Development and validation of machine learning for early mortality in systemic sclerosis by Chingching Foocharoen, Wilaiphorn Thinkhamrop, Nathaphop Chaichaya, Ajanee Mahakkanukrauh, Siraphop Suwannaroj, Bandit Thinkhamrop

“…This simplified machine learning model for predicting early mortality among patients with SSc could guide early referrals to specialists and help rheumatologists with close monitoring and management planning. …”
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ERYTHEMA NODOSUM IN LÖFGREN’S SYNDROME by Yu. A. Karpova, B. S. Belov, O. N. Egorova, N. M. Savushkina, S. I. Glukhova, S. G. Radenska-Lopovok

“…Patients with acute sarcoidosis require that physicians of different specialties, including rheumatologists, should coordinate their actions to determine the volume of further examination and to use adequate treatment.…”
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Low back pain in the Bangladeshi adult population: a cross-sectional national survey by Syed Atiqul Haq, Shamim Ahmed, Ferdous Hakim, Muhammad Shoaib Momen Majumder, Iftekhar Hussain Bandhan, Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, Ahmad Zahid-Al-Quadir, Minhaj Rahim Choudhury, MM Zaman

“…A team of trained field workers, rheumatology residents and rheumatologists collected the data. Analysis was done using weighted data.Results Two thousand subjects were approached, but 1843 could be screened. …”
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Development and initial cohort validation of the Arthritis Research UK Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) for use across musculoskeletal care pathways by Hill, J, Kang, S, Benedetto, E, Myers, H, Blackburn, S, Smith, S, Dunn, K, Hay, E, Rees, J, Beard, D, Glyn-Jones, S, Barker, K, Ellis, B, Fitzpatrick, R, Price, A

“…<strong>Participants:</strong> Stakeholders (n=29) included primary care, physiotherapy, orthopaedic and rheumatology patients (n=8); general practitioners, physiotherapists, orthopaedists, rheumatologists and pain specialists (n=7), patient and professional national body representatives (n=10), and researchers (n=4). …”

A real-world comparison of clinical effectiveness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with upadacitinib, tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, and other advanced therapies af... by Caporali, R, Kadakia, A, Howell, O, Patel, J, Milligan, J, Strengholt, S, Barlow, S, Taylor, PC

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>METHODS:</strong> Data were drawn from the Adelphi RA Disease Specific Programme™, a cross-sectional survey administered to rheumatologists and their consulting patients in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and the United States from May 2021─January 2022. …”

Understanding Heterogeneity in Patients’ Conceptualisation of Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cluster Analysis by Jeffrey R Curtis, Leslie R Harrold, Susan J Blalock, Liana Fraenkel, Carole Wiedmeyer, Betty Hsiao, Julie S Downs, Mandy Lanyon, William Benjamin Nowell, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Mark T Patterson, Kelly Gavigan, Laura Stradford, Danielle Ali

“…The individual items most predictive of poor adherence centre on the lack of effective patient–physician communication, specifically insufficient access to information from rheumatologists, along with the need to seek information elsewhere.Conclusion Patients’ conceptualisation of RA treatment varies; however, almost all patients have difficulty escalating DMARDs, even with access to quality information and an understanding of the benefits of TTT. …”
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Computed Tomography of the Chest to Screen for Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis at Expert Scleroderma Centers in the United States by Elana J. Bernstein, Shervin Assassi, Flavia V. Castelino, Lorinda Chung, Chase Correia, Luke B. Evnin, Tracy M. Frech, Jessica K. Gordon, Brian A. Skaug, Faye N. Hant, Laura K. Hummers, Nora Sandorfi, Ami A. Shah, Victoria K. Shanmugam, Virginia D. Steen, Dinesh Khanna

“…Objective Although a high‐resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scan of the chest is the gold standard test for the detection of interstitial lung disease (ILD), there is no consensus among rheumatologists regarding the use of HRCT to screen for ILD in their patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). …”
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Post-chikungunya chronic inflammatory rheumatism: results from a retrospective follow-up study of 283 adult and child cases in La Virginia, Risaralda, Colombia [version 1; referees... by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Andrés F. Gil-Restrepo, Valeria Ramírez-Jaramillo, Cindy P. Montoya-Arias, Wilmer F. Acevedo-Mendoza, Juan E. Bedoya-Arias, Laura A. Chica-Quintero, David R. Murillo-García, Juan E. García-Robledo, Juan D. Castrillón-Spitia, Jose J. Londoño, Hector D. Bedoya-Rendón, Javier de Jesús Cárdenas-Pérez, Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina, Guillermo J. Lagos-Grisales

