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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2018

Clinical, Imaging, and Pathological Suppression of Synovitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Is the Disease Curable?

Serena Bugatti, Garifallia Sakellariou, Terenzj Luvaro, Maria Immacolata Greco, Antonio Manzo

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Serena BugattiDivision of Rheumatology, Rheumatology and Translational Immunology Research Laboratories (LaRIT), IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation and University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Garifallia SakellariouDivision of Rheumatology, Rheumatology and Translational Immunology Research Laboratories (LaRIT), IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation and University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Terenzj LuvaroDivision of Rheumatology, Rheumatology and Translational Immunology Research Laboratories (LaRIT), IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation and University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Maria Immacolata GrecoDivision of Rheumatology, Rheumatology and Translational Immunology Research Laboratories (LaRIT), IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation and University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Antonio ManzoDivision of Rheumatology, Rheumatology and Translational Immunology Research Laboratories (LaRIT), IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation and University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITUniversity of Pavia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has witnessed a dramatic revolution in recent years, and disease remission has become an increasingly achievable outcome. Rheumatologists are now facing the urgent question of whether, once remission has been achieved and stably maintained, drugs can be tapered, and even discontinued. The concept of disease remission however encompasses progressive layers of complexity, all of which need to be disentangled before considering RA as a "curable" condition. As the synovial membrane represents the ultimate target of the pathological process of RA, a critical issue remains whether disease remission coincides with true suppression of inflammation and definitive tissue "healing." In this short review, we will provide a critical summary of recent studies investigating the possibility of controlling RA synovitis at the clinical, imaging or pathological level. Potential advantages and limitations of these perspectives in the definition of remission are also discussed.

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drug-free remissionremissionRheumatoid arthritissynovitisultrasonography

Identifiers

PMID29868592
PMCPMC5962817
OpenAlexW2801147187

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