Relative incidence of interstitial lung diseases in Brazil by Simone Lobo Krupok Matias, Carlos Alberto de Castro Pereira, Maria Raquel Soares, Flávia Castro Velasco Fernandes, Maria Auxiliadora Carmo Moreira, Fernanda Maciel de Aguiar Baptista, Tarciane Aline Prata, Gediel Cordeiro Junior, Eliane Viana Mancuzo

“…These results highlight the need for close collaboration between pulmonologists and rheumatologists, the importance of detailed questioning of patients in regard with potential exposure to antigens, and the need for public health campaigns to stress the importance of avoiding such exposure.…”
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Treatment and Systemic Sclerosis Interstitial Lung Disease Outcome: The Overweight Paradox by Alexandra Nagy, Erik Palmer, Lorinc Polivka, Noemi Eszes, Krisztina Vincze, Eniko Barczi, Aniko Bohacs, Adam Domonkos Tarnoki, David Laszlo Tarnoki, György Nagy, Emese Kiss, Pal Maurovich-Horvat, Veronika Müller

“…The aim of our study is to evaluate the clinical characteristics and predictors of lung function changes in SSc-ILD patients treated in a real-world setting. (2) Methods: All SSc-ILD cases previously confirmed by rheumatologists and a multidisciplinary ILD team between January 2017 and June 2019 were included (<i>n</i> = 54). …”
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Reliability of the Preliminary OMERACT Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis MRI Score (OMERACT JAMRIS-SIJ) by Tarimobo M. Otobo, Nele Herregods, Jacob L. Jaremko, Iwona Sudol-Szopinska, Walter P. Maksymowych, Arthur B. Meyers, Pamela Weiss, Shirley Tse, Joel Paschke, Rahim Moineddin, Nigil Haroon, Nikolay Tzaribachev, Simone Appenzeller, Olympia Papakonstantinou, Eva Kirkhus, Marion A. J. van Rossum, John Carrino, Philip G. Conaghan, Mirkamal Tolend, Jennifer Stimec, Lennart Jans, Robert G. Lambert, Dax Rumsey, Andrea S. Doria

“…The study comprised of eight raters—two rheumatologists and six radiologists—and 30 coronal T1 and Short-Tau Inversion Recovery (STIR) MRI scans of patients with enthesitis-related juvenile spondylarthritis. …”
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Harnessing ChatGPT and GPT-4 for evaluating the rheumatology questions of the Spanish access exam to specialized medical training by Alfredo Madrid-García, Zulema Rosales-Rosado, Dalifer Freites-Nuñez, Inés Pérez-Sancristóbal, Esperanza Pato-Cour, Chamaida Plasencia-Rodríguez, Luis Cabeza-Osorio, Lydia Abasolo-Alcázar, Leticia León-Mateos, Benjamín Fernández-Gutiérrez, Luis Rodríguez-Rodríguez

“…A dataset, RheumaMIR, of 145 rheumatology-related questions, extracted from the exams held between 2010 and 2023, was created for that purpose, used as a prompt for the LLM, and was publicly distributed. Six rheumatologists with clinical and teaching experience evaluated the clinical reasoning of the chatbots using a 5-point Likert scale and their degree of agreement was analyzed. …”
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Retrospective analysis of the effectiveness of local corticosteroid therapy in children with oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis by A. N. Kozhevnikov, N. A. Pozdeeva, M. S. Nikitin, O. N. Maricheva, T. V. Murashko, N. Yu. Orlova, S. L. Bogdanova, G. A. Novik

“…Till present, pediatric rheumatologists have not reached a  consensus on this issue yet.The aim of this study was to search for predictors of early failure of local steroid therapy and assessment of its feasibility in patients with oligoarticular JIA.Materials and methods. …”
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Late-onset rheumatoid arthritis registry study, LORIS study: study protocol and design by Masayo Kojima, Yutaka Kawahito, Takahiko Sugihara, Toshihisa Kojima, Ryozo Harada, Shintaro Hirata, Motomu Hashimoto, Toshihiko Hidaka, Hajime Ishikawa, Hiromu Ito, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Yuko Kaneko, Kazuo Matsui, Toshihiro Matsui, Isao Matsushita, Akio Morinobu, Keiichiro Nishida, Eiichi Tanaka, Asami Abe, Michinori Ishitoku, Shuji Asai, Takashi Kida, Akira Onishi, Satoshi Takanashi, Masayoshi Harigai

