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Clinical Guidance & Recommendation Updates for Vasculitis, axSpA & More

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In this EULAR 2022 session, new & revised treatment recommendations for ANCA-associated vasculitis, axial spondyloarthritis & rheumatoid arthritis were presented.

A Prescription for Mindfulness

Dana DiRenzo, MD, MHS  |  

The prescription is a powerful tool for a physician. As rheuma­tologists, we prescribe many things—drugs, physical therapy, durable medical equipment—but what about stress reduction? We are very specific about times of day to take medications and in what manner. Patients ask: With or without food? With other medications? Before or after other prescribed medications? If…

How to Recognize an Autoinflammatory Disorder

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Autoinflammatory disorders may involve genetic mutations of the inflammasome or an environmental trigger in a genetically susceptible host. Dr. Jay Mehta discussed a practical, clinical approach to caring for patients with autoinflammatory disorders, such as periodic fever syndromes, during the 2022 ACR Education Exchange.

Where Mental Health & Rheumatology Overlap

Where Mental Health & Rheumatology Overlap

Katie Robinson  |  

Because rheumatologists and mental health experts both treat patients with depression, anxiety, pain, disability and sleep disorders, provider cross-training may benefit patients and providers themselves. “When a patient has active psychosocial distress, this has a negative effect on their physical function. Similarly, if a patient has active physical symptoms, like a rheumatoid arthritis flare, this…

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Study Finds Potential Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Risk in Women with Lupus

Elizabeth Hofheinz, MPH, MEd  |  

When it comes to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and cardio­vascular events (CVEs), the rheumatology community is woefully lacking in information, say researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Their recent work on biomarkers associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events in women with…

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How Our Thinking Impacts Our Judgment

Joel M. Kremer, MD, MACR  |  

Let’s start with a couple of short riddles: What question can you never answer “yes” to? Which word does not belong in the following list: stop cop mop chop prop or crop? [The answers appear at the end of this article.] Riddles are designed to make us think beyond the obvious answer. There is usually…

In Memoriam: James F. Fries, MD

Halsted R. Holman, MD  |  

James Franklin Fries was born on Aug. 25, 1938, in Normal, Ill. His mother taught middle school English and his father was a college business professor. Jim graduated from Stanford University in 1960 with a major in philosophy, and received his MD at Johns Hopkins Uni­versity, Baltimore, in 1964. He pursued internal medicine and rheumatology…

The Power of Power Doppler: Ultrasound Imaging in RA

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At the 17th Annual Advances in the Diagnosis & Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases meeting, Dana DiRenzo, MD, MHS, RhMSUS, discussed the use of ultrasound imaging in patients with inflammatory arthritis.