It is a common practice for rheumatologists to discuss medication-related teratogenicity and disease implications in case of pregnancy. Yet, discussion of breastfeeding are often omitted.
Based on recent clinical trials, the makers of golimumab have petitioned the FDA for new indications in PsA and AS. Trials for PsA (GO-VIBRANT) and AS (GO-ALIVE) were presented at last weeks EULAR 2017 meeting in Madrid, Spain.
The Canadian Medical Association Journal has studied the costs of prescription drugs in 10 high-income countries (seven European countries, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) and found that many of these medicines varied by more than 600%.
Bone turnover markers (BTMs) have been eyed for decades as potential monitoring tools in osteoporosis.
However, there have been difficulties with poor between-lab reproductivity, insufficiently controlled heterogeneity, and pre-analytical variability of the assays; making BTMs vastly unpopular amongst practicing rheumatologists.
Therapeutic options for cutaneous psoriasis (and psoriatic arthritis as well) are rapidly expanding. Lancet has published the impressive results of two phase III trials of tildrakizumab, a IgG1 antibody against interleukin 23 p19, in patients with active chronic plaque psoriasis.
The American College of Rheumatology has partnered with the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons to develop consensus-based guidelines for perioperative management of antirheumatic therapies for patients with rheumatic diseases who plan to undergo total joint replacement.
Saturday was a day of big posters and special seminars at EULAR in Madrid. In the morning, I passed on an interesting session on nailfold capillaroscopy led by Dr. M Cutolo and went to a JIA outcomes session. I reported on this in a video from day 4 (Saturday) called “Long-Term Comorbidities in JIA” – you can find it here.
Because of the subjective nature of fibromyalgia symptoms, tools for monitoring of disease activity and/or treatment assessment tools to evaluate effectiveness of nonpharmacological modalities are difficult to develop.
Researchers sought to describe the characteristics of patients with concurrent septic and crystal arthritis through a retrospective analysis of patients with the concomitant diagnoses between 1985-2015 at a university hospital in Spain.
Friday was a mega-day in Madrid as this day all the late-breaking abstracts were presented, in addition to the bulk of high-impact podium presentations in several areas.
Here are the major presentations from several clinical areas.
