Josef S Smolen
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219628
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:1-3.
Peter A Nigrovic
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219448
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:3-5.
David S Pisetsky
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218643
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:6-7.
Bernhard Manger, Georg Schett
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218843
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:8-10
Marco Lanzillotta, Chiara Crotti, Vital Manuel Da Silva Domingues, Kim Lauper, Gerd R Burmester
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219135
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:11-13.
Antonis Fanouriakis, Nikolaos Tziolos, George Bertsias, Dimitrios T Boumpas
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218272
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:14-25.
Clinical heterogeneity, unpredictable course and flares are characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although SLE is—by and large—a systemic disease, occasionally it can be organ-dominant, posing diagnostic challenges. To date, diagnosis of SLE remains clinical with a few cases being negative for serologic tests. Diagnostic criteria are not available and classification criteria are often used for diagnosis, yet with significant caveats. Newer sets of criteria (European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2019) enable earlier and more accurate classification of SLE. Several disease endotypes have been recognised over the years. There is increased recognition of milder cases at presentation, but almost half of them progress overtime to more severe disease. Approximately 70% of patients follow a relapsing-remitting course, the remaining divided equally between a prolonged remission and a persistently active disease. Treatment goals include long-term patient survival, prevention of flares and organ damage, and optimisation of health-related quality of life. For organ-threatening or life-threatening SLE, treatment usually includes an initial period of high-intensity immunosuppressive therapy to control disease activity, followed by a longer period of less intensive therapy to consolidate response and prevent relapses. Management of disease-related and treatment-related comorbidities, especially infections and atherosclerosis, is of paramount importance. New disease-modifying conventional and biologic agents—used alone, in combination or sequentially—have improved rates of achieving both short-term and long-term treatment goals, including minimisation of glucocorticoid use.
Kim Lauper, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Gerd R Burmester
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219217
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:26-30.
Gy?rgy Nagy, Nadia MT Roodenrijs, Paco MJ Welsing, Melinda Kedves, Attila Hamar, Marlies C van der Goes, Alison Kent, Margot Bakkers, Etienne Blaas, Ladislav Senolt, Zoltan Szekanecz, Ernest Choy, Maxime Dougados, Johannes WG Jacobs, Rinie Geenen, Hans WJ Bijlsma, Angela Zink, Daniel Aletaha, Leonard Schoneveld, Piet van Riel, Loriane Gutermann, Yeliz Prior, Elena Nikiphorou, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Georg Schett, Kimme L Hyrich, Ulf Mueller-Ladner, Maya H Buch, Iain B McInnes, Désirée van der Heijde, Jacob M van Laar
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217344
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:31-35
Background Despite treatment according to the current management recommendations, a significant proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remain symptomatic. These patients can be considered to have ‘difficult-to-treat RA’. However, uniform terminology and an appropriate definition are lacking.
Marie Kostine, Axel Finckh, Clifton O Bingham, Karen Visser, Jan Leipe, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Ernest H Choy, Karolina Benesova, Timothy R D J Radstake, Andrew P Cope, Olivier Lambotte, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Yves Allenbach, Marianne Visser, Cindy Rusthoven, Lone Thomasen, Shahin Jamal, Aurélien Marabelle, James Larkin, John B A G Haanen, Leonard H Calabrese, Xavier Mariette, Thierry Schaeverbeke
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217139
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:36-48.
Background Rheumatic and musculoskeletal immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are observed in about 10% of patients with cancer receiving checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs). Given the recent emergence of these events and the lack of guidance for rheumatologists addressing them, a European League Against Rheumatism task force was convened to harmonise expert opinion regarding their identification and management.
Yvette Meissner, Rebecca Fischer-Betz, Laura Andreoli, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, Diederik De Cock, Radboud J E M Dolhain, Frauke Forger, Doreen Goll, Anna Molto, Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Rebecca ?zdemir, Luigi Raio, Sebastian Cruz Rodr?guez-Garc?a, Savino Sciascia, Marianne Wallenius, Astrid Zbinden, Angela Zink, Anja Strangfeld
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218356
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:49-56.
Background and objective There is an urgent need for robust data on the trajectories and outcomes of pregnancies in women with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD). In particular when rare outcomes or rare diseases are to be investigated, collaborative approaches are required. However, joint data analyses are often limited by the heterogeneity of the different data sources.
