Background: Gout is increasingly common disease in China. Dotinurad is a novel, selective urate reabsorption inhibitor, which reduces serum uric acid levels by selective inhibition of the urate ...

Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP) with or without digital ulcer formation is a significant cause of morbidity for patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc, scleroderma). Lichtenstein reported oral sildenafil as ...

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy and safety of ianalumab (VAY736), a B cell-depleting, B cell activating factor receptor-blocking, monoclonal antibody, in patients with active primary Sjögren’s ...

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 ...

A century ago syphilis was regarded as the great masquerader. Its modern equivalent is lupus. It may present to a wide range of specialists and its outcome, while much improved, remains uncertain in a ...

Objectives To investigate the role of mechanical stress in cartilage ageing and identify the mechanistic association during osteoarthritis (OA) progression. Methods F-box and WD repeat domain ...

Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis and one in which pathogenesis and risk factors are best understood. One of the treatment objectives in current guidelines is ‘cure’. However, audits show ...

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 ...

Objectives SARS‐CoV‐2-induced COVID-19 has led to exponentially rising mortality, particularly in immunosuppressed patients, who inadequately respond to conventional COVID-19 vaccination. Methods In ...

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of sacroiliac joints has evolved as the most relevant imaging modality for diagnosis and classification of early axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) including ...

Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are synthetic proteins designed to direct an immune response toward a specific target and have been used in immunotherapeutic applications through the adoptive ...

The burden of gout increased globally across the 20th and 21st centuries.1 However, a study using cross-sectional datasets demonstrated stable prevalence of hyperuricaemia and gout in the USA between ...