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Trial Pits Upadacitinib vs. Adalimumab for Psoriatic Arthritis

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As treatments for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) emerge, a clinical trial comparing the Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor upadacitinib and the tumor necrosis fac­tor (TNF) inhibitor adalimumab provided some new insights. Published earlier this year in The New England Journal of Medi­cine, the SELECT-PsA 1, double-blind, phase 3 trial found that a 30 mg dose of upadacitinib…

Tips for Transitioning Patients from Pediatric to Adult Rheumatology Care

Sarah D. Bayefsky, MD, Kimberly DeQuattro, MD, & Rebecca E. Sadun, MD, PhD  |  

Approximately 50% of young adult patients with childhood-onset rheumatic diseases become lost to follow-up within the first year of transferring to adult rheumatology care, mirroring the statistics of other subspecialties.1,2 One of the challenges cited most consistently by young adult patients and their families relates to differences between rheumatology care delivery in the pediatric and…

Summer 2021’s Awards, Appointments & Announcements in Rheumatology

Kelly April Tyrrell & Gretchen Henkel  |  

Marian Hannan Celebrated after 10 Years as AC&R Editor-in-Chief By Kelly April Tyrrell This summer, the 10-year tenure of Marian Hannan, MPH, DSc, as editor in chief of Arthritis Care & Research (AC&R), has come to an end. Kelli Allen, PhD, assumed the post on July 1. “Marian has done a fantastic job over the…

Case Report: Drug-Induced Lupus

Haseeb Chaudhary, MD, Prem Parajuli, MD, & Devy Setyono, MD  |  

The incidence of drug-induced lupus continues to rise as clinicians expand their therapeutic armamentarium. An estimated 15,000–30,000 cases of drug-induced lupus occur every year in the U.S. alone.1 It is a well-known, but rare, complication of commonly used medications, such as anti-hypertensive, anti-arrhythmic and anti-epileptic drugs, as well as biologic and immune checkpoint therapies.2,3 The…

A Look Back at the ACR’s Strong Response to COVID-19

David R. Karp, MD, PhD  |  

We are now a year-and-a-half into the COVID‑19 pandemic, and rheuma­tologists and rheuma­tology professionals are still facing some of the same challenges that began in spring 2020, as well as new ones. Most recently, we learned that COVID‑19 vaccine efficacy is reduced in some patients on immunosuppressive therapies and the need for additional immunization is…

2 Cases of SLE-Associated Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrage

2 Cases of SLE-Associated Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage

Abhimanyu Amarnani, MD, PhD, Nicole K. Zagelbaum Ward, DO, MPH, Lauren Mathias, MD, Nathan Lim, MD, Baljeet Rai, MD, Sky Wang, MD, & William Stohl, MD, PhD  |  

Pulmonary manifestations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) include pleuritis, acute pneumonitis, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, shrinking lung syndrome and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH). DAH is a rare, but devastating, complication of SLE, with high mortality rates. The incidence of DAH in SLE ranges from 0.6% to 5.4%, but the mortality rate…