This content is machine translated Biologics therapy for psoriasis PSoHo cohort study – an interim assessment In clinical trial programs, certain subgroups of patients are excluded based on the respective inclusion criteria. Register studies provide additional data from everyday practice. To date, there have been few...…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Psoriatic Arthritis Multidimensional and multidisciplinary management If psoriatic arthritis is not adequately treated in good time, it can lead to permanent deformities and functional limitations. A broad armamentarium of evidence-based effective systemic therapeutics is available for...…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Rheumatology (SGR Congress) The treatment landscape for chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases offers scope for individual treatment decisions With the ongoing expansion of the therapeutic landscape, treatment management for chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is also changing....…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Rare diseases Gaucher disease – a sphingolipidosis A young adult patient with abdominal pain was found to have hepatomegaly and splenomegaly associated with thrombocytopenia and anemia. The bone marrow was then punctured and biopsied, followed by determination...…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Psoriasis vulgaris Practice-oriented recommendations for system therapy Fortunately, developments in recent years have led to the effective treatment of many patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. In addition to classical immunosuppressants, several biologics and a small molecule...…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated RHEUMATISM AND GENDER Diagnosis in women later and disease more frequent than in men Women eat healthier, visit their doctors more often and take advantage of preventive services more frequently than men. Nevertheless, you receive the diagnosis about a rheumatic disease much later. This...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Generalized Pustular Psoriasis (GPP) What is currently known about this rare systemic disease? Macroscopically visible sterile, confluent pustules on non-acral skin and extensive erythema and edema are among the characteristic manifestations of generalized pustular psoriasis – a severe inflammatory, potentially life-threatening skin disease....…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Inflammatory rheumatic diseases Fatigue in rheumatism Since the corona pandemic, the number of publications on fatigue symptomatology has increased exponentially, reflecting the current very high interest in this topic. As an accompanying symptom of cancer, but...… CME-Test
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated OA and atopic diseases Asthma + AD = Osteoarthritis The possible link between osteoarthritis (OA) and an atopic disease such as atopic dermatitis (AD) or bronchial asthma was investigated by US scientists. Their finding: patients with asthma or AD...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Spondyloarthritides Biologics before or after NSAIDs? Should biologics be used as first-line therapy in the treatment of spondyloarthritides (SpA) or are NSAIDs still the preferred option? A pro-and-con discussion explored this question at this year’s DGIM...…
