Gender and Ocular Manifestations of Connective Tissue Diseases and Systemic Vasculitides by Maria M. Choudhary, Rula A. Hajj-Ali, Careen Y. Lowder

“…The other extra-articular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis affect women three times more commonly than men. …”
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Sterile osteomyelitis: a cardinal sign of autoinflammation by Tiago Borges, João Santos, Sérgio Silva

“…This review focuses on the occurrence of sterile osteo­myelitis in ABDs and related diseases, notably chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) and its sporadic and monogenic forms, such as deficiency of the interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptor antagonist, Majeed syndrome, CNO related to FBLIM1 mutation, and pyogenic arthritis, pyoderma gangrenosum, and acne (PAPA syndrome). …”
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Potency of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Indomethacin in Complete Freund’s Adjuvant-Induced Arthritic Rats: Roles of TNF-α, IL-10, iNOS, MMP-9, and TGF-β1 by Eman A. Ahmed, Osama M. Ahmed, Hanaa I. Fahim, Tarek M. Ali, Basem H. Elesawy, Mohamed B. Ashour

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune syndrome affecting joint spaces, leading to the disabled state. …”
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Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects of Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients in a Single Center in Baghdad by Ali Hussein Al Hafidh

“… Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory disease with axial involvement but also may present as a peripheral arthritis and extraarticular manifestations. Objective: To assess clinical aspects of ankylosing spondylitis patients and different associated demographic variables in Baghdad teaching hospital. …”
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New Onset of Dermatomyositis/Polymyositis during Anti-TNF-α Therapies: A Systematic Literature Review by Alexandra Maria Giovanna Brunasso, Werner Aberer, Cesare Massone

“…We retrieved 13 publications describing 20 patients where the new onset of DM/PM after anti-TNF-α therapy was recorded. 17 patients were affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA), one by Crohn’s disease, one by ankylosing spondilytis, and one by seronegative arthritis. …”
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Lipoma Arborescens of the Knee: Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature by Ioannis Tsifountoudis, Dimitrios Kapoutsis, Anastasios-Nektarios Tzavellas, Ioannis Kalaitzoglou, Apostolos Tsikes, George Gkouvas

“…We report three cases of lipoma arborescens affecting the knee, the first in a young male without previous history of arthritis or trauma, the second in a 58-year-old male associated with osteoarthritis, and the final in a 44-year-old male diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, which cover the entire pathologic spectrum of this unusual entity. …”
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Rapid Growth of Lung Nodules due to Combined Pulmonary Vasculitis, Silicoanthracosis, and Chondrocalcinosis by Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, Stefanos Tzafos, Oliver Distler, Antonios G. A. Kolios, Walter Weder, Daniel Franzen

“…Clinically, it can be associated with vasculitis or rheumatoid arthritis. In association with these diseases, silicoanthracosis can present within the lung with multiple pulmonary nodules which, as a differential diagnosis, can mimic metastatic disease or multiple abscesses. …”
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Overlap of IgG4-Related disease with autoimmune rheumatic diseases: Report of 2 cases and review of literature by Shivraj Padiyar, Abhilasha Manwatkar, Arvind Ganapati, Sanjeet Roy, John Mathew

“…The first case was an overlap IgG4RD with lupus and the second interesting case had IgG4RD overlapping with 2 autoimmune diseases (lupus and rheumatoid arthritis) in the same patient. Both patients were treated with high-dose steroids and mycophenolate mofetil with good response, however, the second patient needed to be additionally treated with rituximab for better control of arthritis. …”
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Osteoimmunology: Major and Costimulatory Pathway Expression Associated with Chronic Inflammatory Induced Bone Loss by Tania N. Crotti, Anak A. S. S. K. Dharmapatni, Ekram Alias, David R. Haynes

“…This is pertinent to immune-mediated diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and periodontal disease, where there are chronic inflammation and local bone erosion. …”
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Comparative Analysis of CXCR5 Circulating DNA Methylation Levels in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases by Yiming Shi, Yingying Qin, Yunshen Li, Ping Jiang, Kai Wei, Jianan Zhao, Yu Shan, Yixin Zheng, Fuyu Zhao, Mi Zhou, Li Li, Yu Shen, Xinliang Lv, Yuejuan Zheng, Shicheng Guo, Qin Ding, Cen Chang, Dongyi He

