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How often and in what way do you monitor patients who are receiving teprotumumab (Tepezza) for thyroid eye disease?

In a patient with isolated HLA B27+ anterior uveitis, how long would you continue immunosuppressive therapy?

The patient has no extraocular features of a spondyloarthropathy and is on methotrexate. No active eye disease for past 1 year.

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How do you manage dry eye syndrome due to lacrimal or meiobian gland dysfunction after external beam radiotherapy?

Are these toxicities expected to improve over time?

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How do you approach the management of recurrent episcleritis in a patient with RA that is otherwise well-controlled?

No active joint disease, patient on Hydroxychloroquine and Cimzia. Normal ESR/CRP.

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What dosing range of doxycycline do you recommend for short-term and long-term management of ocular rosacea?

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How do you manage dry eye related to Pluvicto Lu-177?

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How would you approach a patient who has well controlled SLE on HCQ but develops cotton wool spots on routine ophthalmologic screening?

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What topical therapies do you most commonly prescribe for rashes near the eyes?

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How do you approach the use of hydroxychloroquine in patients with a history of visual field defect from another cause such as macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy?

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What screening recommendations do you provide for patients with a Nevus of Ota with ocular involvement?

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What recommendations do you provide to patients who develop ocular side effects with Dupixent?

Do you refer them to Ophthalmology? Have you had to switch patients off of Dupixent due to their ocular side effects?

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Do you generally recommend low dose aspirin for patients with giant cell arteritis?

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Would you recommend medical therapy for asymptomatic idiopathic intracranial hypertension with completely normal visual field testing?

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How to you treat pregnant women who develop Bell's Palsy?

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How long do you continue steroid-sparing agents such as tocilizumab for GCA once the disease is in remission off steroids?

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Papers discussed in this category

Ann Intern Med, 2020 Sep 22

Risk for Serious Infection With Low-Dose Glucocorticoids in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis : A Cohort Study.

Obstet Gynecol Surv,

Bell's Palsy in Pregnancy.

Arthritis Rheum,

Low-dose aspirin and prevention of cranial ischemic complications in giant cell arteritis.

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Aug 01

Relationship of Hydroxychloroquine and Ophthalmic Complications in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Taiwan.

N Engl J Med, 2021 Jun 23

Lutetium-177-PSMA-617 for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.

BMC Rheumatol, 2021 Oct 01

Retinopathy in newly-diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus: should we screen for ocular involvement?

Clin Ophthalmol, 2011 Oct 04

Isolated cotton-wool spots of unknown etiology: management and sequential spectral domain optical coherence tomography documentation.

Lancet (London, England), 2025 Jan 25

Stopping of adalimumab in juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis (ADJUST): a multicentre, double-masked, randomised controlled trial.

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