Our patient was a 33-year-old, 5’2″ Asian woman with a past medical history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The diagnosis was based on serologies positive for anti-nuclear antibodies (ANAs), as well as antibodies to Sm, RNP and SSA. Her illness included neuropsychiatric and cutaneous involvement. She also had a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. She presented…
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Case Report: A Patient’s Clubbing & Arthralgias Resist Diagnosis
A 59-year-old woman presented to our rheumatology clinic with a six-month history of a symmetric polyarthritis. She initially experienced pain in both knees. As time progressed, she began to notice pain in her ankles, hips, shoulders, hands and feet. She experienced joint stiffness lasting for more than 30 minutes every morning. She also described worsening…
Studies Challenge Conventional Infliximab Protocols in IBD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Dose optimization of infliximab is needed much earlier in ulcerative colitis than in Crohn’s disease, a single-center retrospective study reveals. “We compared the rates of dose increases over a fairly lengthy period of time,” said Dr. Mark Silverberg, the study’s senior author from the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. “Patients with ulcerative…
Spondyloarthritis: Clues to Earlier Recognition
Rheumatologists at the California Rheumatology Alliance 10th Annual Medical & Scientific Meeting discuss challenges to diagnosing, managing spondyloarthritides
American College of Rheumatology Leads Charge to Address Excessive Patient Cost Sharing
The ACR Government Affairs Committee has developed legislative language to limit commercial insurance plans’ cost-sharing requirements for medications in a specialty drug tier to the dollar amount applicable to drugs in the nonpreferred-brand drug tier.
Nature’s Inflammation Experiment
Familial Mediterranean fever a frequently misdiagnosed autoinflammatory disease
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