{"title":"Correction to Lancet Rheumatol 2025; published online Feb 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00348-5","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00096-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00096-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":"7 5","pages":"Page e311"},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755257","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}
Marc Scherlinger, Gaetane Nocturne, Marko Radic, David Launay, Christophe Richez, Philippe Bousso, Edouard Forcade, Alain Meyer, Christian Jorgensen, Camille Bigenwald, Divi Cornec, Jean Sibilia, Sylvain Choquet, Thierry Martin, Alexandre Belot, Maurine Jouret, Samuel Bitoun, Zahir Amoura, Olivier Hermine, Xavier Mariette, Emmanuel Donnadieu, Jérome Avouac
{"title":"CAR T-cell therapy in autoimmune diseases: where are we and where are we going?","authors":"Marc Scherlinger, Gaetane Nocturne, Marko Radic, David Launay, Christophe Richez, Philippe Bousso, Edouard Forcade, Alain Meyer, Christian Jorgensen, Camille Bigenwald, Divi Cornec, Jean Sibilia, Sylvain Choquet, Thierry Martin, Alexandre Belot, Maurine Jouret, Samuel Bitoun, Zahir Amoura, Olivier Hermine, Xavier Mariette, Emmanuel Donnadieu, Jérome Avouac","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00377-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00377-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based therapies developed for the treatment of haematological malignancies have recently been repurposed to treat refractory systemic autoimmune diseases. In this Review we critically discuss the current data available on the use of CAR-based therapy in systemic autoimmune diseases, the current challenges, and the potential next steps toward their implementation into clinical practice. Beyond the targeting of B cells via CD19, we discuss the advantages and potential pitfalls of targeting plasma cells (B-cell Maturation Antigen or CD138) and other non-immune targets, such as fibroblast activated protein, and of aiming to restore immune homeostasis using CAR T regulatory cells. Crucial points need to be addressed for CAR-based therapy to become a viable treatment option for patients with systemic autoimmune diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143743853","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}
Max Yates, Charlotte Davies, Alexander James MacGregor
{"title":"Improving polymyalgia rheumatica care: considerations for routine vascular ultrasound in clinical practice.","authors":"Max Yates, Charlotte Davies, Alexander James MacGregor","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00031-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00031-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vascular ultrasound can be useful in the diagnostic investigation of patients with suspected giant cell arteritis. The clinical overlap between polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis raises the prospect that vascular ultrasound can be used to identify features suggestive of giant cell arteritis in polymyalgia rheumatica, and has generated debate on whether all patients with polymyalgia rheumatica should undergo vascular ultrasound. However, before this approach becomes routine practice, more careful and detailed scrutiny is needed of its clinical necessity, patient benefit, and cost-effectiveness, where data are currently lacking. We argue that the case for universal vascular ultrasound screening in polymyalgia rheumatica is speculative and there is a greater necessity to direct resources to address misdiagnosis and overtreatment with glucocorticoids, which carry risks such as osteoporosis, diabetes, ocular morbidity, and infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671410","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":"JIA care under the microscope","authors":"The Lancet Rheumatology","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00073-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00073-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":"7 4","pages":"Page e219"},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671413","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":"Diagnostic, research, and real-life effect of the 2023 EULAR−ACR classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome","authors":"Karen Schreiber PhD , Silvia Aguilera PhD , Prof Olga Amengual PhD , Prof Hannah Cohen MD , Prof Danieli Castro Oliveira De Andrade MD PhD , Prof Alí Duarte-García MD , Prof Maria Gerosa PhD , Prof Catherine Nelson-Piercy MD , Massimo Radin MD PhD , Prof Luigi Raio MD , Prof Savino Sciascia PhD","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00396-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00396-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of classification criteria is particularly important in rheumatic diseases compared with other medical disorders, as the complexity and overlapping symptoms of these conditions make diagnosis challenging. Moreover, the absence of established diagnostic criteria further complicates diagnosing patients. Classification criteria can assist health-care professionals and patients as a diagnostic aid. However, classification criteria are developed for research purposes to standardise populations in clinical trials and observational studies of rheumatic diseases and not for diagnosing patients. Introduction of the 2023 American College of Rheumatology−European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (ACR–EULAR) antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria underscores the important distinction between meeting these criteria and being diagnosed with the condition—a differentiation essential in both clinical practice and research. Although the 2023 ACR–EULAR antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria improved precision in classification of pregnant individuals with antiphospholipid syndrome, which ultimately should lead to better outcomes and care for these patients, the updated criteria should not be used as diagnostic criteria in routine clinical practice. In this Personal View, we examine the possible effect of the 2023 ACR–EULAR antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria, with a particular focus on the pregnancy-related aspects of the syndrome.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":"7 5","pages":"Pages e368-e376"},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143598041","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}
Lucy Marie Carter PhD , Prof Michael R Ehrenstein PhD FRCP , Prof Edward M Vital PhD
{"title":"Evolution and trajectory of B-cell targeted therapies in rheumatic diseases","authors":"Lucy Marie Carter PhD , Prof Michael R Ehrenstein PhD FRCP , Prof Edward M Vital PhD","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00338-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00338-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aberrant B-cell function, which could arise from various underlying causes, is central to the pathogenesis of diverse autoimmune rheumatic diseases. B cells remain the only cell type to be specifically therapeutically targeted through depletion and have the only therapy with a routinely available flow cytometric biomarker of treatment. Since first use and subsequent licensing for rheumatoid arthritis, rituximab has had a transformative impact on patients globally and across the rheumatic diseases. Further insights from B-cell-activating factor (BAFF) blockade with belimumab in systemic lupus erythematosus have followed. Examination of B-cell depletion, clinical outcomes, and re-emergent disease after treatment have deepened our understanding of the identity, detailed phenotype, biology, and kinetics of the B-cell subsets that are central to disease. This Review reflects on 20 years of clinical and translational insights drawn from B-cell targeted therapies for adult autoimmune rheumatic diseases, and highlights how these therapies have informed an exciting new era of future therapeutic developments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":"7 5","pages":"Pages e355-e367"},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143587671","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}
Simon Vella , Peter Youssef , Chris Maher , Gustavo Machado
{"title":"Unwarranted escalation of care for back pain: a dilemma for emergency health services","authors":"Simon Vella , Peter Youssef , Chris Maher , Gustavo Machado","doi":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00059-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00059-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48540,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Rheumatology","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages e229-e231"},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143587712","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}