Rheumatology

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Questions discussed in this category


For example, the patient may have other findings such as an elevated CRP. Would you diagnose SLE, or would you want to see other serologies or finding...

Will you still favor starting with steroids and traditional immunosuppressive agents, move IVIG earlier in your treatment strategy, or start with IVIG...

Is a biopsy or EMG helpful in confirming the etiology? What is the best treatment for sarcoid neuropathy?

How would you treat a patient with necrotizing myopathy with positive anti-HMHCoR Ab (and low TIF1 gamma) that failed prednisone + Cellcept, IVIG + Ce...

When it seems fairly certain that this is a drug effect is it something that can just be monitored or requires a change in approach?

In patients presenting with likely statin-induced myopathy versus statin-induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy - how do you approach the decision re...

How do you counsel young adults with antibody-negative necrotizing myopathy on prognosis, risk of recurrence, and long-term monitoring/treatment?

For patients who present with elevated myoglobin in the setting of normal creatinine kinase and exercise intolerance, what work up process do you typi...

I teach my students/residents that they should hardly ever get routine X-rays in patients presenting with radicular symptoms. MRI far better for seein...

Given the slow recovery of nerve damage, what would you expect to see on a repeat EMG after treatment? Continued denervation or just sequelae of past ...


Papers discussed in this category


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Rheumatol Int, 2019 Feb 18

Brain : a journal of neurology, 2016-05

Scand J Rheumatol, 2018 May 18

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Current rheumatology reports, 2015-10

Curr Opin Rheumatol,

Ann Rheum Dis, 2017 Dec

Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2017-06-01

Autoimmun Rev, 2012 Jul 05

J Immunol Methods, 2016 Feb 18

Pediatr Blood Cancer, 2021 Oct

The New England journal of medicine, 1993-12-30

Journal of clinical apheresis, 2022 Feb 04

JAMA neurology, 2018-12-01

Journal of neuroimmunology, 2022 Apr 09

The New England journal of medicine, 2003-10-16

Immunol Invest, 1985 Jun

Lupus, 2024 Jan 16