The outbreak of the new coronavirus infections COVID-19 in December 2019 in China has
quickly become a global health emergency. Given the lack of specific anti-viral therapies, the …

Objectives To determine the causes of death and risk factors in systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Methods Between 2000 and 2011, we examined the death certificates of all French patients …

Rheumatoid factors are antibodies directed against the Fc region of immunoglobulin G. First
detected in patients with rheumatoid arthritis 70 years ago, they can also be found in …

Capillaroscopy is a non-invasive and safe tool which allows the evaluation of the morphology
of the microcirculation. Since its recent incorporation in the 2013 American College of …

Objectives The marked cardiovascular risk in autoimmune diseases is only partly explained.
The capacity of high-density lipoproteins (HDL) to promote cell cholesterol efflux is a …

Objective To describe the incidence and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)
in patients with rheumatic diseases treated with targeted synthetic or biologic disease‐…

Objective To construct a prognostic index based on nailfold capillaroscopic examinations that
is capable of predicting the 5‐year transition from isolated Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) to …

After its emergence in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the COVID-19 outbreak has now
one of its main epicentres in Lombardy (Italy), with more than 50 000 confirmed cases and …

Objective Circulating endothelial cells (CECs) have been described in different conditions
involving vascular injury. Vascular abnormalities play a key role in the pathogenesis of …

Objective The aims of this study were to obtain cross-sectional data on capillaroscopy in an
international multi-center cohort of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and to investigate the frequency …