Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Dr J Kjeldsen-Kragh, Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ullevaal ...

1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Michelle Petri, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins ...

41 St. Joseph's Health Care London and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Objective The 1980 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for systemic sclerosis ...

Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of the type I interferon receptor antibody, anifrolumab, in patients with active, biopsy-proven, Class III/IV lupus nephritis. Methods This phase II ...

Correspondence to Dr Dimitrios T Boumpas, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National ...

Objective Randomised trials of type I anti-CD20 antibodies rituximab and ocrelizumab failed to show benefit in proliferative lupus nephritis (LN). We compared obinutuzumab, a humanised type II ...

11 Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Dr Vivian P Bykerk, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th St., New York, NY 10021, USA; bykerkv{at}hss.edu Objective To ...

Objectives COVID-19 vaccination often triggers a constellation of transitory inflammatory symptoms. Gout is associated with several comorbidities linked to poor outcomes in COVID-19, and gout flares ...

Objective Despite the strong association between gout and pre-diabetes, the role of metformin in gout among individuals with pre-diabetes remains uncertain. We compared the incidence rates of gout in ...

3 Arthritis Research Institute, 1st Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China Background The infrapatellar fat pad (IPFP) is of uncertain significance for knee osteoarthritis.

Objectives To investigate the effect of the L-arginine metabolism on arthritis and inflammation-mediated bone loss. Methods L-arginine was applied to three arthritis models (collagen-induced arthritis ...