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Cassandra Calabrese

@ccalabresedo

Rheumatology and Infectious Disease. Assistant Professor CCLCM @clevelandclinic. views and opinions are my own

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calendar_today04-04-2014 01:12:18

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🗣️ "Rheumatology has a manpower problem" Leonard Calabrese starts the morning off at #ACR24 with a talk on 🔥#burnout Stay tuned for our coverage 👇 bit.ly/3tQAt48

🗣️ "Rheumatology has a manpower problem"

<a href="/LCalabreseDO/">Leonard Calabrese</a> starts the morning off at #ACR24 with a talk on 🔥#burnout

Stay tuned for our coverage 👇

bit.ly/3tQAt48
Leonard Calabrese (@lcalabresedo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We appreciate the hard work and challenges to develop criteria that are both 'all inclusive' but with sufficient specificity to accommodate pt care & research -ie no one left behind BUT have concerns re implementation especially for Dx of 'autoimmune' #LongCovid ClevelandClinicNews

Leonard Calabrese (@lcalabresedo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We recognize the strong evidence of COVID induced auto-Abs especially in those with more severe forms but recognize this is NOT specific to this virus and does not clearly correlate with specific clinical endotypes - preclinical models are important but insufficient as of now

Leonard Calabrese (@lcalabresedo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Epidemiologic studies using EMR are meritorious but limited especially for lack of validation in identifying rare 'autoimmune /IMID" dx's- even within the corpus of published studies there are inconsistencies- false discovery with prevlent autoAbs ie ANAs- must be considered

Leonard Calabrese (@lcalabresedo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At the same time new diseases ie MIS-C MIS-A MIPC ( MDA-5 pneumonitis) are important and still incompletely understood. Anti-MDA-5 disease may not be linked to infection and its possible relationship to vaccine exposure is incompletely understood

Leonard Calabrese (@lcalabresedo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Clearly not all/most patients with new /incident autoimmune disease diagnosed in the COVID era will have #LongCOVID but the definition allows ( as no time limit from incident infection is stated) for the consideration and application of such if judgement warrants

Leonard Calabrese (@lcalabresedo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Application of IOM criteria to individual patients s/p #Covid19 requires critical appraisal of the patient ie their disease infection/vaccine history/pre-existing conditions/clinical endotype/lab etc and the strength of their association w #LongCovid will likely change over time

Leonard Calabrese (@lcalabresedo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rheumatologists and other clinicians caring for patients with Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases IMIDS- will face challenges with the current definition which will change over time - We that the IOM for their work Eric Topol zeynep tufekci