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Mashup Score: 0Methotrexate mainstay: ACR guidelines reaffirm old DMARD as ‘anchor drug’ in RA therapy - 2 year(s) ago
Healio Rheumatology | Maximizing the disease-modifying benefits of methotrexate is one of the core principles behind the 2021 American College of Rheumatology rheumatoid arthritis guidelines.There are also strong recommendations for minimizing glucocorticoid use, treating to target and using antiviral medications to prevent infections in certain RA populations. Conditional recommendations cover a…
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Objective To estimate the annual incidence rate of SLE in the USA. Methods A meta-analysis used sex/race/ethnicity-specific data spanning 2002–2009 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention network of four population-based state registries to estimate the incidence rates. SLE was defined as fulfilling the 1997 revised American College of Rheumatology classification criteria. Given…
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Objective To estimate the annual incidence rate of SLE in the USA. Methods A meta-analysis used sex/race/ethnicity-specific data spanning 2002–2009 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention network of four population-based state registries to estimate the incidence rates. SLE was defined as fulfilling the 1997 revised American College of Rheumatology classification criteria. Given…
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Rheumatologists who prescribe hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine should be aware of their potential cardiac toxicity, especially in high-risk patients with rheumatic disease, according to an American College of Rheumatology white paper. “We felt this article was important to address the knowledge and limitations in our knowledge of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) and the risk
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Mashup Score: 0'Advanced vascular imaging' drives revision to ACR/EULAR vasculitis classification criteria - 3 year(s) ago
The American College of Rheumatology and EULAR have updated classification criteria for five types of large- and small-vessel vasculitis, driven in part by advances in diagnostic imaging, according to presenters at ACR Convergence 2021. Peter Grayson, MD, MSc, chief of the Vasculitis Translational Research Program at the NIH’s National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and
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Mashup Score: 9Full Schedule - 3 year(s) ago
Browse Schedule Full ScheduleBrowse By Session TypeBrowse By DateMonday, November 1, 2021Wednesday, November 3, 2021Thursday, November 4, 2021Friday, November 5, 2021Saturday, November 6, 2021Sunday, November 7, 2021Monday, November 8, 2021Tuesday, November 9, 2021Wednesday, November 10, 2021Friday, December 10, 2021Friday, December 17, 2021Friday, January 7, 2022Friday, January 14,…
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Mashup Score: 7Full Schedule - 3 year(s) ago
Moderator: Abhishek Nandan, MD – Virginia Commonwealth UniversityModerator: Catalina Sanchez Alvarez, MD – University of FloridaPanel: Masayoshi Harigai, MD, PhD – Tokyo Women’s Medical UniversityPanel: Rona Smith, MD – University of CambridgePanel: Luis Felipe Flores-Suarez, MD, PhD – Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias
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Mashup Score: 0ACR praises bipartisan letter urging US House leaders to avert impending 'Medicare cliff' - 3 year(s) ago
A bipartisan group of 247 members of Congress have signed a letter urging their own leadership to address several looming Medicare cuts that would reduce reimbursements to providers by nearly 10% starting next year.According to the American College of Rheumatology, these cuts, which could go into effect on Jan. 1, would severely impact practices already struggling to recover from the COVID-19
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Mashup Score: 0Hooked on Rheum with Ellen M. Gravallese, MD - 3 year(s) ago
I was in my fourth year at Columbia Medical School and was planning to become a hematologist. Columbia had an affiliation with a community hospital in Cooperstown, New York, and it was arranged for me to spend a month there as a visiting student. Unfortunately, there was only one rotation available that month: Rheumatology.I recall saying emphatically, “I’m not going to do
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The ACR have published their first guideline for the management of large vessel vasculitis, which covers giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis. The new guideline differs from the current EULAR recommendations on some important points, but do these different views actually affect patient care?
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The 2021 #ACR #RheumatoidArthritis guidelines advise prioritizing #methotrexate before #DMARDs, noted Dr. Bryant R. England @unmc “This was really based on that understanding that our anchor drug has been suboptimally used.” https://t.co/2AxH5c5OzJ