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EULAR definition of arthralgia suspicious for progression to rheumatoid arthritis

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 ...
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Synovial tissue inflammation in early and late osteoarthritis

1 Department of Rheumatology, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 2 Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The ...
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Diagnosis and management of adult onset Still’s disease

1 Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ 07101, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell ...
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The 2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for IgG4-related disease

Correspondence to Dr John H Stone, Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; jhstone{at}mgh.harvard.edu IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can cause ...
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The spine in sport and veteran military parachutists

Spinal injuries and symptoms were studied in 109 ex-military parachutists and 112 sport (free fall) parachutists by means of postal questionnaires. 46 ex-military parachutists aged 50 years or over ...
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ASDAS, a highly discriminatory ASAS-endorsed disease activity score in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

7 Maastricht University Medical Center and CAPHRI Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor D van der Heijde, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical ...
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Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS) discriminates responders in the BLISS-52 and BLISS-76 phase III trials of belimumab in systemic lupus erythematosus

Objective We evaluated the discriminant capacity of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS) in post-hoc analysis of data from the BLISS-52 and BLISS-76 trials of belimumab in systemic lupus ...
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High disease activity is associated with an increased risk of infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

2 Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 3 Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of ...
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Physiotherapy for anterior knee pain: a randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...
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Difficulties making a fist in clinically suspect arthralgia: an easy applicable phenomenon predictive for RA that is related to flexor tenosynovitis

Correspondence to Fenne Wouters, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; f.wouters{at}lumc.nl Difficulties making a fist in patients presenting ...
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Inequities in access to biologic and synthetic DMARDs across 46 European countries

1 Department of Health Promotion and Education, Maastricht University, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Garcia de ...
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Combination of IL-17 and TNFα induces a pro-inflammatory, pro-coagulant and pro-thrombotic phenotype in human endothelial cells

Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Immunogenomics and Inflammation Research Unit, Hopital Edouard Herriot, University of Lyon, Lyon, France Correspondence to Professor Pierre Miossec, ...