“…Discussion A multi-disciplinary panel including patients, rheumatologists, and geriatric specialists will discuss the results and build a consensus regarding the treatment goals of LORA. …”
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A multidisciplinary dermatology-gastroenterology-rheumatology (DER.RE.GA) unit for the care of patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: analysis of the first 5 years fr... by Valeria Brazzelli, Valeria Brazzelli, Francesca Bobbio Pallavicini, Paolo Maggi, Łukasz Chętko, Łukasz Chętko, Eugenio Isoletta, Nicolò Di Giuli, Alice Bonelli, Valentina Fornaroli

“…A digital database was created, containing the medical records of 146 patients referred to the dermatology unit only by rheumatologists or gastroenterologists belonging to the multidisciplinary unit DERREGA. …”
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GCF Resistin As A Novel Marker in Patients with Chronic Periodontitis and Rheumatoid Arthritis by Manoj Mittal, Basit Hassan, Khushboo Desai, Shilpa Duseja, Santosh Kumar, Sharaschandra G. Reddy

“…Rheumatoid arthritis was confirmed by the rheumatologists and seropositivity for rheumatoid factor (RF) was checked. …”
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Comparisons of Clinical Features and Outcomes of COVID-19 between Patients with Pediatric Onset Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases and Healthy Children by Fatih Haslak, Sevki Erdem Varol, Aybuke Gunalp, Ozge Kaynar, Mehmet Yildiz, Amra Adrovic, Sezgin Sahin, Gulsen Kes, Ayse Ayzit-Kilinc, Beste Akdeniz, Pinar Onal, Gozde Apaydin, Deniz Aygun, Huseyin Arslan, Azer Kilic-Baskan, Evrim Hepkaya, Ozge Meral, Kenan Barut, Haluk Cezmi Cokugras, Ozgur Kasapcopur

“…Furthermore, increasing age was significantly associated with symptomatic infection (OR: 1.051; 95% CI: 1.009–1.095). (4) Conclusions: Our study emphasizes that pediatric rheumatologists should monitor their patients closely for relatively poor COVID-19 outcomes.…”
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Pathogenetic significance of the use of a humanized monoclonal antibody to the IL-6-α receptor (tocilizumab) in the treatment of immuno-inflammatory diseases by V. I. Mazurov, I. B. Belyaeva, R. R. Samigullina, A. L. Chudinov, A. M. Dadalova

“…The use of tocilizumab is included in the draft recommendations for the treatment of IID in conditions of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) developed by the All-Russian public organization “Association of Rheumatologists of Russia”. The presented data from international and domestic studies, as well as our own clinical experience, suggest that Tocilizumab (Actemra) is a highly effective and safe genetic engineering biological drug (GEBD) in the treatment of IID, and its use leads to a decrease in clinical and immunological activity and helps to improve life prognosis both when appointing as a first-line GEBD therapy and in case of ineffectiveness of other biological drugs and basic anti-inflammatory drugs in this category of patients.…”
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Treat-to-target strategies for the management of familial Mediterranean Fever in children by Lisa Ehlers, Elisabeth Rolfes, Mareike Lieber, Dominik Müller, Elke Lainka, Faekah Gohar, Günter Klaus, Hermann Girschick, Jana Hörstermann, Jasmin Kümmerle-Deschner, Jürgen Brunner, Katharina Palm-Beden, Klaus Tenbrock, Lusine von Wrangel, Maria Faßhauer, Norbert Blank, Ralf Trauzeddel, Anne Sae Lim von Stuckrad, Sonja Higgins, Tatjana Welzel, Thomas Lutz, Véronique Hentgen, Dirk Foell, Helmut Wittkowski, Tilmann Kallinich

“…To ensure the applicability of the statements in daily practice, an online survey was conducted among paediatric rheumatologists in Germany. In addition, data from the national AID-NET registry were analysed with respect to therapeutic response. …”
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The Italian Society for Rheumatology recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis by M. Manara, I. Prevete, A. Marchesoni, S. D'Angelo, A. Cauli, A. Zanetti, A. Ariani, A. Bortoluzzi, S. Parisi, C.A. Scirè, N. Ughi

“…A working group composed of rheumatologists with proven experience in the management of axial SpA and methodologists identified the key research questions which guided study selection and data extraction. …”
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Consensus Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Treat-To-Target Management of Osteoporosis in Chronic Kidney Disease Stages G4-G5D and Post-transpl... by Yasser El Miedany, Naglaa Ali Gadallah, Eman Sarhan, Mathias Toth, Mona Mansour Hasab El Naby, Mohamed Elwy, Sahar Ganeb, Maha El Gaafary, Mohamed Mortada, Samah Ismail Nasef, Nevine Mohannad, Safaa Ali Mahran, Mohammed Hassan Abu-Zaid, Mervat Eissa, Waleed Hassan, Basma M Medhat, Rasha Ghaleb, Samar Abdelhamed Tabra, Heba Gamal Saber, Rehab Ali Ibrahim, Sally Saber, Salwa Galal

