RMD Open: 9 (2)

Autoimmunity

Original research: New pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-40 is produced by activated neutrophils and plays a role in the early stages of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (19 May, 2023)
Adéla Navrátilová, Viktor Bečvář, Hana Hulejová, Michal Tomčík, Lucie Štolová, Heřman Mann, Olga Růžičková, Olga Šléglová, Jakub Závada, Karel Pavelka, Jiří Vencovský, Ladislav Šenolt, Lucie Andrés Cerezo

Connective tissue diseases

Original research: Disease modification achievement in patients with lupus nephritis in a real-life setting: mission impossible? (12 June, 2023)
Alexandros Panagiotopoulos, Eleni Kapsia, Ioannis Michelakis, John Boletis, Smaragdi Marinaki, Petros P Sfikakis, Maria G Tektonidou
Original research: Step forward in early recognition of systemic sclerosis: data from the Leiden CCISS cohort (7 April, 2023)
Sophie I E Liem, Jacopo Ciaffi, Nina Marijn van Leeuwen, Maaike Boonstra, Saad Ahmed, Liesbeth J J Beaart-van de Voorde, Anja Corsel, Talitha Dhondai, Maarten K Ninaber, J J Miranda Geelhoed-Veltman, Marlies E Heuvers, Maarten E Tushuizen, Nina Ajmone Marsan, Philippine Kiès, Anne A Schouffoer, Tom W J Huizinga, Cornelia F Allaart, Jeska De Vries-Bouwstra

Crystal arthropathies

Original research: Filling gaps in female gout: a cross-sectional study of comorbidities in 192 037 hospitalised patients (9 June, 2023)
Enrique Rodríguez-Sosa, Eugenio De Miguel, Fernando Borrás, Mariano Andrés
Clinical case: Case report: crowned dens syndrome in a patient with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (3 April, 2023)
Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Romeo Zanardi, Elisa Gremese

Early arthritis

Short report:
Population-based user-perceived experience of Rheumatic?: a novel digital symptom-checker in rheumatology
(24 April, 2023)
Karin Lundberg, Ling Qin, Cecilia Aulin, Willem Evert van Spil, Marc P Maurits, Rachel Knevel

Education

Original research: Educational readiness among health professionals in rheumatology: low awareness of EULAR offerings and unfamiliarity with the course content as major barriers—results of a EULAR-funded European survey (25 May, 2023)
Valentin Ritschl, Lisa Sperl, Margaret Renn Andrews, Mathilda Björk, Carina Boström, Jeannette Cappon, Thomas Davergne, Jenny de la Torre-Aboki, Annette de Thurah, Andrea Domján, Razvan Gabriel Dragoi, Fernando Estévez-López, Ricardo J O Ferreira, George E Fragoulis, Jolanta Grygielska, Katti Kõrve, Marja Leena Kukkurainen, Christel Madelaine-Bonjour, Andréa Marques, Jorit Meesters, Rikke Helene Moe, Ellen Moholt, Erika Mosor, Claudia Naimer-Stach, Mwidimi Ndosi, Polina Pchelnikova, Jette Primdahl, Polina Putrik, Anne-Kathrin Rausch Osthoff, Hana Smucrova, Marco Testa, Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Wilfred F Peter, Heidi A Zangi, Olena Zimba, Theodora P M Vliet Vlieland, Tanja A Stamm
Viewpoint: The wide range of opportunities for large language models such as ChatGPT in rheumatology (28 April, 2023)
Thomas Hügle

Epidemiology

Original research: Global, regional and national burdens of gout in the young population from 1990 to 2019: a population-based study (24 April, 2023)
Jing Zhang, Chenye Jin, Bing Ma, Hao Sun, Yanmei Chen, Ying Zhong, Cheng Han, Tingting Liu, Yongze Li

Inflammatory arthritis

Short report: Anticitrullinated peptide antibody epitope expansion and the HLA DRB1 ‘shared epitope’ are less common in seropositive checkpoint inhibitor-induced inflammatory arthritis than in longstanding rheumatoid arthritis (23 June, 2023)
Nilasha Ghosh, Pankti Reid, Carlos Andres Aude, Jessica Kirschman, Susan Goodman, Vivian P Bykerk, Amit Lakhanpal, Diviya Rajesh, Karmela K Chan, William H Robinson, Anne R Bass

