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“50% of pts with lupus nephritis are asymptomatic . You have to have a degree of kidney damage before you have proteinuria. Proteinuria does not correlate with intrarenal activity.” – Dr. A Fava #RNL2024 @rheumnow https://t.co/UOC8MZDM8N
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2 years ago
Danish registry study shows positive association between maternal autoimmune Dz & childhood cancer. AID assoc w/ all child CA (OR=1.25), ALL (1.52), Burkitts (2.69), CNS tumors (1.45). RA mothers AID had higher risk of all cancers (OR=2.1) https://t.co/EYHyHzOboc https://t.co/FNRrvySI8P
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
2 years ago
Dr. Gabalawy: "How do you know what disease patients will develop in this preclinical autoimmunity state?"
@drdavidkarp ""it's like when weeds pop up in a garden, it's random ...if ACPA Ab pops up, you might have RA, if it's dsDNA, maybe lupus."" #RNL2024 https://t.co/kDkDaDRP8X
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2 years ago
Low urinary IL16 levels at 12 months predicts kidney survival at 3 years better than proteinuria - @Andreafava @rheumnow #RNL2024 https://t.co/4GLmJQr46C
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2 years ago
Rheum Chapter Notes
Dr. Jack Cush reviews this past week’s news and journal articles from https://t.co/V10S4oVFsv.
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Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
2 years ago
UK Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit of 20,060 RA pts (~12k on MTX; 5K csDMARD; ~2.5K no DMARD). Serious infections (SIE) hosp rate was 3.19/100PY, death 0.1/100PY. SIE risk incr w/ age, smoking, Hi DAS28 & HAQ. 1 unit DAS28, SI risk increased by 8% https://t.co/OrNh8oYE3y https://t.co/DqbeibNMbp
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
2 years ago
Tuesday Night Rheumatology: Mastering SLE https://t.co/lhExjSsKNA
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2 years ago
FDA issued a drug safety warning linking thiopurine (AZA, 6MP) use in pregnancy & a rare risk of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). ICP has been reported in pts w/ CD, UC, or SLE; however thiopurines are not FDA approved for these Dx https://t.co/XKoUdy4sAR https://t.co/DSU9z0v7CZ
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
2 years ago
British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) presented (at the 2024 annual BSR meeting) new guidelines for the management of Behçet's disease - how to manage skin lesions, mouth ulcers, genital ulcers, serious eye, CNS & vascular involvement https://t.co/d0bjKuubym https://t.co/lqoTeTGqZ7
Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
2 years ago
Spondyloarthritis Faculty Panel Q&A
Spondyloarthritis Faculty Panel Q&A - featuring Drs. Eric Ruderman, Lihi Eder, and Lianne Gensler; moderated by Dr. Artie Kavanaugh
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Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
2 years ago
Future Therapy of Axial Spondyloarthritis
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2 years ago
Predicting Infection in Lupus Nephritis
Machine learning (ML) models were applied to 3 cohorts of lupus nephritis (LN) patients and established algorithms to predict co-infection in LN.
https://t.co/BnV7jVfqj1 https://t.co/LYQd6w1DvD
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2 years ago
