Maria Gerosa

TL;DR: The use of rivaroxaban in high-risk patients with antiphospholipid syndrome was associated with an increased rate of events compared with warfarin, thus showing no benefit and excess risk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the capacity of high-density lipoproteins (HDL) to promote cell cholesterol efflux is investigated in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythemathosus (SLE) patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed fetal and maternal outcomes in women with systemic sclerosis (SSc) during 109 pregnancies and found that corticosteroid use was associated with preterm delivery (odds ratio [OR] 3.63, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.12-11.78).

TL;DR: Results of a multicenter study on four different routine tests for anti-dsDNA antibody detection showed that Farr assay displays the best diagnostic specificity/sensitivity for SLE, followed by Crithidia luciliae method (CLIFT), and the new generation of solid phase assay (EliA) shows an increased sensibility versus the classical enzyme linked immune assay (ELISA) but a decreased specificity.

TL;DR: It is found that APS pregnant patients with thrombosis and triple aPL positivity treated with additional therapy had a significant higher live-birth rate with respect to those receiving conventional therapy alone.