Jo Adams, Nicky Wilson, Emalie Hurkmans, Margot Bakkers, Petra Bal??ov?, Mark Baxter, Anne-Birgitte Blavnsfeldt, Karine Briot, Catharina Chiari, Cyrus Cooper, Razvan Gabriel Dragoi, Gabriele G?bler, Willem Lems, Erika Mosor, Sandra Pais, Cornelia Simon, Paul Studenic, Simon Tilley, Jenny de la Torre-Aboki, Tanja A Stamm
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-216931
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:57-64.
Objective To establish European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) points to consider for non-physician health professionals to prevent and manage fragility fractures in adults 50 years or older.
Francisca Sivera, Alessia Alunno, Aurélie Najm, Tadej Avcin, Xenofon Baraliakos, Johannes W Bijlsma, Sara Badreh, Gerd Burmester, Nada Cikes, Jose AP Da Silva, Nemanja Damjanov, Maxime Dougados, Jean Dudler, Christopher J Edwards, Annamaria Iagnocco, Frédéric Lioté, Elena Nikiphorou, Marloes van Onna, Simon R Stones, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Catherine Haines, Sofia Ramiro
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218015
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:65-70.
Background and aim Striving for harmonisation of specialty training and excellence of care in rheumatology, the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) established a task force to develop points to consider (PtCs) for the assessment of competences during rheumatology specialty training.
Peter Nash, Andreas Kerschbaumer, Thomas D?rner, Maxime Dougados, Roy M Fleischmann, Klaus Geissler, Iain McInnes, Janet E Pope, Désirée van der Heijde, Michaela Stoffer-Marx, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Michael Trauner, Kevin L Winthrop, Maarten de Wit, Daniel Aletaha, Xenofon Baraliakos, Wolf-Henning Boehncke, Paul Emery, John D Isaacs, Joel Kremer, Eun Bong Lee, Walter P Maksymowych, Marieke Voshaar, Lai-Shan Tam, Yoshiya Tanaka, Filip van den Bosch, René Westhovens, Ricardo Xavier, Josef S Smolen
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218398
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:71-87.
Objectives Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi) have been approved for use in various immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. With five agents licensed, it was timely to summarise the current understanding of JAKi use based on a systematic literature review (SLR) on efficacy and safety.
Roberto Caricchio, Marcello Gallucci, Chandra Dass, Xinyan Zhang, Stefania Gallucci, David Fleece, Michael Bromberg, Gerard J Criner
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218323
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:88-95.
Objectives To develop predictive criteria for COVID-19-associated cytokine storm (CS), a severe hyperimmune response that results in organ damage in some patients infected with COVID-19. We hypothesised that criteria for inflammation and cell death would predict this type of CS.
Dimitrios A Pappas, Gregory St John, Carol J Etzel, Stefano Fiore, Taylor Blachley, Toshio Kimura, Rajeshwari Punekar, Kelechi Emeanuru, Jeannie Choi, Susan Boklage, Joel M Kremer
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217209
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:96-102.
Objectives This study evaluated the comparative effectiveness of a tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) versus a non-TNFi (biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) and targeted synthetic DMARDs (tsDMARDs)) as the first-line treatment following conventional synthetic DMARDs, as well as potential modifiers of response, observed in US clinical practice.
Thomas Renson, Philippe Carron, Ann-Sophie De Craemer, Liselotte Deroo, Manouk de Hooge, Simon Krabbe, Lennart Jans, Min Chen, Mikkel ?stergaard, Filip E Van den Bosch, Dirk Elewaut
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218480
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:103-108.
Objectives To assess axial involvement on MRI in early peripheral spondyloarthritis (pSpA) and to evaluate whether axial inflammation predicts relapse on treatment withdrawal.
Johanna K Sandling, Pascal Pucholt, Lina Hultin Rosenberg, Fabiana H G Farias, Sergey V Kozyrev, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Andrei Alexsson, Matteo Bianchi, Leonid Padyukov, Christine Bengtsson, Roland Jonsson, Roald Omdal, Benedicte A Lie, Laura Massarenti, Rudi Steffensen, Marianne A Jakobsen, S?ren T Lillevang, on behalf of the ImmunoArray Development Consortium and DISSECT consortium, Karoline Lerang, ?yvind Molberg, Anne Voss, Anne Troldborg, S?ren Jacobsen, Ann-Christine Syv?nen, Andreas J?nsen, Iva Gunnarsson, Elisabet Svenungsson, Solbritt Rantap??-Dahlqvist, Anders A Bengtsson, Christopher Sj?wall, Dag Leonard, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Lars R?nnblom
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218636
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:109-117.
