Check out our many podcasts from the ACR 2020 meeting - listen in for faculty reports and overviews. You can also find the RheumNow podcast on Apple Podcast, Apple Car Play, Android Auto or where ever you prefer to listen. Listen here: Day 5.1

Check out our many podcasts from the ACR 2020 meeting - listen in for faculty reports and overviews. You can also find the RheumNow podcast on Apple Podcast, Apple Car Play, Android Auto or where ever you prefer to listen. Listen here: Day 4.6

Check out our many podcasts from the ACR 2020 meeting - listen in for faculty reports and overviews. You can also find the RheumNow podcast on Apple Podcast, Apple Car Play, Android Auto or where ever you prefer to listen. Listen here: Day 4.4

The Annual Review of Best ACR 2020 abstracts featuring Drs. Cush and Kavanaugh filmed on the last day of Virtual ACR 2020 Nov. 9, 2020. Watch now!

With broader awareness about the disease state, early diagnosis and treatment in autoinflammatory syndromes, and its life threatening complication Macrophage Activation Syndrome, remains a huge unmet need.

Febuxostat, a nonpurine xanthine oxidase inhibitor used in the treatment of chronic gout to lower serum urate levels, received bad press in 2019 after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) placed a black-box warning on the medication’s label suggesting that it increases the risk of cardiovascular (CV) death in patients with preexisting CV disease.

As we inch closer to a possible vaccine for COVID-19, we are finally filling in the details on how the pandemic is affecting every aspect of our patient’s lives.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic fibrosing disease currently with no available cure. Just as pharmacologic treatment is important to control the disease or delay its progression, non-pharmacologic interventions are also essential in the management of patients. 

The final day (day 4) of the ACR 2020 meeting saw a flurry of late-breaking abstracts and other novel studies that excited our faculty. Below are some of their choices for #ACRbest.

Rheumatology Round-Up tonight 8:00pm EST, 7pm CST.  Drs. Artie Kavanaugh and Jack Cush reprise their long-running end of ACR highlights. Rheums can watch by Zoom (Q&A too), everyone can watch on RheumNow.com or our YouTube channel. See you there! Rheumatologists were sent an email invite to attend by Zoom - you will be able to ask questions of Drs. Cush and Kavanaugh.

Pregnancy in SLE is a high risk situation and active disease can lead to fetal loss, pre-term birth, IUGR and neonatal lupus syndromes. In a study by Dr. Michelle Petri and colleagues, they evaluated whether the LLDAS at the start of pregnancy was predictive of pregnancy outcome.

Here are my highlights from day three, Sunday, of the ACR 2020 Convergence. 

Check out our many podcasts from the ACR 2020 meeting - listen in for faculty reports and overviews. You can also find the RheumNow podcast on Apple Podcast, Apple Car Play, Android Auto or where ever you prefer to listen. The RheumNow podcast is great way to get highlights from the meeting.  Listen here: Day 4.1

Check out our many podcasts from the ACR 2020 meeting - listen in for faculty reports and overviews. You can also find the RheumNow podcast on Apple Podcast, Apple Car Play, Android Auto or where ever you prefer to listen. Listen here: Day 3.3 Day 3.4

The shift from face-to-face consultations to telemedicine has been immense for clinicians and patients. Given the numerous challenges and nuances in practising telemedicine, it is apt that ACR 2020 has been packed with abstracts and presentations on this topic.