Lupus, Sjogren's Syndrome, Scleroderma, and Related Conditions

Can Sjögren's Syndrome Be Managed Without Steroids? Three key aspects of treating Sjögren's do not involve the use of steroids.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 27, 2009
How Can We Manage Multifactorial Pain? Pain management can be quite complicated in patients with comorbid illnesses and drug intolerances.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 20, 2009
How Should Dry Mouth Be Treated? When dry mouth (xerostomia) is a patient's only symptom and the patient doesn't have associated disease, should a medication be prescribed?
Experts And Viewpoints, April 30, 2009
Treating An Elderly Patient With Osteoporosis and Sjogren's Syndrome Robert Fox, MD, provides commentary on the treatment modality for a 65-year-old woman with osteoporosis, Sjogren's syndrome, and with renal insufficiency.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 16, 2008
Side Effect of Long-term Cyclosporine Therapy What is the most common side effect of long-term cyclosporine therapy for dry eye in RA and lupus patients?
Experts And Viewpoints, June 05, 2006
Treatment for Digital Ulcers Due to Raynaud's Phenomenon In your experience, what is the best noninvasive treatment for digital ulcers due to Raynaud's phenomenon in scleroderma?
Experts And Viewpoints, November 17, 2005
Can Lymphocytosis Be Associated With Sjogren's Syndrome? Do you know whether an elevated CD8+ T-cell count (or any other lymphocyte subset, resulting in an elevated total lymphocyte count) can be due to lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus?
Experts And Viewpoints, September 28, 2005
Incidence of Large Bowel Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis What is the incidence of large bowel involvement in systemic sclerosis in comparison to esophageal and small bowel, and can large bowel involvement occur without upper GI involvement?
Experts And Viewpoints, August 17, 2005
What Is Scleroderma Renal Crisis and How Is it Managed? What is scleroderma renal crisis and how is it managed?
Experts And Viewpoints, July 12, 2005
Can Lymphocytosis Be Associated With Sjogren's Syndrome? A patient presents with dry eyes, waxing and waning lymphocytosis, and no splenomegaly but decreased activity of NK cells. Can there be an associated lymphocytosis with Sjogren's syndrome?
Experts And Viewpoints, June 17, 2005
Scleromerma and Progressive Digital Gangrene A 35-year-old patient with a history of more than 10 years of scleroderma presented with intolerable finger pain and progressive digital gangrene. How should he be treated?
Experts And Viewpoints, April 28, 2005
Sjogren's Syndrome and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis What are the considerations in treating a patient who has both Sjogren's syndrome and primary biliary cirrhosis?
Experts And Viewpoints, July 10, 2003
Use of Fertility Drugs in Patients With Systemic Autoimmunity What are the considerations in patients with systemic autoimmunity who may need a fertility drug to achieve pregnancy?
Experts And Viewpoints, June 26, 2003
High-Dose Steroids in the Setting of Fever and SLE Is it advisable to give high-dose steroids to a patient with lupus and marked serositis who also has a fever?
Experts And Viewpoints, March 25, 2003
Lupus and Glomerulonephritis What is the best next step in the management of a 21-year-old white man with diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis and recurrence of urinary signs?
Experts And Viewpoints, March 04, 2003
Role of Mycophenolate Mofetil in Lupus Nephritis? Is the drug superior or equal in effectiveness to cyclophosphamide?
Experts And Viewpoints, September 30, 2002
Positive ANA, dsDNA, and ANCA in Malignancies Has the presence of positive ANA been investigated in malignancies and if so, what does the literature say?
Experts And Viewpoints, August 30, 2002
Fever of Unknown Origin A 35-year-old woman with a 3-year history of polyarthritis was admitted to the hospital with complaints of fever.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 07, 2002
Ask the Experts - Respiratory Failure in Dermatomyositis I have a female patient with recently diagnosed Jo-1 antibody-positive dermatomyositis (skin rash, creatine phosphokinase [CPK] >3000 U/L, nail bed capillary changes). Shortly after starting prednisone (40-60 mg/d) she developed rapidly progressive respiratory failure with bibasilar infiltrates.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 04, 2001
Ask the Experts - Treatment of Erythema Nodosum Do you know of any case report(s) on the treatment of erythema nodosum (EN) with methotrexate, infliximab, and ibuprofen?
Experts And Viewpoints, August 28, 2001

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