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Questions discussed in this category

What is your approach when surgeons want to stop hydroxychloroquine prior to surgery?
The index question is: "neurosurgeons lately want to stop hydroxychloroquine prior to spinal surgery. Anyone allowing this for lupus patients and for ...
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What are your recommendations for perioperative management of DMARDs and biologics in patients undergoing bariatric surgery?
The bariatrics department wants patients to hold immunosuppressants for 4 months prior to bariatric surgery.
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Papers discussed in this category

Arthritis care & research, 2022 Jun 19
2022 American College of Rheumatology/American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Guideline for the Perioperative Management of Antirheumatic Medication in Patients With Rheumatic Diseases Undergoing Elective Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Lupus, 1998
A long-term study of hydroxychloroquine withdrawal on exacerbations in systemic lupus erythematosus. The Canadian Hydroxychloroquine Study Group.
N Engl J Med, 1991 Jan 17
A randomized study of the effect of withdrawing hydroxychloroquine sulfate in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 1977
Pulmonary embolism and its prophylaxis following the Charnley total hip replacement.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2020 Mar 24
Immunosuppression and the risk of readmission and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing hip fracture, abdominopelvic and cardiac surgery.

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