Among the many unanswered questions about calcium pyrophosphate deposition — formerly called “pseudogout” — perhaps the most important is whether it causes osteoarthritis, a speaker said at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.“I am hoping I can drum up some enthusiasm for what really has been an understudied disease, yet very common,” Sara K. Tedeschi,
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Remote patient monitoring using novel technology may make it possible for rheumatologists to choose the “right drug right out of the gate,” according to data presented at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.Jeffrey R. Curtis, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted that a wide array of technological advances, from clinical informatics to drug selection using
Stepwise interventions, starting with diet and moving on to pharmacotherapies in more severe patients, is essential to managing gastrointestinal complications in scleroderma, a speaker said at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.
Treatments for rare complications in vasculitis can range from high-dose prednisone to nasal lavage, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.