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FDA Approves Secukinumab for Children with Enthesitis-Related Arthritis & PsA

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The FDA has approved the use of secukinumab for pediatric patients with enthesitis-related arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, after research showed a longer time to disease flare than placebo.

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Study: Pegloticase & Methotrexate Co-Treatment Helps Uncontrolled Gout

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A larger proportion of patients with gout had a therapeutic response at six months when treated with methotrexate and pegloticase than with pegloticase alone, according to results from the multi-center, open-label MIRROR (metho­trexate to increase response rates in patients with uncontrolled gout receiving KRYSTEXXA) study, recently published in the Journal of Rheumatology.1 The MIRROR study…

COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients with Rheumatic Disease

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In January A&R, Simon et al. report a study to assess humoral and cellular immune responses after infection with, or vaccination against, SARS-CoV-2 in patients with B cell depletion and controls who are B cell competent, finding that B cell depletion completely blocks humoral but not T cell SARS-CoV-2 vaccination response. In the same issue, Connolly et al. evaluated disease flare and post-vaccination reactions in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases following messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination.

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan shows a 3 cm, hypermetabolic mass adjacent to the stomach.

Case Report: Elevated Inflammatory Markers & a Hypermetabolic Mass

Lisa L. Korn, MD, PhD, Mina L. Xu, MD, & Cristina Brunet, MD  |  

Consulting rheumatologists often assess patients with atypical clinical presentations for the possibility of an underlying rheumatic disease. Inflammatory syndromes that are not clearly rheumatic in nature can be particularly challenging to diagnose. Here, we share the case of a young woman with a long-standing undiagnosed illness and highly elevated inflammatory markers, and describe the evaluation…

Vax Hesitancy? Myths & Facts for Patients

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Although more than 189,300,000 eligible Americans are fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 as of Oct. 18, 2021, vaccine hesitancy persists.1 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), citing data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey collected between May 26 and June 7, 2021, reports that in some U.S. counties—particularly in the Southeast…

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Rheumatic Complications from Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

Nilasha Ghosh, MD, MS, & Anne R. Bass, MD  |  

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), such as anti-programmed cell-death 1/programmed death-ligand 1 (anti-PD-1/PD-L1) or anti-CTL-associated protein (anti-CTLA-4), have dramatically changed the treatment of advanced cancers over the past decade. ICIs block T cell inhibition, thus increasing the anti-tumor immune response. ICIs are used not only for metastatic cancer, but also as adjuvant treatment for some stage…

Therapeutics for COVID-19: An update from ACR Convergence 2021

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ACR CONVERGENCE 2021—Rheumatology patients who test positive for COVID-19 would benefit from early use of monoclonal antibodies, said Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth), Houston, in a session about effective treatment options for COVID-19. Acknowledging that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already…

Research on SLE, pJIA & More Highlighted in 2nd ACR Convergence 2021 Plenary Session

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Experts shined a spotlight on select abstracts of the latest rheumatology research, addressing such topics as racial disparities in the management of children with SLE, vitamin D or fish oil supplementation to prevent autoimmune disease & more.

Pediatric Rheumatology Year in Review, 2021: Basic Science

Elizabeth Sloan, MD  |  

ACR Convergence 2021—The field of pediatric rheumatology has benefited from significant developments in the basic and translational sciences over the past year, and it can be challenging to keep up with the latest discoveries. In the Basic Science section of the Pediatric Rheumatology Year in Review at ACR Convergence, Tiphanie Vogel, MD, PhD, assistant professor…