BMJ7h
A randomised controlled trial of occupational therapy for people with early rheumatoid arthritis
Background: Occupational therapy (OT) aims at improving performance of daily living tasks, facilitating successful adjustments in lifestyle, and preventing losses of function. Objective: To evaluate ...
BMJ20h
Not only synovitis but also tenosynovitis needs to be considered: why it is time to update textbook images of rheumatoid arthritis
Correspondence to Professor Annette van der Helm-van Mil, Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; A.H.M.van_der_Helm{at}lumc.nl Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is ...
BMJ21h
Inflammatory cytokines in cancer: tumour necrosis factor and interleukin 6 take the stage
Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Signal Transduction, Departments of Pharmacology and Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California, USA Correspondence to Dr Michael ...
BMJ1d
Anti-endothelial cell antibodies in systemic sclerosis
Department of Internal Medicine/Division Clinical and Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor J W C Tervaert, Department of ...
BMJ1d
PPARγ preservation via promoter demethylation alleviates osteoarthritis in mice
Objectives Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disease in aged population and its development is significantly influenced by aberrant epigenetic modifications of numerous OA ...
BMJ2d
Effects of corticosteroids and immunosuppressors on idiopathic inflammatory myopathy related myocarditis evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging
1 Paris-Descartes University, Rheumatology A Department, Cochin Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France 2 Paris-Descartes University, Radiology A Department, Cochin Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France 3 ...
BMJ4d
Synovial fibroblasts assume distinct functional identities and secrete R-spondin 2 in osteoarthritis
Correspondence to Dr Tristan Maerz, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; tmaerz{at}med.umich.edu Objectives Synovium is acutely affected following joint ...
BMJ7d
Are patients with rheumatoid arthritis still at an increased risk of tuberculosis and what is the role of biological treatments?
Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth V Arkema, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, T2, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17176, Sweden; Elizabeth.Arkema{at}ki.se Objective To estimate the risk of tuberculosis (TB) ...
BMJ14d
Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial
Objectives Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating ...
BMJ14d
Evidence that autoantibody production may be driven by acute Epstein-Barr virus infection in Sjögren’s disease
Objectives Sjögren’s disease (SD) is an autoimmune disease affecting the exocrine glands that is associated with autoantibodies against Ro60/SS-A, anti-Ro52/TRIM21, La/SS-B and others. We examined the ...
BMJ15d
Management of systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic literature review informing the 2023 update of the EULAR recommendations
Objectives To analyse the new evidence (2018–2022) for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) to inform the 2023 update of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations.