ACR 2017 - Day 2 Highlights
In the afternoon on Monday, the ACR ran a clinical symposium on gout. One presentation stood out, on “Asymptomatic hyperuricemia” (AH) by M. Pillinger, MD from NYU Medical School. At issue is when should AH be treated.
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Kidney transplant improves survival in GPA
Even with currently available treatment modalities, ESRD is a common complication of Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) occurring in approximately 25% of patients. Transplantation frequently used for ESRD but has not been applied widely in GPA.
SLE Clinical Trial Design and Outcome Measures
Clinical trials remain a challenge in SLE and a number of outcome measures have been used with varying success.
Two abstracts in this session sought to address novel ways to assess responses in SLE trials.
Tech Tools for Rheumatologists Version 3.0
On Monday November 11th, Dr. Suleman Bhana, presented Tech Tools for Rheumatologists Version 3.0.
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Low-dose Bactrim Safe with Methotrexate in AAV
A high proportion of GPA patients receive pneumocystis prophylaxis, usually with TMP-SMX (Bactrim), and drug interactions are always a concern.
Large Vessel Vasculitis: Giant Cell Arteritis and Takayasu Arteritis
Prof Weyland started by explaining that giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu Arteritis (TA) are granulomatous forms of arteritis.
Gut-derived TNF: Connection Between Crohn’s and SpA and Sacroiliitis
The pathogenesis between microscopic gut inflammation leading to the development of Crohn’s disease and sacroiliitis has been poorly understood. Dr. Debusschere, et al sought to understand this important link between IBD and axial SpA.
Co-morbid Fibromyalgia
Rheumatoid Arthritis and SLE can be quite challenging to manage in clinical practice, but our arsenal of medications to tone down inflammation is becoming quite broad.
Sustenance Inspector’s 2017 Annual ACR report
There are two things I learned in rheumatology fellowship.
Never burn any bridges because everyone in rheumatology knows each other
Rheumatologists like their food
Podcast of ACR Day 1
Check out this compilation of our ACR Day 1 videocasts merged into one 59 minute podcast !
https://soundcloud.com/rheumnow/rheumnow-acr-2017-san-diego-day-1
ACR 2017 - Day 1 Highlights
Curtis and colleagues presented a plenary session that analyzed the duration of drug holidays and the risk of subsequent fractures (FX) in women starting bisphosphonates (BP).
