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🌐 ILD Treatment Guidelines – LIVE Webinar 📅 Sept 9 | ⏰ 7PM EST An expert panel reviews ACR & EULAR guidance and looks ahead at emerging therapies. Speakers: Drs. Sindhu Johnson, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Scott Matson & Jack Cush, Moderator https://t.co/2F3sOjqHtr #ILD https://t.co/KaVL1pUdCh
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Anti-MDA5 DM is assoc w/ rapidly progr ILD & mortality risk. 26 MD5+ DM pts (age 56.6 yrs; 7/26 male) Sxs: Gottrón’s (81%), ILD (73%), periungual erythema (69%), heliotrope (61%), V-sign (42%), arthritis (42%), weakness (38%), mechanic’s (35%), Raynaud’s (19%). 7/19 RP-ILD died https://t.co/WFwavo32rB
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Crepitus Does Not Predict Earlier/Worse OA Young adults who experience grinding or clicking sounds in their knees post-surgery may be alarmed, but new research from La Trobe University suggests these sounds may not signal early-onset osteoarthritis. https://t.co/bu8dgzcqdv https://t.co/CnSjv6cor9
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QD Clinic: Be Careful What You Look For Dr. Bryant England, University of Nebraska, presents this QD Clinic, as part of RheumNow's Rheum to Breathe: ILD campaign, presented throughout the month of September 2025. https://t.co/avxw86CGqu https://t.co/5SH3p05Rlf
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Higher Medical Costs with Corticosteroid Use Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) health insurance claims database study from Japan shows that RA patients initially treated with glucocorticoids (GCs) and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) experienced greater medical costs and https://t.co/ETWX9yH11w
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This week’s Grand Rounds featured Dr. John Cush, Executive Editor @RheumNow, with an outstanding talk on “Seronegative vs Seropositive RA,” spotlighting differences in disease course, alternative etiologies & treatment response.

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Turkish study of Childhood-onset arthritis (n 1713; age 6.8 yrs). Most Dx: JIA 50% (most oligo), FMF 16% (recurrent oligo), vasculitis 14% (most IgA vasculitis; 94% oligo), reactive arthritis 9% (monarthritis) & acute rheumatic fever 5% (polyarticular& migratory), SLE 5% (oligo https://t.co/HkiPT0hsr7
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EULAR & European Respiratory Society have published clinical practice guidelines for ILD assoc w/ connective tissue diseases (SSc, RA, SjD, IIM, SLE, MCTD). 2 publications included Dz specific ILD management algorithms; use of Hi Res CT over Lung Bx; ILD risk factors

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Long term outcomes of secukinumab in Children & Adolescents w/ Psoriasis (n=84). 80% completed 4 yrs of Rx w/ either low dose [N 31] & high dose [N 36]) with sustained PASI 75/90/100 results at week 208 [SEC LD: 96%/89%/52%; SEC HD: 88%/82%/73%]. No deaths; No dose-dependent https://t.co/y059SJTxP1
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A case–time-control study of French National Health Insurance database w/ 34 241pts Rx w/ IL-17(R)A inhibitor (2016-2021) (for PsO, PsA, AS, JIA) found no significant association betw IL-17(R)A inhibitors & MACEs over 6 months compared to TNFi Rx pts. https://t.co/fJuPFYKnSr https://t.co/Vscnsq0DTA
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Prospective study of 171 suspected Sjogrens (130 dx w/ SjD) pts compared Dx accuracy - Labial gland Bx best Dx efficacy (AUC 0.90), followed Ro/SSA (AUC 0.79), Omeract score (AUC 0.78). Salv gland US grade 3 strongly predicted +Bx (AUC 0.77) & correlated w/ salivary flow ~-0.5

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6 yr study of Dutch #SLE pts (n 221) - unemployment was high (54%) & increased over time. Employ ed assoc w/ supervisor support, regular working hrs, skill discretion, decision authority. Unemployment most from SLE Sxs (63%) & assoc w/ older, less education, Dz Dur, organ

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