[Rheumatoid arthritis: remission without biotherapy? The experience of Burkina Faso (West Africa)].

Introduction: the objective of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic response of patients treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Methods: descriptive and analytical single-center cross-sectional study conducted in Burkina Faso from January 2019 to December 2021 in patients with RA meeting American Rheumatism Association/European League against rheumatism criteria. Therapeutic response was assessed according to the criteria of the European League Against Rheumatism, the clinical disease activity index and the simplified disease activity Index after at least six months of treatment.

Increased high molecular weight adiponectin and lean mass during tocilizumab treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a 12-month multicentre study.

Background: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease. Adiponectin is involved in the metabolism of glucose and lipids with favourable effects on CV disease, especially its high molecular weight (HMW) isoform. Body composition changes are described in RA with various phenotypes including obesity.

Encrusting cystitis due to Corynebacterium urealyticum in a patient with ANCA-associated vasculitis: case report and review of the literature.

Objectives: To report a patient with systemic ANCA-associated vasculitis, under maintenance treatment, who had persistent microscopic hematuria and developed recurrent pelvic pain due to Corynebacterium urealyticum encrusting cystitis. The relevant literature on this infection is reviewed.

Methods: Descriptive case report and a review of the literature (PubMed search).

Pregnancies in systemic necrotizing vasculitides: report on 12 women and their 20 pregnancies.

Objectives: To describe pregnancies of women with systemic necrotizing vasculitides (SNVs), i.e. PAN, WG, Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) or microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), followed over the past 15 years at four French centres.

Longitudinal femoral shaft due to bone insufficiency. A review of three cases.

We report three new cases of longitudinal femoral shaft fracture due to bone insufficiency and review the eight cases reported in the literature. The typical patient is a woman older than 65 years of age who present with mechanical pain in the thigh and/or groin. Palpation of the thigh may reproduce the pain.