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 ...

1 Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Data Coordinating Center, Boston University School of ...

Background: Xanthine oxidase inhibitors (XOI) are commonly used as urate lowering therapy (ULT) for the treatment of gout. Allopurinol, the first-line treatment, demonstrates low response rate (< 40%) ...

2 Farhat Hached Hospital, Endocrinology and Diabetes Department, Sousse, Tunisia Background Hyperuricemia is reported to be a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prediabetes.

1 Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK 2 Department of Immunology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK Correspondence to Clive Kelly, Department of ...

OBJECTIVE Subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS) is a frequent cause of shoulder pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests, in patients with SIS ...

Background Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionised the management of several cancers, enhancing the anti-tumoral immune response. However they are responsible for many Immune Related ...

Background Interleukin-23 (IL-23), a key regulator of multiple effector cytokines, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of psoriatic lesions, synovitis, enthesitis, and bone erosion. Risankizumab ...

‘Poly-refractory’ disease affects 2.7% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have failed different groups of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b-DMARDS) and targeted synthetic ...

Correspondence to Xiaoqing Peng, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; pengxiaoqing{at}ahmu.edu.cn We read with ...

Correspondence to Professor Sergey Moiseev, Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow 119435, Russian Federation; clinpharm{at}mtu-net.ru ...

Department of Rheumatology, Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals, Castle Lane East, Bournemouth BH7 7DW A 65 year old man was admitted with a one month history of increasingly severe left ...