Testosterone exacerbates neutrophilia and cardiac injury in myocardial infarction via actions in bone marrow by Elin Svedlund Eriksson, Marta Lantero Rodriguez, Bente Halvorsen, Inger Johansson, Anna K. F. Mårtensson, Anna S. Wilhelmson, Camilla Huse, Thor Ueland, Pål Aukrust, Kaspar Broch, Lars Gullestad, Brage Høyem Amundsen, Geir Øystein Andersen, Mikael C. I. Karlsson, Malin Hagberg Thulin, Alessandro Camponeschi, Dana Trompet, Ola Hammarsten, Björn Redfors, Jan Borén, Elmir Omerovic, Malin C. Levin, Andrei S. Chagin, Tuva B. Dahl, Åsa Tivesten

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The Safety of Infliximab Infusions in the Community Setting by James Ducharme, Cindy Pelletier, Ramesh Zacharias

“…BACKGROUND: Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) has an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and psoriasis. …”
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Number 2: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The Importance of Exercise by Norman L Jones

“…Other less common factors include heart problems associated with COPD, and other coexisting health problems, such as anemia and arthritis.…”
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Infected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Helicobacter cinaedi by Kazuhiro Nishida, Takamasa Iwasawa, Atsushi Tamura, Alan T. Lefor

“…Helicobacter cinaedi is a rare human pathogen which has various clinical manifestations such as cellulitis, bacteremia, arthritis, meningitis, and infectious endocarditis. …”
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Targeting chondrocytes for arresting bony fusion in ankylosing spondylitis by Fenli Shao, Qianqian Liu, Yuyu Zhu, Zhidan Fan, Wenjun Chen, Shijia Liu, Xiaohui Li, Wenjie Guo, Gen-Sheng Feng, Haiguo Yu, Qiang Xu, Yang Sun

“…Here we discovered spontaneous kyphosis, arthritis and bony fusion in mature CD4-Cre;Ptpn11 f/f mice, which present the pathophysiological features of AS. …”
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Real life experience of a screening strategy for latent tuberculosis before treatment with biologicals in indian patients with rheumatic diseases by Anand N Malaviya, Ravita Thakaran, Roopa Rawat, Sanjiv Kapoor, Shriram Garg, Sadhana S Baghel, Christy Messi, Vivekanand, Qamar Zaheer

“…Results: A total of 730 patients (265 rheumatoid arthritis, 400 axial spondyloarthritis [axSpA], 34 psoriatic arthritis, and 31 others) were considered for bDMARDs. …”
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Computer-assisted total bilateral knee arthroplasty for a patient with severe hyperextension in residual poliomyelitis: a case report by Valery Y. Murylev, Semen S. Alekseev, Grigory A. Kukovenko, Pavel M. Elizarov, Dmitriy O. Golubkin, Aleksey V. Muzychenkov

“…The method can be an effective treatment solution for patients with knee arthritis deformity in the residual stage of poliomyelitis.…”
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Interleukin-29 Enhances Synovial Inflammation and Cartilage Degradation in Osteoarthritis by Lingxiao Xu, Qiuyue Peng, Wenhua Xuan, Xiaoke Feng, Xiangqing Kong, Miaojia Zhang, Wenfeng Tan, Meilang Xue, Fang Wang

“…We have recently shown that IL-29 was an important proinflammatory cytokine in pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Inflammation also contributes to the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA). …”
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Clinical Features and Prevalence of Spondyloarthritis in a Cohort of Italian Patients Presenting with Acute Nongranulomatous Anterior Uveitis by Elena Bolletta, Pierluigi Macchioni, Giorgia Citriniti, Valentina Mastrofilippo, Raffaella Aldigeri, Luca De Simone, Fabrizio Gozzi, Chantal Adani, Anna Sangiovanni, Chiara Posarelli, Michele Figus, Francesco Muratore, Nicolò Pipitone, Carlo Salvarani, Luca Cimino

“…SpA was classified according to the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) criteria in axial or peripheral SpA. …”
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Prevalence of Autoimmune Diseases in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: An Epidemiological Study Using A Global Network of Health Care Organizations by Pushti Khandwala, Devashish Desai, Arthur Lau

