Background: The novel therapeutic principle of complement C5 inhibition by avacopan was approved for the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), in particular for granulomatosis with ...

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can cause fibroinflammatory lesions in nearly any organ. Correlation among clinical, serological, radiological and pathological data is required for diagnosis. This work ...

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy and safety of upadacitinib, a Janus kinase inhibitor, in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with an inadequate response (IR) to biological ...

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of an oral selective tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor, deucravacitinib, in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods In this double-blind, ...

Objectives Bone remodelling is a highly dynamic process dependent on the precise coordination of osteoblasts and haematopoietic-cell derived osteoclasts. Changes in core metabolic pathways during ...

Objective To compare the relative bioavailability, safety and tolerability of oral methotrexate (MTX) and subcutaneous (SC) MTX administered via an auto-injector (MTXAI) in patients with rheumatoid ...

Background The optimal first-line treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is debated. We compared clinical and radiographic outcomes of active conventional therapy with each of three biological ...

Objectives Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis of human knee articular cartilage tissue to present a comprehensive transcriptome landscape and osteoarthritis (OA)-critical cell ...

Background: Anti-synthetase syndrome (ASSD) is a rare systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease (SARD) with significant heterogeneity [1], for which currently there are no shared classification criteria.

Background Chronic pain affects 30% of all patients in developed countries, accounting for up to 35% of prescriptions in acute care settings. Non-opioid pain medications are widely utilized for ...

Objectives Alterations in tryptophan (Trp) metabolism have been reported in inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, understanding whether these alterations participate in ...

Background An increased risk of malignancy was reported in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) [1-3]. Objectives To estimate the prevalence of cancer in a Portuguese cohort of patients ...