Background Esophageal achalasia is a rare disease characterized by degeneration of Auerbach's plexus. Although its presumed etiologies include autoimmune process, its precise mechanisms remain ...

2 Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan 3 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, ...

Background: Immature granulocytes (IG) level in peripheral blood is used as early sign of infection. On the other hand, IG could be elevated in other conditions like inflammatory or cancerous diseases ...

5 The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Objectives and methods With 432 513 samples from UK Biobank dataset, multivariable linear/logistic regression were ...

A recent report from the Belimumab Pregnancy Registry (NCT01532310) analysed available data on the consequences of belimumab (BEL) use in pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).1 ...

Objectives Cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus (NL) have been associated with significant morbidity and mortality; however, there is minimal information on long-term outcomes of affected ...

Background The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a rare, heterogeneous group of autoimmune muscle disorders, including dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), and inclusion body myositis.