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RheumNow Podcast - Best of EULAR 2021
Dr. Jack Cush reviews and highlights his favorite abstracts and presentations from last week's virtual EULAR 2021 meeting.
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EULAR 2021 Best Abstracts - Day 1
RheumNow faculty reporters scoured the Posters and Presentations from virtual EULAR 2021. Several of these are novel enough to be worthy of your consideration. Below is the list of the six most often retweeted abstracts from Day 1.
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EULAR 2021 - Day 2 Podcasts
Check out this compilation of our EULAR 2021 Day 2 broadcasts below.
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RheumNow Podcast - EULAR 2021 & EULAR-IQ (6.4.21)
Dr Jack Cush reviews highlight presentations from the first 3 days of EULAR 2021.
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EULAR 2021 – Day 2 Report
During Day 2 there were great sessions devoted to RA, spondylarthritis, fatigue and more. Here are some of my highlights from Day 2.
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EULAR 2021 – Day 1 Report
After the opening ceremonies and keynote speaker there were several enticing sessions and a plenary session full of great research and presentations. Here are a few of the highlights that I saw.
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Foot Pain Commonly Overlooked in RA
Foot pain is a common but underappreciated symptom of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and can be associated with worse disease, European researchers found.
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Best Interventions for Gout Flares
A recent metanalysis assessed the comparative efficacy of current first-line pharmacologic antiinflammatory interventions for gout flares and surmised that canakinumab and intravenous or intramuscular corticosteroids are superior to nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs [NSAIDs].
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COLCORONA: Protective Effect of Colchicine in COVID-19
Lancet Respiratory Medicine has reported the results of the COLCORONA trial, showing that in patients with PCR-confirmed COVID-19 infection, colchicine led to a significantly lower rate of death or hospital admission from COVID.
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RheumNow Podcast – Heart, Lung & Liver (5.28.2021)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week on RheumNow.com.
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Methotrexate Impairs COVID Vax Response
One-third of patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases being treated with methotrexate showed attenuated responses to the COVID-19 vaccine, researchers reported.
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Efficacy of 6 Weeks Antibiotics with Prosthetic Joint Infections
The NEJM has published the results of a French multicenter study showing that prosthetic joint infections can be successfully managed with 6 weeks of antibiotic therapy; this was noninferior and had better outcomes compared to 12 weeks of antibiotic therapy.
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EULAR Guidelines on Intraarticular Therapy
EULAR has published evidence-based recommendations on the use of intra-articular therapies (IAT) based on the literature review and recommendations of a multidisciplinary international task force. These IAT recommendations apply to adult patients with peripheral arthropathies.
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Triple DMARD Therapy Bested by Biologics in Swedish Registry
The Swedish Register compared outcomes of 1502 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients initiating either biologics plus methotrexate (MTX) or triple therapy (MTX plus sulfasalazine plus hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine) and showed similar rates of sustained remission.
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