I50. Managing Fatigue in Rheumatic Diseases

Fasting and rheumatic diseases

Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...

Fatigue in Egyptian patients with rheumatic diseases: a qualitative study

OBJECTIVES Fatigue is frequent in rheumatic diseases. Fatigue expression and consequences may be modified by cultural differences. Our objective was to increase the understanding of the fatigue experience and characteristics among Egyptian, Muslim patients with rheumatic diseases. METHODS Prospective monocentric qualitative study based on conventional qualitative content analysis, inductive r...

Managing comorbidities in the rheumatic diseases: the new reality.

Epigenetics in rheumatic diseases

With enormous speed novel data are emerging about regulating the expression of the genetically encoded information [1]. This highly complex regulatory network called epigenetics includes acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, sumoylation and non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), such as miRNA and lncRNAs. Our laboratory is addressing over the past decade inflammatory rheumatic diseases [2], like rheumat...

Retroviruses in rheumatic diseases

The aetiology of rheumatoid diseases is unclear but may be multifactorial, the result of complex interactions between environmental, neuroendocrinological, and genetic factors. Whilst several viruses (for example cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, rubella virus and parvovirus B19 are associated with self limiting arthritic episodes, retroviruses have been suggested as aetiological agents of r...