Profile of:

Marcelo Pinheiro


Head of Spondyloarthritis Division of Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP/ EPM)

Full name: Marcelo Pinheiro

Current country: Brazil

Membership level: Full

Type of membership: Member

Number of publications: 46

Low Bone Turnover, Mineralization Impairment, and Cortical Alterations in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Histomorphometric Study (2025)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00223-024-01314-0

Axial radiographic structural damage in patients with Enthesitis-Related Arthritis presents a distinct phenotype compared to adults with axial spondyloarthritis: A cross-sectional cohort study (2025)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00296-025-05799-2

Brazilian recommendations for the management of tuberculosis infection in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s42358-025-00449-4

Nutritional effect on lipoproteins and their subfractions in patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: a 12-week randomized trial—the DIETA trial (2024)
https://advancesinrheumatology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42358-024-00389-5

CT-based comprehensive scoring system for assessing hip arthropathy in ankylosing spondylitis: feasibility study with clinical correlation (2024)
https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article-abstract/63/12/3322/7729140?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Relationship between spinal structural damage and sagittal balance in axial spondyloarthritis: Is the thoracic spine the starting point? (2024)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049017224000568?via%3Dihub

Factors Associated With Mortality in Patients With Immune-Mediated Rheumatic Diseases and COVID-19 From Latin America: Data From Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil (2024)
https://journals.lww.com/jclinrheum/abstract/2024/01000/factors_associated_with_mortality_in_patients_with.10.aspx

Immunogenicity and Safety According to Immunosuppressive Drugs and Different COVID-19 Vaccine Platforms in Immune-Mediated Disease: Data from SAFER Cohort (2024)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/12/1367

To be or not to B27 positive: implications for the phenotypes of axial spondyloarthritis outcomes. Data from a large multiracial cohort from the Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritis (2024)
https://advancesinrheumatology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42358-024-00372-0

Characteristics associated with poor COVID-19 outcomes in people with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis: data from the COVID-19 PsoProtect and Global Rheumatology Alliance physician-reported registries (2023)
https://ard.eular.org/article/S0003-4967(24)08469-3/fulltext

HLA-B27 did not protect against COVID-19 in patients with axial spondyloarthritis – data from the ReumaCov-Brasil Registry (2023)
https://advancesinrheumatology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42358-023-00340-0

Extra-musculoskeletal manifestations driving the therapeutic decision-making in patients with Spondyloarthritis: a 12-month follow-up prospective cohort study (2023)
https://advancesinrheumatology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42358-023-00324-0

HLA-B27 positivity in a large miscegenated population of 5,389,143 healthy blood marrow donors in Brazil (2023)
https://advancesinrheumatology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42358-023-00302-6

Dietetic intervention in psoriatic arthritis: the DIETA trial. (2022)
https://advancesinrheumatology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42358-022-00243-6

Characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A nationwide survey of 1000 patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34600751/

Performance of 4 methods for screening of latent tuberculosis infection in patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis under TNFα inhibitors: a 24-month prospective study (2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34838126/

High levels of immunosuppression are related to unfavourable outcomes in hospitalised patients with rheumatic diseases and COVID-19: first results of ReumaCoV Brasil registry (2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33510041/

The Brazilian Society of Rheumatology guidelines for axial spondyloarthritis – 2019 (2020)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32171329/

COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic diseases: what is the real mortality risk? (2020)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32660978/

Higher bodily adiposity, fat intake, and cholesterol serum levels are associated with higher disease activity in psoriatic arthritis patients: is there a link among fat and skin and joint involvement? (2020)
https://lipidworld.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12944-020-1200-7

Axial Spondyloarthritis after bariatric surgery: a 7-year retrospective analysis. (2019)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30764886/

Performance of the classification criteria in patients with late-onset axial spondyloarthritis (2018)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28569568/

Sacroiliac Joint Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Asymptomatic Patients with Recurrent Acute Anterior Uveitis: A Proof-of-concept Study (2017)
https://www.jrheum.org/content/44/12/1833

Topographic MRI evaluation of the sacroiliac joints in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (2017)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2255502116300682?via%3Dihub

Clinical characteristics and frequency of TLR4 polymorphisms in Brazilian patients with ankylosing spondylitis (2016)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2255502116300463?via%3Dihub

Quality of life in spondyloarthritis: analysis of a large Brazilian cohort (2016)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2255502115000711?via%3Dihub

The relevance of performing exercise test before starting supervised physical exercise in asymptomatic cardiovascular patients with rheumatic diseases (2016)
https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article-abstract/55/11/1978/2420679?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Incidence of active mycobacterial infections in Brazilian patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis and negative evaluation for latent tuberculosis infection at baseline–a longitudinal analysis after using TNFa blockers (2015)
https://www.scielo.br/j/mioc/a/R5xN7r9vpVKxVpcMncG9mdj/?lang=en

Drug survival and causes of discontinuation of the first anti-TNF in ankylosing spondylitis compared with rheumatoid arthritis: analysis from BIOBADABRASIL (2015)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10067-015-2929-7

Evaluation of performance of BASDAI (Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index) in a Brazilian cohort of 1,492 patients with spondyloarthritis: data from the Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritides (RBE) (2015)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0482500414001867?via%3Dihub

Interferon-α induced psoriatic arthritis and autoimmune hemolytic anemia during chronic hepatitis C treatment (2014)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25341062/

Assessment of fatigue in a large series of 1492 Brazilian patients with Spondyloarthritis (2014)
https://academic.oup.com/mr/article-abstract/24/6/980/6302010?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Profile of the use of disease modifying drugs in the Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritides (2014)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24878789/

Epidemiologic profile of juvenile-onset compared to adult-onset spondyloarthritis in a large Brazilian cohort (2014)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0482500414001685?via%3Dihub

Incidence of Toxoplasma retinochoroiditis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis after using TNF-α blockers (2013)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S138357691300024X?via%3Dihub

The skin tissue is adversely affected by TNF-alpha blockers in patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis: a 5-year prospective analysis (2013)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24141833/

Effect of enthesitis on 1505 Brazilian patients with spondyloarthritis (2013)
https://www.jrheum.org/content/40/10/1719

Enteropathic arthritis in Brazil: data from the Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritis (2013)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S048250041300003X?via%3Dihub

Recommendations for the management and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (2013)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24051908/

Recommendations for the management and treatment of psoriatic arthritis (2013)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24051907/

Influence of TNF-α blockers on the oral prevalence of opportunistic microorganisms in ankylosing spondylitis patients (2012)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22935381/

Low prevalence of renal, cardiac, pulmonary, and neurological extra-articular clinical manifestations in spondyloarthritis: analysis of the Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritis (2012)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22641592/

Effect of age at disease onset in the clinical profile of spondyloarthritis: a study of 1424 Brazilian patients (2012)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22510473/

Ethnic influence in clinical and functional measures of Brazilian patients with spondyloarthritis (2012)
https://www.jrheum.org/content/39/1/141

Gender characterization in a large series of Brazilian patients with spondyloarthritis (2012)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10067-011-1890-3

Bone mineral density and body composition in postmenopausal women with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (2011)
https://arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/ar3240