For more than three decades, low-dose methotrexate (MTX) has been the first-line treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Even after the introduction of biologics/biosimilars and janus ...

Correspondence to Dr Chuan-ju Liu, Rm 1608, HJD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Medical Center, 301 East 17th Street, New York NY10003, USA; chuanju.liu{at}nyumc.org Objective ...

Correspondence to Dr L H Glimcher, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, FXB 205, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...

Background: Rowell syndrome is a rather rare and highly debated entity, initially defined by Rowell et all as discoid lupus associated with erythema multiforme-like (EM) lesions, positive speckled ANA ...

Background IgG autoantibodies mediate autoimmune pathology in a number of autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, myasthenia gravis, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, autoimmune skin ...

Background Osteoarthritis is the most common degenerative bone and joint disease. Hypothesis has been widely accepted that osteoarthritis (OA) starts from cartilage injury and loss, while emerging ...

Background: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), previously referred to as Churg-Strauss syndrome, is a rare, systemic necrotising vasculitis associated with blood and tissue ...

1 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beijing, China 2 Pingxiang People’s Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Pingxiang ...

2 Mohammed V University Rabat, Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Epidemiology (LBRCE), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat, Morocco 3 Mohammed V University Rabat, Military ...

1 The First Hospital of China Medical University, Department of Pediatrics, Shen Yang, China 2 Zhongshan City People’s Hospital, Department of General Pediatrics, Zhong Shan, China Background ...