In a cross-sectional study, researchers identified associations of ultrasonography changes in entheses with clinical characteristics in patients with PsA and compared the changes with healthy participants.
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Sharon Chung, MD, lead investigator on the new practice guideline for vasculitis, discussed how the guideline will help rheumatologists manage classic systemic vasculitis conditions they may encounter in...
Authors of a new study presented at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting evaluated the safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with preexisting autoimmune diseases.
The authors evaluated whether polypharmacy is associated with treatment response and serious adverse events among more than 22,000 patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Intra-articular corticosteroids are frequently injected to relieve joint pain in osteoarthritis. But with emerging conflicting reports about safety, the authors of a new review investigated whether the...
The authors evaluated data of more than 2000 persons to compare demographic, clinical, and radiographic variables between patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), AS with psoriasis, axial psoriatic...
The authors compared baseline characteristics of persons with juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with and without lupus nephritis to identify clinical and laboratory predictors of lupus...
To assess the potential of sprifermin as a disease-modifying osteoarthritis agent, authors of the FORWARD randomized clinical trial evaluated the agent’s impact on femorotibial joint cartilage thickness...
The authors performed a systematic review of data of more than 1300 children to determine whether a positive ANA result could be useful for the diagnosis of autoimmune rheumatological conditions.
Researchers analyzed data from the FNIH Bone Quality Project to determine whether defining the surrogate threshold effect for bone mineral density change could identify a new regulatory pathway for...
