Objectives One-fifth of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) recipients experience a suboptimal outcome. Incorporation of patients’ preferences in TKA assessment may improve outcomes. We determined the ...

Background Cigarette smoking is a well-established risk factor for several autoimmune diseases, but its role in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) remains unclear. Here, we investigated the association ...

Objective To investigate sex differences in spinal radiographic progression in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). Methods AxSpA patients in the Swiss Clinical Quality Management cohort with available ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is the most common arthritic disease, yet a convincing drug treatment is not available. The current narrative review focuses on integration of scientific evidence and ...

Objectives We aimed to investigate medication utilisation trends during pregnancy and identify factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Over the past few decades, there has been significant and impressive progress in the understanding and management of rheumatic diseases. One of the key reasons for succeeding in making this progress ...

Classification criteria have been developed for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic diseases in order to gather a homogeneous patient population for clinical studies and facilitate the ...

Since their first use for treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the late 1940s, glucocorticoids (GCs) have been representing a substantial part of the therapeutic arsenal for RA. However, even if GCs ...

Objectives Cardiovascular comorbidities are common in patients with autoimmune diseases. This study investigates the extent of subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome ...

Objectives To describe primary Sjögren’s disease (SjD) patients presenting no or low level of dryness and to compare them with SjD patients with oral or ocular dryness features. Methods All patients ...

2 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy Objectives Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases (UCTDs) are systemic autoimmune conditions that cannot be ...