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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Open-label, multicentre, dose-escalating phase II clinical trial on the safety and efficacy of tadekinig alfa (IL-18BP) in adult-onset Still’s disease (22 February, 2018)

  Cem Gabay, Bruno Fautrel, Jürgen Rech, François Spertini, Eugen Feist, Ina Kötter, Eric Hachulla, Jacques Morel, Thierry Schaeverbeke, Mohamed A Hamidou, Thierry Martin, Bernhard Hellmich, Peter Lamprecht, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Delphine Sophie Courvoisier, Andrew Sleight, Eduardo Jorge Schiffrin
• Extended report: Have the 10-year outcomes of patients with early inflammatory arthritis improved in the new millennium compared with the decade before? Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register (23 February, 2018)

  James M Gwinnutt, Deborah P M Symmons, Alexander J MacGregor, Jacqueline R Chipping, Tarnya Marshall, Mark Lunt, Suzanne M M Verstappen
• Extended report: Effect of pregnancy on disease flares in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (20 February, 2018)

  Amanda M Eudy, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Stephanie M Engel, Nora Franceschini, Annie Green Howard, Megan E B Clowse, Michelle Petri
• Extended report: Are MRI-detected erosions specific for RA? A large explorative cross-sectional study (28 February, 2018)

  Debbie M Boeters, Wouter P Nieuwenhuis, Hanna W van Steenbergen, Monique Reijnierse, Robert B M Landewé, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Extended report: Risk of preterm delivery and small-for-gestational-age births in women with autoimmune disease using biologics before or during pregnancy: a population-based cohort study (1 March, 2018)

  Nicole W Tsao, Eric C Sayre, Gillian Hanley, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Larry D Lynd, Carlo A Marra, Mary A De Vera
• Extended report: Intramuscular glucocorticoid injection versus placebo injection in hip osteoarthritis: a 12-week blinded randomised controlled trial (7 March, 2018)

  Desirée M J Dorleijn, Pim A J Luijsterburg, Max Reijman, Margreet Kloppenburg, Jan A N Verhaar, Patrick J E Bindels, Pieter Koen Bos, Sita M A Bierma-Zeinstra
• Extended report: Phase III trial results with blisibimod, a selective inhibitor of B-cell activating factor, in subjects with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): results from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (21 March, 2018)

  Joan T Merrill, William R Shanahan, Morton Scheinberg, Kenneth C Kalunian, David Wofsy, Renee S Martin
• Extended report: Secukinumab improves active psoriatic arthritis symptoms and inhibits radiographic progression: primary results from the randomised, double-blind, phase III FUTURE 5 study (17 March, 2018)

  Philip Mease, Désirée van der Heijde, Robert Landewé, Shephard Mpofu, Proton Rahman, Hasan Tahir, Atul Singhal, Elke Boettcher, Sandra Navarra, Karin Meiser, Aimee Readie, Luminita Pricop, Ken Abrams
• Extended report: Impact of temporary methotrexate discontinuation for 2 weeks on immunogenicity of seasonal influenza vaccination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised clinical trial (23 March, 2018)

  Jin Kyun Park, Yun Jong Lee, Kichul Shin, You-Jung Ha, Eun Young Lee, Yeong Wook Song, Yunhee Choi, Kevin L Winthrop, Eun Bong Lee
• Extended report: Serious infection across biologic-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register for Rheumatoid Arthritis (28 March, 2018)

  Andrew I Rutherford, Sujith Subesinghe, Kimme L Hyrich, James B Galloway
• Concise report: Assay variation in the detection of antinuclear antibodies in the sera of patients with established SLE (9 February, 2018)

  David S Pisetsky, Diane M Spencer, Peter E Lipsky, Brad H Rovin
• Concise report: Similar efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of adalimumab biosimilar BI 695501 and Humira reference product in patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis: results from the phase III randomised VOLTAIRE-RA equivalence study (7 March, 2018)

  Stanley B Cohen, Alberto Alonso-Ruiz, Piotr A Klimiuk, Eric C Lee, Nuala Peter, Ivo Sonderegger, Deepak Assudani
• Concise report: ‘Deep Koebner’ phenomenon of the flexor tendon-associated accessory pulleys as a novel factor in tenosynovitis and dactylitis in psoriatic arthritis (6 March, 2018)

  Ilaria Tinazzi, Dennis McGonagle, Sibel Zehra Aydin, Donatella Chessa, Antonio Marchetta, Pierluigi Macchioni