Rheumatology

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

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.

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…

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…

To evaluate changes in microbial composition and the evolution of gastrointestinal tract (GIT) symptoms in systemic sclerosis (SSc).

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune condition prevalent in North America and Northern European populations with an incidence of 1%…

Autoimmune hepatitis is a condition closely related to autoimmune diseases. Previously, it was known to have three distinct types, which were recently…

Niccolo Machiavelli and Winston Churchill have both been credited with the advice: “Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis.” It would be…