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Diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome with ultrasound
Fontes, Tomás; Sepriano, Alexandre; Ramiro, Sofia; Moniz, Paula; Furtado, Carolina; Figueiredo, Guilherme; Falcão, SandraPublisher Copyright: © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ Group.; OBJECTIVES: To assess the value of adding the ultradistal level to other more thoroughly studied levels of the carpal tunnel when measuring the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the median nerve (MN) by ultrasound (US) in diagnosing patients with p...
The Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) Consensus-Base...
Poddubnyy, Denis; Navarro-Compán, Victoria; TORGUTALP, MURAT; Arends, Suzanne; Aydin, Sibel Zehra; Battista, Simone; Van Den Bosch, FilipPublisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s); Objectives: To develop a consensus-based expert definition of difficult-to-manage (D2M) axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), incorporating treatment-refractory (TR) disease. Methods: A literature review was conducted in 2022 to identify potential definitions for D2M/TR axSpA from prior studies, followed by a 2-round Delphi consensus process conducted in 2022 and 2023 to id...
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the mSQUASH into European Portuguese
Moniz, Ana Catarina; Emília Santos, M.; de Freitas, K.; Tojal, F.; de Freitas, J.; Costa, M.; Araújo, P.; Arends, S.; Ramiro, SofiaPublisher Copyright: © 2025 Sociedade Portuguesa de Reumatologia.; Background: Regular physical activity is recommended for all patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), but measuring its frequency, duration and intensity can be challenging. The modified Short Questionnaire to ASsess Health-enhancing physical activity (mSQUASH) is a patient-reported outcome measurement designed to assess daily physical act...
WHY most (but perhaps not all) DMARDs work equally well
Landewé, Robert B M; Sepriano, Alexandre; Bergstra, Sytske AnneCopyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.; Biological- or targeted-synthetic DMARD-responses reported in randomized clinical trials, placebo-controlled or head-to-head, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis or spondyloarthritis are unbelievably similar, when looking across trials performed in the same disease and applying the same primary outcome measur...
Portuguese Recommendations for the management of Raynaud’s phenomenon and digit...
Santiago, T.; Duarte, A. C.; Sepriano, Alexandre; Castro, A.; Rosa, B.; Resende, C.; Oliveira, D.; Dourado, D.; Costa, E.; Cunha-Santos, F.; Terroso, G.Objective: To develop evidence-based recommendations for the non-pharmacological and pharmacological management of Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP) and digital ulcers (DUs) in patients with systemic sclerosis and other im-mune-mediated connective tissue diseases (CTDs). Methods: A task force comprising 21 rheumatologists, 2 surgeons (vascular and plastic), 2 nurses, and 1 patient representative was established. Follow...
Sensitivity to change of structural outcomes in axial spondyloarthritis after 1...
López-Medina, Clementina; Molto, Anna; Sepriano, Alexandre; Ramiro, Sofia; Tournadre, Anne; Dougados, Maxime© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.; OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the sensitivity to change in structural imaging outcomes over 10 years of follow-up in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). METHODS: Patients with axSpA from the Devenir des Spondyloarthropathies Indifferénciées Récentes cohort were inclu...
Systematic literature review to inform the Portuguese recommendations for the m...
Costa, Emanuel; Cunha-Santos, Filipe; Dourado, Eduardo; Oliveira, Daniela; Falzon, Louise; Romão, Vasco; Duarte, Ana Catarina; Cordeiro, AnaOBJECTIVE: To perform a systematic literature review (SLR) aimed at evaluating the efficacy and safety of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) and digital ulcers (DU) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and other connective tissue diseases (CTD), in order to inform the Portuguese recommendations for managing RP and DU in these patients. METHODS: A SLR was conduc...
Inflammation in the posterior elements, in particular the facet joint and facet...
de Hooge, Manouk; Stal, Roos; Sepriano, Alexandre; Baraliakos, Xenofon; Reijnierse, Monique; Braun, Jürgen; van der Heijde, DésiréePublisher Copyright: © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.; OBJECTIVES: To assess the association of posterior element (PE) and facet joint (FJ) inflammation with subsequent new FJ ankylosis (FJA) on MRI, in patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA). METHODS: Patients from the Sensitive Ima...
Change in different classes of chronic back pain suspicious of axial spondyloar...
Bosch, Philipp; Sepriano, Alexandre; Marques, Mary-Lucy; van der Heijde, Désirée; Landewé, Robert; van Lunteren, Miranda; de Bruin, Liese© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.; OBJECTIVES: To follow up four previously identified classes 'pure axial spondyloarthritis' (axSpA) ('axial'), 'axSpA with peripheral signs' ('inflammatory back pain+peripheral'), 'axSpA at risk' and 'no spondyloarthritis' ('no SpA'). They reflect the expert-opinion-free ...
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Bento da Silva, Ana; Lourenço, Maria Helena; Ramiro, Sofia; Falzon, L; Branco, Jaime; van der Heijde, D; Landewé, R; Sepriano, Alexandre