The management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has significantly improved, but a substantial number of patients still experience ...

Background Pain and fatigue are among the most debilitating symptoms of systemic sclerosis (SSc), severely impairing quality ...

Objectives To evaluate the diagnostic utility of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA)-derived biomarkers in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) and to advance the pathophysiological ...

Objectives (1) To assess the risk of haematological malignancies in individuals with systemic sclerosis (SSc) compared with individuals without SSc; (2) to explore how the risk varies across groups ...

Objective To assess the long-term safety and efficacy of upadacitinib over 5 years in Japanese patients with moderate-to-severe active rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to stable doses ...

Aim To evaluate the reliability and diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence (AI) driven robotic ultrasonography (RUS) compared with human ultrasonography (HUS) performed by a trained ...

Objectives To explore characteristics and treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with invasive fungal infections (IFIs) and to describe infection details and outcome. Methods IFIs ...

Background Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) has long been debated as an early nonspecific phase/symptom of differentiated connective tissue diseases (dCTD), similarly to interstitial pneumonia ...

Objectives Patients with primary Sjögren’s disease (SjD) have an increased risk of B cell lymphoma. The aim of this study was to determine serum protein biomarkers for lymphoma development and to ...

Objectives The optimal duration of glucocorticoid (GC) treatment in lupus nephritis (LN) remains unclear. We examined predictors of GC tapering and discontinuation (D/C), flares during tapering and ...