Jiram Torres-Ruiz, Iago Pinal-Fernandez, Albert Selva-O'Callaghan, Bianca Campbell, Sandra Muñoz-Braceras, Nancy R Mejía-Domínguez, Carlos Núñez-Álvarez, José Milisenda, Maria Casal-Domínguez, Katherine Pak, Alfredo Guillén-Del-Castillo, Ernesto Trallero-Araguas, Albert Gil-Vila, Andrew Lee Mammen
OBJECTIVES: To assess nailfold video capillaroscopic (NVC) abnormalities and their association with clinical features, myositis-specific autoantibodies (MSA), and myositis-associated antibodies (MAA) in a large multi-ethnic cohort of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). METHODS: We recruited 155 IIM patients from three centres in Mexico, Spain, and the USA. We evaluated the clinical and laboratory features of the patients and performed semiquantitative and quantitative analyses of the NVC...
February 2024: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology