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General Rheumatology

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For how long do you recommend treatment for latent tuberculosis prior to initiation of anti-TNF therapy?

How do you approach management of adult patients with CVID and sarcoid-like syndrome?

How do you approach biologic initiation in patients with inflammatory arthritis and repeatedly indeterminate Quantiferon?

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What else do you consider in the differential diagnosis for pulmonary-renal syndromes if there is low clinical and serologic evidence of AAV, Goodpasture's or other rheumatologic disease (SLE, RA, APS, Scleroderma)?

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How do you approach management of a patient with idiopathic PAH and +ANA, but no other current symptoms/signs of active rheumatologic disease?

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Is it safe to combine mycophenolate and adalimumab for management of pulmonary sarcoidosis in a patient that could not tolerate methotrexate?

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Do you generally recommend starting nintedanib prior to immunosuppressive therapy in a patient with CTD-ILD?

Do you prefer to start with nintedanib and then add immunosuppressive agents, or give a trial of immunosuppressive medication first, then add nintedan...

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Are there any concerns utilizing apremilast for psoriatic arthritis in patients who are also taking roflumilast for COPD?

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What are your recommendations regarding methotrexate usage in patients with persistent chest CT changes post COVID pneumonia?

Would you have a different opinion based on whether it is a new therapy or an existing and previously well-tolerated therapy for the patient?

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Papers discussed in this category

BMJ Open, 2019 May 05

Is incident rheumatoid arthritis interstitial lung disease associated with methotrexate treatment? Results from a multivariate analysis in the ERAS and ERAN inception cohorts.

Rheumatol Int, 2021 Jan 29

Does methotrexate cause progressive fibrotic interstitial lung disease? A systematic review.

Scientific reports, 2017 Aug 10

Analysis of Factors Influencing Diagnostic Accuracy of T-SPOT.TB for Active Tuberculosis in Clinical Practice.

N. Engl. J. Med., 2019 May 20

Nintedanib for Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease.

N Engl J Med, 2019 Sep 29

Nintedanib in Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases.

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2016 Jan

2015 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 2022 May 20

Review article: latent tuberculosis in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases receiving immunosuppression-risks, screening, diagnosis and management.

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2015-05

Clinical utility of random anti-tumor necrosis factor drug-level testing and measurement of antidrug antibodies on the long-term treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis.

International journal of rheumatic diseases, 2014-02

Neurosarcoidosis mimicking multiple sclerosis successfully treated with methotrexate and adalimumab.

Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG, 2014-04-18

Efficacy Results of a 52-week Trial of Adalimumab in the Treatment of Refractory Sarcoidosis.

Clinical nuclear medicine, 2016-05

FDG PET/CT Evidence of Effective Treatment of Cardiac Sarcoidosis With Adalimumab.

J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep, 2021 Jan-Dec

Pituitary Sarcoidosis in a Pediatric Patient Successfully Treated With Adalimumab and Methotrexate.

Clinical therapeutics, 2018 Feb

Methotrexate Dose in Patients With Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Impacts Methotrexate Polyglutamate Pharmacokinetics, Adalimumab Pharmacokinetics, and Efficacy: Pharmacokinetic and Exposure-response Analysis of the CONCERTO Trial.

Current opinion in pulmonary medicine, 2013 Sep

Common variable immunodeficiency-associated granulomatous and interstitial lung disease.

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