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Featured Abstracts from Industry at EULAR 2021

Jack Cush, MD

Many great presentations this week at EULAR 2021 will feature industry sponsored clinical trials and reports.  Often these become the pivotal studies for regulatory approval and the annual congresses are their first look.

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RheumNow Podcast – Heart, Lung & Liver (5.28.2021)

Jack Cush, MD

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

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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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RheumNow Live 2021 Now Available for All

Jack Cush, MD

RheumNow Live (RNL) for 2021 was held March 20 - 21 in Fort Worth, TX, and now all can partake in the meeting - by video, podcast or by signing up for Tuesday Nite Rheumatology (TNR).

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RheumNow Podcast – Falling or Falling in Love?

Jack Cush, MD

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

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ARTIC REWIND - Don't Half DMARD Therapy

Jack Cush, MD

The ARTIC-REWIND study examined rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in remission on conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) to see if they could "step-down" their csDMARDs theray; but  the study showed that 25% those who went on half-dose experienced disease fl

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Drug Monitoring Ineffective with Infliximab Treatment

Jack Cush, MD

The predictive value of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) while on biologics is debateable; gastroenterology routinely relies on TDM, while rheumatologists do not.

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SPACING trial OP0138 at #EULAR2021 ⭐️RCT by the French showing non-inferiority of spacing TNFi in r-axSpA pts w/ LDA (BASDAI<4 x 6mo) ⭐️ 88% in spacing group remained w/ LDA vs 91.5% in standard tx ⭐️ADA, CTZ, GOL, IFX spaced by 1w intervals. ETN by 3-4d & 1w. @RheumNow

Meral K. El Ramahi, MD MeralElRamahiMD ( View Tweet)

Dr Lukas presents data showing possibility of tapering a range of TNF in AxSpA patients in remission 162/184 (88.0%) LDA in progressive spacing group vs 173/189 (91.5%) in continued at 1 year.@RheumNow #EULAR2021 Abstr#0138

Richard Conway RichardPAConway ( View Tweet)

Abst#OP0137 at #EULAR2021: ➡️TNFi use for at least 1 year decreased radiographic sacroiliitis progression in early AxSpA in this ten year multicenter study of the German Spondyloarthritis Inception cohort (GESPIC) . ➡️This effect becomes evident 2-4 years after tx. @RheumNow https://t.co/GNnYqYmxhl
Meral K. El Ramahi, MD MeralElRamahiMD ( View Tweet)

tofa/bari in RA H2H vs TNFi comparative efficacy studies highlighted (more head-to-head studies please!) @karolinskainst OP0122 #EULAR2021 @RheumNow (also Swedish national registry data showed tofa/bari comparable to non-TNFi bDMARDs, but no photos allowed!) https://t.co/CUWlK2O94h

David Liew drdavidliew ( View Tweet)
Dr Mekinian presents data showing TCZ and TNFi appear equally effective in TAK, complete response 66% vs 70% at 6 months @RheumNow #EULAR2021 Abstr#OP0068

Richard Conway RichardPAConway ( View Tweet)

To clot or NOT? Real world data usually show no ⬆️ VTE in RA with #Jaki compares to other advanced therapies. Diff from high CV risk pts in Oral Surveillance where Tofacitinib had higher VTE vs TNFi @AbbVie symposium @eular_org #EULAR2021 @RheumNow Hard to reconcile diff risk. https://t.co/AWY2zZPSIb
Janet Pope Janetbirdope ( View Tweet)

Do you think JAKi cause VTE? @eular_org @RheumNow #EULAR2021

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News Feature: CV Risk Decreased with Certain DMARDs in Rheumatoid Arthritis A large prospective cohort study examined the comparative risks of CVD in patients with RA and found that, MTX, ABA & TNFi use were associated w/ a decreased risk of CV events. https://t.co/uQbtB76Hgy https://t.co/ftc5ys9C58

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Listen to Dr. Jack Cush review the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow. Our latest podcast is available for download on SoundCloud, Apple and Android carplay. https://t.co/FvmmOBAjC1 https://t.co/rrZO6jOlKt

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Listen to the latest RheumNow podcast--Myth Busters. Jack Cush discusses the latest rheum news on the site. Download wherever podcasts are available. https://t.co/q7FZTDo0BL https://t.co/fxGnyChzSO

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BSRBR: Demyelinating Disease Following Anti-TNFα Therapy Analysis of patients receiving TNFi therapy in the BSRBR shows that the risk of demyelination is rare but is marginally increased by taking TNFi therapy. https://t.co/oHJXOa96Kn https://t.co/m2GpeEQxnP

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TNF inhibitor induced (paradoxical) psoriasis in JIA patients was 3 fold higher when TNFi was used - data from 8,222 children in the CARRA registry (54% used TNFi) - rate 8.5 cases/1000PY. https://t.co/HKpAEbtNqr https://t.co/txvmGfpdWf

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News Feature: Golimumab Effective in non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis https://t.co/KWqQLHWIiB

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