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Roberto Gerli is affiliated with the University of Perugia in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a notable focus on Rheumatology, Physiology, Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Immunology.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research

Roberto Gerli has contributed to a variety of scholarly articles. Selected recent papers include:

  • COVID-19 as part of the hyperferritinemic syndromes: the role of iron depletion therapy, 2020, Immunologic Research
  • The anti-viral facet of anti-rheumatic drugs: Lessons from COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Autoimmunity
  • Early Disease and Low Baseline Damage as Predictors of Response to Belimumab in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Real-Life Setting, 2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Immune checkpoint inhibitors-induced autoimmunity: The impact of gender, 2020, Autoimmunity Reviews
  • The growing role of precision medicine for the treatment of autoimmune diseases; results of a systematic review of literature and Experts' Consensus, 2020, Autoimmunity Reviews

The scientist's frequent co-authors reflect collaboration within the rheumatology and immunology research communities. Regular collaborators include:

  • Elena Bartoloni
  • Carlo Perricone
  • Giacomo Cafaro
  • Roberto Giacomelli
  • Francesco Carubbi

Publishing predominantly in journals relevant to rheumatology and autoimmune diseases, Roberto Gerli's work appears often in these venues:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
  • Autoimmunity Reviews
  • Reumatismo
  • Lara D. Veeken

Best Publications

  • Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

    Yehuda Shoenfeld;Roberto Gerli;Andrea Doria;Eiji Matsuura

  • Assessment of the European classification criteria for Sjögren's syndrome in a series of clinically defined cases: results of a prospective multicentre study. The European Study Group on Diagnostic Criteria for Sjögren's Syndrome.

    C Vitali;S Bombardieri;H M Moutsopoulos;J Coll

  • Endothelial dysfunction in young patients with rheumatoid arthritis and low disease activity

    G Vaudo;S Marchesi;R Gerli;R Allegrucci

  • Interferon-alpha in mixed cryoglobulinemia patients: a randomized, crossover-controlled trial

    Clodoveo Ferri;Clodoveo Ferri;Emanuele Marzo;Emanuele Marzo;Giovanni Longombardo;Giovanni Longombardo;Francesco Lombardini;Francesco Lombardini

  • CD4+CD28− T Lymphocytes Contribute to Early Atherosclerotic Damage in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

    Roberto Gerli;Giuseppe Schillaci;Andrea Giordano;Elena Bartoloni Bocci

  • Primary Sjögren’s syndrome as a multi-organ disease: impact of the serological profile on the clinical presentation of the disease in a large cohort of Italian patients

    Chiara Baldini;Pasquale Pepe;Luca Quartuccio;Roberta Priori

  • Prednisone plus Methotrexate for Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Roberto Caporali;Marco A. Cimmino;Gianfranco Ferraccioli;Roberto Gerli

  • Sjögren's syndrome disease damage index and disease activity index: Scoring systems for the assessment of disease damage and disease activity in Sjögren's syndrome, derived from an analysis of a cohort of Italian patients

    Claudio Vitali;Gianluigi Palombi;Chiara Baldini;Maurizio Benucci

  • Infliximab plus Prednisone or Placebo plus Prednisone for the Initial Treatment of Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Randomized Trial

    Carlo Salvarani;PierLuigi Macchioni;Carlo Manzini;Giuseppe Paolazzi

  • Influence of geolocation and ethnicity on the phenotypic expression of primary Sjögren's syndrome at diagnosis in 8310 patients: a cross-sectional study from the Big Data Sjögren Project Consortium.

    Pilar Brito-Zerón;Pilar Brito-Zerón;Nihan Acar-Denizli;Margit Zeher;Astrid Rasmussen

  • Long-term anti-TNF therapy and the risk of serious infections in a cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Comparison of adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab in the GISEA registry

    Fabiola Atzeni;Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini;Costantino Botsios;Antonio Carletto

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

    Francesco Carubbi;Paola Cipriani;Alessandra Marrelli;Paola Di Benedetto

  • Influence of Antisynthetase Antibodies Specificities on Antisynthetase Syndrome Clinical Spectrum Time Course

    Lorenzo Cavagna;Ernesto Trallero-Araguás;Federica Meloni;Ilaria Cavazzana

  • COVID-19 as part of the hyperferritinemic syndromes: the role of iron depletion therapy.

    Carlo Perricone;Elena Bartoloni;Roberto Bursi;Giacomo Cafaro

  • Ultrasonography of salivary glands in primary Sjögren's syndrome: a comparison with contrast sialography and scintigraphy

    F. Salaffi;M. Carotti;A. Iagnocco;F. Luccioli

  • Cardiovascular disease risk burden in primary Sjögren's syndrome: results of a population‐based multicentre cohort study

    E. Bartoloni;C. Baldini;G. Schillaci;L. Quartuccio

  • Precocious intima-media thickening in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome

    Gaetano Vaudo;Elena Bartoloni Bocci;Yehuda Shoenfeld;Giuseppe Schillaci

  • Balance between regulatory T and Th17 cells in systemic lupus erythematosus: the old and the new.

    Alessia Alunno;Elena Bartoloni;Onelia Bistoni;Giuseppe Nocentini

  • Good clinical response, remission, and predictors of remission in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with tumor necrosis factor-alpha blockers: the GISEA study.

    Luana Mancarella;Francesca Bobbio-Pallavicini;Fulvia Ceccarelli;Paola Chiara Falappone

  • Studies on the biological effects of ozone: 7. Generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) after exposure of human blood to ozone.

    V Bocci;G Valacchi;F Corradeschi;C Aldinucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessia Alunno
Alessia Alunno University of L'Aquila
Roberto Giacomelli
Roberto Giacomelli Campus Bio Medico University Hospital
Luca Quartuccio
Luca Quartuccio University of Udine
Guido Valesini
Guido Valesini Sapienza University of Rome
Stefano Bombardieri
Stefano Bombardieri University of Pisa
Paola Cipriani
Paola Cipriani University of L'Aquila
Andrea Doria
Andrea Doria University of Padua
Carlomaurizio Montecucco
Carlomaurizio Montecucco University of Pavia
Carlo Salvarani
Carlo Salvarani University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Angela Tincani
Angela Tincani University of Brescia

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