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Building a More Equitable Future in Lupus Care

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The Dubois Memorial Lecture at ACR Convergence 2024 on Nov. 16 will be delivered by Candace Feldman, MD, MPH, ScD. Dr. Feldman is a rheumatologist and social epidemiology researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston. Her lecture, Building a More Equitable Future in Lupus Care and Outcomes, will discuss the persistent and profound…

Difficult-to-Manage Spondyloarthritis

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Studies show that patients with difficult-to-treat axial spondyloarthritis had more disease activity and greater peripheral involvement, with extra musculoskeletal manifestations and fibromyalgia. The ACR Convergence 2024 session on Difficult-to-Manage Spondyloarthritis will focus on patients for whom first- and second-line therapies have failed or who have persistent extra-axial manifestations of disease despite these treatment options. The…

Updates in RA-Associated ILD

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On Sunday, Nov. 17, at ACR Convergence 2024, three speakers will deliver a presentation on Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: Advances in Screening, Diagnosis and Patient Phenotyping. This session will have three 20-minute presentations that cover distinct aspects of RA-associated ILD from early identification of ILD through high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) text mining, to phenotyping…

Case Report: Leprosy Masquerading as Relapsing Polychondritis

Rohan Goel, MBBS, MD, Rashmi Roongta, MBBS, MD, DM, Dipendranath Ghosh, MBBS, MD, DM, & Parasar Ghosh, MD, DM  |  

Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRDs) are known for their systemic presentations and multi-organ involvement. Numerous infectious diseases, particularly mycobacterial, fungal and indolent bacterial infections endemic to specific geographic regions, present with varied signs and symptoms of multi-system involvement and can mimic AIRDs. Thus, differentiating infection from an AIRD is critical to resolve competing treatment approaches. This…