Objectives The intrauterine environment may influence childhood immune-mediated disease risk. We investigated whether ...

Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) predominantly affects women of childbearing age and is often associated with ...

Background Approximately 10%–20% of patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) are resistant to intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) ...

It is postulated that fibromyalgia reflects a neurobiologically rooted imbalance between overactivated threat systems and ...

Objectives The oral microbiome plays a critical role in modulating systemic inflammation, partly through its interactions ...

Objectives Medication adherence is a key determinant of treatment effectiveness in chronic inflammatory diseases but data in ...

Objectives To assess 52-week safety and efficacy of bimekizumab in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and prior inadequate response/intolerance to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors.

Background Vascular inflammation persists in temporal artery biopsy (TAB) of giant cell arteritis (GCA) patients even after prolonged glucocorticoid (GC) therapy. We aimed to evaluate the histological ...

Background Management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is largely guided by organ involvement. Serositis affects up to 46% of patients, yet its treatment is mainly empirical and extrapolated from ...

Objective A new adult-onset autoinflammatory syndrome has been described, named VEXAS (Vacuoles, E1 Enzyme, X-linked, Autoinflammatory, Somatic). We aimed to compare the clinical characteristics, the ...

Objectives To obtain an overview of gender equity at European rheumatology conferences. Methods The proportion of women invited as either moderators or speakers to the European Alliance of ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterised by the presence of autoantibodies. Their value for diagnostic/prognostic purposes has been well established. In contrast, their ...