The article reports on the workforce study from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) indicating the lack of rheumatologists in small micropolitan areas in the country. It mentions the expected shortage of them by 400 in 2010 and 2,500 in 2025 due to their poor of growth. An overview ...
1998, International Journal of Cardiology Show abstract Thromboangiitis obliterans or Buerger's disease: Challenges for the rheumatologist 2007, Rheumatology Vasculitis in systemic lupus erythematosus: Prevalence and clinical characteristics in 670 patients 2006, Medicine Cannabis arteritis revisited - Ten new...
presentation, treatment and outcome of paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally related to Sars-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in children; (ii) to propose a framework to guide multidisciplinary team (MDT) management; and (iii) to highlight the role of the paediatric rheumatologist in this context...
The training of u.s. rheumatologists, 1927‐1976L. A. HealeyArthritis and Rheumatism
The aim of this study was to find out whether they are a risk factor for osteoporosis.MethodsThis was a three-year study carried out by 15 rheumatologists with private patients. 45 patients were identified (35 women, 10 men) 95.6% of them Caucasians. A control group of 70 patients was ...
Using standardised questionnaires, rheumatologists recorded clinical characteristics, laboratory results, disease activity, medications and clinical outcomes. Criteria for dose reduction of TNFi therapy included DAS28-ESR ≤3.2 (low disease activity) for ≥6 months and patient agreement. TNFi dose was ...
Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to lupus nephritis (LN-ESRD) may be followed by multiple providers (nephrologists and rheumatologists) and have greater opportunities to receive recommended ESRD-related care. We aimed to examine whether LN-ESRD patients have better quality of ESRD...
Objectives: The disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in pregnancy is most commonly assessed with the modified Disease Activity Score (DAS)-28, the DAS28(3)CRP. However, the performance of the DAS28(3)CRP in pregnancy has not been compared to musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK-US) as ...
Desire to know the aim of the treatment (97.1% of the patients) was unrelated to any parameter studied. In general, the rheumatologist is source of information of about 80% of the patients and this search of information was associated with higher disease activity (p=0,012). Neither friends...