Introduction Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a serious extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The pulmonary safety of biologic ...

Neuropathic pain is a devastating type of pain that significantly reduces the quality of life of affected people.

Objective A panel of antibodies against three antigens, University Hasselt (UH)-rheumatoid arthritis (RA).305, 318 and 329, has been associated with lack of response to first-line therapy in the Care ...

Objective Proactive therapeutic drug monitoring (pTDM) intends to optimise tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor treatment through regular assessment of drug and antidrug antibody levels, enabling ...

Background This study aimed to explore the association of the sarcopenia questionnaire Strength, Assistance with walking, Rise from a chair, Climb stairs, Falls (SARC-F) with muscle strength, physical ...

Objective To assess all-cause mortality in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and to examine the influence of sex, comorbidities and biologic or targeted ...

Objectives To develop response criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using the two-component Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (2C-DAS28). Methods Data were available for three stages of RA ...

Objectives To compare the sensitivity of International Study Group (ISG, 1990), International Criteria for Behçet’s Disease (ICBD, 2014) and the Paediatric Behçet’s Disease (PEDBD, 2016) ...

Objective This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of hyposplenism in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its association with an increased risk of infection. Methods This ...