Importance Although tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors are widely prescribed globally
because of their ability to ameliorate shared immune pathways across immune-mediated …

Even after more than one year, the COVID-19 pandemic is a great challenge for patients
with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) as well as for rheumatologists. The …

The persistence of long-lived memory plasma cells in the bone marrow depends on survival
factors available in the bone marrow, which are provided in niches organized by stromal …

The humoral immune response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐
CoV‐2) vaccination in patients with chronic inflammatory disease (CID) declines more …

Background Dendritic cells (DCs) have a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE). Reduced numbers of blood DCs and the accumulation of DCs at …

A few days after the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
infection was declared a pandemic, the German Society for Rheumatology (DGRh) compiled …

In T lymphocytes, expression of miR-148a is induced by T-bet and Twist1, and is specific for
pro-inflammatory Th1 cells. In these cells, miR-148a inhibits the expression of the pro …

Patient registries are a very important and essential tool for investigating rare diseases, as
most physicians only see a limited number of cases during their career. Diseases of multi …

Background Glomerulonephritis refers to renal diseases characterized by glomerular and
tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Multifrequency US time-harmonic elastography enables the …

Objective To analyse the clinical profile of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in at least
double-vaccinated patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRDs). Methods Data …