EULAR 2017 – Day 1 Highlights Save

The Annual EULAR Congress kicked off this afternoon in Madrid with a number of new sessions devoted to:

• Criteria revision in lupus, Sjogren's syndrome and the antiphospholipid syndrome
• The cancer – autoimmunity balance and the lessons learned from checkpoint inhibitors and the development of Immune Related Adverse Events (IRAEs)
• Wearable technologies
• New EULAR campaign “Don’t Delay, Connect Today”.  (Promoting early diagnosis and the role of early interventions (including drug and lifestyle interventions)
• Progress in Spondyloarthritis Management
• Comorbidities and Rheumatic disease

Posters start tomorrow.

For many it was a day of meeting up with international colleagues and avoiding the 100 degree heat. (Burger King's air conditioning seems to be very appealing)