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ACR 2018 - Day 4 Report
Highlights from Tuesday and Wednesday (days 3 and 4) from the ACR annual meeting include: the important and impactful abstracts covered by the Rheumatology Roundup session; upadacitinib clinical trials; and the baricitinib CV and VTE safety analysis.
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Abstract 648 OptiRef self report questionnaire for early diagnosis of a spa - 19% had confirmed diagnosis vs 40% ref from Dr. Looks useful! #AS @rheumnow #ACR18
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Abst 651 Baraliakos MRI reports on SI joints in #AS differ between radiologists and rheumatologist: edema+erosion works best @RheumNow
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Abstr 837 Dr Colmegna: Should we use high dose Infleunza vaccine in #RA? Vaccines less effective in RA DB RCT low vs. High dose in 279 RApts. Showed sig. better immune response with high dose vaccine. #ACR18 @RheumNow
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#RA #ACR18 @RheumNow
Abstr 838: Anti-MDA5 pos DM-ILD has a poor prognosis. survival at 6mo 89% vs 33% with combo imsuppressive (Pred 1mg/kg/d tapering, IVCYC 500-1g/m2; Tacrolimus through 24 wk. 29 pts, historic controls. Hi risk of CMV activation #ACR18 #Myositis @rheumnow
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Plenary Abstract 839: Dr Schmukler Chicago. Can we use MDHAQ (multi-dimensional) to identify FM? 84% agreement with 2011 FMS questionnaire - so the answer is Yes! (But what is the ‘gold std’?) @RheumNow #FMS #ACR18
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Checkpoint inhibitors
explosion of papers in 2018
New and/or exacerbated arthritis, myositis, lupus, sarcoidosis, sjogrens, vasculitis
How to treat? - still unknown
Year in review - clinical
#ACR18 @RheumNow
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Risk for infection with TNFi+MTX is NOT increased compared to triple DMARD Rx confirmed in large claims database of commercial insurance #ACR18 @RheumNow abst#218 https://t.co/p25QwUX3ZN
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Plenary session: High dose flu vaccine is safe and has better efficacy than standard flu vaccine in our adult RA patients abst#837 @RheumNow #ACR18 https://t.co/MzAB6mUnHS
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Q&A 'Over half the GCA patients had LVV+ on PET/CT' [note to self: need to insist on more PET/CT and push for Tocilizumb] #ACR18 @RheumNow #GCA
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Abst 884 Jeff Sparks. Predictors of ILD in #RA in 1281 patients: High disease activity, seropositivity - no surprises #ACR18 @RheumNow
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Personal observation here: over 25 years of practice I’ve seen disease activity fall and severe ILD become uncommon - but MTX use much more common. Time to rethink! #Acr18 #RA
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Abst 2977 Dr Werth Lenabasam - cannabinoid receptor type 2 (CB2) agonist that activates resolution of innate immune responses - effective in reducing interferon beta and gamma in #Dermatomyositis skin biopsies #ACR18
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What’s in a name. Gout by any other name may be better treated. All hail Urate Crystal Arthritis#ACR18@RheumNow Abstract268 https://t.co/iGEENPJM85
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Lisa Sammaritano quoting a patient panel assisting in the development of Reproductive Guidelines for Rheumatology Patients. “My rheumatologist knows me better than my gynecologist.
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2789 Ph3 Apremilast for Behcet’s oral ulcers: significantly lower number of OU (P≤0.0015) &reduction in OU pain (P≤0.0035) vs PBO at wks 1-12. APR efficacy sustained at wk28: 62% pts achieved complete response of OU &70% relative
reduction in OU pain from BL. #acr18 @rheumnow
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RheumNow expanded twitter coverage of the ACR 2018 Annual meeting sponsored in part by Eli Lilly. All content chosen and distributed by RheumNow and its faculty.
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RheumNow expanded twitter coverage of the ACR 2018 Annual meeting sponsored in part by Novartis. All content chosen and distributed by RheumNow and its faculty.
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It may be the last day of #ACR18 but huge interest for talk by @Deepakarao (standing room only!) Really interesting presentation showing PD-1hi CXCR5- T peripheral helper cells are significantly expanded in #SLE In particular in those with high SLEDAI and dsDNA titres
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Congratulations to Dr. @VickiShanmugam, chair of ACR annual meeting planning subcommittee, @donna_hoyne VP of Education, and the whole team at ACR for putting on an outstanding conference in Chicago! #ACR18
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