University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

SAN DIEGO — Pulmonary arterial hypertension’s prevalence and rate of progression in patients with connective tissue diseases should make regular screening a priority, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Shape-sensing robotic-assisted bronchoscopy with cone-beam CT imaging showed promise for diagnosing central, distal-airway and peripheral pulmonary lesions in a single-center study presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

The movement away from long-term steroid use has reached all corners of rheumatology, and for good reason: Extended use of glucocorticoids can be associated with a raft of adverse outcomes.

An artificial intelligence tool for detecting incidental pulmonary embolus on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT had high negative predictive value and moderate positive predictive value for detection, researchers reported.

In a cohort of more than 16,000 Hispanic/Latino Americans, there was heterogeneity in lipoprotein(a) and apolipoprotein B levels according to background, researchers reported at the National Lipid Association Scientific Sessions.

Efforts to limit overuse of surveillance testing and treatment for low-risk nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer are needed to alleviate increasing costs of care, results of a population-based cohort study suggested.

Among older adults without HF, men and Black participants exhibited worse systolic performance during 5 years of follow-up, putting both groups at heightened risk for HF with reduced ejection fraction, researchers reported.

In this video from ACR Convergence 2021, Kathryn Dao, MD, provided insight on the data from the GLORIA trial, which found that steroids improved disease activity “but at a cost.”

In this video from ACR Convergence 2021, Kathryn Dao, MD, highlighted cardiovascular risk factors to be aware of when prescribing JAK inhibitors for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Kathryn Dao, MD, spoke with Healio about an ACR Convergence 2021 presentation that reported that “rheumatoid arthritis patients who were cared for through telehealth actually did no worse compared to face-to-face visits.”