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Lupus Unlocked: Pregnancy & SLE
📅 May 27, 2025
6:00 PM CT | 7:00 PM ET | 4PM PT
Join us for our final Lupus Unlocked webinar this month on pregnancy and SLE. In this webinar, panelists will discuss issues such as congenital heart block, lupus nephritis treatment, teratogenic https://t.co/gouTN7uzCo
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
Unmet needs in #lupus are many
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Timely #diagnosis
Morbidity - CV, metabolic, OP, mental health
Premature mortality - CAD, active #SLE, infection
Issues w pregnancy
#steroid side effects
⬇️QoL
With partnerships we can ✅
Pts
HCPs
researchers
Pharma
Gov’t
#LUPUS2025
@RheumNow https://t.co/9T9rIrM1hV
Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
IL2 low dose in #SLE
seems to + alter immune regulation
Multiple targets to explore in #lupus
Unravelling pathophysiology in SLE
CD40L
TLR7,8
#rapamycin type drugs
CAR-T w novel CARS
Etc
#LUPUS2025
@RheumNow https://t.co/jeycgg4ZhT
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Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
>200 genes 🧬 implicated in #SLE
Complex indeed!
And
▶️ 7 clusters of signalling pathways
So we have to have many Rx options
Ab patterns vary
LN flares can have v diff pathways between Pts
#LUPUS2025 @RheumNow
Unravelling #LUPUS2026 https://t.co/LEKN363194
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Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
We are not (yet) in #SLE
Getting
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Correct drug
In right pt
At right time
At correct individual dose
Even more problematic is in a renal bx - 2 glomeruli beside each other have v different cytokine expressions
Unravelling #LUPUS2025
@RheumNow https://t.co/yGBvhFkPKY
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Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
Here’s who flares in #SLE
least to most
Persistently neg antiDNA
Persistently + antiDNA
conversion of neg to + antiDNA
So are we over ordering antibodies in 1st 2 groups 🤷♀️
Unravelling #LUPUS2025
@RheumNow https://t.co/1Feau7f199
Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
controversy re
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Monitoring for +Ro pregnant re
#congenital #heart #block
87% Y
echo is possibly too late
No ideas if flourinated #steroids work
But many thing we should do something
Guidelines differ on recommendations
Would fetal home HR be better
#LUPUS2025 @RheumNow https://t.co/MY0oPjLnGs
Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
An excellent presentation from Dr Pankti Mehta @PanktiMehta24
Re #Jaccoud’s
With
#IFN signature
if #erosive IA - often + CCP / RF
Vs
nonerosive often +RNP
@RheumNow #LUPUS2025 https://t.co/y6z4KbhCdy
Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
The ANA pattern I hate
#DFS
Why
Dense fine speckled should R/O #SLE
But mimicking patterns that MAY Have #lupus
AC-2 pattern mimickers ex AC-4
Machine learning models to help
▶️improved accuracy
Fast saving hrs
#Artificial #intelligence
May Choi #LUPUS2025 @RheumNow https://t.co/9tk80ZOAWg
Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
T2T in #SLE
Lots of #rheumatologists do NOT do a validated measure so #DORIS remission may be over estimated
But great algorithm for #lupus #Rx
@RheumNow
#LUPUS2025 https://t.co/mGoopRtK2F
Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
T2T in SLE https://t.co/efTxDZz8Qd https://t.co/TvhOzCX34Q
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Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago
Monitoring for #HCQ #retinal #toxicity
2 tests beyond visual fields are better than 1
OCT
Etc
But suggestion if low risk to do only every 5 yrs
I don’t agree as risk ⬆️ w disease duration
We do
Annual fields
and either
OCT or retinal photography
#LUPUS2025
@RheumNow https://t.co/TdPJ47jYEL
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Janet Pope @Janetbirdope ( View Tweet )
8 months ago


