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List of works by Onorina Berardicurti

Adipocytokines in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Hidden Link between Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Comorbidities

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Adult-onset Still's disease: evaluation of prognostic tools and validation of the systemic score by analysis of 100 cases from three centers

scientific article

Advances in immunopathogenesis of macrophage activation syndrome during rheumatic inflammatory diseases: toward new therapeutic targets?

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Biologic therapies and infections in the daily practice of three Italian rheumatologic units: a prospective, observational study.

scientific article

Blocking CD248 molecules in perivascular stromal cells of patients with systemic sclerosis strongly inhibits their differentiation toward myofibroblasts and proliferation: a new potential target for antifibrotic therapy

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Cardiovascular Disease in Primary Sjögren's Syndrome

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Cytokine storm syndrome in severe COVID-19

scientific article published on 03 May 2020

Efficacy and safety of rituximab treatment in early primary Sjögren's syndrome: a prospective, multi-center, follow-up study

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Efficacy of inhibition of IL-1 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and type 2 diabetes mellitus: two case reports and review of the literature

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

Epidermal Growth Factor Like-domain 7 and miR-126 are abnormally expressed in diffuse Systemic Sclerosis fibroblasts

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Erratum to “Is minor salivary gland biopsy more than a diagnostic tool in primary Sjo¨gren’s syndrome? Association between clinical, histopathological, and molecular features: A retrospective study” [Semin Arthritis Rheum 44 (2014) 314–324]

scholarly article published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis: the silent companion in the therapeutic strategy

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Guidelines for biomarkers in autoimmune rheumatic diseases - evidence based analysis

scientific article published on 05 November 2018

H-ferritin and CD68(+) /H-ferritin(+) monocytes/macrophages are increased in the skin of adult-onset Still's disease patients and correlate with the multi-visceral involvement of the disease.

scientific article published on 18 June 2016

H-ferritin and proinflammatory cytokines are increased in the bone marrow of patients affected by macrophage activation syndrome.

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

IL-1 inhibition improves insulin resistance and adipokines in rheumatoid arthritis patients with comorbid type 2 diabetes: An observational study

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

IL-1β at the crossroad between rheumatoid arthritis and type 2 diabetes: may we kill two birds with one stone?

scientific article

Impaired Cav-1 expression in SSc mesenchymal cells upregulates VEGF signaling: a link between vascular involvement and fibrosis

scientific article

Increased Cardiovascular Events and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: 1 Year Prospective Single Centre Study

scientific article

Increased level of H-ferritin and its imbalance with L-ferritin, in bone marrow and liver of patients with adult onset Still's disease, developing macrophage activation syndrome, correlate with the severity of the disease.

scientific article

Interleukin-32 in systemic sclerosis, a potential new biomarker for pulmonary arterial hypertension

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

International consensus: What else can we do to improve diagnosis and therapeutic strategies in patients affected by autoimmune rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritides, systemic sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphos

scientific article

Interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis: current and future treatment

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Is minor salivary gland biopsy more than a diagnostic tool in primary Sjo¨gren׳s syndrome? Association between clinical, histopathological, and molecular features: A retrospective study

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Italian recommendations for influenza and pneumococcal vaccination in adult patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Laboratory assessment in patients with suspected rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases: challenges, pitfalls and perspectives.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Lung involvement in macrophage activation syndrome and severe COVID-19: results from a cross-sectional study to assess clinical, laboratory and artificial intelligence-radiological differences

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Macitentan inhibits the transforming growth factor-β profibrotic action, blocking the signaling mediated by the ETR/TβRI complex in systemic sclerosis dermal fibroblasts.

scientific article

Macrophage activation syndrome in Still's disease: analysis of clinical characteristics and survival in paediatric and adult patients.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Managing Adult-onset Still's disease: The effectiveness of high-dosage of corticosteroids as first-line treatment in inducing the clinical remission. Results from an observational study

Mesenchymal stem cells of Systemic Sclerosis patients, derived from different sources, show a profibrotic microRNA profiling

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Mesenchymal stromal cells and rheumatic diseases: new tools from pathogenesis to regenerative therapies.

scientific article

Monocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and type 2 diabetes mellitus display an increased production of interleukin (IL)-1β via the nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat containing family pyrin 3(NLRP3)-inflammasome activation:

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Parenchymal lung disease in adult onset Still's disease: an emergent marker of disease severity-characterisation and predictive factors from Gruppo Italiano di Ricerca in Reumatologia Clinica e Sperimentale (GIRRCS) cohort of patients

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Perivascular Cells in Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis Overexpress Activated ADAM12 and Are Involved in Myofibroblast Transdifferentiation and Development of Fibrosis.

scientific article published in June 2016

Pharmacological stress, rest perfusion and delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance identifies very early cardiac involvement in systemic sclerosis patients of recent onset.

scientific article published on 4 June 2017

Poor clinical response in rheumatoid arthritis is the main risk factor for diabetes development in the short-term: A 1-year, single-centre, longitudinal study.

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Prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis: Results from a cross-sectional study.

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Pro-inflammatory properties of H-ferritin on human macrophages, ex vivo and in vitro observations

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Prognostic factors of macrophage activation syndrome, at the time of diagnosis, in adult patients affected by autoimmune disease: Analysis of 41 cases collected in 2 rheumatologic centers.

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Response to: 'Correspondence on 'Lung involvement in macrophage activation syndrome and severe COVID-19: results from a cross-sectional study to assess clinical, laboratory and artificial intelligence-radiological differences' by Ruscitti et al' by

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Searching for a good model for systemic sclerosis: the molecular profile and vascular changes occurring in UCD-200 chickens strongly resemble the early phase of human systemic sclerosis

scientific article published on July 2016

Severe COVID-19 and related hyperferritinaemia: more than an innocent bystander?

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Severe COVID-19, Another Piece in the Puzzle of the Hyperferritinemic Syndrome. An Immunomodulatory Perspective to Alleviate the Storm

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

The CD68(+)/H-ferritin(+) cells colonize the lymph nodes of the patients with adult onset Still's disease and are associated with increased extracellular level of H-ferritin in the same tissue: correlation with disease severity and implication for p

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

The Endothelial-mesenchymal Transition in Systemic Sclerosis Is Induced by Endothelin-1 and Transforming Growth Factor-β and May Be Blocked by Macitentan, a Dual Endothelin-1 Receptor Antagonist

scientific article published on 15 August 2015

The emerging role of IL-1 inhibition in patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

The incidence of cardiovascular events in Italian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus is lower than in North European and American cohorts: implication of disease-associated and traditional risk factors as emerged by a 16-year retrospective G

scientific article published in April 2018

The role of IL-1β in the bone loss during rheumatic diseases.

scientific article published on 12 April 2015

The role of extracellular matrix components in angiogenesis and fibrosis: Possible implication for systemic sclerosis

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

The wide spectrum of Kawasaki-like disease associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Tocilizumab for the treatment of adult-onset Still's disease: results from a case series.

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

Vitamin D and systemic lupus erythematosus - The hype and the hope

scientific article published on 3 November 2017