A 43-year-old woman presented with 6 months of recurrent bilateral eye pain and redness alongside spontaneous urticaria.She ...

The markers analysed were: erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR); HLA-DRB alleles typed by restriction fragment length polymorphism; and C reactive protein, cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP), ...

Objective: To study the prevalence of autoantibodies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with the TNFα ... IIF on Crithidia luciliae for IgM and IgG, and Farr assay), nucleosomes, ...

Tocilizumab has emerged as a key treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, showing efficacy, safety, and potential cardiovascular ...

Levels of rheumatoid factor (RF), another antibody, could also indicate RA. Doctors may consider levels of the two antibodies when diagnosing RA, which can show different elements of disease ...

Neuroimmune modulation represents a promising treatment strategy that uses vagus nerve stimulation to reduce inflammation in ...

What if, rather than focusing solely on the drivers of disease (pathogenesis), we also explored the factors sustaining our ...

A study published in Aging Cell has identified immune resilience as a key driver of salutogenesis—the active process of ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in Denmark with a history of solid tumor cancers, now in remission, faced no greater likelihood of cancer relapse when they were treated with biologic agents, ...

blood tests for RA like rheumatoid factor and anti-CCP, and imaging tests like X-rays or MRIs. RA can be challenging to diagnose, and no single test confirms it.

Additionally, rheumatoid factor tests often return negative in PsA patients, helping distinguish it from rheumatoid arthritis. Imaging plays a crucial role in diagnosis. X-rays can reveal changes ...