Remission

SAN ANTONIO — Clinicians and researchers are beginning to explore whether asthma remission is possible, Corinne Young, FNP-C, FCCP, said during her presentation at the 16th Annual Allergy, Asthma & Immunology CME Conference.

For patients with chronic periprosthetic joint infection, multistage revision total knee arthroplasty procedures were associated with high remission rates and low mortality at minimum 5-year follow-up, according to published results.

Nearly half of patients with gout achieved remission with pegloticase treatment by 52 weeks, indicating longer-term benefits for intensive urate-lowering therapy, according to data presented at EULAR 2024 Congress.

New definitions of remission specific to childhood systemic lupus erythematosus promote cessation of corticosteroids and could enable combined child-adult treat-to-target studies, according to an analysis published in Clinical Immunology.

SAN DIEGO — Few patients are evaluated based on all seven endpoints of guidelines indicating complete asthma remission, according to a poster presented at the American Thoracic Society International Meeting.

DESTIN, Fla. — Rheumatologists should consider tapering tocilizumab for patients with giant cell arteritis in remission despite the increased risk for flare, said a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East annual meeting.

Patients in rheumatoid arthritis remission who tapered off conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs had higher risks for flares, with two methods failing to reach non-inferiority vs. stable dosage, according to data.

DENVER — Four children born with HIV who initiated ART within 48 hours of delivery later remained in treatment-free remission for over a year after ART was paused, researchers reported.