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Pneumonia vaccination timing in relation to starting conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of infections, and pneumococcal vaccination is recommended. With some evidence that pneumococcal vaccinations are not as effective when ...
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Disease activity assessment in childhood vasculitis: development and preliminary validation of the Paediatric Vasculitis Activity Score (PVAS)

1 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic 2 Institute of ...
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Defining conditions where long-term glucocorticoid treatment has an acceptably low level of harm to facilitate implementation of existing recommendations: viewpoints from an ...

3 Amsterdam Rheumatology& Immunology Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4 Medical Humanities, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
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Psoriatic arthritis: epidemiology, clinical features, course, and outcome

1 University of Toronto, Toronto Western Research Institute, Psoriatic Arthritis Program, University Health Network, Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, ...
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EULAR recommendations for terminology and research in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis: report from the Study Group for Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis

1 Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Rheumatology Research Group, MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, ...
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Inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic description of the extent and frequency of acute spinal changes using magnetic resonance imaging

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used to detect inflammation in the spine of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Objectives: To detect differentially the presence ...
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2022 American College of Rheumatology/European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

6 Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 7 Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Objective To develop and validate revised ...
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Risk of serious infections in tocilizumab versus other biologic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multidatabase cohort study

Objective To investigate the rate of serious bacterial, viral or opportunistic infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) starting tocilizumab (TCZ) versus tumour necrosis factor inhibitors ...
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Sequential rituximab and mepolizumab in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA): a European multicentre observational study

Correspondence to Dr Giacomo Emmi, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, 50134 Firenze, Italy; giacomo.emmi{at}unifi.it Eosinophilic granulomatosis with ...
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Analysis for crystals in synovial fluid: training of the analysts results in high consistency

1 Department of Clinical Analysis, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain 2 Rheumatology Section, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante and Universidad Miguel Hernández, ...
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EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

15 Department of Radiology. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 16 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...
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Comparative risk of serious infections among real-world users of biologics for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis

Correspondence to Dr G Caleb Alexander, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; galexan9{at}jhmi.edu Objective To examine whether initiation ...