RMD Open: 7 (2)

Autoimmunity

Original research: Direct oral anticoagulants versus vitamin K antagonists in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis (12 July, 2021)
Nazariy Koval, Mariana Alves, Rui Plácido, Ana G Almeida, João Eurico Fonseca, Joaquim J Ferreira, Fausto J Pinto, Daniel Caldeira

Autoinflammatory disorders

Original research: Long-term safety and effectiveness of canakinumab therapy in patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome: results from the β-Confident Registry (17 May, 2021)
Ulrich A Walker, Hugh H Tilson, Philip N Hawkins, Tom van der Poll, Stephanie Noviello, Jeremy Levy, Eleni Vritzali, Hal M Hoffman, Jasmin B Kuemmerle-Deschner

Connective tissue diseases

Original research: Suitability for e-health of non-pharmacological interventions in connective tissue diseases: scoping review with a descriptive analysis (29 July, 2021)
Valentin Ritschl, Ricardo J O Ferreira, Eduardo José Ferreira Santos, Rúben Fernandes, Essi Juutila, Erika Mosor, Paulo Santos-Costa, Kim Fligelstone, Linda Schraven, Georg Stummvoll, Maria Salvador, Janet L Poole, Cornelia van den Ende, Carina Boström, Tanja A Stamm

Education

Original research: EULAR portfolio for Rheumatology training: a EULAR School of Rheumatology initiative (16 June, 2021)
Marloes van Onna, Sofia Ramiro, Catherine Haines, Mette Holland-Fischer, Jose Antonio Pereira da Silva, Jean Dudler, Chris Edwards, Alessia Alunno, Elena Nikiphorou, Louise Falzon, Francisca Sivera

Epidemiology

Original research: Comorbidity burden in the first three years after diagnosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis or spondyloarthritis: a general practice registry-based study (22 June, 2021)
Veerle Stouten, Sofia Pazmino, P Verschueren, Pavlos Mamouris, René Westhovens, Kurt de Vlam, Delphine Bertrand, Kristien Van der Elst, Bert Vaes, Diederik De Cock
Short report: The effects of alcohol consumption and its associations with disease activity among 979 patients with inflammatory arthritis (19 April, 2021)
Matthew Turk, Kieran Murray, Yousef Alammari, Aine Gorman, Francis Young, Phil Gallagher, Tajvur Saber, Lorna Freeman, Sinead Maguire, Finbar O’Shea, Ursula Fearon, Douglas Veale

Imaging

Review: Fluorescence optical imaging: ready for prime time? (4 June, 2021)
Sarah Ohrndorf, Anne-Marie Glimm, Mads Ammitzbøll-Danielsen, Mikkel Ostergaard, Gerd R Burmester
Short report: CT-like images of the sacroiliac joint generated from MRI using susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (28 May, 2021)
Dominik Deppe, Kay-Geert Hermann, Fabian Proft, Denis Poddubnyy, Felix Radny, Mikhail Protopopov, Marcus R Makowski, Torsten Diekhoff

Crystal arthropathies

Original research: Gout, Hyperuricaemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network (G-CAN) common language definition of gout (26 April, 2021)
Rachel Murdoch, Michael J Barry, Hyon K Choi, Daniel Hernandez, Brianne Johnsen, Manuel Labrador, Susan Reid, Jasvinder A Singh, Robert Terkeltaub, Janitzia Vázquez Mellado, Nicola Dalbeth

Inflammatory arthritis

Original research: Effectiveness of self-management interventions in inflammatory arthritis: a systematic review informing the 2021 EULAR recommendations for the implementation of self-management strategies in patients with inflammatory arthritis (28 May, 2021)
Andréa Marques, Eduardo Santos, Elena Nikiphorou, Ailsa Bosworth, Loreto Carmona
Original research: Cardiovascular risk factors in gout, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis: a cross-sectional survey of patients in Western Sweden (24 May, 2021)
Anton Jonatan Landgren, Mats Dehlin, Lennart Jacobsson, Ulrika Bergsten, Eva Klingberg

