Rheumatology

Karen Walker-Bone |  Professor and Honorary Consultant in Occupational Rheumatology, University of Southampton; Director, Arthritis Research…

Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) is an opportunistic infection affecting immunocompromised individuals…

Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) biomarkers may have an important role to play in the evaluation of individuals…

Many patients with rheumatic diseases (RMD) are diagnosed during their childbearing years.1 Historically, females with RMDs were advised to avoid pregnancy due to potential risk to both mother and fetus.

It is now accepted that sustained remission is the key treatment goal for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The availability of biologic therapies and the use of targeted treatment strategies has led to increasing numbers of patients achieving remission; however, specific guidance for the management of patients with RA in sustained clinical remission, treated with conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (cs-DMARDs), is lacking.

Behçet’s syndrome (BS) was first described by Hulusi Behçet in 1931, as a definite clinical entity, the ‘triple symptom complex’, based on three prominent signs: relapsing oral apthae, genital ulcerations, and iritis.

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic inflammatory condition that predominantly affects the sacroiliac joints and spine. It is a…

Osteoarthritis (OA) has been proposed to result from complement-mediated inflammatory cascades; on the other hand, periodontal disease (PD) has been shown to trigger systemic inflammation through complement-mediated pathways.