Articles By Olga Petryna, MD

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Sleep Quality & Psoriatic Arthritis

By Olga Petryna, MD

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?

By Olga Petryna, MD

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?

By Olga Petryna, MD

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

By Olga Petryna, MD

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?

By Olga Petryna, MD

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

By Olga Petryna, MD

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

By Olga Petryna, MD

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

By Olga Petryna, MD

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

By Olga Petryna, MD

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?

By Olga Petryna, MD

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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  • Olga Petryna, MD

  • Olga Petryna is an attending rheumatologist at Scarsdale Medical Group. A summa cum laude graduate of the Ivano-Frankivsk Medical University in Ukraine, Dr. Petryna completed her Rheumatology Fellowship training at New York Presbyterian/Columbia Campus. Dr. Petryna has expertise in the treatment of autoimmune disorders including Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, gout, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Sjogren’s syndrome, Vasculitis,Osteoporosis and Auto-inflammatory Syndromes. Dr. Petryna has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored a book chapter.

     

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