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26th July 2016

Editor’s Pick: TYRO3, AXL, and MERTK Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Is There Evidence of Direct Involvement in Development and Onset of Sjögren’s Syndrome?

Sjögren’s syndrome (SjS) is a chronic, progressive, systemic, human autoimmune disease in which an auto-inflammatory process within the salivary and…
26th July 2016

The Relevance of Hyperuricaemia

The aim of the present review is to summarise the results from recent clinical studies on the basis of the newly proposed temporal classification of…
26th July 2016

Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Rheumatoid Arthritis

People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are often under-recognised as a group with elevated risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease and increased morbidity…
26th July 2016

Psoriatic Arthritis: A Review

Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory arthritis which affects the skin and musculoskeletal system. If not diagnosed early and treated effectively it can…
26th July 2016

Therapies in the Pipeline for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

The current goals in the development of novel therapeutics of systemic autoimmune diseases are to develop agents more effective than conventional…
26th July 2016

Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies; Association with Overlap Myositis and Syndromes: Classification, Clinical Characteristics, and Associated Autoantibodies

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are traditionally identified as a group of disorders that target skeletal muscle due to autoimmune dysfunction…
21st April 2016

From Bench to Bedside: Targeting the IL-1β Pathway in Autoinflammatory Diseases

Prof Gerd Horneff opened the symposium with a summary of the recent advances in the understanding of the role of interleukin (IL)-1β in the pathogenesis…
21st April 2016

American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP) 2015 Meeting Highlights: New Data on Canakinumab

nterleukin (IL)-1 is a messenger for the regulation of inflammatory responses, but it can be harmful when in excess, such as in the inflammation observed…