Infections

Clinical case: NF-kappa-B essential modulator (NEMO) gene polymorphism in an adult woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and recurrent non-tuberculous mycobacterial disseminated infections (26 June, 2023)
Konstantinos Thomas, Georgios Tsioulos, Christina Kotsogianni, Agellos Banos, Julie E. Niemela, Aristine Cheng, Tom DiMaggio, Steven Holland, Sergio D. Rosenzweig, Nikolaos Tziolos, Antonios Papadopoulos, Michail S. Lionakis, Dimitrios T. Boumpas
Original research: Facilitators and barriers for vaccination in patients with inflammatory rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases: a prospective cohort study (9 June, 2023)
Ioana Andreica, Iulia Roman, Imke Redeker, Xenofon Baraliakos, Juergen Braun, Uta Kiltz
Original research: Characteristics and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections among double-vaccinated and triple-vaccinated patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (17 April, 2023)
Rebecca Hasseli, Jutta G. Richter, Bimba Franziska Hoyer, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Alexander Pfeil, Anne Constanze Regierer, Tim Schmeiser, Anja Strangfeld, Reinhard E Voll, Andreas Krause, Sabine Reckert, Anett Gräßler, Petra Saar, Andreas Kapelle, Marina Backhaus, Norbert Blank, Joerg Henes, Silke Osiek, Anna Knothe, Guido Hoese, Jan Brandt-Jürgens, Anja Maltzahn, Christof Specker, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Hendrik Schulze-Koops
Editorial: Should we stop methotrexate or not for vaccination? (4 April, 2023)
Patrick Durez, Bernard Combe

Lupus

Original research: Increased risk of congenital malformations in offspring born to women with systemic lupus erythematosus in South Korea: a nationwide population-based study (2 June, 2023)
Young Mi Jung, Jin Kyun Park, Min-Jeong Oh, Chan-Wook Park, Joong Shin Park, Jong Kwan Jun, Seung Mi Lee, Geum Joon Cho
Original research:
Genetic dissection of HLA-DRB1*15:01 and XL9 region variants in Japanese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: primary role for HLA-DRB1*15:01
(31 May, 2023)
Aya Kawasaki, Premita Ari Kusumawati, Yuka Kawamura, Yuya Kondo, Makio Kusaoi, Hirofumi Amano, Yasuyoshi Kusanagi, Kenji Itoh, Takashi Fujimoto, Naoto Tamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Isao Matsumoto, Takayuki Sumida, Naoyuki Tsuchiya
Original research: Four trajectories of 24-hour urine protein levels in real-world lupus nephritis cohorts (19 May, 2023)
Danting Zhang, Fangfang Sun, Jie Chen, Huihua Ding, Xiaodong Wang, Nan Shen, Ting Li, Shuang Ye

Miscellaneous

Original research: Inflammatory rheumatic diseases with onset after SARS-CoV-2 infection or COVID-19 vaccination: a report of 267 cases from the COVID-19 and ASD group (16 June, 2023)
Francesco Ursini, Piero Ruscitti, Olga Addimanda, Rosario Foti, Vincenzo Raimondo, Giuseppe Murdaca, Virginia Caira, Erika Pigatto, Giovanna Cuomo, Alberto Lo Gullo, Ilaria Cavazzana, Corrado Campochiaro, Caterina Naclerio, Rossella De Angelis, Jacopo Ciaffi, Luana Mancarella, Veronica Brusi, Elena Marchetti, Francesca Motta, Marcella Visentini, Sebastiano Lorusso, Maria De Santis, Giacomo De Luca, Laura Massaro, Domenico Olivo, Roberta Pellegrini, Francesca Francioso, Jessica Luppino, Ilenia Di Cola, Roberta Foti, Giuseppe Varcasia, Francesco Caso, Massimo Reta, Lorenzo Dagna, Carlo Selmi, Annamaria Iagnocco, Roberto Giacomelli, Florenzo Iannone, Clodoveo Ferri
Viewpoint: Assessment of type I interferon response in routine practice in France in 2022 (15 June, 2023)
Anais Nombel, Anne Perrine Foray, Lorna Garnier, Christine Lombard, Eric Hachulla, Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, Isabelle Melki, Thierry Walzer, Alexandre Belot, Sebastien Viel
Letter: Quality of citation data using the natural language processing tool ChatGPT in rheumatology: creation of false references (7 June, 2023)
Axel J Hueber, Arnd Kleyer

Myositis

Original research: Clinical, radiological and pathological features of anti-MDA5 antibody-associated interstitial lung disease (31 May, 2023)
Xixia Chen, Wei Jiang, Qiwen Jin, Qinglin Peng, Lu Zhang, Sang Lin, Xin Lu, Min Liu, Yuli Wang, Aiping Song, Ruie Feng, Guochun Wang

Osteoarthritis

Original research: Joint distraction using a purpose-built device for knee osteoarthritis: a prospective 2-year follow-up (8 June, 2023)
Thijmen Struik, Simon C Mastbergen, Reinoud W Brouwer, Roel J H Custers, Rutger C I van Geenen, Christiaan H W Heusdens, Pieter J Emans, Maarten R Huizinga, Mylène P Jansen
Review: Associations between markers of inflammation and altered pain perception mechanisms in people with knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review (24 May, 2023)
Paolo Dainese, Hanne Mahieu, Sophie De Mits, Ruth Wittoek, Jan Stautemas, Patrick Calders
Original research: Patient appropriateness for total knee arthroplasty and predicted probability of a good outcome (17 April, 2023)
Gillian A Hawker, Eric Bohm, Michael J Dunbar, Peter Faris, C Allyson Jones, Tom Noseworthy, Bheeshma Ravi, Linda J Woodhouse, Deborah A Marshall

Paediatric rheumatology

Original research: Methotrexate therapy associated with a reduced rate of new-onset uveitis in patients with biological-naïve juvenile idiopathic arthritis (24 April, 2023)
Joeri W van Straalen, Görkem Akay, Carlyn V Kouwenberg, Sytze de Roock, Viera Kalinina Ayuso, Nico M Wulffraat, Joke de Boer, Joost F Swart

Psoriatic arthritis

Original research: Characterisation of prodromal and very early psoriatic arthritis: a systematic literature review informing a EULAR taskforce (22 June, 2023)
Gabriele De Marco, Alen Zabotti, Xenofon Baraliakos, Annamaria Iagnocco, Daniel Aletaha, Paulo Gisondi, Jenny Emmel, Josef S Smolen, Dennis G McGonagle, Laure Gossec
Original research: Analysis of serum proteomics data identifies a quantitative association between beta-defensin 2 at baseline and clinical response to IL-17 blockade in psoriatic arthritis (15 June, 2023)
Mathias Cardner, Danny Tuckwell, Anna Kostikova, Pascal Forrer, Richard M Siegel, Alain Marti, Marc Vandemeulebroecke, Enrico Ferrero
Original research: Occurrence of adverse events and change in disease activity after initiation of etanercept in paediatric patients with juvenile psoriatic arthritis in the CARRA Registry (25 May, 2023)
Colleen K Correll, Scott Stryker, David Collier, Thomas A Phillips, Anne C Dennos, Stephen J Balevic, Timothy Beukelman
Editorial: Axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis: mostly overlapping or substantially different diseases? (19 May, 2023)
Juergen Braun, Laura C Coates
Original research: Methotrexate treatment in early psoriatic arthritis in comparison to rheumatoid arthritis: an observational nationwide study (12 May, 2023)
Ulf Lindström, Daniela di Giuseppe, Sofia Exarchou, Gerd-Marie Alenius, Tor Olofsson, Eva Klingberg, Lennart Jacobsson, Johan Askling, Johan K Wallman
Editorial: Axial psoratic arthritis: are you a lumper or a splitter? (5 May, 2023)
Laura C Coates, Gerd R Burmester
Short report: Extent of axial damage in psoriatic arthritis and spondyloarthritis: comparative data from the BEPAS and (Be-)GIANT multicentre cohorts (3 May, 2023)
Manouk de Hooge, Alla Ishchenko, Ann-Sophie De Craemer, Serge Steinfeld, Adrien Nzeusseu, Dirk Elewaut, Rik Lories, Kurt de Vlam, Filip Van den Bosch
Original research: Secukinumab improves physical function and quality of life and inhibits structural damage in patients with PsA with sustained remission or low disease activity: results from the 2-year phase 3 FUTURE 5 study (24 April, 2023)
Laura C Coates, Philip J Mease, Dafna D Gladman, Sandra Navarra, Weibin Bao, Corine Gaillez
Editorial: Same, same or different? Commonalities and differences between spondyloarthritis and its subsets of axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis with psoriatic arthritis and its diverse phenotypes (7 April, 2023)
Fabian Proft, Henriette Käding

