Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease clinically characterized by different
degrees of skin fibrosis and visceral organ involvement (17, 19, 22). The etiology of SSc …

BACKGROUND: Mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC) is a systemic vasculitis secondary to circulating
immune complex deposition in the small vessels. In the overwhelming majority of patients…

Objective: To conduct a cross-sectional review of non-selected consecutive outpatients with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as part of standard clinical care in 15 countries for an overview of …

Objective: To analyse associations between the clinical status of patients with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) and the gross domestic product (GDP) of their resident country. Methods: The …

Objective Several studies have reported the association of systemic sclerosis (SSc) with
thyroid autoimmune disorders, but most of them have neither an appropriate control group nor …

Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis (CV) is an immune-complex-mediated systemic vasculitis
involving small-medium sized vessels. A causative role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in over 4/5 …

… We adopted PRA in July 2003, after having learned it from M. Walz, LTA being already
adopted as a standard procedure for many years in our center. After that, most of the small- to …

Objectives To assess (A) determinants of patient's global assessment of disease activity (PTGL)
and patient's assessment of general health (GH) scores of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) …

Over the last years 177 Lu has received considerable attention from the clinical nuclear
medicine community thanks to its wide range of applications in molecular radiotherapy, …

Objectives. To investigate blood flow and microvascular reactivity by laser speckle perfusion
imager (Perimed, Jarfalla) in consecutive patients affected by Raynaud’s phenomenon at …