IBD-Associated Arthritis News

More than 620 registered attendees from 45 states and 11 countries are traveling to Destin, Florida, this week for the 2019 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology, scheduled for May 2 to 5, according to David McLain, MD, FACP, FACR, where they will learn about a wide range of topics from speakers they may not hear anywhere else.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Growing evidence suggests that behavioral choices, including avoidance of excess alcohol, drugs and smoking, as well as engaging in exercise and healthy eating could have significant impact on the onset and course of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, according to a presentation here.

Inflammatory bowel disease events, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are uncommon in patients with psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis and ankylosing spondylitis who were treated with secukinumab, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Splashy headlines in the mainstream media that proclaim advances in medicine are often not what they seem. That may be the case with a recent series of FDA approvals surrounding the direct-to-consumer genetic testing platform, 23andMe.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease who switched from biosimilar infliximab to Remicade experienced similar results regarding remission, trough levels and antibody levels, according to research published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

ORLANDO — In this exclusive video from Advances in IBD 2018, Raymond Cross, MD, MS, director of the inflammatory bowel disease program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, discusses rheumatologic and autoimmune diseases in patients with IBD.

More than 50% of adults aged 45 years or older with some form of arthritis are currently going untreated, despite a substantial proportion experiencing severe symptoms and poor physical function, according to data published in the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology.

The 2018 Rheumatic Disease Report Card: Raising the Grade on Rheumatology Care in America released today by the American College of Rheumatology demonstrates that access to affordable rheumatology care varied considerably from state to state, with most states averaging a “C” grade.

We begin with a 24-year-old previously healthy female presenting with gradual worsening — over the last few months — migraine-like headaches accompanied by nausea but no vomiting. She was in a usual state of health when she started getting headaches, that were described as intermittent with a deep ache sensation. The headaches were unilateral and would switch from left to right and sometimes occur between the eyes. The patient described the severity as 8 out of 10. The headaches did not wake her from sleep, and she was unsure of what triggered them. She denied hearing loss, tinnitus, numbness or tingling of extremities, weakness, joint pain, joint swelling or rashes. She reported no new medications.

Just 32.1% of reproductive-age women with rheumatic diseases use any kind of prescription contraception, while at the same time more than 70% use at least one fetotoxic medication, according to findings published in Arthritis Care & Research.