Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Malignancy in Myositis
Treatment of Cutaneous Lupus
Treatment of Lupus Nephritis
Antisynthetase Syndrome
Mechanical Means to Improve Bon ...
Not all fractures heal well. One method that has been used to improve fracture healing is low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS). LIPUS has been US ...
Synovitis in Psoriatic Arthriti ...
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory arthropathy associatedwith psoriasis that affects the peripheral joints, spine, and entheses. Mo ...
New Imaging Modalities in Bone
The digital era has witnessed an exponential growth in bone imaging as new modalities and analytic techniques improve the potential for noninvasive ...
Role of Ultrasound and Other Ad ...
Imaging of gout with conventional radiography has been described since shortly after roentgenography was invented. Ultrasound (US) detects more eros ...
Review of Clinical Registries o ...
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA), an inflammatory musculoskeletal disease associated with psoriasis, is a complex disease in terms of its clinical presenta ...
Advances in Glucocorticoid-Indu ...
Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) is one of the most important side effects of glucocorticoid use, as it leads to an increased risk of frac ...
Role of Melanocortin Receptors ...
Gouty arthritis is a form of acute joint inflammation provoked by joint deposition of urate crystals. Although this acute pathology resolves after a ...
Review of the Use of Ultrasound ...
Musculoskeletal ultrasound is rapidly advancing, with contemporary machines offering exquisite highresolution pictures of superficial structures suc ...
Pathogenesis of Dermatomyositis ...
Dermatomyositis is a systemic autoimmune disease that primarily affects skeletal muscle, skin, and the lungs. Dermatomyositis is characterized by au ...
Treatment of Lupus: Impact on Q ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that disproportionately affects women of childbearing age during their most productive y ...
Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare, often chronic autoimmune disease with onset during childhood. It is characterized by weakness in proximal ...
Current Status of Understanding ...
Neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID)/chronic infantile neurologic, cutaneous, and arthritis (CINCA) syndrome is the most severe c ...
To What Extent Can Preventive T ...
Managing lupus patients traditionally involves treating manifestations of active disease with the most effective and least toxic therapies so that “ ...
Malignancy in Myositis
Dermatomyositis is associated with an underlying malignancy in about 24% of cases. This association is also true for polymyositis but is less promin ...
Treatment of Mild, Moderate, an ...
Despite large-scale efforts devoted to the conduct of clinical trials in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), no new therapy has been approved for tr ...
The Muscular Dystrophies: Disti ...
Over the past decade, the enigmatic pathogenic mechanisms of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy have been defined. In this report, the mole ...
Vitamin D Supplementation in th ...
Vitamin D is capturing the attention of healthy and chronically ill populations for its potential skeletal and nonskeletal benefits. New information ...
Treatment of Cutaneous Lupus
Cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) is an autoimmune inflammatory skin disease seen in patients with or without systemic lupus erythematosus. The ma ...
Mechanisms of Action of Intrave ...
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a unique immune-modulating therapy that has a wide range of effects on the immune system at multiple levels. Th ...
The Immune System, the Skin, an ...
As the body’s largest organ and first line of defense against the environment, the skin plays a vital role in host immune defense. In addition to it ...
Clinical Assessment and Managem ...
Anemia, leukopenia, and/or thrombocytopenia can occur as a result of non-immune- and immunemediated mechanisms in patients with systemic lupus eryt ...
Therapeutic Approaches in Myosi ...
The inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases including dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis. Few clinical ...
Treatment of Lupus Nephritis
The treatment of lupus nephritis has evolved over the past few decades. Standard practice is to define the first 6 months of therapy as an induction ...
Antisynthetase Syndrome
Autoantibodies to eight of the aminoacyltransfer RNA synthetases—the most well-recognized of which is anti-histidyl (Jo-1)—have all been implicated ...
New Developments in Brief Inter ...
The delivery of brief interventions (BIs) in health care settings to reduce problematic alcohol consumption is a key preventive strategy for public ...