Video: Every Case Tells a Story| Webinar: ACR/CHEST ILD Guidelines in Practice

An official publication of the ACR and the ARP serving rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals

Anti-Interleukin-6 Therapy for Erdheim-Chester Disease Warrants Study

Stefanie D. Wade, MD, Michael A. Seidman, MD, Edward C. Jones, MD, Arnold Radu, MD, Ryan Paterson, MD, Vikram Deshpande, MD, John H. Stone, MD, & Mollie N. Carruthers, MD  |  Issue: February 2017  |  

Related Articles

    Case Report: Intermittent Fevers in a Patient with pJIA

    A 26-year-old woman presented to our emergency department (ED) with intermittent fevers, nausea and vomiting. She had a past medical history of well-controlled, anti-nuclear antibody positive and rheumatoid factor negative polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA) and Crohn’s disease. Her maintenance treatment consisted of monthly intravenous infliximab, 10 mg of oral methotrexate weekly and 20 mg…

    Arthritis Drug Anakinra Shows Promise in COVID-19

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Treatment with the interleukin-1 blocker anakinra appears to improve respiratory symptoms and reduced signs of cytokine storm in nearly three-quarters of patients with acute respiratory distress and cytokine release syndrome from COVID-19 in a small retrospective study from Italy. “Our study is the first to suggest that a high dose of the…

    Case Report: Adult-Onset Still’s Disease with Complications

    The following report outlines a case of newly diagnosed adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) in a previously healthy and active 32-year-old man who had emigrated from Africa to the U.S. Case A man with no prior medical history presented with acute-onset polyarthritis, fevers and fatigue that began one month previously….