Lupus & Connective Tissue Diseases
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When Does Different Types of Organ Damage From Lupus Occur? Long-Term Study Sheds Light
One out of five patients with lupus had organ damage during the first year after diagnosis, with progressively fewer patients developing new...
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Psychiatric, Autoimmune Comorbidities Increased in Patients with Alopecia Areata
Overall, patients with AA showed a greater prevalence of any psychiatric disease and any immune-mediated or autoimmune disease.
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Sjögren Disease Treatments in Early Trials Have Mostly Positive Results
Positive results were reported from the DAHLIAS study of nipocalimab, the TWINSS study of iscalimab, and a phase 1 trial of tibulizumab, but it...
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Air Pollution and Genetics May Raise Risk for Lupus
Those reguarly exposed to fine particulate matter air pollution, and with genetic risk, may have increased SLE risk.
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Future of Lupus Treatments Looks Brighter With Multiple Promising Therapeutic Approaches
Data presented at EULAR 2024 suggest that there are positive times ahead for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus, with experts...
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Trends in Rheumatic Disease Pain Management Show Decline in Opioid Use
Since 2014, opioid use for autoimmune rheumatic decreased by 15% annually while other management modalities increased or stabilized.
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Advantages of a Pediatric Rheumatology/Dermatology Clinic Evaluated
The top four primary diagnoses at the clinic were linear morphea (33%), lupus (23%), ...
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Steroids’ 75th Anniversary: Clinicians Strive to Use Less
Now in the 75th year since the first presentation on the clinical use of glucocorticoids, what consensus has been reached in sparing their use to...
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New Drugs, Treatment Strategies Aim to Lessen Rheumatic Diseases’ Reliance on Steroids
Selective GC receptor agonists and modulators and GC plus hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibitor combination therapy are some of the approaches...
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Infection Co-occurring With Lupus Raises Flare Risk
Intercurrent infections may act as potential triggers for disease flares in systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Financial Hardship Common With Rheumatologic Disease: How Can Doctors Help?
Patients with rheumatologic disease were 29% more likely than were those without such conditions to have difficulty paying medical bills. Here’s...