The clinical phenotype and evolution of antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) are heterogeneous.
This study was therefore undertaken to identify subgroups of ASS patients with similar …

We performed an individual patient meta-analysis to determine whether aspirin has a
significant protective effect on the risk of first thrombosis among patients with …

Humoral immune responses are typically characterized by primary IgM antibody responses
followed by secondary antibody responses associated with immune memory and composed …

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the paradigm of systemic autoimmune diseases
characterised by a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations with an unpredictable relapsing …

Background Musculoskeletal (MSK) diseases are expected to have a growing impact
worldwide. Objective To analyse the worldwide burden of MSK diseases from 2000 to 2015 …

Objectives The predominance of extramuscular manifestations (eg, skin rash, arthralgia,
interstitial lung disease [ILD]) as well as the low frequency of muscle signs in anti …

The purpose of this study was to assess the outcomes of 118 patients with eosinophilic
granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) enrolled in 2 prospective, randomized, open-label …

Background—The goal of this work was to assess the safety and efficacy of biologics (ie,
tumor necrosis factor-α antagonists and tocilizumab) in patients with Takayasu arteritis …

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies can be classified as polymyositis, dermatomyositis,
immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, sporadic inclusion body myositis or non-specific …

Antisynthetase syndrome is characterised by the association of interstitial lung disease and
myositis with different anti-tRNA-synthetase antibodies. The occurrence, aetiology and …