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Case Report: Lymphocytic Vasculitis of the Central Nervous System

January 17, 2019 • By Gbemisola Olayemi, MD, Evangeline Scopelitis, MD, & Jerald M. Zakem, MD

Vasculitis is a group of chronic inflammatory diseases in which the blood vessel is the target of an immune reaction. They can be secondary to connective tissue disease, idiopathic or due to infection, neoplasm or drugs.1 Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) is a rare syndrome characterized by inflammatory cell infiltration and necrosis… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Vasculitis Tagged With: central nervous system vasculitis, cyclophosphamide, Methylprednisolone, Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System

Rheumatic Disease Manifestations in the Central Nervous System

January 19, 2016 • By Thomas R. Collins

SAN FRANCISCO—Let’s say your radiologist comes to you and says that an angiogram gives a diagnosis of CNS vasculitis on four patients, all with acute onset of headache and stroke: One is a 25-year-old woman who is three months pregnant. Another is a 50-year-old man using excessive doses of nasal decongestants. Another is a 40-year-old… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Meeting Reports Tagged With: angiitis, central nervous system, patient care, Research, Rheumatic Disease, rheumatology, symptom

Rheumatology Case Report: When Moyamoya Disease Mimicks Primary Central Nervous System Vasculitis

November 16, 2015 • By Joey Kim, MD, Megha Patel-Banker, MD, Matthew Abramson, MD, Mehwish Bilal, MD, Sanjay Godhwani, MD, Asha Patnaik, MD, Heidi Roppelt, MD, & Qingping Yao, MD

Case report: A 60-year-old Hispanic male with poorly controlled hypertension was sent from the primary care clinic for evaluation of malignant hypertension with a systolic blood pressure above 200 mmHg. His symptoms at the time of presentation included episodic confusion, worsening vision and an unsteady gait. A head computed tomography (CT) scan showed a subacute… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Vasculitis Tagged With: case report, central nervous system, Diagnosis, moyamoya, patient care, rheumatology, Treatment, Vasculitis

2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Diagnosis, Management of Sarcoidosis in the Heart, Central Nervous System

March 1, 2015 • By Kathy Holliman

Without reliable diagnostic tests or evidence-based treatment guidelines, patient symptoms critical to diagnosing disease... [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Meeting Reports, Systemic Inflammatory Syndromes Tagged With: ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, central nervous system, Diagnosis, heart, Holliman, rheumatology, Sarcoidosis

Studies Examine Peripheral Nervous System Disease in Lupus Patients

November 12, 2020 • By Linda Childers

Although systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) affects both the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS), past research has primarily focused on how lupus affects the CNS. Now, an international, inception cohort study, “Peripheral Nervous System Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus,” published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, has examined different types of PNS disease to… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Research Reviews, SLE (Lupus) Tagged With: central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, quality of life, SLE Resource Center

A Historical Look at the Characterization of Lupus as a Systemic Disease

October 18, 2018 • By Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD

The disease called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) went through many different stages of classification before reaching the modern criteria reflecting our current understanding of its pathogenesis. In 1872, the Viennese dermatologist Moriz Kaposi, MD, published a paper, “New Contributions to Knowledge of Lupus Erythematosus,” which provided a significant leap forward in the characterization of this… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, SLE (Lupus) Tagged With: Classification Criteria, Dr. Moriz Kaposi, History, Lost & Found

Diagnostic Criteria, Classification Lacking for Vasculitis; New Research in Treatment for Systemic Sclerosis

September 12, 2016 • By Thomas R. Collins

LONDON—Despite the detailed terminology for describing vasculitis established by the Chapel Hill Consensus (CHC) in 2012, the field badly needs better classification and diagnostic criteria for the group of diseases, an expert said in a presentation at the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR 2016). It’s a topic that is now being… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Systemic Inflammatory Syndromes, Vasculitis Tagged With: Classification, criteria, Diagnosis, EULAR 2016, European League Against Rheumatism, Research, rheumatology, Systemic sclerosis, Treatment, Vasculitis

FDA Restricts Use of Systemic Fluoroquinolones Due to Side Effects & Will Review Application of Apadaz for Pain

June 1, 2016 • By Michele B. Kaufman, PharmD, BCGP

The FDA has issued new safety guidelines for systemic fluoroquinolones, restricting their use to patients with no alternative treatment options…... [Read More]

Filed Under: Analgesics, Drug Updates, Safety Tagged With: acetaminophen, Benzhydrocodone hydrochloride, Drug Safety, FDA, fluoroquinolone, Food and Drug Administration, Pain, safety warning, side effect

When Sense Disorders Signal Immune System Interactions

November 17, 2015 • By Simon M. Helfgott, MD

SSNHL was first described in 1979 in a series of 18 patients from Iowa whose acute hearing loss was not explained by the usual causes.

I sometimes find myself mired in sticky clinical circumstances. I am facing a distraught patient who is seeking my opinion about a condition that, according to some, may not truly belong in the rheumatologist’s bailiwick. Case example: hearing loss. The Steroid Test Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) and its relative, autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED),… [Read More]

Filed Under: Practice Management, Rheuminations Tagged With: Autoimmune, hearing loss, Immune System, patient care, rheumatologist, sense disorders

Can Systemic Inflammation Influence Mood?

August 17, 2015 • By Simon M. Helfgott, MD

The Friday night press release: When a politician or any public figure needs to disclose unfavorable news, chances are they will release it sometime on a late Friday afternoon or evening, hoping that nobody is paying attention. In fact, this behavior was coined “the take out the trash day” on the television political drama, The… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Practice Management, Rheuminations, Systemic Inflammatory Syndromes Tagged With: disorder, drug therapy, Mental Health, mood, patient care, Psychosis, rheumatologist, Steroid, systemic inflammation

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