Polymyalgia rheumatica should be suspected in older patients with bilateral shoulder and
hip stiffness that is worse in the morning and improves with use. An array of nonspecific …

Developing countries endowed with petroleum resources face various challenges in balancing
their economic development needs and their contribution to combating climate change. …

Giant cell arteritis is a common systemic vasculitis that affects the elderly and has a variable
clinical presentation. Physicians should be aware of its different clinical phenotypes so that …

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a systemic
necrotizing small vessel vasculitis primarily affecting elderly patients. Neutrophil apoptosis and …

Mycoplasma hominis septic arthritis has a well-established association with
hypogammaglobulinaemia, but is rarely seen in immunocompetent hosts. An association also exists …

Update: biomarkers for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies : Current Opinion in
Rheumatology Update: biomarkers for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies : Current …

Objectives To investigate the outcomes of COVID‐19‐related hospitalizations among patients
with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) in the United States in 2020. The primary …

Dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM) are both immune-mediated inflammatory
myopathies known to occur in paraneoplastic syndromes associated with a new diagnosis of …

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an inflammatory and fibrosing disease which causes
tumor-like swelling of organs and commonly mimics symptoms of malignancy. It has been …

Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common illness with many extraarticular
manifestations. Rheumatoid pachymeningitis is a rare neurologic complication of this common …