Rheumatoid arthritis

Letter: Serum calprotectin levels do not predict subsequent relapse in rheumatoid arthritis in remission: a post-hoc analysis of STRASS study (26 June, 2023)
Xavier Romand, Margot Clapasson, Minh Vu Chuong, Marie Hélène Paclet, Bruno Fautrel, Athan Baillet
Original research: Changes in body weight and body composition in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis aged 65+ treated with 2-year low-dose add-on prednisolone in the randomised double-blind placebo-controlled GLORIA trial (22 June, 2023)
Melek Güler-Yüksel, Martijn Kuijper, Reinhard Bos, Esmeralda Molenaar, Jasper Emmering, Sylvia Eshuis, Adams Human, Floor Reimann, Maarten Boers, Marc R Kok
Original research: Joint involvement in RA starts predominantly in the hands: functional, clinical and imaging studies in clinically suspect arthralgia and during progression to RA (16 June, 2023)
Sarah J H Khidir, Bastiaan T van Dijk, Doortje I Krijbolder, Marloes Verstappen, Elise van Mulligen, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
Editorial: Complex role of oestrogens in the risk and severity of rheumatoid arthritis in menopause (15 June, 2023)
Maurizio Cutolo, Emanuele Gotelli
Letter: Grip strength reduction in clinically suspect arthralgia: natural trajectories and improvement after treatment (23 May, 2023)
Doortje I Krijbolder, Fenne Wouters, Ellis Niemantsverdriet, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
Original research: ‘It surprised me a lot that there is a link’: a qualitative study of the acceptability of periodontal treatment for individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis (8 May, 2023)
Lara S Chapman, Karen Vinall-Collier, Heidi J Siddle, Zhain Mustufvi, Kulveer Mankia, Stefan Serban
Original research: What is the best target in a treat-to-target strategy in rheumatoid arthritis? Results from a systematic review and meta-regression analysis (28 April, 2023)
Marianne A Messelink, Alfons A den Broeder, Florine E Marinelli, Edwin Michgels, P Verschueren, Daniel Aletaha, Janneke Tekstra, Paco M J Welsing
Original research: Sustained remission following the discontinuation of tofacitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (XANADU study): an open-label randomised study (25 April, 2023)
Satoshi Kubo, Yusuke Miyazaki, Koichi Amano, Kiyoshi Matsui, Hideto Kameda, Yoshino Inoue, Shingo Nakayamada, Takehisa Ogura, Yuko Kaneko, Kunihiro Yamaoka, Yoshiya Tanaka
Original research: Repair of joint damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis does not relate to previous suppression of inflammation: a subanalysis after 8 years treat-to-target in the BeSt-trial (25 April, 2023)
Joy Ardjuna van der Pol, Gülşah Akdemir, Marianne van den Broek, Linda Dirven, Pit J S M Kerstens, Willem F Lems, Iris M Markusse, Tom W J Huizinga, Cornelia F Allaart
Original research: Robust analyses for radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis (4 April, 2023)
Robert Landewé, Luna Sun, Yun-Fei Chen, Mo Daojun, Desirée van der Heijde

Sjögren syndrome

Short report: Alteration of innate lymphoid cell homeostasis mainly concerns salivary glands in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (25 May, 2023)
Lou Kawka, Renaud Felten, Cédric Schleiss, Jean-Daniel Fauny, Pauline Le Van Quyen, Hélène Dumortier, Fanny Monneaux, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg
Clinical case: Bilateral swelling of the salivary glands and sicca symptoms: an unusual differential diagnosis—Kimura’s disease, a rare allergic condition with a high IgE serum level—a case report and review of the literature (10 May, 2023)
Jüergen Braun, Thomas Mairinger, Oliver Kaschke, Kai Behrendt, Josef Ramsbacher, Kirsten Karberg
Original research: Possible role for IL-40 and IL-40-producing cells in the lymphocytic infiltrated salivary glands of patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (3 May, 2023)
Giuliana Guggino, Chiara Rizzo, Leila Mohammadnezhad, Marianna Lo Pizzo, Vincenzo Luca Lentini, Diana Di Liberto, Lidia La Barbera, Stefania Raimondo, Mojtaba Shekarkar Azgomi, Ornella Urzì, Onorina Berardicurti, Giuseppina Campisi, Riccardo Alessandro, Roberto Giacomelli, Francesco Dieli, Francesco Ciccia

Spondyloarthritis

Original research: Characterisation of patients with axial psoriatic arthritis and patients with axial spondyloarthritis and concomitant psoriasis in the SCQM registry (5 June, 2023)
Adrian Ciurea, Andrea Götschi, Seraphina Kissling, Alexander Bernatschek, Kristina Bürki, Pascale Exer, Michael J Nissen, Burkhard Möller, Almut Scherer, Raphael Micheroli
Original research: Development of a web-based decision aid for initiating biological or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) in axial spondyloarthritis (1 June, 2023)
Esther Beckers, Annelies Boonen, Astrid van Tubergen
Original research: Sleep behaviour differs in women and men with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis with impact on quality of life and depressive symptoms (19 May, 2023)
Natalie Frede, Eva Rieger, Raquel Lorenzetti, Ana C Venhoff, Anna-Maria Kanne, Stephanie Finzel, Ilona Jandova, Cornelia Glaser, Jens Thiel, Reinhard E Voll, Nils Venhoff
Letter: Effect of group-based physiotherapy on pain and depression in patients with axial spondyloarthritis and non-specific low back pain: data of 1-year follow-up (3 May, 2023)
Markéta Hušáková, Andrea Levitová, Klára Daďová, Daniela Domluvilová, Karel Pavelka

