Rheumatology
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Cognitive dysfunction, psychosis respond equally in pediatric SLE
Major finding: Relapse occurred in only 8 of 40 responders to immunosuppressive treatment, and only 15% of psychosis patients and 15% of cognitive...
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Rheumatoid arthritis associated with higher post-MI death risk
Major finding: Rheumatoid arthritis patients who had an MI had a 47% greater risk of death than did matched control patients after a median follow...
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Platelet-rich plasma improved tennis elbow pain
Major finding: Injections of platelet-rich plasma for tennis elbow sufferers produced a 71.5% improvement in pain scores, compared with the 56.1%...
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Follow mild, inactive lupus patients every 3-4 months
Major Finding: A total of 25% of SLE patients with mild or inactive disease had at least 1 of 10 disease-related "silent" features during a 2-year...
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Mycophenolate boosted vital capacity in connective tissue ILD
Major finding: At 156 weeks after initiation of mycophenolate mofetil, patients with connective tissue disease–associated interstitial lung...
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Loss of BMD linked to knee OA progression
Major finding: BMD loss of 0.1 g/cm2 was associated with a 1.25% per year loss of cartilage volume.Data source: An observational cohort study of...
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Old gout drug learns new cardiac tricks
Major finding: At the end of 5 years of allopurinol use, the incidence of new-onset atrial fibrillation was 184 cases/1,000 person-years in the...
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Pregnancies after vasculitis diagnosis are at risk
Major Finding: The rate of pregnancy loss was significantly higher among women who had vasculitis when they conceived (33.8%) than it was among...
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Potential of transcranial direct current stimulation shown in fibromyalgia
Major finding: Cathodal high-definition tDCS significantly decreased visual numerical pain scores, compared with sham stimulation, lowering scores...
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Double-jointed teens have high risk for musculoskeletal pain
Major finding: Adolescents deemed to have hypermobile joints had greater odds for having pain 4 years later in the shoulder (OR, 1.68), knee (OR,...
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Anti-TNF agents vary in ability to cross placenta
Major Finding: Ratios of infliximab and adalimumab in samples of cord blood and infant serum to maternal plasma occurred at a median of 160:100...