Infections

Editorial: Exercise, infection and rheumatic diseases: what do we know? (17 May, 2021)
Leonard Calabrese, David C Nieman
Original research: Antiphospholipid antibodies in COVID-19: a meta-analysis and systematic review (6 May, 2021)
Muhanad Taha, Lobelia Samavati
Short report: Anxiety and concerns related to the work situation during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in >5000 patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease followed in the DANBIO registry (3 May, 2021)
Bente Glintborg, Dorte Vendelbo Jensen, Sara Engel, Lene Terslev, Mogens Pfeiffer Jensen, Oliver Hendricks, Mikkel Østergaard, Simon Horskjær Rasmussen, Thomas Adelsten, Ada Colic, Kamilla Danebod, Malene Kildemand, Anne Gitte Loft, Heidi Lausten Munk, Jens Kristian Pedersen, René Drage Østgård, Christian Møller Sørensen, Niels Steen Krogh, Jette Nørgaard Agerbo, Connie Ziegler, Merete Lund Hetland

Lupus

Original research: White matter hyperintensities associate with cognitive slowing in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and neuropsychiatric symptoms (28 July, 2021)
Rory Caitlin Monahan, Francesca Inglese, Huub Middelkoop, Mark van Buchem, Tom WJ Huizinga, Margreet Kloppenburg, Itamar Ronen, Gerda M Steup-Beekman, Jeroen de Bresser
Original research: Long-term open-label continuation study of the safety and efficacy of belimumab for up to 7 years in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus from Japan and South Korea (2 July, 2021)
Yoshiya Tanaka, Sang-Cheol Bae, Damon Bass, Paula Curtis, Myron Chu, Kathleen DeRose, Beulah Ji, Regina Kurrasch, Jenny Lowe, Paige Meizlik, David A Roth
Original research: Validation of a machine learning approach to estimate Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index score categories and application in a real-world dataset (20 May, 2021)
Pedro Alves, Jigar Bandaria, Michelle B Leavy, Benjamin Gliklich, Costas Boussios, Zhaohui Su, Gary Curhan

Osteoarthritis

Original research: Food sources of dietary fibre and risk of total knee replacement related to severe osteoarthritis, the Singapore Chinese Health Study (30 July, 2021)
Ying Ying Leung, Aizhen Jin, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Li-Wei Ang, Jian-Min Yuan, Woon-Puay Koh
Original research: Hydroxychloroquine in patients with inflammatory and erosive osteoarthritis of the hands: results of the OA-TREAT study—a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre, investigator-initiated trial (2 July, 2021)
Claudia Kedor, Jacqueline Detert, Rolf Rau, Siegfried Wassenberg, Joachim Listing, Pascal Klaus, Tanja Braun, Walter Hermann, Stefan Markus Weiner, Frank Buttgereit, Gerd R Burmester
Review: Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fracture (30 June, 2021)
Christian Roux, Bernard Cortet, Valérie Bousson, Thierry Thomas
Review: Quality indicators for knee and hip osteoarthritis care: a systematic review (26 May, 2021)
Ilgin G Arslan, Rianne M Rozendaal, Marienke van Middelkoop, Saskia A G Stitzinger, Maarten-Paul Van de Kerkhove, Vincent M I Voorbrood, Patrick J E Bindels, Sita M A Bierma-Zeinstra, Dieuwke Schiphof

Paediatric rheumatology

Original research: Clinical manifestations and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infections in children and adolescents with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases: data from the National Paediatric Rheumatology Database in Germany (26 July, 2021)
Claudia Sengler, Sascha Eulert, Kirsten Minden, Martina Niewerth, Gerd Horneff, Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner, Caroline Siemer, Rainer Berendes, Hermann Girschick, Regina Hühn, Michael Borte, Anton Hospach, Wolfgang Emminger, Jakob Armann, Ariane Klein, Tilmann Kallinich
Original research: Serum calprotectin (S100A8/A9): a promising biomarker in diagnosis and follow-up in different subgroups of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (9 June, 2021)
Céline La, Phu Quoc Lê, Alina Ferster, Laurence Goffin, Delphine Spruyt, Bernard Lauwerys, Patrick Durez, Cecile Boulanger, Tatiana Sokolova, Joanne Rasschaert, Valérie Badot
Original research: Development and reliability of a novel ultrasonographic joint-specific scoring system for synovitis with reference atlas for patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (21 April, 2021)
Nina Krafft Sande, Pernille Bøyesen, Anna-Birgitte Aga, Hilde Berner Hammer, Berit Flatø, Johannes Roth, Vibke Lilleby

