Rheumatoid Arthritis: Current Status and Future Challenges
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 September 2024) | Viewed by 12400
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last 25 years, we have witnessed changes in the approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis. The main changes have occurred in the knowledge of the pathogenesis, new classification criteria, improved autoantibodies of diagnostic, implementation of the treat-to-target strategy, more and better drugs and ways to use them, and the identification and management of associated comorbidities. Above all, we have seen the teamwork of physicians and health professionals, the pharmaceutical industry, and regulatory agencies. All of this focuses on the patient with shared decisions with them and involving their associations. All these milestones have made it possible to modify the clinical course and prognosis of the disease.
This Special Issue aims to update the clinician about these milestones with some original articles and reviews, and also discuss different hot topics.
It is a pleasure for me, on behalf of the editorial committee of the Journal of Clinical Medicine, to invite you to contribute with state-of-the-art reviews as well as original research. All of them will be considered for inclusion. The scope will be advances in old and new drugs, old and new treatment strategies, treatment of pain and depression, management of RA-related comorbidities, how to include the patient perspective in the daily practice, unmet needs, the remission concept, management of comorbidities, how to improve outcomes in the daily practice, etc.
I hope you are interested in submitting your work in this Special Issue. I look forward to hearing from you.
Dr. Blanca Hernández-Cruz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rheumatoid arthritis
- treat to target
- difficult to treat rheumatoid arthritis
- unmet needs
- patient reported outcomes
- pathogenesis
- classification criteria
- treatment recommendations
- outcomes
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