The early psoriatic arthritis screening questionnaire: a simple and fast method for the identification of arthritis in patients with psoriasis.

Objective: Dermatologists usually see patients with psoriasis before arthritis develops, making them well placed to diagnose early PsA (ePsA). This study aimed to develop a rapid and robust screening questionnaire for predicting PsA in patients with psoriasis referred to a specialized joint dermatology-rheumatology combined clinic.

Methods: In all, 228 psoriasis patients naïve to DMARD treatment were administered two screening questionnaire: the new Early ARthritis for Psoriatic patients (EARP) questionnaire and the existing Psoriatic Arthritis Screening and Evaluation (PASE) questionnaire.

Severe vascular complications in patients affected by systemic sclerosis cyclically treated with iloprost.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the incidence of the most severe vascular complications, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension, scleroderma renal crisis, and digital necrosis requiring amputation, in a monocentric group of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients cyclically treated with intravenous iloprost. We reviewed the record-charts of 115 patients affected by SSc (18 men and 97 women, mean age 58.9.