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Sunday was the first full day of scientific sessions at the 2019 ACR/ARP meeting in Atlanta. Yesterday we shared our initial news articles, videos and more with you. Following is my roundup of day one.
Delays in Diagnosis
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common condition seen by both primary care and in the rheumatology office.
The Medscape’s Physician Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2019 crowned rheumatologists as the happiest subspecialists. We topped the list with 65% of the respondents indicating that they were happy outside of work.
It has been a wonderful year for autoinflammatory diseases at the ACR Annual Meeting.
Everyone has life hacks. Years of experience and doing the same things repetitively allow us to figure out little tricks to make life easier. A rat in a maze, finding itself at a dead end, will back up and search for a clearing.
There were new developments in the treatment of axial Spondyloarthritis (AS) at ACR 2019. The first area is on the use of anti-IL17A drugs, secukinumab and ixekizumab in non-radiographic AS. The second area is the use of JAK-1 inhibitor Upadacitinib in radiographic AS.
Dr. Jack Cush presents his favorite abstracts and presentations from Rheumatology Round Up and ACR 2019.
Hand OA responds to 10mg/d Pred over 6wks. As expected symptoms return on cessation Anecdotally, there are people who do well on pragmatic, long term low dose eg 5mg or less/d #ACR19 @rheumnow Abst1760 https://t.co/FtE9vHb655
CAPS is caused by mutations in NLRP3, a component of the inflammasome. It is thought that NLRP3 mutations lead to the uncontrolled production of the inflammatory cytokine IL-1b.
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