The therapeutic management of Sjögren syndrome (SjS) has not changed substantially in recent decades: treatment decisions remain challenging in clinical practice, without a specific therapeutic target ...

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...

Study of the genetics of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) began about four decades ago with the discovery of HLA-DRB1. Since the beginning of this century, a number of non-HLA risk loci have been identified ...

Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The Middlesex Hospital and University College London, Arthur Stanley House, 40-50 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4NJ, UK Correspondence to: Professor D A ...

Objective In 2011, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and EULAR endorsed provisional criteria for remission in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), both Boolean-based and index-based. Based on recent ...

Correspondence to Martin Aringer, Medicine III, University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden D-01307, Germany; martin.aringer{at}uniklinikum-dresden.de; Dr ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Chunde Bao, Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; baochunde_1678{at}126.com; Professor Liangjing Lu ...

Background Remote care and telehealth have the potential to expand healthcare access, and the COVID-19 pandemic has called for alternative solutions to conventional face-to-face follow-up and ...

Correspondence to Professor Daozhang Cai and Dr Xiaochun Bai, Department of Orthopedics, Academy of Orthopedics - Guangdong Province, Orthopedic Hospital of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated ...

Correspondence to Dr Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; AvdHelm{at}lumc.nl Background ...