{"title":"Dismissed! My long diagnostic odyssey to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.","authors":"Jackie Duda","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00187-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00187-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tajamul H Mir, Reem Javeed, Bushra Jabeen, Alok Sharma, Afroz Khan, Junaid S Wani, Murtaza R Pala, Rabia N Ahmed, Ahtesham Ahmed, Sibgatullah Chesti, M Omar Parvaiz
{"title":"Microscopic polyangiitis presenting with retinal frosted branch angiitis.","authors":"Tajamul H Mir, Reem Javeed, Bushra Jabeen, Alok Sharma, Afroz Khan, Junaid S Wani, Murtaza R Pala, Rabia N Ahmed, Ahtesham Ahmed, Sibgatullah Chesti, M Omar Parvaiz","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00159-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00159-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Debate over interventional procedures for chronic spine pain.","authors":"Heather Van Epps","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00186-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00186-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Hess, Koray Tascilar, Hanna M Schenker, Laura Konerth, Verena Schönau, Marina Sergeeva, Silke Kreitz, Jutta Prade, Sandra Strobelt, Mageshwar Selvakumar, Arnd Kleyer, Matthias Englbrecht, Axel J Hueber, Mario M Zaiss, Eugen Feist, Gerd R Burmester, Reinhard E Voll, Stephanie Finzel, Christoph Baerwald, Julie Rösch, Frank Behrens, Michaela Koehm, Jose Antonio P da Silva, Nemanja Damjanov, Arnd Dörfler, Georg Schett, Jürgen Rech
{"title":"Disease-associated brain activation predicts clinical response to TNF inhibition in rheumatoid arthritis (PreCePra): a randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study.","authors":"Andreas Hess, Koray Tascilar, Hanna M Schenker, Laura Konerth, Verena Schönau, Marina Sergeeva, Silke Kreitz, Jutta Prade, Sandra Strobelt, Mageshwar Selvakumar, Arnd Kleyer, Matthias Englbrecht, Axel J Hueber, Mario M Zaiss, Eugen Feist, Gerd R Burmester, Reinhard E Voll, Stephanie Finzel, Christoph Baerwald, Julie Rösch, Frank Behrens, Michaela Koehm, Jose Antonio P da Silva, Nemanja Damjanov, Arnd Dörfler, Georg Schett, Jürgen Rech","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00032-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00032-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease frequently treated with TNF inhibitors. Little is known about predictors of response to TNF inhibitors. Because clinical response in rheumatoid arthritis is measured by composite scores containing subjective patient-orientated domains (eg, pain and global disease perception), we hypothesised that patients with high disease representation in the CNS might respond better to TNF inhibitors than patients with less CNS disease representation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We did a phase 3, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group randomised trial in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis at six rheumatology centres across Germany, Portugal, and Serbia. All patients had a functional MRI (fMRI) brain scan at baseline to measure CNS pain activation. Patients (aged ≥18 years) with active rheumatoid arthritis who have active disease despite the use of at least one conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug were stratified according to fMRI (high volume or low volume) and were randomly assigned 2:1 using a randomisation list generated by a study statistician to treatment with the TNF inhibitor certolizumab pegol (400 mg subcutaneously on weeks 0, 2, and 4, and 200 mg once every 2 weeks for maximum 24 weeks) or placebo. Patients and clinicians were masked to allocation. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients reaching low disease activity (Disease Activity Score in 28 joints ≤3·2) at week 12, analysed in the intention-to-treat population. There was no lived experience involvement in study design. The study was registered with EudraCT (2013-000337-13) and ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01864265).</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Between Sept 3, 2013, and Jan 10, 2020, 148 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were screened and 139 (99 [71%] women and 40 [29%] men) were randomly assigned to the high-volume certolizumab pegol group (n=49), the low-volume certolizumab pegol group (n=43), or the placebo group (n=47). Low disease activity was reached by 28 (57%) in the high-volume certolizumab pegol group, 19 (44%) in the low-volume certolizumab pegol group, and 12 (26%) in the placebo group at week 12. Response in the high-volume certolizumab pegol group was significantly different (p=0·0017) to the placebo group, but not the low-volume certolizumab pegol group (p=0·063). There were 25 treatment-related adverse events: 22 in the certolizumab pegol groups and three in the placebo group.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>High disease-associated fMRI CNS pain activation might predict clinical response of patients with rheumatoid arthritis to TNF inhibitor treatment.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>UCB Biopharma.</p>","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The brain as a window into rheumatoid arthritis stratified medicine?","authors":"Neil Basu, Kristian Stefanov","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00062-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00062-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vibeke Strand, Jerome Msihid, Jennifer Sloane, Michael C Nivens, Jingdong Chao, Angeliki Giannelou, Stefano Fiore, Lita Araujo, Bhaskar Dasgupta
{"title":"Sarilumab in relapsing polymyalgia rheumatica: patient-reported outcomes from a phase 3, double-blind, randomised controlled trial.","authors":"Vibeke Strand, Jerome Msihid, Jennifer Sloane, Michael C Nivens, Jingdong Chao, Angeliki Giannelou, Stefano Fiore, Lita Araujo, Bhaskar Dasgupta","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00041-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00041-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sarilumab is approved for adult patients with polymyalgia rheumatica who have had an inadequate response to corticosteroids or who cannot tolerate corticosteroid taper. We aimed to evaluate the effect of sarilumab on patient-reported outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This phase 3, double-blind, randomised controlled trial was done in 60 centres in 17 countries. Eligible patients were adults aged 50 years or older who had at least one episode of disease flare during a glucocorticoid taper (at a dose of ≥7·5 mg per day or prednisone dose equivalent) within 12 weeks before screening and had a history of at least 8 weeks of glucocorticoid treatment (≥10 mg per day or prednisone dose equivalent). All the patients had symptoms of polymyalgia rheumatica and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate >30 mm/h or a C-reactive protein concentration of at least 10 mg/L within 12 weeks before screening. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive either subcutaneous sarilumab 200 mg once every 2 weeks with a 14-week glucocorticoid taper or matching placebo with a 52-week glucocorticoid taper. Patients and investigators were masked to treatment allocation. The patient-reported outcomes measured were Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI), Patient Global Assessment of Health Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Pain VAS, Short Form Health Survey (SF-36 v2), EuroQoL 5-Dimensions 3-Levels (EQ-5D including the descriptive system and the VAS), and Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F). Patient-reported outcomes were analysed until week 52 as changes from baseline. Post-hoc analyses included proportions of patients reporting improvements of at least minimum clinically important difference and scores of at least normative values. p values were nominal. Analyses were done in the intention-to-treat population. There was no involvement of people with lived experience at any stage of the study. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03600818.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Between Oct 9, 2018, and July 15, 2020, 118 patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to receive sarilumab (n=60) or placebo (n=58). Of these, 117 patients received treatment (59 in the sarilumab group and 58 in the placebo group). One patient assigned to the sarilumab group did not receive treatment. Mean age was 68·9 years (SD 8·1). 82 (69%) of 118 patients were female and 36 (31%) were male, and 98 (83%) were White. At baseline, moderate-to-severe fatigue was reported by 43 (73%) of 59 patients in the sarilumab group and 43 (74%) of 58 patients in the placebo group. At week 52, patients in the sarilumab group reported greater improvements than patients in the placebo group in SF-36 Physical Component Summary (PCS; least-squares mean [LSM] change 7·65 vs 2·87, p=0·020) and Mental Component Summary (MCS; 3·04 vs -1·71, p=0·030) scores, and in five of eight domains. Sarilumab showed greater improvements in EQ-","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144369436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}