Abstract Inflammatory rheumatic diseases have a long-lasting effect on patients’ physical and psychological functioning, for instance, due to disabling symptoms and unpredictable disease course. Consequently, many patients show adjustment problems…
Abstract Immunization represents the most efficient and simplest intervention to prevent certain viral and bacterial infections in the general population as well as in the vulnerable population of patients with…
Abstract Vasculitis has been described in most types of inflammatory arthritis. The best described and most widely recognised form is rheumatoid vasculitis. The incidence of systemic rheumatoid vasculitis has declined…
Abstract Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experience an increased cardiometabolic risk factor burden that is substantially driven by systemic inflammation. This occurs less consistently in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS)….
Abstract Dysregulation of the intestinal epithelial barrier in genetically susceptible individuals may lead to both intestinal and extraintestinal autoimmune disorders. There is emerging literature on the role of microbiota changes…
Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis are associated with potentially sight-threatening inflammatory eye disease. Although the ocular manifestations associated with ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis are similar, such…
Abstract This chapter describes the involvement of the lung in systemic inflammatory joint disease (IJD) with a particular focus on rheumatoid arthritis, although the topics of pulmonary involvement in ankylosing…
Abstract Chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD), including rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriatic arthritis, are prevalent conditions worldwide, with a considerable burden on healthcare systems. They are associated with increased…
Abstract The main orofacial manifestation of the inflammatory rheumatic diseases is that of Sjögren’s syndrome. In addition, there is a constellation of orofacial manifestations of the inflammatory rheumatic diseases, many…
Abstract In 30% of patients with fever or inflammation of unknown origin (FUO/IUO), the cause is eventually found to be a rheumatologic disease such as autoimmune or granulomatous disease or…
