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This week it's the great and not-so-great on gout, chondrocalcinosis, osteoporosis and misdiagnosis. We are good at many of those things - what's not so great? Let's review the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.
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Below are this week’s highlights from RheumNow, as discussed by Dr. Jack Cush. Thanks to all of you for your kind comments and great reviews of our weekly podcast. Please let us know how we can improve by emailing me or recording your suggestion using the "Ask Cush Anything" link on our website
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Colchicine vs cimetidine in PFAPA (Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, adenitis) syndrome. 72 pts given COL vs CIM x 3 mos: # of febrile attacks was significantly decreased by both Rx (noninferior to each other) https://t.co/MO7IQ0e8gf
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In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program proposed rule, the American College of Rheumatology applauded proposals that would provide more flexibility and improve care
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Review of IL-1 inhibitors in recurrent idiopathic pericarditis. While Rilonacept is FDA approved (320 mg x1 then 160 mg sc/wk), anakinra (2 mg/kg/d or 100 mg/d), canakinumab and colchicine are used https://t.co/j00yWpBbq3 https://t.co/7BK2mopssc
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Dr. Jack Cush discusses declining survival rates in the USA, FDA approvals of new COVID subvariant boosters and other odd and possibly true new research reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.
After historic drop in 2020 (COVID), life expectancy in USA dropped again,
Not all patients with periodic fevers fit neatly into diagnostic categories. Some can be diagnosed as Still’s disease (based on criteria) while others can be classified as autoinflammatory diseases (AID) and some may be unclassifiable, clinically or genetically.
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Recent review of AOSD suggests: - AOSD & SJIA are the same - Classify dz as systemic or articular - #MAS occurs in up to 23% - Yamaguchi & Fautrel criteria are widely used - Cytokines important: IL-1, IL-6, IL-18, IL-37 - only Canakinumab is FDA-approved https://t.co/4ERA56Wqcb https://t.co/FkIWxIrwxX
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Still's disease in adults (AOSD) or children (sJIA) can have dramatic symptom severity, making it easy to gauge disease activity and response to therapy, especially at the outset. However, a validated measure of disease activity has not been agreed (for clinical trial and treatment assessments
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A cohort analysis from Toronto suggests that axial psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is distinctly different from axial ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with psoriasis.
Researchers examined two PsA and AS cohorts - patients with PsA with axial disease and isolated axial patients with AS with
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