L Bloem, Ida K Haugen, Margreet Kloppenburg
Original article: Inflammatory and structural changes in vertebral bodies and posterior elements of the spine in axial spondyloarthritis: construct validity, responsiveness and discriminatory ability of the anatomy-based CANDEN scoring system in a randomised placebo-controlled trial (16 March, 2018)
Simon Krabbe, Inge J Sørensen, Bente Jensen, Jakob M Møller, Lone Balding, Ole R Madsen, Robert G W Lambert, Walter P Maksymowych, Susanne J Pedersen, Mikkel Østergaard
Original article: Normative ultrasound references for the paediatric wrist; dorsal soft tissues (10 March, 2018)
Karen Rosendahl, Ingvild Sævold Bruserud, Ninnie Oehme, Pétur Benedikt Júlíusson, Laura Tanturri de Horatio, Lil-Sofie Ording Müller, Silvia Magni-Manzoni
Original article: Knee joint synovitis: study of correlations and diagnostic performances of ultrasonography compared with histopathology (8 February, 2018)
Aurélie Najm, Carl Orr, Lorna Gallagher, Monika Biniecka, Emeline Gaigneux, Benoit Le Goff, Ursula Fearon, Douglas J Veale
Original article: Imaging in diagnosis, outcome prediction and monitoring of large vessel vasculitis: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis informing the EULAR recommendations (2 February, 2018)
Christina Duftner, Christian Dejaco, Alexandre Sepriano, Louise Falzon, Wolfgang Andreas Schmidt, Sofia Ramiro
Viewpoint: MR signal intensity: staying on the bright side in MR image interpretation (20 June, 2018)
Johan L Bloem, Monique Reijnierse, Tom W J Huizinga, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil

Rheumatoid arthritis

Original article: Latent profile analysis approach to the relationship between patient and physician global assessments of rheumatoid arthritis activity (28 June, 2018)
George A Karpouzas, Vibeke Strand, Sarah R Ormseth
Original article: Representativeness of a digitally engaged population and a patient organisation population with rheumatoid arthritis and their willingness to participate in research: a cross-sectional study (20 June, 2018)
Ruth Costello, Clare Jacklin, Matthew Jameson Evans, John McBeth, William G Dixon
Original article: Impact of tocilizumab administered intravenously or subcutaneously on patient-reported quality-of-life outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (17 June, 2018)
Vibeke Strand, Margaret Michalska, Christine Birchwood, Jinglan Pei, Katie Tuckwell, Rebecca Finch, Alan J Kivitz, Josef S Smolen, Gerd R Burmester
Original article: Physician global assessments for disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis are all over the map! (21 February, 2018)
Matthew Turk, Janet E Pope
Original article: Response to baricitinib therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with inadequate response to csDMARDs as a function of baseline characteristics (13 January, 2018)
Joel M Kremer, Michael Schiff, David Muram, Jinglin Zhong, Jahangir Alam, Mark C Genovese
Original article: Moderate use of alcohol is associated with lower levels of C reactive protein but not with less severe joint inflammation: a cross-sectional study in early RA and healthy volunteers (7 January, 2018)
Lukas Mangnus, Hanna W van Steenbergen, Wouter P Nieuwenhuis, Monique Reijnierse, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
Original article: Long-term use of adalimumab as monotherapy after attainment of low disease activity with adalimumab plus methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (13 June, 2018)
Edward C Keystone, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Hartmut Kupper, Yihan Li, Stefan Florentinus, Iain Sainsbury
Original article: Clinical and radiographic course of early undifferentiated arthritis under treatment is not dependent on the number of joints with erosions at diagnosis: results from the Swiss prospective observational cohort (6 June, 2018)
Ruediger B Mueller, Toni Kaegi, Sarah R Haile, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Michael Schiff, Johannes von Kempis
Original article: Trends in hip fracture in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the Spanish National Inpatient Registry over a 17-year period (1999–2015). TREND-AR study (4 June, 2018)
Ramón Mazzucchelli, Elia Pérez Fernandez, Natalia Crespí-Villarías, Javier Quirós-Donate, Alberto García Vadillo, María Espinosa, Marina Peña, Cristina Macía-Villa, Jose Luis Morell-Hita, Cristina Martinez-Prada, Virginia Villaverde, Inmaculada Morado Quiroga, Olalla Guzón-Illescas, Carmen Barbadillo, Manuel Fernández Prada, Hilda Godoy, Angela Herranz Varela, María Galindo Izquierdo, Gil Rodriguez Caravaca
Original article: Initial validation and results of the Symptoms in Persons At Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis (SPARRA) questionnaire: a EULAR project (21 May, 2018)
Marian H van Beers-Tas, Marieke M ter Wee, Lilian H van Tuyl, Bertha Maat, Wijnanda Hoogland, Aase H Hensvold, Anca I Catrina, Erika Mosor, Tanja A Stamm, Axel Finckh, Delphine S Courvoisier, Andrew Filer, Ilfita Sahbudin, Rebecca J Stack, Karim Raza, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg
Original article: Comparison between low disease activity or DAS remission as treatment target in patients with early active rheumatoid arthritis (20 May, 2018)
Gülşah Akdemir, Iris M Markusse, Sytske Anne Bergstra, Robbert J Goekoop, Esmeralda T Molenaar, Johannes H L M van Groenendael, Pit J S M Kerstens, Willem F Lems, Tom W J Huizinga, Cornelia F Allaart
Original article: Mental health, fatigue and function are associated with increased risk of disease flare following TNF inhibitor tapering in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an exploratory analysis of data from the Optimizing TNF Tapering in RA (OPTTIRA) trial (17 May, 2018)
Katie Bechman, Fang En Sin, Fowzia Ibrahim, Sam Norton, Faith Matcham, David Lloyd Scott, Andrew Cope, James Galloway
Original article: Effects of baricitinib on radiographic progression of structural joint damage at 1 year in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (8 May, 2018)
Desirée van der Heijde, Maxime Dougados, Ying-Chou Chen, Maria Greenwald, Edit Drescher, Rena Klar, Li Xie, Inmaculada de la Torre, Terence P Rooney, Sarah L Witt, Douglas E Schlichting, Stephanie de Bono, Paul Emery
Original article: Predictive value of serum calprotectin (S100A8/A9) for clinical response after starting or tapering anti-TNF treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (9 April, 2018)
Lieke Tweehuysen, Nathan den Broeder, Noortje van Herwaarden, Leo A B Joosten, Peter L van Lent, Thomas Vogl, Frank H J van den Hoogen, Rogier M Thurlings, Alfons A den Broeder
Original article: Conversion to seronegative status after abatacept treatment in patients with early and poor prognostic rheumatoid arthritis is associated with better radiographic outcomes and sustained remission: post hoc analysis of the AGREE study (30 March, 2018)
Diahann T S L Jansen, Paul Emery, Josef S Smolen, Rene Westhovens, Manuela Le Bars, Sean E Connolly, June Ye, René E M Toes, Tom W J Huizinga
Original article: Clinical characteristics and patient-reported outcomes in patients with inadequately controlled rheumatoid arthritis despite ongoing treatment (17 March, 2018)
Peter C Taylor, Rieke Alten, Juan J Gomez-Reino, Roberto Caporali, Philippe Bertin, Emma Sullivan, Robert Wood, James Piercy, Radu Vasilescu, Dean Spurden, Jose Alvir, Miriam Tarallo
Original article: Identification of sarilumab pharmacodynamic and predictive markers in patients with inadequate response to TNF inhibition: a biomarker substudy of the phase 3 TARGET study (14 March, 2018)
Cem Gabay, Jérôme Msihid, Moshe Zilberstein, Caroline Paccard, Yong Lin, Neil M H Graham, Anita Boyapati
Editorial: Don’t neglect nutrition in rheumatoid arthritis! (24 February, 2018)
Maurizio Cutolo, Elena Nikiphorou
Review: From patients with arthralgia, pre-RA and recently diagnosed RA: what is the current status of understanding RA pathogenesis? (12 January, 2018)
Marlieke Molendijk, Johanna MW Hazes, Erik Lubberts

Systemic sclerosis

Review: Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in systemic sclerosis (17 June, 2018)
Ulrich A Walker, Lesley Ann Saketkoo, Oliver Distler

Spine

Review: Active discopathy: a clinical reality (17 April, 2018)
Margaux Boisson, Marie-Martine Lefèvre-Colau, François Rannou, Christelle Nguyen

