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Excessive chronic alcohol users, and particularly patients with alcohol use disorder, may present an alcohol withdrawal syndrome if they abruptly stop drinking. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome requires pharmacological treatment for the treatment of withdrawal symptoms and to prevent withdrawal complications. Medically assisted withdrawal treatment is used in alcohol treatment units, but it is also frequently required in patients admitted to hospital for other conditions.

Review of major guidelines covering treatment of withdrawal syndrome with the aim to describe recent evidence and recommendations about the pharmacological treatment for alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

Four major guidelines concerning treatment of withdrawal syndrome were selected (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, American Society of Addiction Medicine, World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and American Psychiatric Association) and screened for the recommendations and level of evidence on drug prescribing for alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The Maudsley guidelines were also considered in this review.

All the four reviewed guidelines recommended benzodiazepines as the first line treatment for alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The association of anticonvulsivants, adrenergic alpha-2 agonists, betablockers and antipsychotics with benzodiazepines is recommended for symptom reduction in severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Trolox Thiamine should be administered to all patients to prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy. If there is any electrolytic imbalance it should be corrected.

Maintaining a high level of suspicion for alcohol withdrawal syndrome is important across all clinical settings, and it should be promptly treated.
Maintaining a high level of suspicion for alcohol withdrawal syndrome is important across all clinical settings, and it should be promptly treated.
Rituximab (RTX) is a chimeric monoclonal CD20-antibody. Lack of efficacy has been suggested to be related to the presence of anti-drug antibodies (ADA). The aims of this study were to determine if ADA impact the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of RTX in children, whether the formation of ADA differs between various immune-mediated diseases and if it is related to the occurrence of infusion-related reactions (IRR).

All children <18 years who had received RTX treatment in our centre between December 2006 and February 2020 with known ADA/RTX-levels, were retrospectively included. The presence of ADA was defined as a titre >8 AU/ml.

Of twenty-six children treated with RTX for various immune-mediated diseases, six patients were ADA-positive (23.1%). link2 In all ADA-positive patients, RTX concentrations were undetectable in contrast to ADA-negative patients (median RTX concentration 3.1 μg/ml; IQR 0.57-12.0; p<0.001). Failure of B cell depletion was found in 5/6 ADA-positive and 1/19 ADA-nTX-ADA.
We investigated whether antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) positivity at diagnosis may be associated with the cross-sectional clinical features at diagnosis and predicting all-cause mortality during follow-up in Korean patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). In addition, we assessed the incidence of SSc and ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) overlap syndrome in patients with ANCA positivity.

We retrospectively reviewed the clinical and laboratory features through the medical records of 177 SSc patients who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. SSc was classified by the 2013 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria. AAV was classified by the 2007 European Medicine Agency algorithms and the 2012 revised International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Nomenclature of Vasculitides.

The median age was 52 years, and 23 patients were males. The detection rate of ANCA in Korean patients with SSc was 20.3%. Unlike a previous study, ANCA positivitysicians should consider recommending a biopsy when AAV is strongly suspected in SSc patients with ANCA.
Women are more frequently affected by connective tissue diseases like systemic sclerosis (SSc). Therefore, few studies exist on male-specific complaints. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of erectile dysfunction (ED) in SSc compared with other connective tissue diseases (CTD) and healthy controls.

64 patients were analysed and compared with 123 age-matched HC. link3 The 15-item International Index for Erectile Function (IIEF) questionnaire was used to assess sexual function. The prevalence of depression was quantified by using the validated Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Mean age was 52.3 years (SD 10.75) for SSc, 52.9 years (SD 11.01) for patients with other CTD and 52.6 (SD 12.37) for HC. Mean IIEF-15 score was 13.6 for SSc, 11.7 for other CTD and 23.6 for HC. ED was significantly more frequent in patients with SSc (55.0%) and other CTD (54.4%) than in HC (12.7%) (p<0.001) and correlated with diseases severity. The mean BDI score was 10.8 for SSc/CTD and 5.4 for HC (p<0.001). With 36.6%, SSc patients suffered more often from a depression than patients with other CTD (17.4%) and HC (6.3%). We found a significant correlation between the IIEF-15 and depression classified by BDI (r= -0.527; p<0.001).

