National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Departmentt of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway Tore K Kvien, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23 ...

Correspondence to Dr Jörg H W Distler, Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and University Hospital Erlangen, ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK 2 Department of Rheumatology, Maidstone and Tunbridge Well NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Abdul Khan, ...

Background: Emerging evidence during the last two decades supports a pivotal role of Interleukin 6 (IL-6) in the pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc). Standard immunosuppressive agents are often ...

1 MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, Institute for Biomedical Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Objectives In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a ...

3 Department of Medical, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, University Maastricht 4 Department of Health Organisation, Policy and Economics, University Maastricht Correspondence to: Dr Annelies ...

Background Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease, characterized by multisystemic organ involvement and with a broad spectrum of clinical and laboratory manifestations.

1 Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, ...

Correspondence to Dr Tristan Maerz, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; tmaerz{at}med.umich.edu Objectives Synovium is acutely affected following joint ...

Objectives Fibroblasts in synovium include fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) in the lining and Thy1+ connective-tissue fibroblasts in the sublining. We aimed to investigate their developmental origin ...

Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum Berlin and Department of Rheumatology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany Dr B F Hoyer, Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum Berlin and Department of ...

Objective Remission in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an increasingly attainable goal, but there is no widely used definition of remission that is stringent but achievable and could be applied uniformly ...