Well done to our Specialist Registrar Dr. Sharon Cowley who won the Emerging Investigator award at the American Congress of Rheumatology.
Sharon presented research on the ‘Clinical Phenotype of Patients with Subclinical Giant Cell Arteritis in Polymyalgia Rheumatica.
Fundraiser by Nabeeha Moollan : Medical Aid for Gaza. Great work by the Rheumatology team today @stjamesdublin Fantastic cake sale raising money for the incredible work of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in devastated Gaza. Donate if you can https://t.co/NBlo6FEjaC
Since we're about to fly back to whatever weather horrors await - I thought - as usual - I'd summarise what I found while I was in #Mauritius
So strap in - here are my 5 reasons to go to Mauritius (mute if no likey)
#5ReasonsMauritius 🇲🇺❤🇲🇺❤ 1/
🆕 Severe, treatment-refractory diffuse cutaneous #SSc treated with CD19-CAR T cells.
A 60-year-old 👨 :
▶️ diffuse myocardial & lung #fibrosis
▶️ pulmonary #hypertension
▶️ carpal #arthritis
▶️ anti-RNA pol III
See response to #CARTcell 👇
👉 https://t.co/2sRRgAuOOT
Neuropsychiatric lupus 🦋
How to approach in clinic as rheumatologists don’t ask & patients don’t volunteer symptoms.
😴How do you sleep?
😱Do you have nightmares?
😱Do you have daymares?
#BSR23
Non-response in #Psoriatic arthritis
🔹Lack of response - Primary NR
🔹Loss of response - Secondary NR
▶️ Intolerance
▶️ Immunogenicity
▶️ Immune tolerance
▶️Comorbidities, fibromyalgia
▶️Poor mental health
▶️Obesity
▶️Smoking
▶️Sex
Via Dr Marzo-Ortega #BSR23
#Steroids in #Osteoarthritis
▶️Not use them 1st line
▶️Use less than we used to
▶️Avoid >3 injections in a particular joint
Via Prof Fiona Watt #BSR23