Psoriatic arthritis

Original research: Secukinumab provides sustained improvement in signs and symptoms and low radiographic progression in patients with psoriatic arthritis: 2-year (end-of-study) results from the FUTURE 5 study (30 July, 2021)
Philip J Mease, Robert Landewé, Proton Rahman, Hasan Tahir, Atul Singhal, Elke Boettcher, Sandra Navarra, Aimee Readie, Shephard Mpofu, Eumorphia Maria Delicha, Luminita Pricop, Desirée van der Heijde
Original research: Median time to pain improvement and the impact of baseline pain severity on pain response in patients with psoriatic arthritis treated with tofacitinib (5 July, 2021)
Kurt de Vlam, Alexis Ogdie, Andrew G Bushmakin, Joseph C Cappelleri, Roy Fleischmann, Peter C Taylor, Valderilio Azevedo, Lara Fallon, John Woolcott, Philip J Mease
Original research: Guselkumab induces robust reduction in acute phase proteins and type 17 effector cytokines in active psoriatic arthritis: results from phase 3 trials (19 May, 2021)
Kristen Sweet, Qingxuan Song, Matthew J Loza, Iain B McInnes, Keying Ma, Karen Leander, Vani Lakshminarayanan, Carol Franks, Philip Cooper, Stefan Siebert

