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A Few Acronyms and Indices in OMERACT

Prakash Pispati, MD | October 17, 2012

HAQ: Health Assessment Questionnaire DAS28: Disease Activity Score DAS: Psoriatic Arthritis: ACR Core Data Set and Disease Activity Score PsARC: Psoriatic Arthritis Response Criteria PSAI: Psoriasis Area and Severity Index SLEDAI: SLE Disease Activity Score BILAG: British Isles Lupus Activity Score SLAM: Systemic Lupus Activity Measure LAI: Lupus Activity Index ECLAM: European Consensus Lupus Activity…

Fellow’s Forum Case Report: True Vasculitis or Vasculitis Mimic?

Reeti K. Joshi, MD, Richa Gupta, MD, Hyon Ju Park, MD, Christine Pham, MD, and Leslie Kahl, MD | October 1, 2012

Rheumatologists face the emerging picture of cocaine and levamisole-associated vasculopathy in clinical practice

Treat to Target: Rheumatoid Arthritis in Pregnant Patients

Eliza F. Chakravarty, MD, MS | October 1, 2012

A treat-to-target approach to managing rheumatoid arthritis can work even in pregnant women

ACR Releases Guidelines for Gout Management

Kathy Holliman | October 1, 2012

The American College of Rheumatology’s two-part guidelines stress the need for treating to target, more aggressive management, and therapy

How Microbes, Mycobacteria, and Metastases May Alter the Way We Look at Rheumatic Diseases

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | October 1, 2012

Studying the relationships between microbes and their hosts, the role for Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG) as a vaccine for Type I diabetes, and emotional stress and bone metastases

Nomenclature, Semantics, Jargon, Lingo, Eponyms, Etymology, and Terminology in Rheumatology

Prakash Pispati | October 1, 2012

Why rheumatologists must coin simple, comprehensible terms for what we read, speak and write to our patients

Studies Show Promise for Scleroderma Therapy and Prediction of Progressing Disease

Thomas R. Collins | October 1, 2012

Research shows that a serum from goats might be helpful in combating diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc)

EULAR: Identify Arthritis Early, Treat it Effectively

Thomas R. Collins | October 1, 2012

Recent studies are uncovering genetic and environmental factors at play in the earliest stages of rheumatoid arthritis and medications that are effective in treating juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Morris Reichlin Contributes Five Decades of Immunologic Advances in Rheumatology

Gretchen Henkel | October 1, 2012

Career marked by the quest to define the antigenic targets of autoimmunity in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), inflammatory myopathies, polymyositis, and dermatomyositis

Maintenance of Remission in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis

Paul A. Monach, MD, PhD | September 5, 2012

Relapses are common, but difficult to predict and prevent.