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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective: To compare the efficacy of aerobic walking and home based quadriceps strengthening exercises in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Methods: The Medline, Pubmed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PEDro ...

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 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is highly heterogenous with distinct cellular and molecular tissue pathotypes that associate with disease outcome[1]. The synovial membrane is the primary target ...

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 Bone remodelling is a highly dynamic process dependent on the precise coordination of osteoblasts and haematopoietic-cell derived osteoclasts. Changes in core metabolic pathways during ...

Objective Polymorphisms in the antifungal signalling molecule CARD9 are associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Here, we investigated the cellular mechanism by which CARD9 controls pathogenic ...