COVID-19 infection has a heterogenous disease course; it may be asymptomatic or causes
only mild symptoms in the majority of the cases, while immunologic complications such as …

… Patients with the M694V/M694V genotype were found to have an earlier age of onset and
higher frequencies of arthritis and arthralgia compared with the other groups (both p < 0.001). …

The COVID-19 pandemic has occupied the world agenda since December 2019. With no
effective treatment yet, vaccination seems to be the most effective method of prevention. …

Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) or hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is an
acute and rapidly progressive systemic inflammatory disorder characterized by cytopenia, …

O bject ive. A high prevalence of Behçet’s disease (BD) among familial M edite rranean
fever (FMF) pat ients has been described recently and a weak association of BD and certain …

Objective Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the strong association between
HLA–B27 and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Among these, the arthritogenic peptide theory …

Objective. Enthesitis is considered as the primary anatomical lesion in ankylosing spondylitis
(AS). Therapeutic effects of TNF-α antagonist treatments for enthesitis on imaging changes …

Low levels of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are associated with increased
risk of coronary heart disease and, in the United States, are often associated with …

Introduction In a previous phase, 12 draft definitions for clinically important worsening in axial
spondyloarthritis (axSpA) were selected, of which 3 were based on absolute changes in …

OBJECTIVE: An increasing number of new on-set autoimmune-inflammatory rheumatic
diseases (AIRD) after COVID-19 vaccination has begun to be reported in the literature. In this …