Rheumatoid Arthritis

Some subjects in rheumatology seem to create contention the more they get explored, and one of those areas is a traditional crowd favourite for discussion at EULAR - clinically suspect arthralgias.…

T cells are known to play a key role in RA pathogenesis and the diversity of the T cell repertoire is known to be reduced in RA.  In POS0009, Anang et al. studied T-cell receptor repertoire (…

Day 3 was a sunny warm day in Milan at the 2023 EULAR Congress meeting. Here are a few of my favorite abstracts from today. Rheumatoid Factor Lowering Predicts Improved Outcomes in RA. Abstract…

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is known to be historically associated with site specific cancers, especially lung skin and lymphomas. This risk was described as likely to be supported by chronic systemic…

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse large data sets using its subset component machine learning (ML) has taken centre stage recently in the management of rheumatic conditions,…

Day 2 at the international EULAR Congress meeting is always bigger and busier.  There are more sessions to choose from, more bodies fighting for space on the escalators and at the lunch lines,…

An artificial intelligence model to assess pre-RA hand MRIs has confirmed what human readers have known before: that bone marrow edema and tenosynovitis are objectively the best predictors of future…

In the last 2 years, there has been more caution and vigilance with the use of JAK inhibitors in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) due to the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events. These CV…

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a severe extra articular manifestation of RA, with limited treatment strategies and poor prognosis. While for a long time RA treatments, such as methotrexate (MTX…