Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a form of arthritis in children. Arthritis causes joint swelling (inflammation) and joint stiffness. JIA is arthritis that affects 1 or more joints for at least ...

Objectives Fatigue is prevalent in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMDs) and recognised as one of the most challenging symptoms to manage. The existence of multiple ...

In this article, the 2009 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) have been updated. The ...

Background: The Wait Time Alliance recently established wait time benchmarks for rheumatology consultations in Canada. Our aim was to quantify wait times to primary and rheumatology care for patients ...

No detailed guidelines exist for treating pain in children with rheumatic diseases. In this Review, the authors discuss the multifactorial nature of pain in these children and advise that pain ...

A majority of sufferers of rheumatic diseases such as arthritis and fibromyalgia have turned to complementary and alternative therapies in search of relief. Which, if any, offer benefit?

There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence about the relationship between arthritis symptoms and weather. But what does science say?

Valvuloplasty is now widely accepted as the best method of treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, but repair for rheumatic mitral valve disease is commonly believed to yield poorer results by ...

Objective Despite widespread use of azathioprine (AZA) during pregnancy, no studies evaluated the impact of pregnancy on AZA metabolites 6-thioguanine nucleotide (6-TGN) and 6-methylmercaptopurine ...

Background We describe the early experiences of adults with systemic rheumatic disease who received the COVID-19 vaccine.Methods From 2 April to 30 April 2021, we conducted an online, international ...

SLE can be difficult to distinguish from HIV infection because of the high frequency of rheumatic complaints and autoantibodies in untreated HIV-positive patients and the protean multisystem ...

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