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General Internal Medicine
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Rheumatology
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Infection-related arthritis
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General Rheumatology
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Infectious Disease
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Infection Prevention and Control
In patients taking biologics who are planning joint replacement and are known MRSA carriers do you perform decolonization prior to surgery?
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In a patient with a history of seropositive erosive RA who has undergone treatment for a periprosthetic joint infection and currently has an antibiotic spacer in place with clinical improvement, what is the appropriate timing and strategy for restarting DMARDs and/or biologic therapy to balance infection risk with RA disease control?
For patients who do not have access to biologic therapies, what are some csDMARD combination pearls or tips that you have that have particular efficacy in different rheumatologic diseases?
Do you have safety concerns when prescribing GLP-1 medications in patients on corticosteroids or immunosuppressive therapy?
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