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Histologic and Transcriptional Evidence of Subclinical Synovial Inflammation in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis in Clinical Remission.

Dana E OrangePhaedra AgiusEdward F DiCarloSerene Z MirzaTania PannelliniJackie SzymonifkaCaroline S JiangMark P FiggieMayu O FrankWilliam H RobinsonLaura T DonlinCristina RozoEllen M GravalleseVivian P BykerkSusan M Goodman
Published in: Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) (2019)
Thirty-one percent of patients with low clinical disease activity exhibited histologic evidence of subclinical synovitis, which was associated with increased CRP and anti-CCP levels. Our findings suggest that synovial gene expression signatures of clinical synovitis are present in patients with subclinical synovitis.
Keyphrases
  • disease activity
  • gene expression
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • oxidative stress
  • dna methylation
  • genome wide
  • heat shock protein