Donald Thomas, MD
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🌟 Need motivation for kicking #SLE #lupus #Sjogrens butt? See Nick Cannon NCredible Health Journey with his severe lupus nephritis. Jump to the 2-minute mark: youtube.com/watch?v=jSTyfZ… His legs became as swollen as elephant trunks due to the edema from his lupus membranous
❣️Most #SLE #lupus patients develop cardiovascular problems like heart attacks, pericarditis, strokes, blood clots. You CAN help prevent these: lupusencyclopedia.com/lupus-the-hear… Click on my latest blog post to know: - What you can do to prevent these common problems - How Toni Braxton
🧪 I am jealous of the Mayo Clinic rheumatologists! They have access to a new #SLE #lupus disease activity test called the aiSLE DX DAI! sfmc.testcatalog.org/show/LDAI This is a test that assesses numerous areas of the immune system and is more likely to identify flares compared to
👉 Research study about family history and rheumatic diseases just came out: acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… If you have a family history of each of the following, you have a _____ X increased risk for that same problem: #SLE #lupus = 6 times increased risk of also getting SLE compared
🫁 KUDOS to the new 2023 lung disease in systemic autoimmune disease guidelines by the American College of Rheumatology and CHEST : Screening, Treatments, and Monitoring CLICK 👉acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac… Similar to other chest guidelines (like those from the Sjögren's Foundation for Sjogren's lung dz):
🔖 KUDOS to this month's American College of Rheumatology ACR_Journals for a mine-field of useful, practical articles! More than I've seen in a while. Some of the highlights I especially liked and found useful: acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/232652… IV pulse Solumedrol increases long-term remissions in moderate to
#SLE #lupus patients please consider paring this important study by Julia Simard, ScD … Dr Simard is an amazing researcher dedicated to helping lupus patients
A new blog post by More Than Lupus morethanlupus.com/post/beyond-br…