FPN || Rheumatology

Screen for hematologic cancers in SLE

Posted on: 14/02/2015 - 21:40

SNOWMASS, COLO. – A full decade after a large multicenter study identified non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as the major cancer risk associated with SLE, it... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

New concerns rise over iatrogenic hydroxychloroquine retinopathy

Posted on: 11/02/2015 - 16:12

SNOWMASS, COLO. – The risk of irreversible hydroxychloroquine toxic retinopathy is much greater than previously appreciated, Dr. James T. Rosenbaum ... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Consider Chikungunya virus in new-onset polyarthritis

Posted on: 29/01/2015 - 17:20

Rheumatologists should consider the possibility of Chikungunya virus in patients who present with new symmetric polyarthritis, especially if they have... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Court allows generic colchicine to enter market

Posted on: 28/01/2015 - 16:10

After a 5-year monopoly on the sale of colchicine put the gout medication out of reach for many patients, a federal judge in January denied an injunct... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Lower diabetes risk seen in lupus patients using hydroxychloroquine

Posted on: 20/01/2015 - 17:47

The risk for developing diabetes mellitus among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus declined significantly with increasing use of hydroxychloro... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

MRI shows ongoing inflammation despite clinical remission in early RA

Posted on: 17/01/2015 - 16:58

Two years of either triple therapy or treatment with tumor necrosis factor plus methotrexate failed to eliminate joint inflammation on MRI in a subcoh... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Case series: Ustekinumab for psoriasis helps skin, hurts joints

Posted on: 15/01/2015 - 19:37

Ustekinumab treatment was associated with new-onset or worsening psoriatic arthritis in a series of seven patients with psoriasis. The findings, which support previous observations that patients...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Case series: Ustekinumab for psoriasis helps skin, hurts joints

Posted on: 15/01/2015 - 19:37

Ustekinumab treatment was associated with new-onset or worsening psoriatic arthritis in a series of seven patients with psoriasis. The findings, which support previous observations that patients...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Lowest SLE survival rates found in black and Native American patients

Posted on: 15/01/2015 - 18:23

Asian and Hispanic patients with systemic lupus erythematosus have lower all-cause mortality rates than white, black, and Native American patients, ac... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Reducing abatacept feasible for poor-prognosis early RA patients

Posted on: 08/01/2015 - 16:40

Patients with poor-prognosis early rheumatoid arthritis who have been on a regimen of abatacept for at least 1 year and have low disease activity scor... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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