Spondyloarthritis

Review: MRI for diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis: major advance with critical limitations ‘Not everything that glisters is gold (standard)’ (12 January, 2018)
Cédric Lukas, Catherine Cyteval, Maxime Dougados, Ulrich Weber
Original article: Non-classical human leucocyte antigens in ankylosing spondylitis: possible association with HLA-E and HLA-F (28 June, 2018)
Margarida Rodrigues Santos, Ana Rita Couto, Iris Foroni, Bruno Filipe Bettencourt, Zhixiu Li, Raquel Meneses, Lawrie Wheeler, Joaquim Pereira, Fernando Pimentel-Santos, João Eurico Fonseca, Helena Alves, António Martinho, Manuela Lima, Matthew A Brown, Jácome Bruges-Armas
Original article: Employment and the role of personal factors among patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a Dutch cross-sectional case-control study (27 June, 2018)
Casper Webers, Laura Vanhoof, Simon van Genderen, Liesbeth Heuft, Mart van de Laar, Jolanda Luime, Désirée van der Heijde, Floris A van Gaalen, Anneke Spoorenberg, Annelies Boonen
Original article: Prevalence of degenerative changes and overlap with spondyloarthritis-associated lesions in the spine of patients from the DESIR cohort (6 June, 2018)
Freek de Bruin, Marco O Treyvaud, Antoine Feydy, Manouk de Hooge, Jean-Baptiste Pialat, Maxime Dougados, Laure Gossec, Johan L Bloem, Désirée van der Heijde, Monique Reijnierse
Original article: Is radiographic progression in radiographic axial spondyloarthritis related to matrix metalloproteinase degradation of extracellular matrix? (14 May, 2018)
Anne Sofie Siebuhr, Desirée van der Heijde, Anne-C Bay-Jensen, Morten Asser Karsdal, Robert Landewé, Astrid van Tubergen, Sofia Ramiro
Original article: Paradoxical arthritis occurring during anti-TNF in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: histological and immunological features of a complex synovitis (9 April, 2018)
Stefano Alivernini, Daniela Pugliese, Barbara Tolusso, Laura Bui, Luca Petricca, Luisa Guidi, Luisa Mirone, Gian Ludovico Rapaccini, Francesco Federico, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Alessandro Armuzzi, Elisa Gremese
Original article: Improvements in workplace and household productivity with certolizumab pegol treatment in axial spondyloarthritis: results to week 96 of a phase III study (9 April, 2018)
Désirée van der Heijde, Jürgen Braun, Martin Rudwaleit, Oana Purcaru, Arthur F Kavanaugh
Original article: Long-term efficacy and predictors of remission following adalimumab treatment in peripheral spondyloarthritis: 3-year results from ABILITY-2 (26 February, 2018)
Filip Van den Bosch, Philip J Mease, Joachim Sieper, Dominique L Baeten, Yinglin Xia, Su Chen, Aileen L Pangan, In-Ho Song
Original article: Prevalence of axial spondyloarthritis in patients with acute anterior uveitis: a cross-sectional study utilising MRI (24 February, 2018)
Mark P Sykes, Louise Hamilton, Colin Jones, Karl Gaffney
Original article:
Evidence for a second ankylosing spondylitis-associated RUNX3 regulatory polymorphism
(8 February, 2018)
Matteo Vecellio, Adrian Cortes, Amity R Roberts, Jonathan Ellis, Carla Jayne Cohen, Julian C Knight, Matthew A Brown, Paul Bowness, Bryan Paul Wordsworth

