Efficacy of Olokizumab against Comorbid Depressive Disorder in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Preliminary Results of the Study.

Interleukin (IL) 6 plays an important role in the pathogenesis of depression comorbid with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and IL-6 inhibitors used to treat patients with RA may have an antidepressant effect. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Russian iIL-6 olokizumab (OKZ) in reducing symptoms of depression in patients with moderate/high RA activity. To date, 49 RA patients have been included, of which 43 (87.

[Comparative assessment of sensitivity and specificity of three variants of classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus in a cohort of Russian patients].

Background: The clinical and serologic heterogeneity of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presents challenges for diagnosis, particularly in the earliest stages of the disease when there are insufficient signs to make a reliable diagnosis.

Aim: To make a comparative assessment of sensitivity and specificity of various classification criteria of SLE on a cohort of patients of Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology.

Materials And Methods: A total of 252 patients were included in the study; 152 (60%) of 252 patients had reliable SLE (mean age 36 [29.

[Mental disorders in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: association with activity and the course of rheumatic disease].

Aim: To clarify the relationship between the clinical and psychopathological features of mental disorders, clinical and laboratory manifestations of activity and the nature of the course of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Materials And Methods: The study included 119 patients - 98 (82.4%) women, mean age 36.

[Successful psychopharmacotherapy of anxiety and depressive disorders improve functional limitations in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

Aim: To compare changes in functional limitations in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders (ADD) treated with conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) alone or in combination with biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs) and/or psychopharmacotherapy (PPT), and to determine predictors of HAQ treatment response.

Materials And Methods: 128 RA-patients were enrolled, 86% were women with a mean age of 47.411.

[Anxiety-depressive disorders and stress factors in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome].

Objective: The aim of this work was to analyze the frequency and, spectrum of mental disorders (MD), and stressful factors, as well as the characteristics of anxiety and depressive spectrum disorders (ADSD) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).

Material And Methods: The study included 155 patients (37 (23.9%) men and 118 (76.