Objectives Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with extensive heterogeneity in disease presentation between patients, which is likely due to an underlying molecular diversity. Here, we aimed at elucidating the genetic aetiology of SLE from the immunity pathway level to the single variant level, and stratify patients with SLE into distinguishable molecular subgroups, which could inform treatment choices in SLE.
Lara Bossini-Castillo, Gonzalo Villanueva-Martin, Martin Kerick, Marialbert Acosta-Herrera, Elena L?pez-Isac, Carmen P Sime?n, Norberto Ortego-Centeno, Shervin Assassi, International SSc Group, Australian Scleroderma Interest Group (ASIG), PRECISESADS Clinical Consortium, PRECISESADS Flow Cytometry study group, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Armando Gabrielli, J K de Vries-Bouwstra, Yannick Allanore, Carmen Fonseca, Christopher P Denton, Timothy RDJ Radstake, Marta Eugenia Alarc?n-Riquelme, Lorenzo Beretta, Maureen D Mayes, Javier Martin
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218558
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:118-127.
Objectives Genomic Risk Scores (GRS) successfully demonstrated the ability of genetics to identify those individuals at high risk for complex traits including immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs). We aimed to test the performance of GRS in the prediction of risk for systemic sclerosis (SSc) for the first time.
Flora Magnotti, Tiphaine Malsot, Sophie Georgin-lavialle, Fatima Abbas, Amandine Martin, Alexandre Belot, Maxime Fauter, Muriel Rabilloud, Mathieu Gerfaud-Valentin, Pascal Sève, Agnes Duquesne, Arnaud Hot, Stephane Durupt, Léa Savey, Irina Giurgea, Gilles Grateau, Thomas Henry, Yvan Jamilloux
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218366
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:128-132.
Background and objective Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most frequent hereditary autoinflammatory disease. Its diagnosis relies on a set of clinical criteria and a genetic confirmation on identification of biallelic pathogenic MEFV variants. MEFV encodes pyrin, an inflammasome sensor. Using a kinase inhibitor, UCN-01, we recently identified that dephosphorylation of FMF-associated pyrin mutants leads to inflammasome activation. The aim of this study was to assess whether quantifying UCN-01-mediated inflammasome activation could discriminate FMF patients from healthy donors (HD) and from patients with other inflammatory disorders (OID).
Kevin L Winthrop, Gustavo Citera, David Gold, Dan Henrohn, Carol A Connell, Andrea B Shapiro, Harry Shi, Alina M Onofrei, Dimitrios A Pappas, Hendrik Schulze-Koops
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218992
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:134-136.
Latika Gupta, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vishwesh Agarwal, Suma Balan, Vikas Agarwal
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217509
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e1.
Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Pietro Enea Lazzerini, Luca Volterrani, Maria Antonietta Mazzei, Barbara Rossetti, Giacomo Zanelli, David Bennett, Elena Bargagli, Federico Franchi, Matteo Cameli, Serafina Valente, Luca Cantarini, Bruno Frediani
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217523
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e2.
Sara Monti, Carlomaurizio Montecucco
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217545
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e3.
Yang Zhang, Jian Wang, Liang Zhao, Jun Xiao, Zhanjun Shi
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217548
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e4.
Gabriel Figueroa-Parra, Carmen Magdalena Gamboa-Alonso, Dionicio Angel Galarza-Delgado
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217631
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e5.
Wenhui Xie, Yu Wang, Zhuoli Zhang
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217556
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e6.
Carmen Magdalena Gamboa-Alonso, Gabriel Figueroa-Parra, Dionicio Angel Galarza-Delgado
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217633
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e7.
Konstantinos Parperis
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217557
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e8.
Francesca Romana Spinelli, Fulvia Ceccarelli, Manuela Di Franco, Fabrizio Conti
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217634
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e9.
Philippe Guilpain, Clément Le Bihan, Vincent Foulongne, Patrice Taourel, Nathalie Pansu, Alexandre Thibault Jacques MARIA, Boris Jung, Romaric Larcher, Kada Klouche, Vincent Le Moing
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217549
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e10.
Sara Monti, Carlomaurizio Montecucco
doi : 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217555
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:e11.
Do you want to add Medilib to your home screen?