Clinical Updates on Rheumatoid Arthritis: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 497
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clinical rheumatology; rheumatic diseases; chronic inflammation; rheumatoid arthritis; spondyloarthritis
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue entitled “Clinical Updates on Rheumatoid Arthritis: 2nd Edition”. This is one new volume we published six papers in the first volume. For more details, please visit:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/N185GRN1UY.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory systemic disease induced by a complex interaction between shared epitope genes, microbiota, innate immune mechanisms, autoimmunity, and environmental factors, including tobacco, that primarily involves synovial joints, but that might also evolve into interstitial lung and cardiovascular diseases, and rarely, vasculitis. In recent years, research progress has highlighted that there may be different RA patterns reflected by biopsy-based biomarkers that are gender-oriented. Furthermore, advances in imaging technology, particularly MRI and ultrasonography, have led to an earlier diagnosis of active and erosive pre-radiographic disease. The discovery of new biomarkers has improved our knowledge regarding the predictivity of the evolution of undifferentiated arthritis in definitive and erosive disorders. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic had severe consequences on the daily practice of patients and complicated the course of the disease, but the use of telemedicine and artificial intelligence has improved the traditional follow-up of RA patients. Recent guidelines for the treatment of RA include the use of JAK inhibitors along with the best known traditional biological treatments, but the increasing number of therapies might sometimes be confounding. Hopefully, the possibility to match laboratory, gender, imaging, and histological characteristics and systemic disease might lead to a more tailored choice of treatment in the near future.
Outstanding experts interested in this Special Issue are welcome to submit original manuscripts and reviews dealing with any of the abovementioned aspects of RA research.
Dr. Francesca Bandinelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rheumatoid arthritis
- rheumatology
- treatment
- diagnosis
- biomarkers
- rheumatic disease
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