Time to Total Knee Arthroplasty after Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Acid or Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis.

Intra-articular (IA) hyaluronic acid (HA) and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections are increasingly being prescribed for knee osteoarthritis (KOA). However, failure of the medical treatment may result in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We wondered if IA HA or PRP injections (intervention) may delay the time to TKA (outcome) among KOA patients (population), compared to KOA patients not receiving these injections (comparator).

Pollutants: a candidate as a new risk factor for osteoarthritis-results from a systematic literature review.

Background: Considering non-classical environmental risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA), a systematic literature review (SLR) was performed to summarise existing knowledge on associations between OA and pollutants.

Methods: PubMed was used to identify studies reporting data on OA and pollutants in humans (examples of MeSH terms: "Pesticides" or "Polychlorinated Biphenyls" or 'Lead'). Reports included epidemiological clinical studies, pollutant assessments in ex vivo OA joint, and in vitro effects of pollutants on chondrocytes.

Use of machine learning in osteoarthritis research: a systematic literature review.

Objective: The aim of this systematic literature review was to provide a comprehensive and exhaustive overview of the use of machine learning (ML) in the clinical care of osteoarthritis (OA).

Methods: A systematic literature review was performed in July 2021 using MEDLINE PubMed with key words and MeSH terms. For each selected article, the number of patients, ML algorithms used, type of data analysed, validation methods and data availability were collected.

Multidisciplinary team intervention to reduce the nocebo effect when switching from the originator infliximab to a biosimilar.

Objectives: To evaluate an intervention to reduce the nocebo effect (NE) when switching from the originator infliximab (OI) to the infliximab biosimilar SB2 in chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease (CIRD).

Methods: An intervention was built with healthcare professionals (HPs) and a patient representative, based on a systematic review of interventions reducing the NE in musculoskeletal diseases and semi-directed questioning of five patients. Our strategy consisted of training HPs, switch information given by the nurses, a consistent vocabulary.

Overview of osteo-articular involvement in systemic sclerosis: Specific risk factors, clinico-sonographic evaluation, and comparison with healthy women from the French OFELY cohort.

Osteoarticular involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is frequent and varied. Data are scarce on the prevalence and risk factors of osteoporosis (OP). We aimed to assess clinical parameters, radiological parameters, US articular involvements, and the frequency of OP and evaluate SSc-specific risk factors.

Association between osteoarthritis and dyslipidaemia: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: We aimed to investigate the prevalence of dyslipidemia in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and whether OA and dyslipidemia are associated.

Methods: We performed a systematic literature review and a meta-analysis, including cross-sectional, cohort and case-control studies, to assess the number of patients with OA and/or dyslipidemia. We calculated the mean (±SD) prevalence of dyslipidemia in patients with and without OA and the risk of dyslipidemia (OR, 95% CI) among patients with OA.

[An overview of osteoarthritis in 2016].

For the most part aged over 50, people affected with osteoarthritis frequently present associated comorbidities. Debilitating and detrimental in terms of quality of life and fitness to work, osteoarthritis is becoming a public health issue which must be considered in terms of prevention, management and research.

Association between diabetes mellitus and osteoarthritis: systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and prevalence of DM in patients with OA and whether OA and DM are associated.

Design: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. We included cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies assessing the number of patients with DM and/or OA.

Fatigue in chronic inflammation - a link to pain pathways.

Fatigue is a frequent symptom in several inflammatory diseases, particularly in rheumatic diseases. Elements of disease activity and cognitive and behavior aspects have been reported as causes of fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Fatigue could be associated with activity of inflammatory rheumatism.

Quickly progressive amyotrophy of the thigh: An unusual cause of rapid chondrolysis of the knee.

While rapidly destructive OA is more recognized in hip, we report the case of a 50-year-old woman who presented a rapid chondrolysis in the patellofemoral joint in a context of rapid loss of muscular strength. She had arthralgia, myalgia and proximal muscular deficit of the limbs. Creatine phospho kinase level was elevated and electromyogram exam showed a myogenic syndrome.