Articles By Olga Petryna, MD
Sleep Quality & Psoriatic Arthritis
For people living with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), the comfort of a good night's sleep may feel out of reach for many.
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Do different genders experience PsA differently?
There has been a lot of talk lately about the difference in the way male and female PsA patients experience their disease. Are the differences only cultural or are there important clinical differences in the disease presentation, organ involvement and complications that physicians should be aware of?
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Can Neural Networks Answer Important Diagnostic Dilemmas in Rheumatology?
An interesting study presented at ACR22 looked at whether neural networks can distinguish seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA+), seronegative RA (RA-), and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) using hand MRI data based on the structural inflammation patterns.
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Emerging Therapies in Spondyloarthritis: A Promising Pipeline
Growing awareness of spondyloarthropathies over the last two decades has led to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of spondyloarthritis, and subsequently increased interest in more distinct, disease state specific treatment options.
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Infection or Disease Flare: What Tools Can Help Differentiate?
Differentiation between a flare of disease and infection in patients with autoinflammatory (AI) conditions, where fever is the hallmark, can be extremely difficult. Few studies have evaluated potential differentiators; and having such tools would meet a huge unmet need.
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Emerging Therapies in Spondyloarthritis: A Promising Pipeline
Growing awareness of spondyloarthropathies over the last two decades has led to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of spondyloarthritis, and subsequently increased interest in more distinct, disease state specific treatment options.
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Liver Management in Rheumatoid Arthritis - RNL2021 Highlight
While rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not known to affect the liver directly, underlying liver disease and treatment-related effects on the liver can often become an obstacle in the management of many RA patients. In his Sunday presentation at RNL2021, Dr.
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Pegloticase in Severe Refractory Gout
Listen as Dr. Petryna reviews abstracts #0683 (Pharmacokinetics of Pegloticase and Methotrexate Polyglutamate(s) in Patients with Uncontrolled Gout Receiving Pegloticase and Co-treatment of Methotrexate) and #0677 (A Multicenter, Efficacy and Safety Study of Methotrexate to Increase Response Rates in Patients with Uncontrolled GOut Receiving Pegloticase (MIRROR): 12-Month Results of an Open-Label Study) from the 2020 ACR meeting.
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Diagnostic tools in autoinflammatory syndromes
With broader awareness about the disease state, early diagnosis and treatment in autoinflammatory syndromes, and its life threatening complication Macrophage Activation Syndrome, remains a huge unmet need.
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Diagnostic Delay in Psoriatic Arthritis: What are the Consequences?
Despite increased awareness and better diagnostic modalities at hand, early diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) still remains a huge unmet need.
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