“…Methods Targeted methylation sequencing was performed using peripheral blood from 164 rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 30 systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 30 ankylosing spondylitis (AS), 30 psoriatic arthritis (PsA), 24 Sjögren's syndrome (SS) patients, and 30 healthy controls (HC). …”
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Differential Modulation of Annexin I Binding Sites on Monocytes and Neutrophils by H. S. Euzger, R. J. Flower, N. J. Goulding, M. Perretti

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Relationship between Mild Genu Varum and Genu Valgum with Degenerative Hip and Knee Disease: A Cadaveric Study by Raymond W. Liu, Douglas S. Weinberg, Jonathan J. Streit, Colin E. Lasko, Daniel R. Cooperman

“…Background: Varus and valgus deformity of the knee are relatively common conditions, and clinical studies have associated both with increased knee arthritis in high-risk patients. However, the consequences of these deformities in a randomly collected cadaveric population remain unclear. …”
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Tuberculosis of the tongue in a patient under treatment with adalimumab by Cintia Mussi Milani, Rafaela Arana, Rafaela Sávio Melzer, Antônio Adilson Soares Lima, Maria Angela Naval Machado, Liliane Roskamp

“…We present a case of tuberculosis of the tongue in a 50-year-old male under treatment with adalimumab for five years to treat psoriatic arthritis.…”
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Evolutive radiological findings in a case of coccidioidal infection in an immunocompetent male: a case report by Paolo La Montanara, Annamaria Albergo, Loredana Capozzi, Roberto Castellana, Gerardo Cazzato, Carmela De Carlo, Sofia Denicolò, Antonella Netti, Mariacristina Poliseno, Enrica Maddalena Ranieri, Caterina Romano, Annalisa Rossiello, Stefania Stolfa, Alessandra Tripoli, Giuseppe Vella

“…These infections frequently have no symptoms and the clinical signs remain undetected, allowing the infection to worsen over weeks or months. Mycotic arthritis is one of the rarest clinical symptoms; it is hard to distinguish from other types of arthritis, which slows down the diagnosis procedure. …”
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Postchikungunya Chronic Inflammatory Rheumatism by Keith A. Sacco, Razvan M. Chirila

“…A 65-year-old male resident of Guatemala presented with a 5-month history of distal symmetric arthritis and generalized fatigue. This was associated with night sweats, chills, and weight loss. …”
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Discovery of novel TACE inhibitors using graph convolutional network, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulation, and Biological evaluation. by Muhammad Yasir, Jinyoung Park, Eun-Taek Han, Jin-Hee Han, Won Sun Park, Mubashir Hassan, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Wanjoo Chun

“…Vorinostat, as a newly identified TACE inhibitor, holds promise for further exploration and investigation in the treatment of inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.…”
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Therapeutic molecules for multiple human diseases identified from pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) through GCâMS and molecular docking by Deepu Mathew, Lidiya John P., Manila T.M., Divyasree P., Sandhya Rajan V.T.K.

“…Keywords: Breast cancer, Drug discovery, Herbal medicine, In silico, Malaria, Measles, Phyto-compounds, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sickle cell disease, Type II diabetes…”
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The Assessment of Selected Bone and Cartilage Biomarkers in Psoriatic Patients from Poland by Joanna Bartosińska, Anna Michalak-Stoma, Maria Juszkiewicz-Borowiec, Małgorzata Kowal, Grażyna Chodorowska

“…Bone and cartilage biomarkers may be helpful in screening patients with psoriasis for psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Objectives. To assess bone and cartilage serum biomarkers in psoriasis. …”
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Disease Burden and Harm of Osteoarthritis by WU Haotian, LIN Jianhao

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Geriatric Psoriasis: Evaluation of Clinical Features, Disease Course, and Treatment Modalities of Patients from a Tertiary Care Hospital by Elif Çalışkan, Yusuf Can Edek, Nuray Keskin, Petek Üstün, Esra Adışen

“…There was no significant difference in terms of the initial body areas affected by the disease between the early-onset and elderly-onset groups; 45.7% of patients had nail psoriasis, while 27.1% had psoriatic arthritis. Nail involvement (p = 0.021) and the presence of psoriatic arthritis (p = 0.011) were more common in the early-onset group. …”
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