Recent News
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news, journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.Read Article
Persistence of education and monitoring is crucial to optimal gout management
Optimal gout care is dependent on having a well-informed health care provider who recognizes and follows the ACR gout management recommendations. It is important that the misconceptions and myths held https://t.co/XYSwvuihjJ
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Patients with anemia (10% of the population) have a 2-fold increased risk of gout.
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Expert Perspective on Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
A current perspective article by Dr. Sara Tedeschi tackles many unresolved issues around CPPD diagnosis, classification, and management, including the lack of clinical trials or FDA approved treatments. https://t.co/zxJ9aQweNl
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Pragmatism in Gout: How therapeutic choices can have multiple benefits
William James famously wrote in Pragmatism, “There can be no difference anywhere that doesn’t make a difference elsewhere.” Gout treatment offers a striking medical example of that idea. https://t.co/DG29pro6XE
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Gout and its' associated comorbidities - treat gout and its' comorbidities to target
https://t.co/U0dolcAGEc https://t.co/mGvYQrWx25
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Among 784,091 pts in a UK acute MI registry, 715 (0.1%) had SLE. SLE pts were younger & more female. SLE w/ MI had signif higher adjusted all-cause mortality from 30 days (HR 1.62) to 5 years (HR 1.84), despite age & having less traditional cardiovascular comorbidities https://t.co/78oHVWTdTJ
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Nerandomilast (Jascayd) has been approved in the European Union for adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF). The drug was approved for IPF & PPF by the FDA for US use in late 2025 https://t.co/scOuVb3aYy https://t.co/EcmpRhyWgu
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Coding: ICD-10 Code M45.7 describes ankylosing spondylitis of the lumbosacral region, a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code valid for FY2026. M45.7 became effective October 1, 2025 and belongs to the M45 parent category covering ankylosing spondylitis by anatomical site. https://t.co/jBmoD0CVps
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Chinese cohort of 209 AOSD pts identifed 49 (23%) w/ lung dz (by CXR), yet 69% were asymptomatic. Significcant risk factors for AOSD-LD were pleuritis, MAS (HR 2.62), & Dz relapse (HR 2.6). Imaging patterns: acute exudative pattern most prevalent, followed by interstitial and https://t.co/2IPJWRJicP
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Swimming Reduces Diability from Low Back Pain
EurekAlert!
Swimming is commonly recommended for patients with chronic low back pain. Yet, there is little trial data investigating swimming. An Australian study has shown for the first time that a program of swimming can be clinically effective in reducing disability from chronic low back pain.
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The Hidden Cost of Gout
For many people, gout is viewed as an episodic disease: a painful flare, a short course of treatment, and then life returns to normal. However, as rheumatologists, we know that recurrent attacks can lead to joint damage and tophi if left untreated. https://t.co/RWTp5KKkyw
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Fibromyalgia: Diagnosis and Management
https://t.co/L9nA1TlJKx https://t.co/G4bkxTsXCt
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EUSTAR scleroderma substudy propensity matched pts Rx w/ JAKi (n 38) vs 180 pts ea Rx w/ MMF, MTX, RTX. 1/3 had dcSSc. 23 AEs in 997 Pt-yrs. JAKi outcomes similar to comparators. JAKi Tx D/C in 39%, FVC stable, skin fibrosis improved (mRSS −1.8) & SJC decreased. No new
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QD Clinic: Gout, Sepsis… or Both?
Dr. Mrinalini Dey, London, discusses a complex case.
https://t.co/UtncfZgZyL https://t.co/xVTA0LnPpN
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The Lancet Rheumatology has a good editorial about the avacopan bad news reports with EMA, FDA and Japan issuing negative opinions that threaten the drugs future. Yet, since approval real world data on avacopan has been favorable w/ less steroid toxicity & most hepatotoxicity https://t.co/k6ebVeWv2K
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SGLT2 inhibitors lower serum urate AND reduce gout flares — and may close the mortality gap (CV mortality benefit) and offer renal protection.
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"Leeuwenhoek (invented the microscope) examined uric acid (C5H4N4O3) crystals from gout patients and found them to resemble needles. He expounded on his observations in an 11 July 1679 letter responding to an earlier query from Mr. Lambert van Velthuysen (1622–1685), a physician, https://t.co/mY2wqYlRda
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Primary biliary cholangitis is a chronic cholestatic disease characterized by autoimmune-mediated destruction of bile ducts, leading to fibrosis, cirrhosis, & liver failure. Ursodeoxycholic acid is 1st line Rx. New Rx include elafibranor & seladelpar (activates peroxisome https://t.co/EYcleKlTIB
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QD Clinic: Gout, Sepsis… or Both?
Dr. Mrinalini Dey, London, discusses a complex case.
https://t.co/UtncfZgZyL https://t.co/81SyzpWbcl
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Watch our 'Systemic Burden of Gout' series as part of this month's Gout More than Flares campaign. Check out our videos including: Genome-Wide Association Studies in Gout, Gout and Cardiovascular Disease and Gout & Obesity.
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Daily Gem
People wish their enemies dead—but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
-- Mary Wortley Montagu