Margarida Lucas Rocha

Aspiring Rheumatologist

[EUSTAR @EUSTAR_org]

📖 EULAR 2026 Highlights Brochure
❤️ Primary Heart Involvement & 🍽️ Difficult-to-Treat Gastrointestinal Manifestations in Systemic Sclerosis
✍️ Chosen and written by: @MARGARIDALROCHA , @AnaCatarinaDuarte, @DanielZávada & @JaninaAuth.
✅Earlier diagnosis👉Better outcomes

[ARP Rheumatology @ARPrheumatology]

Who is at risk of vascular Behçet’s? 🤔

📌 15% develop vascular involvement
📌 Mostly venous (DVT, thrombophlebitis)
📌 Often recurrent & multi-vessel
💡 Key predictors:
👨 Male sex
👁️ Ocular onset
👉 Think early risk stratification

🔗https://t.co/MO35LSmjhP

[ARP Rheumatology @ARPrheumatology]

🧬 Rheumatoid nodules can be refractory—or even worsen—despite good joint control in RA.

📉 New case evidence shows cutaneous & pulmonary nodule regression with upadacitinib
➡️ Suggesting JAK inhibition effects beyond synovitis

🔗https://t.co/0egvaMkE8T

[ARP Rheumatology @ARPrheumatology]

🩺 Clinical Case Challenge
A 62-year-old woman presents with:
🫗 Bilateral parotid swelling
👁️ Dry eyes/mouth
🧠 Fatigue & weight loss
🧪 Labs: cytopenia, ↓complement, ↑ACE, ↑β₂-microglobulin
📸 Imaging: enlarged parotids + lymphadenopathy
⭐️ What’s the most likely diagnosis?

[EMEUNET @EMEUNET]

Today is #WorldArthritisDay2025, let’s dream together for a better future for everyone in the rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (#RMDs) community.
Share your dream with the #EULAR community and help turn hope into action!
#RMDreams #EULAR # EMEUNET #WorldArthritisDay

[EMEUNET @EMEUNET]

🚨 Join us for the upcoming EULAR–EMEUNET webinar:
"From Gut to Joint – Essential Insights for Rheumatologists & Gastroenterologists"
📅 9 Sept 2025 | 🕖 19:00–20:00 CEST
🔗 Register: https://t.co/hTX2qr5xFL
#Rheumatology #IBD #EULAR #EMEUNET

[Margarida Lucas Rocha @MARGARIDALROCHA]

Dia Mundial das Doenças Raras, 28 de Fevereiro
https://t.co/dG8Fh9SCjq

[EMEUNET @EMEUNET]

We’re excited to celebrate the Top 12 of the EMEUNET RheumaVision contest! 🏆✨

Let’s give them a huge round of applause and wish them the best of luck in the next stage of the competition!

Be watchful for the Individual videos of the semi-finalists in the next days!!

[EMEUNET @EMEUNET]

Meet Rheumavision Semi-Finalist Margarida Lucas Rocha and her presentation 'Neurological Involvement in Behçet's Disease' 👏👏👏

Full version: https://t.co/w3RlUKd7hQ

Please don't forget to show your support by likes and comments!!!

All the luck for the finals Margarida 🤞🤞🤞

[Dr. Dinesh Khanna @sclerodermaUM]

Congratulations to @EUSTAR_org for putting an excellent course in Bordeaux, France. @Worldsclerofnd @delgaldoFrances @srfcure Great to see the dedication of the EUSTAR for training the next group of scleroderma researchers!

[SPR @SPReumatologia]

O frio chegou! Se vive com doenças reumáticas, já sentiu um aumento das dores?
Embora o frio não cause doenças reumáticas, ele pode intensificar as dores e o fenómeno de raynaud

Assista à entrevista do Prof. Doutor Fernando Pimentel
https://t.co/TyT9z1yRdM

[vitor teixeira @vitortexas]

When to suspect large and medium vasculitis mimics. Excellent review from @cristinadbponte.
@LPCDR82 @ern_reconnet @_ERNRITA @vasculitides

[Dr. John Cush @RheumNow]

Full Read Overview of the safety of bDMARDs/tsDMARDS - contraindications, precautions, & boxed warnings for treatment of RA, PsA, SpA, JIA - safety checklist for a class of drugs you use and diseases you treat https://t.co/5chrS3sW8i

[ASAS @Official_ASAS]

🎉 The International Congress on Spondyloarthritides starts this week!

🌟 We are excited to hear the latest news about ASAS research projects including D2M-axSpA, ASAS-perSpA, ASAS-HI and others

👉 https://t.co/xAfeuwizXV

#Spondyloarthritis #Rheumatology #ASAS

[Dr. John Cush @RheumNow]

2024 Update of EULAR recommendations for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis

https://t.co/UxPKQPgmLX

[Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases @eular_ARD]

📑 Don't miss out - register to receive access to this ebook on #vasculitis , with cutting-edge content from our leading titles. Stay ahead in your knowledge and practice! #rheumatology 👉 https://t.co/eskQKDN8qC

[Tânia Santiago @TaniaLSantiago]

Happy to share the First Portuguese Recommendations for the management of Raynaud's phenomenon and digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis and other connective tissue diseases in @ARPrheumatology
https://t.co/ekeUpB4SRi
#EscleroseSistémica #SystemicSclerosis

[Laurent ARNAUD @Lupusreference]

✅ Efficacy and safety of targeted therapies 🎯 in #VEXAS syndrome: retrospective study from the FRENVEX group ⬇️ is just published in @ARD_BMJ 👍
https://t.co/y7GA5yEfbh

[Nelly ZIADE 🍀 @Nellziade]

Secondary Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy | New England Journal of Medicine https://t.co/fNIuYrgqD2

[vitor teixeira @vitortexas]

Happy to collaborate with Margarida Rocha for the Image Challenge of The New England Journal of Medicine https://t.co/obsI47A89d