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RA Lung Disease Portends Poor Outcomes

Jack Cush, MD

A retrospective Harvard affiliates study shows that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with lung disease have higher mortality, especially respiratory and infection-related mortality than those without lung disease (LD).

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Manifestations and Treatment in Relapsing Polychondritis

Jack Cush, MD

A large multicenter cohort study of Relapsing Polychondritis (RP) describes the clinical manifestations and treatment approaches to this rare, heterogeneous, multisystem disease.

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Osteoporosis treatment benefits people older than 80

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People who are older than 80 should be considered for osteoporosis treatment after a fracture to avoid further risk, according to a study being presented Saturday at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

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Interstitial Lung Disease and Lung Cancer Risk

Jack Cush, MD

A large prospective cohort study found that interstitial lung disease (ILD) is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer.

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Hmmm Really? (7.11.2025)

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week - some obvious, other new thoughts and some - hmmm, reallly?

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ICYMI: Consensus Against Interventional Injections for Chronic Spinal Pain

Jack Cush, MD

BMJ has published a clinical practice guideline resulting from the work of an international, multidisciplinary panel addressing chronic spine pain (≥3 months duration) not associated with cancer or inflammatory arthropathy. This is a chronic (not acute) spine pain guideline.

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ICYMI: Axial Involvement in Psoriatic Arthritis

Jack Cush, MD

Analysis of a Greek Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) cohort shows that nearly one quarter of patients have axial involvement, and among them, ∼30% have isolated spinal axPsA and nr-axSpA, respectively.

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US CDC study of age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) from 1990-2020, there were 39,496 deaths related to scleroderma (SSc) & and 5,163 from SSc w/ renal failure. Deaths lower in males (22%) than females w/ renal failure (78%). Mortality rate of SSc w? renal failure was https://t.co/OT3BHt3E85
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Full read overview of new imaging modalities for inflammatory arthritis, including high-res.quantitative CT, ultra-high field MRI), PET, fluorescence optical imaging, optoacoustic imaging, contrast-enhanced ultrasonography - all with artificial intelligence analysis https://t.co/rbHiPWAAFP
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Full read overview of new imaging modalities for inflammatory arthritis, including high-res.quantitative CT, ultra-high field MRI), PET, fluorescence optical imaging, optoacoustic imaging, contrast-enhanced ultrasonography - all with artificial intelligence analysis https://t.co/3w5RZEUC9K
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Metanalysis of Uveitis & JIA - 28 studies, 22,834 JIA pts w/ 3,381dx w/ uveitis - prevalence = 12.7%,, highest in Europeans (14.3%), lowest in Asian (6.5%). Uveitis risk factors included early age JIA onset, ANA-positive, and increased ESR. https://t.co/MxffJKvbik https://t.co/LDz60uwQTM

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Study of 74 systemic sclerosis pts shows nailfold videocapillaroscopy (capillary disorganization, late pattern changes) predicts ILD progression, worsening PFTs & mRSS in SSc over 2 yrs. KL-6 correlates w/ NVC findings & PFT decline. ILD incr from 38 to 51% in 2yrs https://t.co/A3LiG6Nn0m
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MRI-detected erosions in clinically suspect arthralgia pts do not portend future Xray erosive disease or progression. Study of 405 CSA pts; 47% had MRI erosions that incr odds of Xray erosion [OR 5.2] but 96% of MRI-detected erosion had no assoc. Xray erosion. https://t.co/PXkEC3LO6n
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MRI-detected erosions in clinically suspect arthralgia pts do not portend future Xray erosive disease or progression. Study of 405 CSA pts; 47% had MRI erosions that incr odds of Xray erosion [OR 5.2] but 96% of MRI-detected erosion had no assoc. Xray erosion. https://t.co/hvxJRv1r0R
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1,494 Ehrlangen RA pts - machine learning used baseline variables to predict remission at 6 mos. Best/most predictive results w/ AdaBoost modelingdemonstrated strongest accuracy of 85.71% (based on DAS28, Age, VAS and swollen joints. https://t.co/h9UgUKUFo4

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POCUS of the lung can detect subclinical ILD and can be a useful, inexpensive, easy to perform screening tool for CTD-ILD. #EULAR2025 @RheumNow https://t.co/HC0skwUKQG
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A Review of Intracranial GCA A comprehensive review in Rheumatology on intracranial giant cell arteritis (icGCA) stresses that GCA is both an intracranial and extracranial large vessel vasculitis, with the former having unique presentations, and outcomes. https://t.co/NkN4gfcq3n
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MRI Lesions in Early axSpA vs Non-axSpA Dr. Adela Castro reports on abstract OP0310 presented at the 2025 EULAR meeting in Barcelona, Spain. https://t.co/sVWpyUT1IY https://t.co/wzobROoH1K

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AI Advances axSpA Diagnosis with Multimodal MRI Dr. Bella Mehta reports on abstract OP0307 presented at the 2025 EULAR meeting in Barcelona, Spain. https://t.co/fpgwQniSA5 https://t.co/EbT9v821xb

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AI in Early Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis Dr. Bella Mehta reviews abstract OP0343 - THE CLAUDICAITIO MODEL: ULTRASOUND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION IN GIANT CELL ARTERITIS BY APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - at the 2025 EULAR meeting in Barcelona. https://t.co/lJFuAgmSTH https://t.co/R1tbYpJ74o

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