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Rheumatic Flares Uncommon After COVID Vax

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Post-vaccination disease flares were uncommon among patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases who were inoculated against COVID-19, researchers found.

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US News & World Report Ranks Best Rheumatology Hospitals

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Medscape has published the annual U.S.

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RheumNow Podcast – As Good As I Ever Was (7.2.2021)

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

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ACR Stands Against Insurer Mandated Infusion Locations

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The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has released an updated position statement on patient safety and site of service for biologics outlining several reasons why the ACR strongly believes infusions should be administered in a monitored health care setting with onsite supervision by a provid

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RheumNow Podcast – Modern Treatment of RA Pregnancy (6.25.2021)

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Dr. Jack Cush reviews this week’s news and journal reports featured on RheumNow.com.

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RheumNow Podcast - Best of EULAR 2021

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush reviews and highlights his favorite abstracts and presentations from last week's virtual EULAR 2021 meeting.

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome has an annual incidence of 0.4%. Population based study shows more likely in women, 50-59 years, w/ obesity, gout, rheumatoid arthritis or a prior hx of wrist injury. https://t.co/X7U5yh0R3l

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Great Gout Teaching points. Here's my 2 cards on how to Stop #gouta https://t.co/R3EhYFusKf
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Septic arthritis MIMICs (all presenting as acute monoarthritis) - consider: cellulitis, bursitis, abscess, osteonecrosis, gout, pseudogout, Lyme, Osteomyelitis, reactive arthritis, Lyme disease,, Rheumatoid arthritis, & Transient synovitis (kids) https://t.co/uNirAcoBds

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Comparison of MSU crystal ID, DECT scanning and US to Dx gout - study of 147 pts. Compared to the gold standard (MSU ID), Feet/ankles (87% sensitivity; 100% specificity) or knees DECT (91%; 87%) alone had best Dx accuracy. US was inferior to DECT. https://t.co/2Hiu7YhLo8

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Hands-Down Rheumatology - Gout doesnt get to the hands until its done its damage below (MTP, ankle, knee) and usually only in those with severe tophaceous gout Can also present as dactylitis or Carpal tunnel. Women on diuretics w/ CKD can get gout in Nodal OA joints https://t.co/Ri5taWpR0p
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"Arthritis Mutilans" - worse outcome to chronic inflammatory arthritis is due to 5 disorders: 1) RA 2) Psoriatic arthritis 3) Tophaceous gout 4) polyarticular JIA 5) Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis (Ive never seen this!!) https://t.co/XYmBEW1F0R https://t.co/010QYkOO7E

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Global metanalysis of 67 studies of T2T in gout shows only 34% on ULT achieve a serum urate target. Thus only a minority of gout receive T2T care worldwide. Thos on ULT, have low rates of continuous Rx, SUA testing, & achieving SUA target https://t.co/zpBRhRaek5

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Metanalysis shows no clear association between allopurinol use and a lowered all-cause mortality in gout patients, but the number of studies was small https://t.co/MM0nIjZPbV

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Popular article: Best Interventions for Gout Flares https://t.co/duhEHJG9eY https://t.co/tJRwuMPhUR

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Ten Things to Tell Patients About Diet and Rheumatic Disease: Dr. Eric Dein ( @ejdein1 ) https://t.co/q2Mc1gLZig https://t.co/iV5JO8m5Sv

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Dr Dehlin presents Swedish data showing ⬆️ risk of all cause mortality (HR: 1.08 (95% CL: 1.05-1.11) and most comorbidities but a ⬇️ risk dementia in gout 0.68 (0.60-0.77) @RheumNow #EULAR2021 Abstr#OP0208 https://t.co/0ojpSbfIHM
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My toe hurts & it’s a killer! Gout is related to ⬆️comorbidities - clusters incl no comorbidities to worse outcomes if CRF in gout. HTN⬆️ Gout has SNIPs assoc w HTN & May be the cause. Incident Gout assoc with Acute coronary syndrome OP0193 OP0192 #EULAR2021 @RheumNow @eular_org https://t.co/CS6o0T1FL2
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Novartis announced that Cosentyx (secukinumab) has received FDA approval for treatment of children and adolescents with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis #EULAR2021 https://t.co/JlkmjLwqQ8

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