An understanding of the mechanisms underlying NET-mediated inflammation will empower clinicians to target therapies that can mitigate disease activity & improve outcomes in patients with lupus.
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Case Report: Voriconazole-Induced Periostitis
In this case report, a patient with voriconazole-induced periostitis exhibits classic symptoms & elevated ALP levels, which quickly resolve following the discontinuation of voriconazole.
Walking Is Medicine: How to Nudge Your Older Patient to Use a Cane
Some patients avoid using canes due to stigma, but cane use can prevent loss of mobility and increase independence for many.
Case Report: Leprosy Masquerading as Relapsing Polychondritis
Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRDs) are known for their systemic presentations and multi-organ involvement. Numerous infectious diseases, particularly mycobacterial, fungal and indolent bacterial infections endemic to specific geographic regions, present with varied signs and symptoms of multi-system involvement and can mimic AIRDs. Thus, differentiating infection from an AIRD is critical to resolve competing treatment approaches. This…
Role Reversal: When the Doctor Becomes a Patient
It was like a reverse Uno card had been thrown onto the table. My patient was now asking his rheumatologist, “Are you okay? You look like you’re in a lot of pain.” He was right. I was wincing trying to get up from my seat and limping trying to get a few steps over to…
What’s New in Treatment: IgA Vasculitis & IgA Nephropathy
Dr. Jens Thiel provided a detailed overview of specific treatments for patients with immunoglobulin A (IgA) vasculitis and IgA nephropathy, highlighting treatments in early clinical trials.
Case Report: Diaphragm Ultrasound Reveals Shrinking Lung Syndrome
Shrinking lung syndrome (SLS) is a rare cause of dyspnea that has been most commonly described in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but is also found in systemic sclerosis, Sjögren’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Shrinking lung syndrome is characterized by a restrictive pattern on lung spirometry, despite normal lung parenchyma, and an elevated diaphragm.1…
Flipbooks: Patient and Family Education Tools
A school science project demonstrates that flipbooks can be a useful educational tool for patients and their families to learn about rheumatic conditions and their treatment.
When Rheumatologists Have Rheumatic Diseases
“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”1 These profound words from Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, Linda R. Meier…
Advice for New Rheumatology Fellows: Construct Winner’s Triangles
June is always a bittersweet month, at least in academic medicine. We get to look forward to a new fresh set of faces coming into our training programs, but we also have to say goodbye to those once-fresh faces that have progressed through their medical education journeys. These transitions are never easy, neither for the…
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