ACR CONVERGENCE 2020—Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and concurrent liver disease or interstitial lung disease (ILD), or with treatment-refractory RA, pose treatment challenges, said panelists in the ACR Convergence 2020 session, How I Treat Difficult RA. Each panelist discussed a difficult case and raised big-picture questions on how to best treat patients facing each challenge….
ACR CONVERGENCE 2020—Held Nov. 5–9, the ACR’s first fully virtual annual meeting provided participants with a vast repository of new research related to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). To help you sort through the noise, Elizabeth (Blair) Solow, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatic Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, offered …
Treating RA can be complicated, especially if the patient is suffering from comorbidities. In a session at ACR Convergence 2020, experts discussed the development of a new ACR draft guideline for RA management & how it can be applied in real-life clinical practice.
From pain management to arthroplasty, African American patients with OA and RA experience worse outcomes than white patients. But the reasons for these health disparities are difficult to parse from socioeconomic and cultural factors.
Certain nutrients or dietary patterns may affect inflammation and rheumatic disease risk in certain populations. Recommended nutrients include omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, poultry or nuts. Following a Mediterranean or standard Western diet may affect RA risk too.
ACR CONVERGENCE 2020—Recent research findings suggest rheumatologists need to take a closer look at two gold standard autoantibodies used to diagnose seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA)—rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP), according to Caroline Grönwall, PhD, and Miriam Shelef, MD, PhD, who discussed Antibodies in RA: Beyond Citrullination & Back to Rheumatoid Factor at…
ACR CONVERGENCE 2020—Evidence shows that African Americans have a higher burden of osteoarthritis, with lower use of conventional medications, and are less adherent to the medications they take. They also get arthroplasty procedures less often, and when they do have the procedures, they report greater pain, worse function and lower satisfaction with them. In RA…
ACR CONVERGENCE 2020—Patients with concurrent rheumatological arthritis (RA) and liver disease or interstitial lung disease or treatment-refractory rheumatoid arthritis pose treatment challenges, according to the panelists of the ACR Convergence 2020’s How I Treat Difficult RA: Panel Session. Each panelist discussed a difficult case and raised questions on how to best treat it. Joan M….
The search for knowledge has shaped Western culture and is based on Greek philosophy, especially Aristotelian metaphysics. During the Middle Ages, this knowledge was matured by dialectical scholasticism, culminating, in its later stages, in the amalgam between Islamic science and the neo-Aristotelianism of St. Thomas Aquinas.1 In this way, the foundations of the future scientific…
A study that focused on the detection and immunological characteristics of cryoglobulins provides insights for rheumatologists and other rheumatology providers, as well as lab professionals. Co-researchers Marie N. Kolopp-Sarda, PharmD, PhD, and Pierre Miossec, MD, PhD, Clinical Immunology Unit, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Lyon, France, included in their retrospective study, published in…