Psoriatic arthritis is an autoimmune disease, meaning it occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue, in this case the joints and skin. The faulty immune response causes ...

Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) affects men and women equally ... The doctor may order X-rays to look for changes to bones and joints. Blood tests check for signs of inflammation. They include C-reactive ...

From eczema and psoriasis to arthritis and Parkinson’s, the appearance of our hands can tell us a lot about the state of our ...

Emerging evidence supports the argument that psoriatic arthritis arises from two pathways and that affected immune cells may become altered, leading to a worsening of symptoms.

For example, RA may cause scarring on the lungs that makes it hard to breathe. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory ...

About half of the people who have plaque psoriasis see signs of psoriasis on their fingernails at some point 2. When psoriasis affects the nails, you may notice: Psoriatic arthritis When psoriasis ...

Bimekizumab (Bimzelx; UCB Pharma) was approved by the FDA to treat psoriatic arthritis (PsA) on September 23, 2024, based on ...

it may be easier to highlight what rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have in common. They are both common conditions characterised by a spectrum of features or clinical ...

The primary measure of clinical response was ACR20. Other measures included Psoriatic Arthritis Response Criteria (PsARC), Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI), and dactylitis and enthesopathy ...

All patients with psoriatic arthritis were excluded. Cox proportional-hazards models (α=0.05) estimated the HR for development of foot and ankle tendinopathy or enthesopathy among patients with ...

1 Laboratory for Skeletal Development and Joint Disorders, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 2 Laboratory for Immunobiology, Rega ...