At the ACR Convergence 2024 Year in Review lecture, experts discussed advancements in disease understanding and treatments, as well as in basic science.
Advancements in Imaging
Experts shared insights into their work on building consensus for the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound for the diagnosis and management of RA and PsA.
Can an App Reduce the Need for In-Person Visits?
Solomon et al. examined whether a mobile application (app) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis integrated in the electronic health record would be used by patients and rheumatologists.
Poly-Refractory Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Uncommon Subset of a Difficult-to-Treat Disease
Difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is defined as the failure of two or more classes of biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) to control active or progressive disease in patients with RA. Between 5 and 20% of patients with RA have difficult-to-treat RA.
What’s New in RA Research?
Dr. Aletaha discussed several studies of interventions in pre-RA, including SAVE, STIVEA, PROMPT, PRAIRI, TREAT EARLIER and STOP-RA.
All That Is Old—& New: Treatment Implications for Rheumatoid Arthritis
EULAR 2023 (MILAN)—Over the past several years, a plethora of new treatments for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has emerged, while older treatments still play a large role in therapy for many patients. At the EULAR 2023 session titled Rheumatoid Arthritis: New Small Molecules and Old DMARDs, several speakers presented abstracts comparing different treatment effects…
Beyond the Clinic: Lessons Learned from a Rheumatologist with RA
A pediatric rheumatologist diagnosed with RA following the birth of her first child talks about integrative care & offers tips for helping patients reduce the symptom burden.
Glucocorticoids in RA
The historical & continuing roles of glucocorticoids in the treatment of RA are discussed.
The ACR Launches Rheumatoid Arthritis Measures Toolkit
The new resource offers standardized outcome measures for providers who treat patients with RA, as well as training materials for medical staff to guide accurate and efficient data collection. It also includes video tutorials and sample workflows for different EHR systems.
A Novel Study Compared the Effectiveness of Adalimumab with Tofacitinib in RA
Your patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) isn’t responding well enough to methotrexate, and you both agree it’s time to consider a biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD). But which one should you choose? In a treat-to-target era, we’re fortunate to have a variety of RA therapies at our disposal. Clinical practice guidelines from…
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