A recent study found SLE patients may improve their daily physical function, pain and overall quality of life by adding upper limb exercises to stable treatment regimens and routine care…
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Patient Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity: Do You Need to Know?—Ethics Forum
A 17-year-old girl presents to the pediatric rheumatology clinic for follow-up of recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) characterized by class IV lupus nephritis, photosensitive rash and antiphospholid antibody positivity. She is currently being treated with prednisone, mycophenolate mofetil, and hydroxychloroquine. She is accompanied by her mother, who has been very involved in the patient’s…
Key Studies Highlighted: 2 Industry Veterans Discuss Their Favorite Annual Meeting Abstracts
ATLANTA—With more than 3,000 abstracts from 103 countries presented at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting in November, it was impossible for attendees to view them all. However, two ACR/ARP veterans—Arthur Kavanaugh, MD, from the University of California, San Diego, and John Cush, MD, from UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas—chose to tackle the nearly impossible task and…
Premenopausal Osteoporosis Poses Special Clinical Challenges
ATLANTA—Osteoporosis in premenopausal women is uncommon compared with its frequency in post-menopausal women, but when it is suspected, it poses some difficult questions for clinicians: How should it be diagnosed in this understudied population? If found, should it be treated—and how? Elizabeth Shane, MD, professor of medicine at Columbia University and attending physician at New…
The ACR Introduces a New Reproductive Health Guideline
Reproductive health can be a concern for patients with rheumatic diseases, and practitioners in both rheumatology and obstetrics/gynecology often work closely together. The 2020 ACR Guideline for the Management of Reproductive Health in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases, new clinical recommendations developed by an ACR-convened group for pregnant women, post-menopausal women, lactating women, and women and…
The ACR Introduces New Reproductive Health Guideline
The evidence-based guideline includes contraceptive recommendations and suggestions for rheumatologists co-managing patients with obstetrician-gynecologists and other specialists.
The ACR to Host the 22nd PANLAR Pan-American Congress of Rheumatology
The 22nd PANLAR Pan-American Congress of Rheumatology will provide rheumatologists access to a cutting-edge scientific program and the opportunity to meet colleagues from all over the Americas…
Pragmatic Language Dysfunction in SLE
A recent study is the first to examine pragmatic language skills in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), finding that approximately half of SLE patients have pragmatic language dysfunction…
Baby on Board: The Rheumatologist’s Role in Family Planning for Patients with Lupus
For patients with lupus, family planning discussions are vital to achieving positive pregnancy outcomes & maintaining overall health…
Myositis Autoantibodies: A Comparison of Serotyping Panels
The challenges of diagnosing myositis are numerous, with many tests resulting in false positives and negatives for autoantibody levels. Researchers recently compared a line blot array currently being used in research with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Myositis panel, which is used in clinical testing. They found some patients were positive according to the research test, but negative according to the clinical test…
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