Discrepancies in ICD-9/ICD-10-based codes used to identify three common diseases in cancer patients in real-world settings and their implications for disease classification in brea... by Nora Tu, Mackenzie Henderson, Meera Sundararajan, Maribel Salas, Maribel Salas

“…The gold standard contained codes not found in literature/web sources, including codes for hypertensive retinopathy/encephalopathy, Page Kidney, spondylosis/spondylitis, juvenile arthritis, thalassemia, sickle cell disorder, autoimmune anemias, and erythroblastopenia. …”
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Histocompatibility HLA class I in anterior uveitis patients with and without spondyloarthritis by I. A. Guseva, A. A. Godzenko, I. Yu. Razumova

“…Anterior uveitis (AU) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are associated with histocompatibility human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27. …”
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Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and leukocyte telomere length: A Mendelian randomization study by Meiling Liu, Ping Luo, Lihua Liu, Xianping Wei, Xue Bai, Jicui Li, Linlin Wu, Manyu Luo

“…We analyzed 16 major IMIDs, which included systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn’s disease (CD), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), sicca syndrome (SS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), type 1 diabetes (T1D), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), atopic dermatitis (AD), sarcoidosis, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, psoriasis, and childhood asthma. …”
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Health effects of a low-inflammatory diet in adults with arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Furkan Genel, Michael Kale, Natalie Pavlovic, Victoria M. Flood, Justine M. Naylor, Sam Adie

“…The aim is to systematically assess the health impact of a low-inflammatory diet intervention (full-diet or supplement), compared to usual diet or other dietary interventions, on weight change, inflammatory biomarkers, joint symptoms, and quality of life in adults with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or seronegative arthropathy (psoriatic, reactive, ankylosing spondylitis or IBD-related), on outcomes assessed in prospective studies within 6 months of intervention commencement (PROSPERO CRD42019136567). …”
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Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue and risk of breast cancer: Mendelian randomization study in European and East Asian populations by Yue-chen Xu, Jian-xiong Wang, Yi-ran Chu, Han Qian, Hong-yan Wang, Fan Wang

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations of MSCTD, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Sjogren syndrome (SS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SSc), dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), osteoarthritis (OA) of hip or knee, and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with BC in European populations and East Asian populations using Mendelian randomized (MR) analysis.MethodsThe genetic instruments linked to MSCTD, RA, SS, SLE, SSc, DM, PM, OA, and AS were chosen from the EBI database of complete genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary data and the FinnGen consortium. …”
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Treatment with biological therapy is associated with faster recovery and lower frequency of treatment switch among rheumatic patients with Chikungunya fever by Aline Ranzolin, Claudia Diniz Lopes Marques, Laurindo Ferreira da Rocha Junior, Angela Luzia Branco Pinto Duarte, Hugo Deleon de Lima, Lays Miranda de Almeida Martins, Anderson Rodrigues de Almeida, Priscilla Stela Santana de Oliveira, Moacyr Jesus Barreto de Melo Rêgo, Maira Galdino da Rocha Pitta, Markus Bredemeier, Ieda Maria Magalhães Laurindo

“…Results 105 patients (84 with rheumatoid arthritis, 17 with ankylosing spondylitis, and 4 with psoriatic arthritis) were evaluated. …”
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Prescription Trends of Biologic DMARDs in Treating Rheumatologic Diseases: Changes of Medication Availability in COVID-19 by Mislav Radić, Hana Đogaš, Karla Vrkić, Andrea Gelemanović, Ivanka Marinović, Dijana Perković, Jurica Nazlić, Josipa Radić, Daniela Marasović Krstulović, Julije Meštrović

“…During COVID-19, IL-6 inhibitors were less prescribed (48 (21%) vs. 21 (10%) prescriptions, <i>p</i> = 0.003), while IL-17A inhibitors were more prescribed (39 (17%) vs. 61 (30%) prescriptions, <i>p</i> = 0.001). In ankylosing spondylitis (AS), adalimumab was prescribed more during pre-COVID-19 (25 vs. 15 patients, <i>p</i> = 0.010), while ixekizumab was prescribed less (1 vs. 10 patients, <i>p</i> = 0.009). …”
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Causal effects of specific gut microbiota on musculoskeletal diseases: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Shuai Chen, Huawei Han, Xiaohe Sun, Guowei Zhou, Qing Zhou, Zhiwei Li

“…Nonetheless, whether the gut microbiota composition has a causal effect on the risk of MSK diseases remains unclear.MethodsBased on large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to investigate the causal relationship between gut microbiota and six MSK diseases, namely osteoporosis (OP), fracture, sarcopenia, low back pain (LBP), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Instrumental variables for 211 gut microbiota taxa were obtained from the largest available GWAS meta-analysis (n = 18,340) conducted by the MiBioGen consortium. …”
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Early axial spondyloarthritis according to the ASAS consensus definition: characterisation of patients and effectiveness of a first TNF inhibitor in a large observational registry by Oliver Distler, Diego Kyburz, Adrian Ciurea, Michael J Nissen, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Raphael Micheroli, Almut Scherer, Kristina Bürki, Pascale Exer, Burkhard Möller, Michael Andor, René Bräm, Thomas Hügle, Andrea Götschi

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THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES IN RUSSIA IN 2012–2013 by R. M. Balabanova, Sh. F. Erdes

“…The rates in the North-Western, Ural, Far Eastern, and Volga FDs are higher than the mean Russian ones.In 2011, the rubric of «Ankylosing spondylitis» (AS) was replaced by that of «Spondylopathies» that, besides AS (ICD-10 M45), encompasses other inflammatory spondylopathies  (M46), including infectious one, which does not allow single out the spinal inflammatory diseases under a rheumatologist's  competence. …”
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Diagnosis of spondyloarthritis: should we need new criteria? by I. Z. Gaidukova, A. I. Akulova, A. V. Aparkina, A. P. Rebrov

