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How Often Do You Monitor MTX? (6.16.2023)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week on RheumNow.com, including new drug approval, a new SpA variant and new rules for methotrexate (MTX) monitoring and depression screening.
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EULAR Offers Tips on Psoriasis Progression to PsA
Clinicians treating patients with psoriasis should be on the lookout for certain signs that joint involvement is likely to develop, according to a new "points to consider" documentopens in a new tab or window from the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR).
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Time to Risk Stratify Methotrexate Lab Monitoring?
A longitudinal cohort analysis has developed a prognostic model that informs a risk stratified approach to monitoring blood tests during long term methotrexate (MTX) therapy.
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EULAR 2023 Notes from Milan (6.09.2023)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews highlight abstracts and sessions - covering lupus, RA, gout, Still's disease, safety data, AI in medicine and more - from last week's EULAR 2023 Congress held in Milan, Italy.
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Combining a Tyk2 inhibitor with a JAKi in RA?
At EULAR 2023, there was a late breaking abstract that compared difficult to treat patients with RA who had received treatment (including TNFi and JAKi in some patients) previously and still had active disease.
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Zoster protection for JAK inhibitor patients appears achievable
One of the primary questions about JAK inhibitor safety, ever since its first approval, has been the risk of herpes zoster.
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Methotrexate - an old trusted friend who deserves better
Methotrexate (MTX) has been used as the anchor drug for the treatment of RA and PsA for many years. Despite our long experience with the use of MTX, one area that has remained uncertain is its effect on male fertility. There is now increasing evidence that cessation of MTX in males prior to trying conceive is not necessary.
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Clinically suspect arthralgias: justified or artefact?
Some subjects in rheumatology seem to create contention the more they get explored, and one of those areas is a traditional crowd favourite for discussion at EULAR - clinically suspect arthralgias.
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Targeted therapies in Sjogren’s syndrome: are we close?
There is a clear unmet need for new and effective therapies in primary Sjogren’s Syndrome (pSS) patients, as there are no current licensed therapies.
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