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WEBRMD Open publishes high quality peer-reviewed original research covering the full spectrum of musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatism and connective tissue diseases, including osteoporosis, spine and rehabilitation.Clinical and epidemiological research, basic and translational medicine, interesting clinical cases, and smaller studies that add to the literature are all considered.
Reactive arthritis after SARS-CoV-2 infection - RMD Open
WEBSARS-CoV-2 has been recognised as a potential trigger of inflammatory arthritis in individuals with inflammatory rheumatic diseases as well as in previously unaffected individuals. However, new-onset arthritis after COVID-19 is a heterogeneous phenomenon that complicates differential diagnosis. For example, acute arthritis with features of viral arthritis has been reported after COVID-19, as ...
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WEBRMD Open is an open access journal and levies an Article Processing Charge (APC) of 2,163 GBP (exclusive of VAT for UK and EU authors). The APC for Letters is 1,082 GBP. There are no submission, colour or page charges. There is a 25% discount for articles where the corresponding author has reviewed for RMD Open within the previous 12 months. A 50% discount on the standard APC will apply to ...
Management of Fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis - RMD Open
WEBFatigue in rheumatoid arthritis is highly prevalent. It is correlated only weakly with disease activity but more so with pain, mood, personality features, poor sleep, obesity and comorbidities. Fatigue can be measured by many standardised questionnaires and more easily with a Visual Analogue Scale or numeric rating scale. Most patients with RA have some fatigue, and at least one in six have ...
MR signal intensity: staying on the bright side in MR image ...
WEBAbstract In 2003, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded for contribution to the invention of MRI, reflecting the incredible value of MRI for medicine. Since 2003, enormous technical advancements have been made in acquiring MR images. However, MRI has a complicated, accident-prone dark side; images are not calibrated and respective images are dependent on all kinds of subjective choices in ...
Scoring ultrasound synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis: a ... - RMD Open
WEBObjectives To develop a consensus-based ultrasound (US) definition and quantification system for synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods A multistep, iterative approach was used to: (1) evaluate the baseline agreement on defining and scoring synovitis according to the usual practice of different sonographers, using both grey-scale (GS) (synovial hypertrophy (SH) and effusion) and power ...
MRI for diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis: major advance with ...
WEBRecognition of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) remains challenging, as no unique reference standard is available to ascertain diagnosis. Imaging procedures have been used for long in the field, in particular pelvic radiography, to capture structural changes evocative of sacroiliitis, the key feature in SpA. The introduction of MRI of the sacroiliac joints (SIJs) has led to a major shift in ...
Management of lupus nephritis: a systematic literature ... - RMD …
WEBObjectives To analyse the current evidence for the management of lupus nephritis (LN) informing the 2019 update of the EULAR/European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association recommendations. Methods According to the EULAR standardised operating procedures, a PubMed systematic literature review was performed, from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2018. Since this was an ...
WEBmader r et al. rMD Open 226:e1151 doi:11136rmdopen211151 1 Original research Imaging of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) Reuven Mader ,1 Xenofon Baraliakos ,2 Iris Eshed,3 Irina Novofastovski,1 Amir Bieber,1 Jorrit-Jan Verlaan,4 David Kiefer ,5,6 Nicola Pappone,7 Fabiola Atzeni8 To cite: Mader r, Baraliakos X, eshed i, et al. imaging of
Efficacy and safety of intra-articular therapies in rheumatic and ...
WEBObjective To summarise the evidence on intra-articular therapies (IAT) to inform the 2020 EULAR recommendations. Methods An overview of systematic reviews (SR) including randomised-controlled trials (RCTs) of IAT in adults with arthropathies was performed up to July 2020. Pain, function, and frequency of adverse events were the main efficacy and safety outcomes, respectively.
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