“…There was no significant difference in developing vasculitis, dermatopolymyositis, and psoriatic arthritis when compared to patients who did not receive ICIs. …”
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Current developments in robotic assistance technology for total knee arthroplasty: a comprehensive overview by Hongli Zhang, Xing-an Jiang, Bing-chen Jin, Hong-hao Zhang, Jun-bo Liang

“…Abstract Knee arthritis is a common degenerative joint disease, usually with joint swelling, chronic pain, and dysfunction as the main clinical manifestations. …”
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Pulmonary Embolism following Cessation of Infliximab for Treatment of Miliary Tuberculosis by Brian Lee, Farid Moosavy

“…We report a case of a 41-year-old male who presented with tachycardia and swelling of his left arm six weeks after he started antituberculosis treatment and stopped his rheumatoid arthritis infliximab treatment. He was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism by chest CT and initially treated with warfarin, which interacted with his antituberculosis treatment. …”
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Two Cases of Spontaneous Recurrent Hemarthrosis of the Shoulder with Acromial Erosion Associated with Impingement Syndrome by Shoji Fukuta, Katsutoshli Miyatake, Tetsuya Matsuura, Koichi Sairyo

“…Most previously reported cases were associated with massive rotator cuff tear and degenerative glenohumeral arthritis. We described two cases of recurrent hemarthrosis without osteoarthritis of the shoulder. …”
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Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Autoimmunity: A Case Report of an Unusual Presentation of Myelodysplastic Syndrome by Andrea L. Merrill, Hedy Smith

“…Typically, these autoimmune phenomena take the form of vasculitides, arthritis, connective tissue diseases, pulmonary infiltrates, or polymyalgia rheumatica. …”
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Pathogenicity of avian reovirus variant in the immune organs of broiler chicks by Haiyang Yu, Yudong Zhu, Qiong Wu, Wanjun Zhao, You Wang, Dong Wang, Huaguang Lu, Youxiang Diao, Yijing Li, Yi Tang

“…The results showed that the footpad inoculation group showed more severe symptoms, which, in addition to causing chick dwarf syndrome and viral arthritis, would also cause serious effects on the immune organs of the chicks. …”
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Immune modulation effects of curcumin in pristane-induced lupus mice by Handono Kalim, Kusworini Handono, Takhta Khalasha, Mirza Zaka Pratama, Tri Wahyudi Iman Dantara, Ayu Pramitha Wulandari, Fahimma Albinsaid, Sofi Nur Fitria, Muhammad Vardian Mahardika

“…Results: Arthritis score and proteinuria level were decreased in curcumin-treated mice. …”
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Can infectious omphalitis in piglets be clinically diagnosed during the first three days of life? by Sophie Amalie Blirup-Plum, Henrik Elvang Jensen, Katrine Top Hartmann, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Karen Pankoke, Mette Sif Hansen, Ken Steen Pedersen, Inge Larsen, Jens Peter Nielsen, John Elmerdahl Olsen, Egle Kudirkiene, Thomas Hartig Braunstein, Kristiane Barington

“…This was due to all controls, and none of the cases, with arthritis/synovitis presented histopathological omphalitis. …”
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Association between diabetes mellitus and total hip arthroplasty outcomes: an observational study using the US National Inpatient Sample by Jasvinder A Singh, Sumanth Chandrupatla, Kranti Rumalla

“…Larger studies are needed in avascular necrosis and inflammatory arthritis cohorts undergoing primary THA.…”
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Citrullinated IGF2BP1 promotes rheumatoid synovial aggression via increasing the mRNA stability of SEMA3D by Yang Qin, Li Liu, Yanwen Zhang, Xiaowei Chen, Jiani Zhang, Sunwang Ling, Jianguang Wang, Xinyu Yang

“…Abstract Protein citrullination modification plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) are extensively employed for clinical diagnosis of RA. …”
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Occurrence and assessment of chronic pain fatigue and sleep disturbance in axial spondyloarthritis patients by Eman Abdel Ghani Sayed, Samer Samy, Faruk Ali Abdi, Anna Abou-Raya

“…Background Axial spondyloarthritis is an inflammatory arthritis with low back pain that affects the axial skeleton and sacroiliac joints, with extra-articular manifestations. …”
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