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RheumNow Podcast – The Bad News That’s Fit to Print (8.21.20)

Jack Cush, MD

Dr Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow: filgotinib rejection, delays in diagnosis, metformin benefits COVID, Abx and IBD, and UPA beats MTX.

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RheumNow Podcast – LTF – Listen to Fauci (7.17.20)

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news, tweets and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow. Let's dig into this week's 14 highlights.

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Year of the Wolf: Lupus at EULAR2020

Kathryn H. Dao, M.D.

For a disease that has been recognized since the days of Hippocrates, we are finally making some progress towards understanding systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and how to tame the wolf.  Listed below are the top 5 studies and their summaries presented at the recent EULAR e-Congress confer

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RheumNow Podcast- Corona Increases RA Risk (3.13.20)

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com.

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ACR Releases Reproductive Health Guidelines for Rheumatic Diseases

Jack Cush, MD

Today, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) published the 2020 Guideline for the Management of Reproductive Health in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases.

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Pregnancy Outcomes Improve in Lupus

RheumNow

Pregnancy for patients with lupus has long been considered high risk and associated with both medical and obstetric complications, but outcomes have improved over the last 2 decades and continue to improve.

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ACR 2018 - Day 3 Report

RheumNow

Highlights from Tuesday, day 3 of the ACR Annual meeting in Chicago, included the PEXIVAS Study, ACR Reproductive Health Draft Guidelines, and a Proof of concept study

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Spondyloarthritis Affects Pregnancy Outcomes

Jack Cush, MD

A Danish registy has shown that the the prevalence of Spondyloarthritis (SpA) diagnosed prior to delivery has increased 5 fold in the last two decades and that SpA is associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APO).

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A Focus on WOCBA (Women of Childbearing Age)

Maeve Gamble, MD

Largely because it can be difficult to do studies in pregnant women, gaps remain in the area of rheumatic disease in pregnancy. This year’s ACR highlights some important new points to consider.

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RheumNow Podcast – ACR 2019 Round Up (11.15.19)

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush presents his favorite abstracts and presentations from Rheumatology Round Up and ACR 2019.

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Single center prospective study of 50 severe SLE pts (age 31 - 28 yrs) Rx with either mycophenolate or IV CTX. Ovarian dysfunction was short lived and subclinical w/ CTX. No premature ovarian failure seen w/ CTX. No ovarian dysfunction w/ MMF. https://t.co/qvc3i6TNB1

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Dannish registry study of 2.6 million pregnancies, finds spontaneous abortion risk was increased in women <35 yrs with RA Dx <5 yrs before pregnancy (OR = 1.25; 1.07, 1.48), but not in RA women >35 or w/ preclinical RA (compared w/ non-RA) https://t.co/fAxvfYOQcJ

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RheumNow Podcast is Up! Listen to Fauci! Watch it here>> https://t.co/dHq3fP85Ip or Listen to the Podcast>> https://t.co/LdHO7fKUCp

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MMWR reports 2019 survey data showing 6.6% of women used opioid during pregnancy. 21% admitted misuse, 27% wanted to stop/reduce narcotic use and 32% did not receive MD counseling about how opioid use could affect an infant. https://t.co/Ybrjv4Anmk

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The RheumNow Podcast is Up! Lupus Mortality Declines, But… Review of SUA and cancer; IL-12/23 and SLE; TCZ and Behcets, Pregnancy SI MRI, VTE w/ Jaks; COVID; Colchicine. Watch it here> https://t.co/2V7TbaAsOp or listen on iTunes or SoundCloud https://t.co/XMps2GTgeD

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35 pregnant women w/ baseline & postpartum MRI-SIJ. 27/35 (77%) had SI bone marrow edema postpartum, 60% met ASAS definition of +MRI. 6 and 12 mos after, 46% and 12% still showed BM edema. Findings assoc w/ short labor & no epidural https://t.co/mhX3W96zR3

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Study in Norway reveals that the majority of the women w/ SpA were not treated with TNF inhibitors before or during pregnancy. Few on TNFi were continued on tx during pregnancy. #EULAR2020 @RheumNow https://t.co/t7B6pASeWQ https://t.co/BwU6RF5Qkn

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#EULAR2020 panel on #COVID19 spec. situatns: 1. German regtry: very few preg rheum pts w/CV19; cases mild. 2. No info how CV19 affects APS 3. Very few ped rheum cases of CV19- cases mild; outcomes sim to gen peds pop 4. Most rheum pts w/CV19 good prognosis @rheumnow https://t.co/LQVdzJKCgu
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Certolizumab Pegol: A Safe And Efficient Treatment In Patients With Uveitis During Pregnancy: Conclusion: CZP seems to be effective and safe in female patients with uveitis during pregnancy and neonates. Abstract AB1055 #EULAR2020 @RheumNow https://t.co/MzeZKBawTg

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Study of 274 women with axSpA shows that longer time to pregnancy (TTP) was associated with older age, nulliparity, and longer disease duration. https://t.co/GznVvnPAwO

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