Abstract The sometimes intense, persistent and disabling pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis frequently has a multifactorial, simultaneously central and peripheral origin, and it may be due to…

Abstract Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a condition characterized by chronic widespread pain and tenderness, is a complex condition considered to represent a paradigm of centralized pain. FMS has demonstrated a clear…

Abstract Pain is associated with the different types of rheumatic syndromes because it is often the most troubling symptom of patients affected by any of these diseases. Some risk factors…

Abstract Targeted strategies for reducing the increased risk of infection in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases include vaccinations as well as antibiotic prophylaxis in selected patients. However, there are still…

Abstract Widespread use of immunosuppressive drugs, both conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (cDMARDs) and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs), in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) has been found to be associated with…

Abstract There are currently 10 licensed biologic therapies for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in 2014. In this article, we review the risk of serious infection (SI) for biologic therapies….

Abstract Septic arthritis has long been considered an orthopedic emergency. Historically, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Staphylococcus aureus have been the most common causes of septic arthritis worldwide but in the modern…

Abstract Infections with several types of viral and bacterial pathogens are able to cause arthritic disease. Arthropod vectors such as ticks and mosquitoes transmit a number of these arthritis-causing pathogens,…

Abstract At the end of 2013, 35 million people worldwide were infected with HIV. The prognosis of HIV has been transformed by combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Providing compliance is good,…