Background Fatigue is one of the most disabling symptoms in primary Sjogren’s syndrome (pSS) and it significantly impacts patient’s quality of life[1]. However, the cause of this symptom remains ...
1 University Hospitals of Strasbourg, French National Reference Center for Rare Auto-immune Diseases (RESO), Department of Rheumatology, Strasbourg, France 2 Maple Health Group, LLC, New York, United ...
Background: Peresolimab is a humanized immunoglobulin G1 monoclonal antibody that stimulates human programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1). Peresolimab demonstrated superiority to placebo in Disease ...
1 Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Department of Medicine, Tai Po, Hong Kong (SAR) 2 The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, ...
Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of adding sulfasalazine to leflunomide treatment compared with switching to sulfasalazine alone in patients with RA with an inadequate response to ...
1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...
1 University Hospital Tuebingen, Center for Interdisciplinary Rheumatology, Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases (INDIRA) and Department for Internal Medicine II (Hematology, Oncology, Rheumatology and ...
Objectives Although T cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a comprehensive study of T-cell-mediated immune responses in the affected skin of patients with ...
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized with joint damage and physical dysfunction, leading to reducing quality of life. The causes of physical dysfunction in RA are multifactorial, ...
Correspondence to Professor Ling Qin, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China; lingqin{at}cuhk.edu.hk; Professor Kingston King-lun Mak, Joint Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Guangzhou ...
Background: The challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic may represent an overwhelmingly stressful event for ankylosing spondylitis (SpA) patients and impact their treatment adherence. In response to ...