Ankylosing spondylitis primarily affects the joints and ligaments of the spine, but may also have an impact on other joints. Patients experience pain and stiffness that limit mobility in the back and other affected joints. Symptoms can come and go, last for long periods of time and be severe. Anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drugs are…
Pediatric to Adult Care Transition Challenging for Patients with JIA
Dr. Sheffield is an adult rheumatologist who received the following referral request from a family doctor: “Please see this 22-year-old male with a history of juvenile arthritis for ongoing care. I have only seen him once, and have no previous medical records.” Dr. Sheffield meets with Paul, who reports that he has had arthritis since…
Letters: Standardize Squeeze Test for Inflammatory Arthritis?
Squeeze Test in Inflammatory Arthritis, Need for Standardization? The first use of the squeeze test as a clinical maneuver to detect inflammatory arthritis in patients with hand problems was described by Recth in 1988, and Morton described its use for patients with foot problems.1,2 In 1991, Eberhardt and Rigby proposed the clinical maneuver be used…
Psoriatic Arthritis: Recognize, Manage Comorbidities
As the literature on comorbidities linked to psoriatic arthritis (PsA) expands, it’s becoming more difficult for clinicians to keep up with what comorbidities should be assessed and how these comorbidities affect treatment selection. Given this, rheumatologists at the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Cleveland Clinic and Hospital for Special Surgery in New…
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Macrophage Activation Syndrome
The pathogenesis of and new classification criteria for MAS
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Diagnosis, Management of Sarcoidosis in the Heart, Central Nervous System
Without reliable diagnostic tests or evidence-based treatment guidelines, patient symptoms critical to diagnosing disease
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Psoriatic Arthritis
Clinical manifestations, approaches to diagnosis, treatment
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Fat’s Role in Inflammation
How obesity, metabolic stress, inflammation contribute to rheumatic diseases
T Cells & Autoimmune Diseases
New investigational strategy provides way to identify, characterize autoreactive T cells that escape thymic selection and cause autoimmunity
Impact of Fatigue on Inflammatory Arthritis Merits More Research
Study suggests updating the ACR’s core set outcomes to gauge effect of fatigue on patients
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