Diagnostic Delay in Psoriatic Arthritis: What are the Consequences?
Despite increased awareness and better diagnostic modalities at hand, early diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) still remains a huge unmet need.
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Secukinumab in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients with Axial Disease
Results of the MAXIMISE trial show that Secukinumab provided clinical improvement and reduction in inflammatory MRI lesions in patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial disease through week 52.
Psoriasis to Psoriatic Arthritis: Interim Results of the PRESTO Study
Early diagnosis of arthritis improves outcomes and quality of life in patients with psoriasis. A longitudinal cohort study shows that the development of PsA within clinically meaningful time frames can be predicted with reasonable accuracy for psoriasis patients.
Building an ACR Annual Meeting for the Whole World
For many rheumatologists around the world, coming to America was a pilgrimage of sorts. A long journey and an expensive exercise but a worthy one – a fundamentally human exchange of ideas, where the person next to you could be from Arkansas, Alberta, or Amsterdam, but equally from Argentina, Algeria, Azerbaijan, or even Australia. So how (dare I say, on earth) do we translate that to our electronic screens?
Excited About ACR Convergence 2020
I always think of why I attend the ACR: to gain new information and knowledge and bring it back to my clinic for my patients. Here's what I'm looking forward to this year.
Six Things Rheumatologists Need to Know About COVID-19
From flu shots and face masks to vaccines and searching for the immunological endotype, here are six things rheumatologists need to know about COVID-19.
Industry Abstract Previews - ACR2020
Each pharmaceutical company has spent months and years preparing to present and highlight their featured clinical trials and abstracts at ACR 2020. This is our selection of their best studies for you to review and evaluate as part of your to-do list.
A Convergence of Ideas: COVID19 and ACR
Since the beginning of the pandemic, rheumatologists scrambled to figure out how the SARS-CoV-2 virus will affect their patients with immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID). Meeting the needs of patients, managing a practice, and trying to balance a home life have many doctors stressed.
Spondyloarthritis at ACR Convergence 2020
There are some really interesting poster and abstract presentations on spondyloarthritis at the ACR Convergence 2020. I’ll be covering these topics, and discussing select individual posters and abstracts during this meeting.
Infection and Rheumatic Diseases: A New Dawn
Infection in the setting of autoimmune rheumatic disease (ARD) has been the subject of increasing research and clinical interest for decades. Despite the huge burden of infection in patients with ARDs, this area of research has really been catapulted to the centre-stage of research agendas and coverage at congresses, including ACR 2020, with the arrival of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
QD Clinic Podcast - 106 thru 109
Here is the last of our QD Clinics in Podcast form, just before we start ACR2020 coverage.
In this compilation from the past week we talk about
- HIV and arthritis
- Hyperuricemia in PsA
- An odd kind of dermatomyositis
