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Egyptian Guidelines Criteria for Rheumatic Diseases

New Content ItemThe Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation journal is delighted to present to you the Egyptian Guidelines for Rheumatic Diseases. This series includes seven articles covering the most challenging rheumatic diseases. 


Each of these guideline articles aimed to enhance patients’ management in a certain clinical setting according to the recent updates and tailored to use the facilities of the recently launched healthcare system to be optimized to achieve the treat to target approach for the proposed clinical scenarios.


All of them have followed the Clinical, Evidence-based, Guidelines (CEG) initiative protocol and was launched by the Egyptian Academy of Rheumatology and approved the local ethical committee to develop an up-to-date consensus, evidence-based, clinical practice guidelines for treatment of rheumatic diseases. These guidelines are put meticulously by an across the country expert clinicians. The high levels of consensus achieved, as well as the agreement with the most recently published treatment recommendations; meanwhile, meeting the Egyptian standards for the available financial resources would make this work a trustable valuable source for patient care in Egypt. Also, the Patient/ Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes and Time (PICOT) approach was implemented to identify the key clinical questions, and statements contained within the guidelines. 


  1. We aimed to provide a consensus, evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis, evaluation, and treat-to-target management of children living with FMF.

    Authors: S. Salah, H. Lotfy, M. H. Abu-Zaid, M. El Gaafary, H. Abdulhady, H. Salah, E. Abd El-Latif, Y. Farag, M. Eissa, S. Esam Maher, A. Radwan, Amira T. El-Shanawany, B. M. Medhat, D. El Mikkawy, D. M. Mosa, G. El Deriny…
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:39
  2. We aimed to provide up-to-date, evidence-based and consensus-based recommendations for Treat-to-Target management of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and associated clinical manifestations.

    Authors: Yasser El Miedany, Maha El Gaafary, Naglaa GadAllah, Mona Mansour, Nihal Fathy, Waleed Hassan, Mohamed Mortada, Salwa Galal, Mervat Eissa, Samar Abdelhamed Tabra, Nermeen Foad, Rehab Ali, Basma Medhat, Gehan El Olemy, Yasmin Adel, Rasha Ghaleb…
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:32
  3. Because of the subjective character of symptoms, absence of a diagnostic test, modest response to treatments, and, at times, patient reports of important functional disability, fibromyalgia remains a challenge...

    Authors: Yasser El Miedany, Naglaa Gadallah, Diaa Mohasseb, Nahla M. Gaballah, Abeer K. El Zohiery, Mohammed Hassan, Maha El Gaafary, Waleed Hassan, Mohamed Mortada, Mervat Eissa, Samar Abdelhamed Tabra, Nermeen Foad, Fatma H. El Nouby, Sally Saber and Salwa Galal
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:30

    The Correction to this article has been published in Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:38

  4. New therapies, management approaches, and evidence regarding the management of gout have become available over the past years. This triggered the need for an updated recommendation for gout management. Through...

    Authors: Yasser El Miedany, Naglaa Ali Gadallah, Mona Mansour, Maha El Gaafary, Mohamed Mortada, Mervat Eissa, Mohammed Hassan, Waleed Hassan, Samar Abdelhamed Tabra, Nermeen Foad, Rehab Ali, Basma Medhat, Yasmin Adel, Rasha Ghaleb, Nourhan Elkaraly, Sally Saber…
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:28

    The Correction to this article has been published in Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:34

  5. These updated guidelines aimed to provide appropriate and convenient guidelines for the treatment of various types of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).

    Authors: Y. El Miedany, S. Salah, H. Lotfy, M. El Gaafary, H. Abdulhady, H. Salah, S. I. Nasef, E. Abd El-Latif, Y. Farag, M. Eissa, S. Esam Maher, A. Radwan, Amira T. El-Shanawany, B. M. Medhat, D. El Mikkawy, D. M. Mosa…
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:27

    The Correction to this article has been published in Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2022 49:35

  6. This study was carried out to achieve an Egyptian expert consensus on a treat-to-target management strategy for osteoporosis using Delphi technique. A scientific committee identified researchers and clinicians...

    Authors: Yasser El Miedany, Mohammed Hassan Abu-Zaid, Maha El Gaafary, Mona Mansour Hasab El Naby, Nihal Fathi, Heba Gamal Saber, Waleed Hassan, Mervat Eissa, Nevine Mohannad, Henaz Khaled, Mohamed Mortada, Samah Ismail Nasef, Salwa Galal, Rasha Ghaleb, Samar Abd Alhamed Tabra, Sally S. Mohamed…
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2021 48:5