Background Fatigue is one of the most disabling symptoms in primary Sjogren’s syndrome (pSS) and it significantly impacts patient’s quality of life[1]. However, the cause of this symptom remains ...

Objectives The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) aimed to develop a set of quality standards (QS) to help improve the quality of healthcare provided to adult patients ...

Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...

1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...

Correspondence to Dr Antonis Fanouriakis, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens 12462, Greece; afanour{at}med.uoa.gr Our objective was to update the EULAR ...

Correspondence to Professor Ling Qin, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China; lingqin{at}cuhk.edu.hk; Professor Kingston King-lun Mak, Joint Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Guangzhou ...

Objectives To investigate the role of mechanical stress in cartilage ageing and identify the mechanistic association during osteoarthritis (OA) progression. Conclusions FBXW7 is a key factor in the ...

Objectives Although T cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a comprehensive study of T-cell-mediated immune responses in the affected skin of patients with ...

Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Dr R G Cooper, Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, M6 8HD, UK; ...

1 University Hospitals of Strasbourg, French National Reference Center for Rare Auto-immune Diseases (RESO), Department of Rheumatology, Strasbourg, France 2 Maple Health Group, LLC, New York, United ...

Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) share many clinical manifestations and serological features. The aim of this study was to ...

Objective Innate lymphoid cells-2 (ILC2) were shown to be involved in the development of lung or hepatic fibrosis. We sought to explore the functional and phenotypic heterogeneity of ILC2 in skin ...