Kazusa Miyachi   Taro Iwamoto   Shotaro Kojima   Tomoaki Ida   Junya Suzuki   Takuya Yamamoto   Norihiro Mimura   Takahiro Sugiyama   Shigeru Tanaka   Shunsuke Furuta   Kei Ikeda   Kotaro Suzuki   Timothy B. Niewold   Hiroshi Nakajima   
Arthritis Research & Therapy 25(1) 2023年2月
Abstract
Background
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is heterogeneous in organ involvement and disease severity, presenting a broad clinical phenotype. Systemic type I interferon (IFN) activity has been shown to be associated with lupus neph...
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors for osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) in a multicentre cohort of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV). METHODS: One hundred and eighty...
Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPNM) historically has been considered a poor prognostic factor in dermatomyositis/polymyositis patients complicated with interstitial lung disease (ILD). However, there is a lack of actual data regarding...
Epithelial cells control a variety of immune cells by secreting cytokines to maintain tissue homeostasis on mucosal surfaces. Regulatory T (Treg) cells are essential for immune homeostasis and for preventing tissue inflammation; however,...
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Visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus infection (VD-VZV) is a rare complication in immunocompromised patients. Although systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients have a higher risk of VZV infection, only a few reports describe VD-VZV in S...