Early psoriatic arthritis: clinical and therapeutic challenges.
Francesco CasoLuisa CostaMatteo MegnaMario CasconeFrancesco MaioneRoberto GiacomelliRaffaele ScarpaPiero RuscittiPublished in: Expert opinion on investigational drugs (2024)
Main instruments for early PsA diagnosis include recognizing synovial-entheseal inflammatory signs at onset, improving screening PsA high-risk subjects, and increasing disease knowledge of physicians and patients with psoriasis or familial history. PsA continues to significantly impact on the Quality of Life of patients affected by the disease, making necessary to deeply study clinical manifestations, risk factors, and underlying immunoinflammatory mechanisms, as well as to identify biomarkers for early identification. Additionally, it remains a need to increase more evidence on understanding how early treatment of PsA and of psoriasis might influence the course of the disease.