“…Of all patients, 19.4% required and attended for care prior to the current study assessment (1.4% consulting rheumatologists). Significant differences in the frequency were observed according to age groups and gender. …”
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ANTI-HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN B1 (ANTI-RA33) ANTIBODIES IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS by P. A. Kuznetsova, A. L. Maslyansky, S. V. Lapin, O. Yu. Tkachenko, V. I. Mazurov

“…The potential diagnostic value of the RA33 AAb complex consisting of RNP A2 and alternative domains of the splicing proteins RNP B1 and RNP B2 is now of interest to rheumatologists. Subjects and methods. The authors studied the frequency of anti-RNP B1 AAbs in 300 patients with systemic ARDs, including those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SSc), and Sjö gren's syndrome (SS) and in 53 people without ARDs, who constituted a control group. …”
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Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis among Chinese Adults: A Prospective Study by Hannah VanEvery, Wenhao Yang, Nancy Olsen, Le Bao, Bing Lu, Shouling Wu, Liufu Cui, Xiang Gao

“…Diagnoses of RA were confirmed via medical record review by rheumatologists. From 2006 to 2018, we identified 87 incident RA cases. …”
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Tapering and discontinuation of glucocorticoids in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with tofacitinib by Francesca Romana Spinelli, Cristina Garufi, Silvia Mancuso, Fulvia Ceccarelli, Simona Truglia, Fabrizio Conti

“…These results should encourage rheumatologists to consider GCs tapering and discontinuation of GCs, as suggested by the 2022 EULAR recommendations, an achievable goal.…”
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Predictors of hypertension in women with rheumatoid arthritis by I. V. Osipova, Yu. N. Starodubova, O. N. Antropova, I. G. Polyakova, L. V. Borisova

“…Clinical, laboratory, instrumental examination of patients and determination of risk factors (RF) for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in RA were provided according to Association of Rheumatologists of Russia (ARR 2017) and the Russian Society of Cardiology (RSC, 2017) guidelines. …”
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Monitoring chronic inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases mixing virtual and face-to-face assessments—Results of the digireuma study by Diego Benavent, Luis Fernández-Luque, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Victoria Navarro-Compán, María Sanz-Jardón, Marta Novella-Navarro, Pedro L. González-Sanz, Enrique Calvo-Aranda, Leticia Lojo, Alejandro Balsa, Chamaida Plasencia-Rodríguez

“…After a focus group with patients and rheumatologists, relevant concerns regarding the management of RA and SpA were raised, leading to the development of the Mixed Attention Model (MAM), which combined hybrid (virtual and face-to-face) monitoring. …”
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Consequences of antiphospholipid syndrome in pregnancy - A review by Astrit M. Gash

“…A multidisciplinary approach involving obstetricians, rheumatologists, and other healthcare professionals is often necessary to optimize outcomes for both the mother and the baby.…”
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A Real-World Effectiveness Study Using a Mobile Application to Evaluate Early Outcomes with Upadacitinib in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Leslie R. Harrold, Patrick Zueger, W. Benjamin Nowell, Taylor Blachley, Amy Schrader, Paul R. Lakin, David Curtis, Laura Stradford, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Namita Tundia, Pankaj A. Patel

“…Methods Participating rheumatologists from the CorEvitas RA Registry (prospective, observational cohort) recruited patients with RA initiating upadacitinib treatment. …”
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Construction of an easy‐to‐use predictive model for ultrasound‐detected tophi to improve the detection of hidden tophi by Wei Liu, Wen Guo, Kaiping Zhao, Qiang Zang, Husheng Wu, Siliang Man, Hongchao Li, Liang Zhang, Hui Song

“…Results Among 517 gout patients, rheumatologists found that 67 patients (13.0%) had subcutaneous tophi by visual observation, while musculoskeletal ultrasound revealed that 123 patients (23.8%) had ultrasound‐detected tophi with odds ratio [OR] (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) = 2.20 (1.81–2.67). …”
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Comparison of sacroiliac CT findings in patients with and without ankylosing spondylitis aged over 50 years by Olivier Fakih, André Ramon, Mickaël Chouk, Clément Prati, Paul Ornetti, Daniel Wendling, Frank Verhoeven

