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🆕 Intro to ILD (Part I): the essentials
🫁 Definition & basics
🔬 Key pathology patterns
🧑⚕️ Clinical approach
📋 What rheums need to know
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4 months 1 week ago
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4 months 1 week ago
Lessons Learned in Neuropsychiatric SLE
Dr. Sheila Reyes, The Philippines, reports highlights from a session on neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus, presented at the APLAR 2025 Congress in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
PAH diagnosis and management in the context of CTD ILD
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a serious complication of connective tissue disorders (CTD), affecting about 25% of PAH patients. CTD-PAH is the second most common cause after the idiopathic form. PAH involves high https://t.co/UgsdYWv02S
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
QD Clinic Video: RA and Bronchiectasis
Dr. Jeffrey Sparks, Boston, talks about rheumatoid arthritis and bronchiectasis as part of RheumNow's Rheum to Breathe: ILD campaign, presented throughout the month of September 2025.
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Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
STOP-RA results published in A&R. 144 at risk, CCP+ pts were enrolled to received HCQ vs PBO for 12 mos, w/ 24 mos F/U. Progression to RA seen in 30.4% on HCQ vs 32.9% on PBO (NS; P=0.52). Also IA, Jt Sxs, severity & adverse events were similar between groups.
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
TNR: Future Treatment of ILD
This Tuesday Night Rheumatology webinar reviewed ACR and EULAR guidelines on interstitial lung disease, with a focus on ‘where are we now and where are we going?’ in regards to treatment strategies and emerging therapies in ILD care. https://t.co/F1fJhWgR5O
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
AbbVie's US patent protection for Rinvoq (upadacitinib) will run till April 2037. SEC filing shows AbbVie has reached an agreement with generic manufacturers challenging Rinvoq patents. UPA is their 2nd leading product with nearly $3.75 billion worldwide sales in 1st 1/2 of
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
Antifibrotics - A New Class of Therapies in Rheumatology?
Rheumatologists typically manage systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARD) and associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) with immunosuppressants. However, evidence increasingly supports also the use of antifibrotic https://t.co/IobQagC0ZE
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
9 yr. study of anti-Ro52 & ILD pts -- 1,026 pts 15% Ro52+: interstitial pneumonia w/ autoimmune 48%, CTD-ILD 13%, idiopathic pulm fibrosis 10%, hypersens pneumonitis 6%, idiopathic ILD 24%. Ro52+ were younger w/ more autoimmune dz, +MSA Abs, ILD progression, death, & lung https://t.co/fuFfnaYIRd
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4 months 1 week ago
Flow cytometry on Peripheral blood can help patient stratification in RA
A cluster rich in TEMRA Terminally Differentiated Effector Memory T Cells is associated with response to treatment and therapeutic decision taking into account showed higher remission 39% vs. 24%
Next https://t.co/8ZZ2epf7LK
Aurelie Najm @AurelieRheumo ( View Tweet )
4 months 1 week ago
In #scleroderma pts with cardiac involvement, the presence of ventricular ectopy is assocd w/ ⬆️risk of mortality & SCD.
☝️these arrythmias present late so consider it in pts w/established dse who develop new-onset cardiac symptoms
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