Lupus is a major contributor to premature mortality in young women. A population-based estimation of lupus-associated years of potential life lost (YPLL) showed lupus is among the leading causes of YPLL and a top cause of YPLL among common autoimmune diseases in young women
ACROR
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Guidelines advise clinicians to lower serum urate to <6 mg/dl in patients with acute gout who begin urate-lowering therapy. In a new randomized trial, researchers compared this treat-to-target approach with a less-rigid approach. ๐ https://t.co/48deCDm7Pg
Not everything is cortisol. The โmoon faceโ of Cushingโs requires chronically high cortisol levels (from disease or exogenous steroids). Everyday stress does not do this. Most puffy face = fluid shifts, diet, sleep, or weight ๐
Iโm so annoyed with the widespread use of โcortisol faceโ on Tiktok. Itโs not cushingoid, itโs just puffy. Unless youโre on steroids or actually have pathologic hypercortisolismโฆ
โA Change Is Gonna Comeโ to Treatment of Lupus Nephritis: A Review - American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Well summarised all trials in LUPUS NEPHRITIS! ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐๐ป
#MedTwitter#ajkd#NephTwitter
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A 60 y/o woman with long-standing SLE treated with prednisone, HCQ, and mycophenolate presented with reddish purple infarctions around the nail folds of multiple fingers (A) that were asymptomatic and resolved after several weeks
Clinical images in ACROR
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Review of IL-1 family cytokines in inflammation and immunity - including, IL-1, IL-18, IL-33, IL-36, IL-37, IL-38, IL-1Ra, etc. Full read -- Good Reference!! https://t.co/m2CwDydnB0
A high ANA titer (โฅ1:640) in individuals without an autoimmune disease was found to be strongly associated with liver-related disorders, including nonalcoholic and alcoholic liver disease
Arthritis Care & Research
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi โfor their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.โ