期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (1)
The target organ in many forms of inflammatory arthritis is the synovium. However, synovial tissue has historically been perceived as either difficult......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (1)
The skin biopsy plays an important and powerful role in helping diagnose rheumatic diseases that present with cutaneous findings. As the skin is a ver......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (3)
The peripheral spondyloarthritis (pSpA) entity remains poorly defined in comparison with axial SpA and psoriatic arthritis, as the clinical symptoms h......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (3)
With back pain as one of the most common complaints in the population and with no single disease feature with sufficient sensitivity and specificity t......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (1)
Systemic vasculitis encompasses a group of multisystem disorders; both the diseases and the treatment strategies can have a significant impact on a pa......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (3)
The 2022 ASAS-EULAR recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) propose to consider dose reduction of biological disease-mod......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (1)
This paper addresses how to perform an ultrasound assessment of the salivary and lacrimal glands, how to identify pathological changes, and how to sco......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (3)
Comorbidities, including cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and depression, are more prevalent in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) than in the......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (3)
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) was historically considered a disease of men, largely due to the recognition of a more severe, progressive phenotype, ......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (3)
Sacroiliitis is characterised by active and structural changes of the joint. While the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis international Society (ASAS) cl......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (1)
The recent publication of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)-European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) classification criteri......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (1)
Accessing a joint with a needle (arthrocentesis) to extract synovial fluid is a skill intrinsic to the rheumatologist's praxis. Joint aspirations are ......
期刊： BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, 2023; 37 (2)
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease in which structural changes of hyaline articular cartilage, subchondral bone, ligaments, capsule, ......
