🎥🧠 Home video-guided exercise after lumbar surgery was linked to lower disability and less fear of movement over 24 months. QoL improved too.
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#AMJRheumatology #Rehab
🦴🦵 Knee OA linked to lower tibial cortical vBMD, even as DXA BMD looked slightly higher.
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#AMJRheumatology #Osteoarthritis
🧬🦵 Some knee OA pain runs hotter.
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Inflammation biomarker subtype tied to KOOS/WOMAC pain and PainDETECT; MRI damage showed weaker links.
#AMJRheumatology #KneeOA
🦴✨ Bone manipulation may enhance wound healing by boosting microcirculation and tissue repair. Study links effect to angiogenesis.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🧬 New study finds TNF inhibitors do not accelerate weight gain in psoriatic arthritis. In fact, the pace of weight increase slowed after treatment, offering reassurance for long-term metabolic management.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease #PsoriaticArthritis
💪 New research reveals that people with psoriatic arthritis have markedly reduced cardiorespiratory fitness versus healthy controls, underscoring the need for early lifestyle interventions to improve long-term health outcomes.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🧪💊 Advanced drug delivery may improve gout care. Targeted lipid/polymer systems enable sustained release and tolerability to support adherence.
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#AMJRheumatology #Gout
⚠️ New evidence shows children with rheumatologic disease who are carefully weaned off long-term steroids face fewer adrenal crises, underscoring the importance of monitored tapering in clinical practice.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🧬 Updated lupus criteria improve diagnosis in autoimmune lung disease. Researchers found EULAR/ACR standards identified SLE more effectively than SLICC in patients with interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease #Lupus
🧬 Gut microbes may hold the key to lung scarring in systemic sclerosis. An international study found distinct bacterial species linked to ILD severity, offering fresh insight into autoimmune mechanisms.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🧠 Machine learning shows promise in tailoring knee osteoarthritis treatment. A new algorithm forecasts NSAID + paracetamol response with 85% accuracy, moving closer to personalized pain care.
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#AMJRheumatology #Osteoarthritis #PainManagement
💉 Canakinumab significantly outperforms anakinra in VEXAS syndrome, demonstrating stronger efficacy, longer drug survival, and fewer adverse events, making it a promising steroid-sparing treatment for patients.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🦵 Surgeons managing unexplained pain after knee arthroplasty report difficult consultations, reluctance over revision surgery, and lasting emotional weight, underscoring the call for patient-centred, collaborative care.
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#AMJRheumatology #Orthopedics #PatientCare
📞 Patients are calling for quicker, more personal rheumatology advice line support. With most seeking help for flares, pain, and medications, rising demand shows the need to redesign services for timely access.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🧪 Insights from Japan reveal real-world mantle cell lymphoma care: first-line chemotherapy often delivers complete responses, while BTK inhibitors provide partial responses with fewer adverse events, improving daily life impact.
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#AMJRheumatology #Lymphoma
🧬 IL-6 blockade remains safe and effective in elderly patients with RA. Sarilumab shows consistent results across age groups, while tocilizumab effectiveness is slightly lower in older adults.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🧬 IL-6 blockade remains safe and effective in elderly patients with RA. Sarilumab shows consistent results across age groups, while tocilizumab effectiveness is slightly lower in older adults.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🔍 Salivary ultrasound strengthens Sjögren’s diagnosis. Higher SGUS grades, particularly Grade 3, closely track with biopsy positivity and reduced saliva flow, making SGUS a valuable non-invasive diagnostic tool for clinicians.
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#AMJRheumatology #AutoimmuneDisease
🫁 In adults with rheumatoid arthritis-associated ILD, disease progression and UIP pattern significantly raise mortality, methotrexate had no effect on survival.
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#AMJRheumatology #Pulmonology #RAILD
🩺 Power Doppler ultrasound may help predict rheumatoid arthritis treatment response, though its role in forecasting remission is still uncertain. New systematic review findings.
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#Rheumatology #RheumatoidArthritis #AMJRheumatology
🫀 Real-world data show IL-1 inhibitors are replacing steroids in recurrent pericarditis. The move toward steroid-sparing care is changing treatment decisions.
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#AMJRheumatology #Pericarditis #Inflammation #IL1Inhibition
🩻 Ultrasound distinguishes inflammatory and non-inflammatory psoriatic arthritis, helping guide targeted therapy for difficult-to-treat patients.
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#PsoriaticArthritis #Rheumatology #AMJRheumatology
🦵 New AI tools are advancing how clinicians predict knee osteoarthritis outcomes, from subtle MRI changes to surgical risk, enabling earlier detection, refined risk profiles, and personalised interventions.
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#Osteoarthritis #AI #MachineLearning #AMJRheumatology
🔥🩺 Aphthous stomatitis may predict colchicine resistance in patients with SURF. IL-1 inhibitors like anakinra & canakinumab could benefit refractory cases.
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#SURF #ColchicineResistance #IL1Inhibitors #Rheumatology #AMJRheumatology
New study shows it’s not where or how lupus decision aids are viewed, but whether they’re seen fully and without interruption that drives better outcomes.
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#Lupus #AMJRheumatology #PatientCare
🧪 Routine surveillance biopsies post-kidney transplant uncover silent 🦠 lupus nephritis in 1 in 3 patients, often early & without symptoms. Most show mesangioproliferative injury. Early biopsy = early action.
#LupusNephritis #TransplantCare #AMJRheumatology
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🦠 Patients with RA on biologics need infection screening first!
Audit finds missed tests for TB, Hep B & C before starting DMARDs.
Missed checks = patient risk.
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#AMJRheumatology #PatientSafety #DMARDs
🌱 New hope for systemic sclerosis: Stem cell strategies show promise in reversing skin and lung symptoms. Researchers urge further investigation. Full story by #AMJRheumatology 📰: www.emjreviews.com/en-us/amj/rh...
🧬 Risk genes for knee osteoarthritis aren’t linked to disease worsening, study shows. But 19 new variants may help predict progression via joint space narrowing. A step forward in biomarker discovery.
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💊 New study finds methotrexate intolerance in RA isn’t significantly affected by dosing route or frequency.
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#AMJRheumatology #Methotrexate #RA #PatientCare #ClinicalResearch