This is the first study to show increased prevalence of ED, especially severe ED, in men with SSc compared to other CTD and age-matched HC. Physicians should be aware of this influence on sexual health and its correlation to depression and disease severity.
This is the first study to show increased prevalence of ED, especially severe ED, in men with SSc compared to other CTD and age-matched HC. Physicians should be aware of this influence on sexual health and its correlation to depression and disease severity.
Adiponectin is an adipokine that plays a relevant role in the development of metabolic syndrome (MetS), a complication that increases the risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Accordingly, we assessed for the first time the short-term effect of anti-IL-6 receptor tocilizumab (TCZ) administration on adiponectin serum levels in RA patients and explored the potential association of adiponectin levels with MetS features, other CV risk factors and demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients.

Adiponectin serum levels were evaluated in 50 non-diabetic RA patients, undergoing TCZ treatment, immediately prior to (pre-infusion) and 60 minutes after the end of a TCZ intravenous infusion (post-infusion).

No significant differences in adiponectin levels pre- and post-TCZ infusion were found in RA patients (p=0.69). Patients with obesity exhibited decreased basal levels of adiponectin with respect to those non-obese (p=0.03). Additionally, a negative association of adiponectin basal levels with body mass index, insulin, insulin/glucose index, C-peptide and leptin levels (p<0.01; p=0.02; p=0.03; p=0.03 and p=0.01, respectively), as well as a positive correlation with HDL-cholesterol levels (p<0.001) was seen.

Our results support the claim that low adiponectin may contribute to the development of MetS and, consequently, CV disease in RA. Anti-IL-6 therapy does not seem to exert a short-term effect on adiponectin levels.
Our results support the claim that low adiponectin may contribute to the development of MetS and, consequently, CV disease in RA. Anti-IL-6 therapy does not seem to exert a short-term effect on adiponectin levels.
To identify potential lipid biomarkers by studying changes in the blood lipid profile of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using lipidomics.

Serum samples were collected from 115 SLE patients and 115 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs). Lipid profiles were assessed using ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography coupled with Q Exactive spectrometry, and possible lipid biomarkers were screened and evaluated by univariate and multivariate analyses.

Metabolic phenotypes related to SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI) scores were detected in the serum of SLE patients, and these phenotypes indicated the activity of the disease. Alterations in energy metabolism, fatty acid metabolism and other pathways were observed in patients with SLE. Phosphatidylethanolamine (160/182), lysophosphatidylethanolamine (180), and acylcarnitine (110) can be used as biomarkers for the clinical diagnosis of SLE, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis indicated their effectiveness in diagnosing this disease.

Our study identified serum biomarkers related to disease activity in patients with SLE, providing a basis for its clinical diagnosis.
Our study identified serum biomarkers related to disease activity in patients with SLE, providing a basis for its clinical diagnosis.Systemic sclerosis is a rare and chronic connective tissue disease with a multifaceted pathogenesis characterised by heterogeneous multi-organ clinical manifestations. Every year, many studies contribute to enrich the knowledge on the pathogenesis, organ involvement and treatment of this complex and severe disease. We herein provide an overview on the most relevant contributions published in the literature in 2020.
At present, the pathogenesis of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) remains unclear. This research aimed to identify differential metabolites that contribute to SS diagnosis and discover the disturbed metabolic pathways.

Recent advances in mass spectrometry have allowed the identification of hundreds of unique metabolic signatures and the exploration of altered metabolite profiles in disease. In this study, 505 candidates including healthy controls (HCs) and SS patients were recruited and the serum samples were collected. A non-targeted gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) serum metabolomics method was used to explore the changes in serum metabolites.

We found SS patients and HCs can be distinguished by 21 significant metabolites. The levels of alanine, tryptophan, glycolic acid, pelargonic acid, cis-1-2-dihydro-1-2-naphthalenediol, diglycerol, capric acid, turanose, behenic acid, dehydroabietic acid, stearic acid, linoleic acid, heptadecanoic acid, valine, and lactic acid were increased in serum samples fr the pathogenesis of SS.
Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is an autoimmune disease characterised by a great heterogeneity in its clinical manifestations. In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between different clinical subtypes, laboratory data, and myositis antibodies of JDM.

A total of 132 JDM patients were enrolled and their medical records were retrospectively reviewed and autoantibodies tested. Twenty-one variables, including clinical manifestations and laboratory findings, were selected for analysis. We selected principal component analysis (PCA) as a pre-processing method for cluster analysis to convert the 21 original variables into independent principal components. We then conducted a PCA-based cluster analysis in order to analyse the association between patient clusters and the clinical data, laboratory data, and myositis autoantibodies.

We identified 4 distinct JDM subgroups by PCA-based cluster analysis, namely cluster A, JDM patients with arthralgia and intense inflammation; cluster B, JDM patients with clinical manifestations of vasculitis; cluster C, hypermyopathic JDM patients; and cluster D, JDM patients with skin involvement.
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