Tapering #prednisone dose below 5mg/day is an achievable target 🎯and associated with better short-term outcomes in newly diagnosed #lupus patients The GULP study is now published in @ARD_BMJ and freely accessible online at rmdopen.bmj.com/content/8/2/e0…

Please register. It is free but is needed for participation! #CTD-ILD World Scleroderma Foundation U-M Department of Internal Medicine EUSTAR Vincent Cottin @PhilippeDieude 3RD International Symposium on Interstitial Lung Disease in Rheumatic Diseases Register by going to: internationalild.ch/Click

Hot take: Methotrexate does not cause liver fibrosis It’s ok to be cautious (periodic fibroscan). It’s ok to use MTX initiation as a trigger to look for fibrosis in at risk people (eg diabetes). But Time to turn the page pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36702175/ Edmond Atallah #livertwitter

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Delighted to share the publication of EULAR taskforce on #interferon pathway activation assays Exciting teamwork led by Ed Vital & Marjan. Thanks to all coauthors! ➡️recommendations for measuring, reporting & application ➡️consensus terminology 🔗ard.bmj.com/content/early/…

We’re hiring! Please retweet. Research Scientist, Blood Stem Cell & Cancer Research, Sydney ⁦@SVH_BSCCR⁩. Research assistants, Postdocs apply. Hematology, leukemia. Translational research, CHIP mutations, novel therapies, drug testing. Closes 3 April iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/research-s…

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I had grown accustomed to stating “it’s not possible to reliably locate the source of low back pain” Then Chris Han completed this DTA review and I had to rethink Published in Lancet Discovery Sci eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science Great team and what a PhD paper! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Just Out! VKPrasadLab The definition of long COVID in trials to treat it Only 54% require that you had COVID! There were 8 different time durations and 57 different symptoms to be included This field is a DISASTER Lack of standards hurts sufferers! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Moderate ILD in myositis: Prednisone 1 mg/kg (up to 60 mg) + MMF or AZA Consider add tacro, RTX, IVIg No difference bw MMF/AZA, trend toward more deaths in AZA group RIM trial: RTX 24% FVC improvement tho not prim endothelial Tacro: good non-random data ⁦Dr. John Cush⁩ #ACRX23

👁️ For your #Eyes only! #BSR23 #Sjogrens #pSS #DryEyes Excellent session by #Elizabeth Price ✅Lets know about our options 🔥 HA drops better than non HA 💫FML eyedrops faster improvement cf Cyclosporin 💡Lifitegrast-novel option ☀️ Other Options -Punctal plugs,Lipiflow etc

We found a novel link between a microbe and multiple sclerosis (MS). Strains of Clostridium perfringens that make an epsilon toxin were enriched in people with MS, linking a bacterial toxin with a neurological disorder. Featured today on the cover of Journal of Clinical Investigation!

Don’t underestimate exercise in scleroderma #ara2023 @ausrheum

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Picture Quiz—An 85-year-old man with a 5-day history of persistent fever and severe neck pain presented to hospital. No bacteria were identified in the culture test including cerebrospinal fluid. What is the diagnosis? thelancet.com/doi/story/10.1…

Did you know that gout can affect the vocal cords? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Hot off the Press: International Guidelines on Cancer Screening for Myositis are published. Start doing the risk based stratification and cancer screening for your myositis patient. Thanks to Alexander Oldroyd for his scientific acumen and hard work. nature.com/articles/s4158…