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Review of Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
Lancet Rheumatology has published a review of Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease - a chronic inflammatory and degenerative crystal arthropathy that increases with aging.
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NSAIDs Used Despite Contraindications
Osteoarthritis affects 600 million people worldwide, making it a leading cause of disability.
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Pain Reduction with Methotrexate in Knee Osteoarthritis
The Annals of Internal Medicine reports that oral, low dose, weekly methotrexate significantly reduced knee osteoarthritis (KOA) pain, stiffness, and function in a randomized controlled trial.
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Arthritis drugs may relieve long COVID lung symptoms
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have identified a potential treatment for the respiratory symptoms of long COVID after discovering an unknown cause of the condition inside the lungs.
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RA Inflammation and Cognitive Impairments
The inflammatory activity in the body caused by rheumatoid arthritis is linked to specific cognitive impairments, finds a small comparative study, published in the open access journal RMD Open.
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New Classification Criteria for Juvenile Axial Spondyloarthritis
An expert panel has published new and validated classification criteria for axial disease in children with juvenile spondyloarthritis (SpA; AxJSpA).
Location, Location, Location (7.26.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com. Location matters; Geo-rheumatology?
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PEXIVAS: Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis Patients
A secondary analysis of the PEXIVAS study showed antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–associated vasculitis (AAV) patients complicated by diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) may have improved with plasma exchange and glucocorticoids, the results did not achieve significance.
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Digital Self Screening for Arthritis Diagnosis
There are numerous impediments to diagnosis or referral; and a new study evaluates patient use of a mobile artificial intelligence (AI)–based symptom checker for diagnoses, but demonstrated only modest accuracy when applied to a cohort of patients with joint symptoms.
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RA & OA: Nearly 40% have Anxiety, Depression or Fibromyalgia
Researchers at Rush University analyzed clinic MDHAQ data and found between 36-40% of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis patients screen positive comorbid anxiety, depression, or fibromyalgia.
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Patients with Financial Limits Struggle with Medication Adherence
Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey shows that nearly 1 in 5 patients with rheumatologic disease in the United States struggled economically, suffering from food insecurity and cost related medication (CRM) nonadherence.
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Bad News Coronary Artery Calcium in Rheumatic Patients
A recent presentation at the 2024 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography meeting by Brittany Weber MD, PhD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) has shown that incidental findings of coronary artery calcium on chest CTs in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases may be associated with poorer outcomes, even if they don’t have preexisting atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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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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JAK Inhibitors Reduce Macular Degeneration
Insurance claims data showed that patients with autoimmune disorders who took Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors had lower rates of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), hinting that the drugs might treat the common eye disease.
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Geography of Arthritis-attributable Pain in the USA
The journal Pain has shown geographic differences in arthritis-attributable pain, arthritis-related outcomes mostly clustered in the Deep South and Appalachia, while severe arthritis pain is more prevalent in the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Georgia, Florida, and Maine.
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Top 20 Best Rheumatology Hospitals - 2024
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has been named the top hospital for rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report. This is the 7th year in a row they have held this spot.
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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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ACR Comments on CMS Proposed 2025 Physician Payment Rule
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) shared the following initial reaction to the proposed CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Quality Payment Program rule.
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