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An official publication of the ACR and the ARP serving rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals

Flipbooks: Patient and Family Education Tools

Aryan Gopinath & Srilatha Kothandaraman, MD  |  

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.

Meet the ACR’s Advocacy Team

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It’s an election year, and ACR staff are excited about the possibility of moving key initiatives, such as Medicare reimbursement, across the finish line. But they need members’ help to do so.

Kidney Biopsy in Lupus Nephritis

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SAN DIEGO—As part of a Nov. 14 session on lupus nephritis at ACR Convergence 2023, Simone Appenzeller, MD, PhD, shared perspectives on the importance of biopsy to inform its diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, with an emphasis on childhood disease. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of lupus nephritis is perhaps even more important for children than for…

A Case of Lupus Podocytopathy

Vineetha Philip, MD, MPH, Myriam Guevara, MD, Angelina Edwards, MD, & Ziad M. El-Zaatari, MD  |  

Kidney involvement is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Collectively termed lupus nephritis, SLE with kidney involvement comes in many subtypes. The current classification by the International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society (ISN/RPS), however, does not include lupus podocytopathy, which, through various clinical and epidemiologic studies, has recently been…

Noncoding Self-RNA Implicated in Lupus Development

Bryn Nelson, Ph  |  

In 2022, an international group of researchers reported the seminal finding that a gain-of-function variant of a single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) sensor, known as toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7), can cause human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).1 The paper in Nature showed that a newly described variant of TLR7, identified in a child with severe lupus, was…

Chronic Pain & the Mind-Body Connection

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Howard Schubiner, MD, shares what led him to focus on the mind-body connection during an episode of the ACR on Air podcast. He discusses recent research into how pain reprocessing may help patients suffering from psychological-related chronic pain.