Psoriasis is a common chronic, recurrent, immune mediated disease of the skin and joints. It can have a significant negative impact on the physical, emotional, and, psychosocial wellbeing of affected ...

a Arthritis and Rheumatism Councils’ Epidemiology Research Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester , b Industrial and Community Health Research Centre, School of Postgraduate Medicine, ...

Objectives Lupus nephritis (LN) is a frequent complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Severe (proliferative) forms of LN are treated with induction immunosuppressive therapy (IST), ...

1 Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ...

Dr B Manger, Department of Internal Medicine III, University Erlangen Krankenhausstr 12, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany Newer US techniques, which are currently being evaluated, include colour and power ...

Dr C H M van den Ende, Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Rheumatology, C4-R, Postbox 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands Email:e.vandenende{at}nivel.nl OBJECTIVE To investigate the ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the potential relation between cumulative exposure to cigarette smoking in patients with or without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a positive family history of the disease.

Correspondence to Dr Rachel O'Mahony, NCC-CC, Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE, UK; rachel.o'mahony{at}rcplondon.ac.uk Objective To define the effects of ...

Objective: To carry out a critical appraisal of the literature in an attempt to assess the current value of synovial fluid (SF) analysis in the diagnosis of joint disease. Methods: A literature search ...

1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Michelle Petri, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins ...

Objective: To determine in a prospective population-based cohort study relationships between different measures of body mass and the incidence of severe knee and hip osteoarthritis defined as ...

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; ...