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What would be your approach to a patient with Scleroderma/Myositis overlap syndrome (+anti-Ku) and active inflammatory eye disease despite high dose mycophenolate?

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Rheumatology · Legacy Devers Eye Institute
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This is a challenging question but impossible to answer without more information. Inflammatory eye disease includes uveitis, scleritis, corneal melt, and orbital inflammation. Just as scleroderma itself has a range of manifestations that drive the treatment, the various eye inflammations would requi...

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Rheumatology · Wright State University
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I would add Adalimumab as well. I think Methotrexate may be better than Mycohenolate.

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