“…The investigation enrolled 119 patients with the established diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), undifferentiated axial or peripheral SpA. …”
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Medical and social significance and calculation of the economic burden of axial spondyloarthritis in the Russian Federation by A. M. Lila, T. V. Dubinina, R. O. Dreval, S. А. Lapshina, A. N. Zabotina

“…Objective: to assess the economic burden of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and non-radiological axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) in the Russian Federation, as well as the availability and economic prospects for more complete provision of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) to patients with AS and nr-axSpA.Patients and methods. …”
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Interplay between COVID-19 and Secukinumab treatment in Spondylarthritis patients during the omicron surge: a retrospective cohort study by Tong Wu, Yanhong Li, Deying Huang, Yinlan Wu, Xiuping Liang, Lu Cheng, Zehui Liao, Fang Xu, Ye Chen, Jing Zhao, Zijing Xia, Chunyu Tan, Yi Liu, Martin Herrmann

“…Of the 190 potential SpA patients, 122 (66%) completed the questionnaire via phone, along with 259 cohabitants. 84.4% of SpA patients were diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), and 15.6% were diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA). …”
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A novel electronic patient-reported outcome delivery system to implement health-related quality of life measures in routine clinical care: An analysis of 5 years of experience by Kathleen Tymms, Catherine O'Sullivan, Tegan Smith, Geoffrey Littlejohn, Geoffrey Littlejohn, Tim Freeman, David Hoffman, Dana Segelov, Hedley Griffiths, Hedley Griffiths, Sabina Ciciriello, Sabina Ciciriello, Peter Youssef, Peter Youssef, Peter Youssef, David Mathers, David Mathers, Claire T Deakin

“…Validated questionnaires were sent from the electronic medical record (EMR) (Audit4) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), lupus or giant cell arteritis (GCA) and delivered to the patient's email address or completed in the clinic waiting room using a smart device (in-practice). …”
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OSTEOARTICULAR INJURY IN PSORIATIC PATIENTS ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF PEST (PSORIASIS EPIDEMIOLOGY SCREENING TOOL) QUESTIONNAIRE AND RHEUMATOLOGICAL CLINICOINSTRUMENTAL EXAMINATION by M. N. Chamurlieva, E. Yu. Loginova, T. V. Korotaeva, E. A. Batkaev

“…Thus, PsA was identified in 53 (66.2%) of the 80 patients; another rheumatic disease (RD), such as dermatomyositis, rheumatic polymyalgia, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), gout, etc., was found in 10 (12.5%); a concurrence of RDs (RA and gout) in 3 (3.7%); RD was absent in 14 (17.5%) cases. …”
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Human Leukocyte Antigen B*27-Negative Spondyloarthritis: Clinical, Serological, and Radiological Features of a Single-Center Cohort by Francesco Maria Mariani, Alessia Alunno, Evy Di Ruscio, Piera Altieri, Claudio Ferri, Francesco Carubbi

“…Overall, the clinical picture was similar across the subgroups fulfilling the different sets of ASAS criteria; however, the patients not fulfilling any ASAS criteria had a higher likelihood of having arthritis compared to the patients fulfilling the axial criteria, whereas the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index was significantly higher in those patients fulfilling the axial criteria compared to those who did not fulfill any criteria. …”
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Association of TIM-3 with anterior uveitis and associated systemic immune diseases: a Mendelian randomization analysis by Dan Lin, Dan Lin, Rong-Cheng Zhu, Chun Tang, Chun Tang, Fen-Fen Li, Fen-Fen Li, Mei-Ling Gao, Yu-Qin Wang, Yu-Qin Wang

“…BackgroundWe aimed to investigate the causal association between TIM-3, an immune checkpoint inhibitor, and anterior uveitis (AU), as well as associated systemic immune diseases.Materials and methodsWe performed two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to estimate the causal effects of TIM-3 on AU and three associated systemic diseases, namely ankylosing spondylitis (AS), Crohn's disease (CD), and ulcerative colitis (UC). …”
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APREMILAST: AN UPDATE ON ITS EFFICACY AND SAFETY DURING LONG-TERM TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS by Yu. L. Korsakova, T. V. Korotaeva

“…Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory disease from a group of spondylarthritides (SpA) associated with PS, which is characterized by various manifestations: peripheral arthritis, enthesitis, dactylitis, spondylitis, and nail involvement. Therapy for enthesitis and dactylitis in PsA is a difficult task in clinical practice. …”
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Multidisciplinary non-pharmacological treatments with effects on pain modulation and functioning in spondyloarthropathies – a systematic review by Adelina Elena Ungureanu, Liliana-Elena Stanciu, Andreea-Bianca Uzun, Emma Gheorghe, Loredana Pazara, Steliana-Roxana Miclaus, Viorela-Mihaela Ciortea, Andra-Iulia Suceveanu, Madalina Gabriela Iliescu

“…Seronegative spondyloarthropathies (SpA) are a group of rheuma-tologic disorders that include ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, entheropatic SpA, reac-tive arthritis and undifferentiated SpA. …”
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Iodine-supported implants in prevention and treatment of surgical site infections for compromised hosts: a prospective study by Toshiharu Shirai, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Ryu Terauchi, Shinji Tsuchida, Seiji Shimomura, Yoshitomo Kajino, Kenji Takahashi

“…In the spinal cases, there were 136 cases of tumors, 36 cases of pyogenic spondylitis, and 35 cases of degeneration. Five modes of implant failure were identified and classified as follows: soft tissue failure (type 1), aseptic loosening (type 2), structural failure (type 3), infection (type 4), and tumor progression (type 5). …”
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