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All in the Family (8.23.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush picks highlight reports from the past week on RheumNow.com, with reports on the challenge of lupus nephritis, perplexing skin issues, you don't know JAK (about Tyk) and the value of a good family history.
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Studies on Psoriatic Arthritis Prevention
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a sequelae to chronic skin psoriasis. Whether cutaneous psoriasis is the pre-clinical phase of what may become PsA is oft debated and has been inadequately researched, largely using claims data or retrospective data sets.
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Higher Cancer Rates (8.16.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com, noting his concerns about diet, cancer, ILD, death and dosing challenges.
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Hispanic Patients With Dermatomyositis
JAMA Dermatology has published a review of dermatomyositis (DM), focusing on similar and different manifestations of DM.
DM affects all races, but it has been suggested that racial and ethnic minority patients may have more severe disease and a different autoantibody profile. This analysis characterizes the clinical features and outcomes of DM in Hispanic and non-Hispanic patients.
Depends on Where You’re Looking (8.9.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from RheumNow.com this week.
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CARRA Consensus Treatment for Refractory Juvenile Dermatomyositis
CARRA has developed consensus treatment plans for the use of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in patients with refractory, moderately severe juvenile dermatomyositis. Juvenile dermatomyositis is the most common form of idiopathic, inflammatory myositis in childhood, with an estimated incidence of 3.2 per million children per year in the United States.
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Lead with Lupus (8.2.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week on RheumNow.com - leading with lupus because everyone wants to know about lupus!
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Best Rheumatologists (7.19.2024)
This week on the RheumNow Podcast, Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports of interesting, including irAE, pollution and Psoriasis, microwave therapy, scleroderma without scleroderma that only the best rheumatologists could discern.
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Updated EULAR Recommendations on the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis
Medscape has published an overview to the 2024 updated recommendations for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc) presented in Vienna at EULAR 2024 by Professor Francesco Del Galdo, MD, PhD on behalf of a 27 member task force.
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Systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma
Systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma (ssSSc), which accounts for nearly 10% of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and was first described in 1962, is a subset of SSc.
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ICYMI: 2023 EULAR Psoriatic Arthritis Recommendations
EULAR has updated its treatment recommendations from the prior 2019 guidelines, since there have been several newly developed agents. The updated guidance includes 7 overarching principles and 11 recommendations regarding treatment strategy and pharmacological therapies.
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