Rheumatoid arthritis

Original research: Efficacy and safety of filgotinib in methotrexate-naive patients with rheumatoid arthritis with poor prognostic factors: post hoc analysis of FINCH 3 (12 August, 2021)
Daniel Aletaha, René Westhovens, Cecile Gaujoux-Viala, Giovanni Adami, Alan Matsumoto, Paul Bird, Osvaldo Daniel Messina, Maya H Buch, Beatrix Bartok, Zhaoyu Yin, Ying Guo, Thijs Hendrikx, Gerd R Burmester
Original research: Use and detailed metric properties of patient-reported outcome measures for rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review covering two decades (10 August, 2021)
Ayşe A Küçükdeveci, Atilla H Elhan, Beyza D Erdoğan, Şehim Kutlay, Derya Gökmen, Can Ateş, Selcen Yüksel, Asa Lundgren-Nilsson, Reuben Escorpizo, Gerold Stucki, Alan Tennant, Philip G Conaghan
Short report: Low prevalence of anti-SSA (anti-Ro) and anti-SSB (anti-La) autoantibodies in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis with a wish to conceive (8 July, 2021)
Hieronymus T W Smeele, Marco W J Schreurs, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, Jerome M J Cornette, Radboud J E M Dolhain
Original research: Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an international audit (8 July, 2021)
Anne Grete Semb, Silvia Rollefstad, Eirik Ikdahl, Grunde Wibetoe, Joseph Sexton, Cindy Crowson, Piet van Riel, George Kitas, Ian Graham, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, George Athanasios Karpouzas, Elena Myasoedova, Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay, Petros P Sfikakis, Maria G Tektonidou, Argyro Lazarini, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Bindee Kuriya, Carol Hitchon, Maria Simona Stoenoiu, Patrick Durez, Virginia Pascual-Ramos, Dionicio Angel Galarza-Delgado, Pompilio Faggiano, Durga Prasanna Misra, Andrew A Borg, Rong Mu, Erkin M Mirrakhimov, Diane Gheta, Karen Douglas, Vikas Agarwal, Svetlana Myasoedova, Lev Krougly, Tatiana Valentinovna Popkova, Alena Tuchyňová, Michal Tomcik, Michal Vrablik, Jiri Lastuvka, Pavel Horak, Helena Kaspar Medkova, Anne M Kerola
Original research: Risk factors for venous thromboembolism and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: do they differ in patients with rheumatoid arthritis? (30 June, 2021)
Gulsen Ozen, Sofia Pedro, Rebecca Schumacher, Teresa Simon, Kaleb Michaud
Original research: Value of imaging detected joint inflammation in explaining fatigue in RA at diagnosis and during the disease course: a large MRI study (16 June, 2021)
X M E Matthijssen, Fenne Wouters, Navkiran Sidhu, A H M van der Helm - van Mil
Original research: Tocilizumab decreases T cells but not macrophages in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis while it increases the levels of serum interleukin-6 and RANKL (10 June, 2021)
Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Alexandra Circiumaru, Bence Rethi, Vijay Joshua, Marianne Engstrom, Aase Hensvold, Erik af Klint, Anca Catrina
Original research: Efficacy and safety of tofacitinib modified-release 11 mg once daily plus methotrexate in adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis: 24-week open-label phase results from a phase 3b/4 methotrexate withdrawal non-inferiority study (ORAL Shift) (8 June, 2021)
Stanley B Cohen, Janet Pope, Boulos Haraoui, Eduardo Mysler, Annette Diehl, Tatjana Lukic, Shixue Liu, Lori Stockert, Rebecca Germino, Sujatha Menon, Harry Shi, Edward C Keystone
Review: Treatment journey in rheumatoid arthritis with biosimilars: from better access to good disease control through cost savings and prevention of nocebo effects (7 June, 2021)
Josef S Smolen, Roberto Caporali, Thomas Doerner, Bruno Fautrel, Fabrizio Benedetti, Burkhard Pieper, Minjun Jang
Original research: Short-term glucocorticoids reduce risk of chronic NSAID and analgesic use in early methotrexate-treated rheumatoid arthritis patients with favourable prognosis: subanalysis of the CareRA randomised controlled trial (24 May, 2021)
Sofia Pazmino, Annelies Boonen, Diederik De Cock, Veerle Stouten, Johan Joly, Delphine Bertrand, René Westhovens, Patrick Verschueren
Original research: Physical activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis - an agile lifelong behaviour: a qualitative meta-synthesis (7 May, 2021)
Emma Swärdh, Christina Opava, Nina Brodin
Original research: Tofacitinib versus tocilizumab in the treatment of biological-naïve or previous biological-failure patients with methotrexate-refractory active rheumatoid arthritis (6 May, 2021)
Shunsuke Mori, Yukitomo Urata, Tamami Yoshitama, Yukitaka Ueki
Original research: Randomised study of PF-06410293, an adalimumab (ADL) biosimilar, compared with reference ADL for the treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis: results from weeks 26–52, including a treatment switch from reference ADL to PF-06410293 (21 April, 2021)
Roy M Fleischmann, Daniel F Alvarez, Amy E Bock, Carol Cronenberger, Ivana Vranic, Wuyan Zhang, Rieke Alten

Sjögren syndrome

Original research: Application of the OMERACT Grey-scale Ultrasound Scoring System for salivary glands in a single-centre cohort of patients with suspected Sjögren’s syndrome (20 April, 2021)
Viktoria Fana, Uffe M Dohn, Simon Krabbe, Lene Terslev

Spondyloarthritis

Review: Biological DMARDs and disease modification in axial spondyloarthritis: a review through the lens of causal inference (12 July, 2021)
Alexandre Sepriano, Sofia Ramiro, Desirée van der Heijde, Robert Landewé
Original research: Predictive value of C-reactive protein for radiographic spinal progression in axial spondyloarthritis in dependence on genetic determinants of fibrin clot formation and fibrinolysis (29 June, 2021)
Berthold Hoppe, Christian Schwedler, Hildrun Haibel, Maryna Verba, Fabian Proft, Mikhail Protopopov, Hans-Gert Heuft, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Anke Edelmann, Martin Rudwaleit, Joachim Sieper, Denis Poddubnyy
Original research: Sick leave in early axial spondyloarthritis: the role of clinical and socioeconomic factors. Five-year data from the DESIR cohort (25 June, 2021)
Elena Nikiphorou, Pedro D Carvalho, Annelies Boonen, Bruno Fautrel, Pascal Richette, Pedro M Machado, Desirée van der Heijde, Robert Landewé, Sofia Ramiro