Psoriatic arthritis

Original article: Therapeutic benefit of apremilast on enthesitis and dactylitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis: a pooled analysis of the PALACE 1–3 studies (27 June, 2018)
Dafna D Gladman, Arthur Kavanaugh, Juan J Gómez-Reino, Jürgen Wollenhaupt, Maurizio Cutolo, Georg Schett, Eric Lespessailles, Benoit Guerette, Nikolay Delev, Lichen Teng, Christopher J Edwards, Charles A Birbara, Philip J Mease
Original article: Osteoporosis in psoriatic arthritis: a cross-sectional study of an outpatient clinic population (17 June, 2018)
Agnete Malm Gulati, Brigitte Michelsen, Andreas Diamantopoulos, Berit Grandaunet, Øyvind Salvesen, Arthur Kavanaugh, Mari Hoff, Glenn Haugeberg
Original article: Psoriasis and the risk of foot and ankle tendinopathy or enthesopathy in the absence of psoriatic arthritis: a population-based study (21 May, 2018)
Ryan T Lewinson, Isabelle A Vallerand, Laurie M Parsons, Jeremy M LaMothe, Alexandra D Frolkis, Mark W Lowerison, Gilaad G Kaplan, Scott B Patten, Cheryl Barnabe
Original article: Baseline patient characteristics associated with response to biologic therapy in patients with psoriatic arthritis enrolled in the Corrona Psoriatic Arthritis/Spondyloarthritis Registry (25 April, 2018)
Philip J Mease, Chitra Karki, Mei Liu, Arthur Kavanaugh, Christopher T Ritchlin, Doquyen Hoa Huynh, Jacqueline B Palmer, Jeffrey D Greenberg
Original article: 4-year results from the RAPID-PsA phase 3 randomised placebo-controlled trial of certolizumab pegol in psoriatic arthritis (14 March, 2018)
Désirée van der Heijde, Atul Deodhar, Oliver FitzGerald, Roy Fleischmann, Dafna Gladman, Alice B Gottlieb, Bengt Hoepken, Lars Bauer, Oscar Irvin-Sellers, Majed Khraishi, Luke Peterson, Anthony Turkiewicz, Jürgen Wollenhaupt, Philip J Mease
Original article: Change in cardiovascular risk factors in patients who develop psoriatic arthritis: longitudinal data from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) (14 March, 2018)
Agnete Malm Gulati, Øyvind Salvesen, Ruth Stoklund Thomsen, Arthur Kavanaugh, Anne Grete Semb, Silvia Rollefstad, Glenn Haugeberg, Mari Hoff
Original article: Design and rationale of the Study of Etanercept and Methotrexate in Combination or as Monotherapy in Subjects with Psoriatic Arthritis (SEAM-PsA) (3 February, 2018)
Philip J Mease, Dafna D Gladman, Ahmed S Samad, Laura C Coates, Lyrica X H Liu, Girish A Aras, David H Collier, James B Chung
Original article: Long-term persistence of TNF-inhibitor treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis. Data from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register (7 January, 2018)
Karen Minde Fagerli, Lianne Kearsley-Fleet, Kath D Watson, Jon Packham, BSRBR-RA Contributors Group, Deborah P M Symmons, Kimme L Hyrich
Short report: MRI of psoriatic nail disease pre- and post-TNF inhibitor therapy shows persistent subclinical inflammation after 6 months despite good clinical response (2 February, 2018)
Zoe Ash, Ai Lyn Tan, Richard J Hodgson, Andrew Grainger, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Dennis G McGonagle

Sjögren syndrome

Original article: Hospitalisation rates among patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome: a population-based study, 1995–2016 (28 February, 2018)
Gabriel Maciel, Luisa Servioli, Carlotta Nannini, Alvise Berti, Cynthia S Crowson, Sara J Achenbach, Eric L Matteson, Divi Cornec

Vasculitis

Original article: Definitions and reliability assessment of elementary ultrasound lesions in giant cell arteritis: a study from the OMERACT Large Vessel Vasculitis Ultrasound Working Group (17 May, 2018)
Stavros Chrysidis, Christina Duftner, Christian Dejaco, Valentin S Schäfer, Sofia Ramiro, Greta Carrara, Carlo Alberto Scirè, Alojzija Hocevar, Andreas P Diamantopoulos, Annamaria Iagnocco, Chetan Mukhtyar, Cristina Ponte, Esperanza Naredo, Eugenio De Miguel, George A Bruyn, Kenneth J Warrington, Lene Terslev, Marcin Milchert, Maria Antonietta D’Agostino, Mattew J Koster, Naina Rastalsky, Petra Hanova, Pierluigi Macchioni, Tanaz A Kermani, Tove Lorenzen, Uffe Møller Døhn, Ulrich Fredberg, Wolfgang Hartung, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Wolfgang A Schmidt
Original article: Association between glucocorticoid therapy and incidence of diabetes mellitus in polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (28 February, 2018)
Lana Yin Hui Lai, Emma Harris, Robert M West, Sarah Louise Mackie

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June 2018 - Volume 4 - 1

Autoinflammatory disorders

Crystal arthropathies

Epidemiology

Education

Inflammatory arthritis

Imaging

Rheumatoid arthritis

Systemic sclerosis

Spine

Spondyloarthritis

Psoriatic arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Vasculitis

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Table of contents

June 2018 - Volume 4 - 1

Autoinflammatory disorders

Crystal arthropathies

Epidemiology

Education

Inflammatory arthritis

Imaging

Rheumatoid arthritis

Systemic sclerosis

Spine

Spondyloarthritis

Psoriatic arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Vasculitis

Thank you to our reviewers

Corrections