Treatments

Original research: Self-evidence-based digital care programme improves health-related quality of life in adults with a variety of autoimmune diseases and long COVID: a retrospective study (16 May, 2023)
Nicole Bundy, Mackenzie De Jesus, Millennia Lytle, Leonard Calabrese, Christina Gobin, Mette Dyhrberg

Vasculitis

Original research: Measuring treatment outcomes and change in disease activity in giant cell arteritis: a systematic literature review informing the development of the EULAR-ACR response criteria on behalf of the EULAR-ACR response criteria in giant cell arteritis task force (22 June, 2023)
Catalina Sanchez-Alvarez, Milena Bond, Medha Soowamber, Dario Camellino, Melanie Anderson, Carol A Langford, Christian Dejaco, Zahi Touma, Sofia Ramiro
Original research: Systematic literature review informing the 2022 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV): Part 2 - Treatment of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis and diagnosis and general management of AAV (22 June, 2023)
Beatriz Sanchez-Alamo, Jan Henrik Schirmer, Bernhard Hellmich, David Jayne, Sara Monti, Gunnar Tomasson, Raashid Ahmed Luqmani
Original research: Intravenous versus subcutaneous tocilizumab in Takayasu arteritis: multicentre retrospective study (15 June, 2023)
Arsène Mekinian, Lucie Biard, Dagna Lorenzo, Pavel I Novikov, Carlo Salvarani, Olivier Espitia, Savino Sciascia, Martin Michaud, Marc Lambert, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Nicolas Schleinitz, Abid Awisat, Xavier Puechal, Achille Aouba, Helene Munoz Pons, Ilya Smitienko, Jean Baptiste Gaultier, Le Mouel Edwige, Ygal Benhamou, Antoinette Perlat, Patrick Jego, Tiphaine Goulenok, Karim Sacre, Bertrand Lioger, Nolan Hassold, Jonathan Broner, Virginie Dufrost, Thomas Sené, Julie Seguier, Francois Maurier, Sabine Berthier, Alexandre Belot, Faten Frikha, Guillaume Denis, Alexandra Audemard-Verger, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Sebastien Humbert, Pascal Woaye-Hune, Alessandro Tomelleri, Elena Marina Baldissera, Masataka Kuwana, Alberto Lo Gullo, Vahan Mukuchyan, Azeddine Dellal, Francis Gaches, Pierre Zeminsky, Elena Galli, Moya Alvarado, Luigi Boiardi, Francesco Muratore, Mathieu Vautier, Corrado Campochiaro, Sergey Moiseev, Matheus Vieira, Patrice Cacoub, Olivier Fain, David Saadoun
Short report: Performance of the 2022 ACR/EULAR giant cell arteritis classification criteria for diagnosis in patients with suspected giant cell arteritis in routine clinical care (24 April, 2023)
Juan Molina-Collada, Isabel Castrejón, Irene Monjo, Elisa Fernández-Fernández, Gabriela Torres Ortiz, Jose María Álvaro-Gracia, Eugenio de Miguel
Original research: Diagnostic significance of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) titres: a retrospective case-control study (13 April, 2023)
Julie Merindol, Michael Levraut, Barbara Seitz-Polski, Lucas Morand, Nihal Martis
Original research: Outcomes during and after long-term tocilizumab treatment in patients with giant cell arteritis (6 April, 2023)
Mark A Matza, Nicholas Dagincourt, Shalini V Mohan, Andrey Pavlov, Jian Han, John H Stone, Sebastian H Unizony

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April 2023 - Volume 9 - 2

Autoimmunity

Connective tissue diseases

Crystal arthropathies

Early arthritis

Education

Epidemiology

Inflammatory arthritis

Infections

Lupus

Miscellaneous

Myositis

Osteoarthritis

Paediatric rheumatology

Psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Spondyloarthritis

Treatments

Vasculitis

Correction

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Table of contents

April 2023 - Volume 9 - 2

Autoimmunity

Connective tissue diseases

Crystal arthropathies

Early arthritis

Education

Epidemiology

Inflammatory arthritis

Infections

Lupus

Miscellaneous

Myositis

Osteoarthritis

Paediatric rheumatology

Psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sjögren syndrome

Spondyloarthritis

Treatments

Vasculitis

Correction