San Francisco – Patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome who met criteria for cryoglobulinemic vasculitis were significantly more likely to develop B-cell lymphoma and to die during follow-up,...
SAN FRANCISCO – Autoantibodies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis target both the native and citrullinated forms of the RA33 autoantigen, challenging the idea that protein citrullination underlies...
One-half of my practice is taking care of employees and dependents employed by the organization for which I work. Most of these patients sit … a lot … and present to me with musculoskeletal pain and...
SAN FRANCISCO – Despite their frequent contact with the health care system, patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis often receive no treatment for major cardiovascular risk factors, according...
SAN FRANCISCO – Filgotinib monotherapy yielded a 72% week 12 ACR 20 response for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and a 79% response when combined with methotrexate, according to two phase IIb...
SAN FRANCISCO – Hold off on surgery in patients with presumed septic arthritis if they’re not otherwise too sick and their cultures don’t grow out a pathogenic organism within 48 hours.
The reason...
SAN FRANCISCO – Oral methotrexate is frequently underdosed, given for an inadequate length of time, and rarely switched to subcutaneous formulations before rheumatologists move on to biologics,...
SAN FRANCISCO – Rheumatoid arthritis conferred a doubling of the risk of lymphoma when compared against the general population in a large Swedish registry study, regardless of the patients’...
SAN FRANCISCO – Biologics do not pose an increased risk of infection in patients with elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis over the age of 60 years because their time to first infection and time to...
Synovitis and effusion were associated with increases in pain sensitivity at the patella and wrist, respectively, in a study of 1,111 patients with or at risk of knee osteoarthritis...