“…For each individual, CT scans were interpreted blindly by two independent rheumatologists and scored for joint space narrowing (JSN), erosions, sclerosis, intra-articular gas, and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). …”
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Low Circulating Monocytes Is in Parallel With Lymphopenia Which Predicts Poor Outcome in Anti-melanoma Differentiation-Associated Gene 5 Antibody-Positive Dermatomyositis-Associate... by Xia Lv, Yuyang Jin, Danting Zhang, Yixuan Li, Yakai Fu, Suli Wang, Yan Ye, Wanlong Wu, Shuang Ye, Bing Yan, Xiaoxiang Chen

“…In conclusion, this study elucidated the predictive value of monocyte and lymphocyte counts in the early stage and may help rheumatologists to understand the possible pathogenesis of this challenging disease.…”
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Reliability assessment of ultrasound muscle echogenicity in patients with rheumatic diseases: Results of a multicenter international web-based study by Andrea Di Matteo, Andrea Di Matteo, Erica Moscioni, Maria Giovanna Lommano, Edoardo Cipolletta, Gianluca Smerilli, Sonia Farah, Carla Airoldi, Sibel Zehra Aydin, Andrea Becciolini, Karina Bonfiglioli, Marina Carotti, Greta Carrara, Tomas Cazenave, Davide Corradini, Micaela Ana Cosatti, Juan Josè de Agustin, Giulia Maria Destro Castaniti, Marco Di Carlo, Eleonora Di Donato, Luca Di Geso, Ashley Elliott, Daniela Fodor, Francesca Francioso, Alessandra Gabba, Alessandra Gabba, Cristina Hernández-Díaz, Rudolf Horvath, Jana Hurnakova, Diogo Jesus, Josefina Marin, Maria Victoria Martire, Riccardo Mashadi Mirza, Marco Massarotti, Alice Andreea Musca, Jagdish Nair, Tadashi Okano, Ioannis Papalopoulos, Javier Rosa, Marcos Rosemffet, João Rovisco, Davide Rozza, Fausto Salaffi, Crescenzio Scioscia, Carlo Alberto Scirè, Maria-Magdalena Tamas, Shun Tanimura, Lucio Ventura-Rios, Catalina Villota-Eraso, Orlando Villota, Paraskevi V. Voulgari, Florentin Ananu Vreju, Gentiana Vukatana, Johana Zacariaz Hereter, Anna Zanetti, Walter Grassi, Emilio Filippucci

“…ObjectivesTo investigate the inter/intra-reliability of ultrasound (US) muscle echogenicity in patients with rheumatic diseases.MethodsForty-two rheumatologists and 2 radiologists from 13 countries were asked to assess US muscle echogenicity of quadriceps muscle in 80 static images and 20 clips from 64 patients with different rheumatic diseases and 8 healthy subjects. …”
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Determination of Relative Weightings for Sacroiliac Joint Pathologies in the OMERACT Juvenile Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sacroiliac Joint Score by Tarimobo M. Otobo, Mirkamal Tolend, Arthur B. Meyers, Iwona Sudol-Szopinska, Sayali Joshi, Jennifer Stimec, Nele Herregods, Jacob L. Jaremko, Shirley M. L. Tse, Nigil Haroon, Rahim Moineddin, Nikolay Tzaribachev, Simone Appenzeller, Michal Znajdek, Manuela Perez, Aloysius E. Ligha, Lennart Jans, Emilio J. Inarejos Clemente, Pamela Weiss, Olympia Papakonstantinou, Eva Kirkhus, Marion A. J. van Rossum, Dax G. Rumsey, John Carrino, Jonathan D. Akikusa, Philip G. Conaghan, Andrea S. Doria

“…Seventeen experts completed the CAS (11 radiologists and 6 rheumatologists). Considering the point value for inflammation domain items, osteitis (24.7%) and bone marrow edema (24.3%) had higher group-averaged percentage weights compared to inflammation in erosion cavity (16.9%), joint space enhancement (13.1%), joint space fluid (9.1%), capsulitis (7.3%), and enthesitis (4.6%). …”
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