Spine

Original research: Macrophage migration inhibitory factor: a potential biomarker for chronic low back pain in patients with Modic changes (3 August, 2021)
Elisabeth Gjefsen, Kristina Gervin, Guro Goll, Lars Christian Haugli Bråten, Monica Wigemyr, Hans Christian D Aass, Maria Dehli Vigeland, Elina Schistad, Linda Margareth Pedersen, Are Hugo Pripp, Kjersti Storheim, Kaja Kristine Selmer, John Anker Zwart

Systemic sclerosis

Original research: New risk model is able to identify patients with a low risk of progression in systemic sclerosis (31 May, 2021)
Nina Marijn van Leeuwen, Marc Maurits, Sophie Liem, Jacopo Ciaffi, Nina Ajmone Marsan, Maarten Ninaber, Cornelia Allaart, Henrike Gillet van Dongen, Robbert Goekoop, Tom Huizinga, Rachel Knevel, Jeska De Vries-Bouwstra

Treatments

Original research: Missing data in randomised controlled trials of rheumatoid arthritis drug therapy are substantial and handled inappropriately (30 July, 2021)
Nasim A Khan, Karina D Torralba, Fawad Aslam
Original research: Efficacy and safety of intra-articular therapies in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: an overview of systematic reviews (8 June, 2021)
Sebastián Cruz Rodriguez-García, Raul Castellanos-Moreira, Jacqueline Uson, Esperanza Naredo, Terence W O'Neill, Michael Doherty, Mikael Boesen, Hemant Pandit, Ingrid Möller Parera, Valentina Vardanyan, Lene Terslev, Will Uwe Kampen, Maria Antonieta D'Agostino, Francis Berenbaum, Elena Nikiphorou, Irene Pitsillidou, Jenny de la Torre-Aboki, Loreto Carmona
Original research: Adverse events of special interest in clinical trials of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ulcerative colitis and psoriasis with 37 066 patient-years of tofacitinib exposure (27 May, 2021)
Gerd R Burmester, Peter Nash, Bruce E Sands, Kim Papp, Lori Stockert, Thomas V Jones, Huaming Tan, Ann Madsen, Hernan Valdez, Stanley B Cohen

Vasculitis

Original research: ANCA-associated renal vasculitis is associated with rurality but not seasonality or deprivation in a complete national cohort study (19 April, 2021)
Oshorenua Aiyegbusi, Marina Frleta-Gilchrist, Jamie P Traynor, Bruce Mackinnon, Samira Bell, Robert W Hunter, Neeraj Dhaun, Dana Kidder, Graham Stewart, Nicola Joss, Michael Kelly, Shahzad Shah, Vishal Dey, Kate Buck, Kathryn I Stevens, Colin C Geddes, Emily P McQuarrie

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Table of contents

July 2021 - Volume 7 - 2

Autoimmunity

Autoinflammatory disorders

Connective tissue diseases

Education

Epidemiology

Imaging

Crystal arthropathies

Inflammatory arthritis

Infections

Lupus

Osteoarthritis

Paediatric rheumatology

Psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Spondyloarthritis

Spine

Systemic sclerosis

Treatments

Vasculitis

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Table of contents

July 2021 - Volume 7 - 2

Autoimmunity

Autoinflammatory disorders

Connective tissue diseases

Education

Epidemiology

Imaging

Crystal arthropathies

Inflammatory arthritis

Infections

Lupus

Osteoarthritis

Paediatric rheumatology

Psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Spondyloarthritis

Spine

Systemic sclerosis

Treatments

Vasculitis