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Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Editorial team, I am delighted to present to you the June 2026 issue of the Indian Journal of Rheumatology. This issue carries a series of articles on spondyloarthropathy from India and beyond. An interesting study (with an accompanying editorial) assesses the findings of nail fold capillaroscopy in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. A randomized controlled trial (the PSpA study) confirms the lack of efficacy of low-to-medium dose oral glucocorticoids in patients with peripheral spondyloarthropathy. Two multicentric studies from India report observations on uveitis and early axial spondyloarthropathy. Another interesting article summarizes the quality of online information for patients with spondyloarthropathy. Two review articles overview peripheral spondyloarthropathy and the management of spondyloarthropathy with Janus kinase inhibitors. In addition to these, an editorial provides tips and tricks for young authors on writing an abstract and designing keywords, figures, and tables for a scientific manuscript, aspects often relegated to the background in discussions on scientific writing.
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