Psoriatic Arthritis

A reminder of some common and not-so-common clinical scenarios can make every rheumatologist more capable of delivering optimal patient care, according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-West.

Clearly defining treatment targets and communicating those targets to patients is essential to optimizing outcomes in psoriatic arthritis, according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-West.

Patients with psoriasis who received biologic drugs demonstrated a lower risk — that was statistically and clinically significant — for developing psoriatic arthritis, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Despite the ongoing setbacks presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology – West will follow its East counterpart just a month later, offering a wholly new selection of “charismatic and engaging” speakers.

Psoriasis is “mostly mild” in patients with psoriatic arthritis yet still impacts quality of life when measured using a dermatology-specific questionnaire, according to data published in Rheumatology.

In this issue of Healio Psoriatic Disease, we focus on shared dermatology-rheumatology clinics and how they aim to advance the treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Psoriatic disease management needs input from both rheumatologists and dermatologists, and a growing number of practitioners have begun to combine clinics or collaborate efforts with their fellow specialists.

In this issue of Healio Psoriatic Disease, we focus on the advent of combined dermatology-rheumatology clinics for the management of patients with psoriatic disease.

Sex and gender differences between patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis may explain why women experience longer diagnostic delays, higher burden and lower drug survival in these diseases, noted a speaker here.

A broader array of therapies is allowing clinicians to target specific disease domains in psoriatic arthritis, but the treat-to-target “sweet spot” remains unclear, noted a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-East.