Articles By David Liew, FRACP
Erosions on X-ray: can we delegate this to the computers?
The prospect of automating hand x-ray scoring reliably has always been an enticing one, and data presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Convergence 2020 suggest this might be in reach in the near future – opening up the prospect of automatic x-ray scoring
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Building an ACR Annual Meeting for the Whole World
For many rheumatologists around the world, coming to America was a pilgrimage of sorts. A long journey and an expensive exercise but a worthy one – a fundamentally human exchange of ideas, where the person next to you could be from Arkansas, Alberta, or Amsterdam, but equally from Argentina, Algeria, Azerbaijan, or even Australia. So how (dare I say, on earth) do we translate that to our electronic screens?
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Serum calprotectin: a better biomarker in ANCA-associated vasculitis?
Flares in ANCA-associated vasculitis are difficult to predict, but serum calprotectin may help predict relapse and renal failure, according to data presented at the EULAR 2020 virtual meeting this week.
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Rheumatic Immune-Related Adverse Events: Not Just Another IrAE
Rheumatic immune-related adverse events can start at almost any time after the commencement after immune checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy for cancer, and are liable to persist long after the immunotherapy has ceased, according to data presented at ACR 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Hepatitis C-Related Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis
Flares of vasculitis can still be a problem after hepatitis C-related cryoglobulinemic vasculitis patients are cured of their hepatitis C by direct-acting antivirals, as demonstrated by data from four registries presented at ACR 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Ultrasound Reveals Which Anti-CCP Positive Patients Progress to Arthritis
Editor's note: July 1 - 5, RheumNow is running the best of the EULAR 2019 meeting. Power Doppler signal on baseline ultrasound exam may well help stratify anti-CCP positive patients with musculoskeletal symptoms but no clinical synovitis, according to data from the Leeds Institute of Rhe
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Understanding Non-arthritic Rheumatic iRAEs
A better understanding of rheumatic immune-related adverse event phenotypes beyond inflammatory arthritis has been furthered by work from three abstracts presented at EULAR 2019 in Madrid.
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Ultrasound Reveals Which Anti-CCP Positive Patients Progress to Arthritis
Power Doppler signal on baseline ultrasound exam may well help stratify anti-CCP positive patients with musculoskeletal symptoms but no clinical synovitis, according to data from the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine presented at EULAR 2019.
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Imaging Reveals Anatomical Focus of Inflammation in PMR
Two studies presented at ACR18 have used imaging to examine one of the key unanswered questions in polymyalgia rheumatica - what structures are the focus of inflammation in the disease – and demonstrated that peritendineal involvement is ubiquitous in and distinctive of PMR.
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Early Promise for Steroid-free Approach for Giant Cell Arteritis
A very small study presented at ACR18 looking at tocilizumab monotherapy in patients with a new diagnosis of giant cell arteritis has nevertheless given hope to the tantalising idea that some GCA patients might achieve drug-free remission without steroids, although broader data are requ
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