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Articles tagged with "Glucocorticoids"

Highlights from the European Congress of Internal Medicine

Vanessa Caceres  |  July 10, 2025

An overview of highlights from the 2025 ECIM meeting, including research on treatment options for systemic sclerosis, the management of PMR & autoimmune testing.

New Study: Upadacitinib Is Treatment Option for Giant Cell Arteritis

Deborah Levenson  |  July 10, 2025

Results of the international SELECT-GCA study suggest that upadacitinib may be an effective new oral treatment for giant cell arteritis.

Reactive Arthritis: Chronic or Self-Limiting?

Michael J. Cammarata, MD  |  June 8, 2025

Reactive arthritis has proved to be a diagnostic & therapeutic challenge due to its diverse presentations.

Glucocorticoids Increase Infections, Mortality

Arthritis & Rheumatology  |  August 19, 2024

Figueroa-Parra et al. set out to evaluate the effect of glucocorticoid regimens on renal response, infections and mortality rates among patients with lupus nephritis (LN). The researchers analyzed the control arms of randomized clinical trials and found a higher exposure to glucocorticoids during the initial treatment of LN was associated with better renal outcomes, at the cost of increased infections and mortality.

3 AC&R Study Summaries: Prescribing Patterns, PMR & Glucocorticoids, & Infection Screening

Arthritis Care & Research  |  February 9, 2024

A Shift in Prescribing Patterns Safety issues prompt discontinuation of tofacitinib By Stephanie Song, MD, & Joshua F. Baker, MD, MSCE Why was this study done? The ORAL Surveillance study highlighted risks of cardiac events, thromboembolism (VTE) and malignancy associated with use of Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi). We sought to determine the impact of safety…

Polymyalgia Rheumatica: New Tricks for an Old Disease

Desh Nepal, MD, Sebastian E. Sattui, MD, MS, & Michael Putman, MD, MS  |  January 29, 2024

Originally posted Feb. 13, 2023; reposted in conjunction with publication of the PMR supplement to the February 2024 issue of The Rheumatologist. PHILADELPHIA—Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a chronic inflammatory condition that almost exclusively affects individuals older than 50.1 First described in 1888, PMR has been a recognized rheumatic disease since at least 1957. Diagnosing the…

Study: Most Patients with PMR Aren’t Getting Steroid-Sparing Agents in First 2 Years

Katie Robinson  |  January 25, 2024

A minority of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) who were new to rheumatology practice were prescribed steroid-sparing agents through two years of follow-up. This is according to a large, U.S.-based cohort study, published in Arthritis Care & Research, which also found that nearly two-thirds of the patients remained on glucocorticoids beyond one year.1 “Our study…

Study Probes Corticosteroid Dependence in Polymyalgia Rheumatica

Vivekanand Tiwari, MD, Emily Campbell, MD, Joshua Skydel, MD, Bryan Savage, MD, Monica Dimambro, Todd MacKenzie, PhD, & William F. Rigby, MD  |  January 24, 2024

Background/Purpose Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) treatment is primarily based on long-term corticosteroids, which results in significant toxicities. Studies have shown that patients with PMR are exposed to years of corticosteroid treatment.1,2 In a single academic center cohort, we found that 76% of patients remained on steroids at the end of two years.3 In a second cohort…

Updates in Vasculitis Criteria, Guidelines & Medications

Jason Liebowitz, MD, FACR  |  November 10, 2023

BALTIMORE—2022 was an exciting year in the field of vasculitis, not least of all because the ACR and EULAR released classification criteria for several forms. This development came just one year after the release of ACR/Vasculitis Foundation (VF) guidelines on the management of a number of vasculitides. With so much new information to be absorbed,…

Glucocorticoids in RA

David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD  |  November 7, 2023

The historical & continuing roles of glucocorticoids in the treatment of RA are discussed. 

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