Spinal Disorders News

• BSR 2023 NSAIDs May Mask MRI Findings in Spondyloarthritis Cases Among nearly 1 in 4 patients whose MRI results were initially positive for sacroiliitis, results were negative 6 weeks after NSAIDs were taken.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2023
• AANS 2023 Decompression, Fusion Better for Slipped Vertebrae? Surprising data in a 5-year retrospective analysis after degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis surgery go against previous findings.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2023
• BSR 2023 Meta-Analysis Probes Cancer Risk Concern for JAK Inhibitors Although no increased cancer risk was seen vs methotrexate or placebo, Janus kinase inhibitors were associated with a higher cancer risk than were tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in a meta-analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, April 26, 2023
• Managing Inflammatory Rheumatism With Diet and Nutrition Patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases often change their diets. A rheumatologist recently reviewed the data about this approach to disease management.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2023
• AAD 2023 Dermatology Risks Are Likely Different for JAK Inhibitors Black box warnings for JAK inhibitors arise from rheumatoid arthritis studies, leading one expert to question the risk-benefit relevance to dermatologic diseases, particularly in younger patients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 18, 2023
• RWCS 2023 Perioperative Antirheumatic Drug Guideline Contains Caveats Experts say the 2022 ACR/AAHKS guideline for patients undergoing total hip or total knee arthroplasty have a number of caveats that limit the usefulness of the recommendations.
  MDedge News, February 23, 2023
• First Humira Biosimilar Launches in US Amgen's Amjevita will be offered at 5% and 55% below Humira's list price, but patients may not benefit from the more significant discount.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Phil Robinson: Rheumatologist, Colleague, Huntsman Spider Rescuer Philip ("Phil") Robinson, rheumatologist and associate professor at the University of Queensland and leader of global effort to understand COVID-19 among patients with rheumatic conditions, died on January 3 after a brief illness.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2023
• CV Risk Score Multipliers Suggested for Rheumatic Diseases Guidelines could tailor cardiovascular risk scores by using a multiplier of 2.5 for systemic sclerosis, 2.0 for lupus, and 1.5 for any other rheumatic disease.
  MDedge News, December 30, 2022
• Lifetime MACE Risk Increased in Adults With Scoliosis Persons with scoliosis in an adult UK Biobank cohort showed a 45% increased lifetime risk for major adverse cardiac events, the risk driven by two specific heart disorders.
  First Look, December 08, 2022
• EMA Recommends Restricting Use of JAK Inhibitors The European authorities seek to minimize the risk of serious side effects with which these immune-modulating medicines are associated.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• ACR 2022 NSAIDs for Spondyloarthritis May Affect Time to Conception Age and NSAID use were linked with a longer time to conception for women with SpA. Researchers urge patients wanting to get pregnant to be cautious about using them.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• ACR 2022 Retention High With Biosimilar-to-Biosimilar Switch for Arthritis Danish investigators studied how a government-mandated switch from one infliximab biosimilar to another affected patients with inflammatory arthritis.
  MDedge News, November 14, 2022
• Reducing Inflammation May Lower Dementia Risk in RA Compared with conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs may lower dementia risk.
  MDedge News, November 09, 2022
• TNF Inhibitors Linked to Increased Multiple Sclerosis Risk In a large, retrospective cohort study, investigators found a slightly increased risk for MS in patients on TNF therapy, especially among those being treated for rheumatic disease.
  Medscape Medical News, November 09, 2022
• Hospitalists Can Get Help for Rheumatology Cases Access to rheumatologist consults in the hospital is harder to come by, but alternative sources of support may be available.
  Medscape Medical News, October 26, 2022
• AS Patients Without Spinal Fusion Are a Distinct Subgroup A small minority of patients with long-standing ankylosing spondylitis and fused sacroiliac joints lack syndesmophytes and were more likely to be HLA-B27 positive and female, a study found.
  MDedge News, October 11, 2022
• Breakthrough Studies Support New Boosters in Immunosuppressed The findings of two studies underscore the importance of booster vaccine doses in those with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases who are taking immunosuppressants.
  Medscape Medical News, October 04, 2022
• Sex Differences Seen in Inflammatory Arthritis Healthcare Use Women’s higher risk of conditions such as osteoarthritis and pain and fatigue may help to explain why overall healthcare resource use was higher in female patients with inflammatory arthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• ICS 2022 Undiagnosed SpA Common in Chiropractor Back Pain Referrals "Chiropractors need education for axSpA, when to suspect, and when to refer," said Atul Deodhar, MD, medical director of rheumatology clinics at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.
  MDedge News, September 20, 2022