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Mod Rheumatol
January 2025
Medical Affairs Department, Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
Objectives: This study aimed to describe the characteristics, inflammatory markers as surrogates for disease activity, and treatment of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) in Japan.
Methods: This cohort study analysed the data of 373 patients with PMR retrieved from an electronic medical records database in Japan. Patients were classified into quartiles, based on the daily glucocorticoid dose over the initial 90 days of treatment (Q1-Q4).
Lancet Rheumatol
January 2025
Department of Rheumatology, Hospital of Brunico, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsius Medical University, Brunico 39031, Italy; Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University, Graz, Austria. Electronic address:
Lancet Rheumatol
January 2025
Department of Rheumatology, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, CHU Brest, INSERM (U1227), LabEx IGO Brest, France.
Background: Moderate doses of glucocorticoids result in improvements in nearly all patients with polymyalgia rheumatica, but related adverse events are common in older individuals. We aimed to evaluate whether treatment with baricitinib (a Janus kinase 1/2 inhibitor) results in disease control without the use of oral glucocorticoids in people with recent-onset polymyalgia rheumatica.
Methods: We conducted a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial at six expert centres in France.
Rheumatol Int
January 2025
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Oberduerrbacher Strasse 6, 97080, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Background: Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) and Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) may be challenging as many patients present with non-specific symptoms. Superficial cranial arteries are predilection sites of inflammatory affection. Ultrasound is typically the diagnostic tool of first choice supplementary to clinical and laboratory examination.
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January 2025
Department of Rheumatology, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK.
McArdle disease or glycogen storage disease Type V is a genetic condition caused by PYGM gene mutations leading to exercise intolerance and fatigability. The condition most commonly presents in childhood. In rare cases, patients have presented with late-onset McArdle disease.
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