“…Most of the participants were rheumatologists (87%), followed by nephrologists (8.7%), and geriatric physicians (4.3%). …”
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Web-based eHealth Clinical Decision Support System as a tool for the treat-to-target management of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: development and initial usability eva... by Ronald van Vollenhoven, Alexandre Voskuyl, Agner Russo Parra Sanchez, Max G Grimberg, Myrthe Hanssen, Moon Aben, Elianne Jairth, Prishent Dhoeme, Michel W P Tsang-A-Sjoe, Hendrik Jan Jansen

“…Background Treat-to-target (T2T) is a therapeutic strategy currently being studied for its application in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Patients and rheumatologists have little support in making the best treatment decision in the context of a T2T strategy, thus, the use of information technology for systematically processing data and supporting information and knowledge may improve routine decision-making practices, helping to deliver value-based care.Objective To design and develop an online Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) tool “SLE-T2T”, and test its usability for the implementation of a T2T strategy in the management of patients with SLE.Methods A prototype of a CDSS was conceived as a web-based application with the task of generating appropriate treatment advice based on entered patients’ data. …”
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A New Method for the Assessment of Myalgia in Interstitial Lung Disease: Association with Positivity for Myositis-Specific and Myositis-Associated Antibodies by Gianluca Sambataro, Chiara Alfia Ferrara, Carla Spadaro, Sebastiano Emanuele Torrisi, Giovanna Vignigni, Ada Vancheri, Giuseppe Muscato, Nicoletta Del Papa, Michele Colaci, Lorenzo Malatino, Stefano Palmucci, Lorenzo Cavagna, Giovanni Zanframundo, Francesco Ferro, Chiara Baldini, Domenico Sambataro, Carlo Vancheri

“…The patients were assessed jointly by rheumatologists and pulmonologists and were tested for autoantibodies. …”
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Developing evidence-based patient-focused learning materials to support health behaviour change for people living with psoriatic arthritis by Shona Kirtley, Melissa Stepney, Laura C Coates, Louise Hailey, Christine Bundy, Laura Howells, Samantha Martin, Denis O'Sullivan, Ingrid Steinkoening

“…Our aim was to codesign the project as theory-informed, evidence-based, patient-focused, materials supporting healthy lifestyle changes for patients diagnosed with PsA.Methods Development of the materials was overseen by a steering group of patients with PsA, psychologists, rheumatologists, a design team and researchers. First, a literature review was performed to establish the evidence base for behaviours and potential interventions in PsA, including diet, weight, alcohol, smoking, exercise, anxiety, depression and stress. …”
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Using thoracic ultrasound to detect interstitial lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a protocol for the diagnostic test accuracy AURORA study by Robin Christensen, Torkell Ellingsen, Heidi Lausten Munk, Grith Lykke Sorensen, Philip Rask Lage-Hansen, Jesper Rømhild Davidsen, Stefan M W Harders, Bjørk Khaliqi Sofíudóttir

“…The anonymised TUS images will be stored and scored by the junior resident as well as two senior rheumatologists, who have received training in TUS, and a TUS-experienced pulmonologist. …”
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Outcomes Following Adalimumab Bio-originator to Biosimilar Switch—A Comparison Using Real-world Patient- and Physician-Reported Data in European Countries by Peter C. Taylor, Yuri Sanchez Gonzalez, Ryan Clark, Freddy Faccin, Oliver Howell

“…Results Three hundred and three rheumatologists provided data for 160 non-switchers and 225 switchers, 140 patients provided data; 51 non-switchers, 89 switchers. …”
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Cannabis-opioid interaction in the treatment of fibromyalgia pain: an open-label, proof of concept study with randomization between treatment groups: cannabis, oxycodone or cannabi... by Cornelis Jan van Dam, Monique van Velzen, Cornelis Kramers, Arnt Schellekens, Erik Olofsen, Marieke Niesters, Albert Dahan

“…Trial population: 60 patients with fibromyalgia according to the 2010 definition of the American College of Rheumatologists. Intervention: Patients will be randomized to receive up to 4 daily 5 mg oral oxycodone sustained release (SR) tablet, up to 5 times 150 mg inhaled cannabis (Bediol®, containing 6.3% Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol and 8% cannabidiol), or the combination of both treatments. …”
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Difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis in the clinical practice of a rheumatological hospital. First look by A. V. Gordeev, E. V. Matyanova, Yu. A. Olyunin, E. A. Galushko, E. G. Zotkin

“…At the same time, Russian rheumatologists primarily use GC to suppress inflammatory activity. …”
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