Rheumatology | European Federation of Internal Medicine

Rheumatology (Greek ρεύμα, rheuma, river) is a sub-specialty in internal medicine and pediatrics, devoted to diagnosis and therapyof rheumatic diseases. Clinicians who specialize in rheumatology are called rheumatologists. Rheumatologists deal mainly with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitis, and heritable connective tissue disorders.

ACR: No long-term benefit for knee OA steroid injections

Posted on: 08/11/2015 - 00:30

Regular corticosteroid injections over 2 years were relatively safe for osteoarthritic knees in a trial from Tufts Medical Center in Boston, but they did not slow the progression of joint damage or...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

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Stroke risk rose in autoimmune disease patients after herpes zoster

Posted on: 08/11/2015 - 00:30

Stroke risk was 50% higher in the month after patients with autoimmune diseases developed herpes zoster, compared with the next 2-6 years, according to Dr. Leonard H. Calabrese. “These data provide...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Can bariatric surgery ease psoriasis too?

Posted on: 06/11/2015 - 18:53

LOS ANGELES – A provocative study opens the door for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis to be added to the growing list of benefits following bariatric surgery. “Although the natural history of...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

EADV: Ixekizumab promising for psoriatic arthritis

Posted on: 26/10/2015 - 16:46

COPENHAGEN – Ixekizumab not only shows considerable promise for the treatment of moderate to severe psoriasis, it looks like it may be a winner for comorbid psoriatic arthritis, too. The...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

FDA approves low-dose meloxicam medication for osteoarthritis

Posted on: 24/10/2015 - 14:58

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a low-dose formulation of meloxicam for the treatment of osteoarthritis pain, according to manufacturer, Iroko Pharmaceuticals. The new medication,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

FDA advisory committee recommends approval of gout drug lesinurad, with caveats

Posted on: 23/10/2015 - 22:23

Members of the Food and Drug Administration’s Arthritis Advisory Committee have voted in favor of recommending approval of the investigational uricosuric drug lesinurad at 200 mg/day for the proposed...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Infections from endemic fungi, mycobacteria rare in patients on TNFIs

Posted on: 22/10/2015 - 22:57

The development of infections from mycobacteria and fungi endemic to U.S. regions in patients taking tumor necrosis factor–alpha inhibitors (TNFIs) is rare and is not influenced by prescreening of...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

EADV: Comorbid spondyloarthropathy common in hidradenitis suppurativa

Posted on: 22/10/2015 - 20:05

COPENHAGEN – Back pain is surprisingly common in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa, and more than half of affected patients showed MRI evidence of axial spondyloarthropathy, Dr. Sylke...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Serious infection risk rose with opioid use in rheumatoid arthritis

Posted on: 22/10/2015 - 20:03

Patients taking opioids for rheumatoid arthritis are at significantly higher risk of serious infection, particularly those taking long-acting formulations or opioids known to have immunosuppressive...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Physician- and patient-based fibromyalgia criteria differ little for most patients

Posted on: 22/10/2015 - 13:39

Physician-based and patient-based reporting of fibromyalgia symptoms yielded similar rates of fibromyalgia diagnosis in an analysis of rheumatology patient cases reported to the National Data Bank...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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