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Janus kinase inhibitors have delivered on some, but not all, of the promises that were expected of them upon approval in 2012, a speaker said at EULAR 2022 Congress.“I am trying to bring to you arguments for why particular promises associated with JAK inhibition have been fulfilled and why others have not,” Hendrik Schulze-Koops, MD, of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, said

Data from U.S. and European COVID-19 registries of patients with rheumatic diseases have yielded actionable information to help rheumatologists manage patients with the virus, according to data presented at EULAR 2022 Congress.

There is a “direct correlation” between microscopic particles found in air pollution and increased incidence of osteoporosis and autoimmune disease in a cohort of individuals in Italy, according to a presenter at the EULAR 2022 Congress.“It is estimated that some 3.5 million people die per year simply because of air pollution,” Hendrik Schulze-Koops, MD, of the division of

SAN DIEGO — Patients who recovered from COVID-19 infection demonstrated significant differences in mucosal immune cell populations compared with non-infected controls, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “Our group previously published evidence for the presence of viral proteins in the gut mucosa, not only in patients with acute COVID-19 but also months after

Among the many unanswered questions about calcium pyrophosphate deposition — formerly called “pseudogout” — perhaps the most important is whether it causes osteoarthritis, a speaker said at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.“I am hoping I can drum up some enthusiasm for what really has been an understudied disease, yet very common,” Sara K. Tedeschi,

Remote patient monitoring using novel technology may make it possible for rheumatologists to choose the “right drug right out of the gate,” according to data presented at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.Jeffrey R. Curtis, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted that a wide array of technological advances, from clinical informatics to drug selection using

Stepwise interventions, starting with diet and moving on to pharmacotherapies in more severe patients, is essential to managing gastrointestinal complications in scleroderma, a speaker said at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.

Treatments for rare complications in vasculitis can range from high-dose prednisone to nasal lavage, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.

People of color with lupus are more likely to experience delayed diagnosis along with greater rates of morbidity and mortality, compared with white patients, according to data. The data were presented at The Future of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Diagnosis and Treatment meeting, hosted by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas.

Melanocytic lesions in the lower extremities that are marked by peripheral globules should be closely watched for melanoma development, according to a study. “Morphology and biology of nevi with peripheral globules are well known, while that of melanomas with peripheral globules remain unclear,” Ana F.A. Moraes, MD, of the department of cutaneous oncology at A.C. Camargo Cancer Center