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The Impact of COVID-19 on Rare and Complex Connective Tissue Diseases: the Expe...
Talarico, R; Aguilera, S; Alexander, T; Amoura, Z; Antunes, A; Arnaud, L; Avcin, T; Beretta, L; Bombardieri, S; Burmester, G; Cannizzo, S; Cavagna, LDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to provide high-level care for a large number of patients with COVID-19 has affected resourcing for, and limited the routine care of, all other conditions. The impact of this health emergency is particularly relevant in the rare connective tissue diseases (rCTDs) communities, as discussed in this Perspective article by the multi-stakeholder European Reference Network on Ra...
Overactive bladder symptom bother and health-related quality of life in patient...
Silva, R; Romão, V; Neves, M; Garcia, R; Oliveira, S; Brites, J, et al.The objective of this paper is to assess overactive bladder (OAB) symptom bother (SB) and health-related quality of life (HRQL) among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS). METHODS: We recruited adult SLE and pSS patients and two groups of age- and sex-matched controls. We applied the OAB questionnaire-short form (OABq-SF) to all participants to assess SB and HRQL a...
Sjögren's Syndrome: State of the Art on Clinical Practice Guideline
Romão, V; Talarico, R; Scirè, CA; Vieira, A; Alexander, T; Baldini, C; Gottenberg, JE; Gruner, H; Hachulla, E; Mouthon, L; Orlandi, M; Pamfil, CSjögren's syndrome (SS) is a complex autoimmune rheumatic disease that specifically targets salivary and lachrymal glands. As such, patients typically had ocular and oral dryness and salivary gland swelling. Moreover, skin, nasal and vaginal dryness are frequently present. In addition to dryness, musculoskeletal pain and fatigue are the hallmarks of this disease and constitute the classic symptom triad presente...
Recommendations for Vaccination in Adult Patients with Systemic Inflammatory Rh...
Cordeiro, I; Duarte, AC; Ferreira, J; Gonçalves, MJ; Meirinhos, T; Rocha, T; Romão, V; Sousa, S; Guedes, M; Conde, M; Abreu, C; Aleixo, MJ; Santos, MJSerious infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic inflammatory rheumatic disease (SIRD) patients. Although vaccination may prevent numerous infections, vaccination uptake rates are low in this group of patients. OBJECTIVES: To develop evidence-based recommendations for vaccination in SIRD patients. METHODS: We searched MEDLINE (until 31 October 2014) and EMBASE (until 14 December 2014)...