In 1984, I wrote my first prescription for the antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), for a 28-year-old woman with SLE. She was considerably overweight, with inflammatory arthritis and a photosensitive rash, and I worried that oral corticosteroids would tip her over into diabetes. I presented the case to my attending, Steven Malawista, MD, at the Yale…
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Rheumatology Coding Corner Question: Knee Osteoarthritis
Incident-to Billing Case Scenario A 51-year-old female patient returns for a follow-up visit with a physician assistant (PA) for unilateral primary osteoarthritis of her right knee. She had an intraarticular corticosteroid injection of her right knee six weeks prior to her visit. She reports significant improvement in her knee pain and stiffness, and states the…
Imaging in Ankylosing Spondylitis
MRI inflammation, fat and new bone formation in the sacroiliac joints, spine in patients with AS
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Bone Fracture Concerns in Children
Recognizing, reducing risk of bone fractures in pediatric patients with rheumatic disease, taking glucocorticoid therapy
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases and Cancer
Links between autoimmunity, malignancy prompt rheumatologists to include cancer screening for patients
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Methotrexate Use in Patients with RA
Review of clinical research on methotrexate therapy, effect on patients’ functionality, tolerability, adverse events
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Sjögren’s Complications
Tips to screen for, treat central or peripheral nervous system disorders, lymphoma in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome
Medication Non-Adherence by Rheumatology Patients & What Rheumatologists Can Do
Lack of efficacy, poor DAS scores may be misinterpreted as a drug failure
Podiatry for Rheumatologists: Treating Patients’ Foot Complaints
Tips for diagnosing, managing hallux rigidus, metatarsalgia, neuroma and rear foot problems in rheumatology patients
Coding Corner Question: April
Coding for an office visit by a patient with osteoarthritis who has a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan
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