Rheumatology

A treat-to-target (T2T) strategy is a treatment plan in which the clinician treats the patient aggressively enough to reach and maintain explicitly specified and sequentially measured goals, such as remission, low disease activity, or absence of disability.

To examine clinical application of QSS, the authors developed a search strategy of QSS using a literature review through database of MEDLINE, Embase (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCOhost), HaPI (Ovid), Cochrane Review (Ovid), and citation mining.

The spondyloarthropathies (SpA) are a spectrum of inter-related conditions that include axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA), (also known as ankylosing spondylitis; AS), non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, peripheral spondyloathritis (pSpA), reactive arthritis (ReA), and enteropathic arthritis associated with Crohn’s disease (CD).

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, form, and severity of scoliosis in a population of adults meeting the 2017 criteria for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS).

Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection, historically known as Maltese fever, caused by aerobic Gram-negative coccobacilli, which was first identified by Sir…

It is important to recognise inflammatory back pain (IBP) for early diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The aims of this study were to develop….

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory condition of the joints and the areas where tendons and ligaments connect with bone…

This article explores applying the principle of prehabilitation to patients with rheumatoid arthritis prior to starting advanced therapies, including…