The Rheumatology Podcast

Dr Mrinalini Dey and Dr Steven Zhao (Liverpool, UK) discuss the association between comorbidities and disease activity in patients with axial spondyloarthritis, using data from the BSRBR-AS.

Dr Marwan Bukhari and lead author Dr Sarah Mackie (Leeds, UK) discuss the new British Society for Rheumatology giant cell arteritis guideline. The guideline is the Editor’s Choice paper for March 2020.

Dr Marwan Bukhari and lead author Dr Sarah Mackie (Leeds, UK) discuss the new British Society for Rheumatology giant cell arteritis guideline. The guideline is the Editor’s Choice paper for March 2020.

How will patients be affected by the 2022 BSR guideline on the management of paediatric, adolescent and adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy? Join junior doctor and IIM patient Dr. Phoebe Rushe, Prof Hector Chinoy, Dr. Alex Oldroyd, Dr. James Lilleker and Dr. Liza McCann in a roundtable discussion hosted by Dr. Marwan Bukhari.

What do you need to know about the 2022 BSR guideline on the management of paediatric, adolescent and adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy? Join Prof Hector Chinoy, Dr. Alex Oldroyd, Dr. James Lilleker, Dr. Liza McCann and Dr. Phoebe Rushe in a roundtable discussion hosted by Dr. Marwan Bukhari.

Dr. Mark Russell (King's College, London, UK) joins Dr. Sean Gill to talk about improving outcomes for patients hospitalised with gout. They identify several strategies to improve practice and outcomes, and highlight key gaps in the literature that could be addressed by future research.

Prof. Daniel J. Wallace (Los Angeles, USA) joins Dr. Anastasia Madenidou to talk about safety and clinical activity of atacicept in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Dr. Anastasia Madenidou asks Prof. Christopher Sjöwall (Linköping, Sweden) about de novo lupus nephritis (LN) during treatment with belimumab. They discuss the process of collecting these observational data, the approval of belimumab for use in LN, and implications for clinical practice.

Dr. Chris Wincup asks Dr. Marta Alarcón-Riquelme (GENYO, Spain) about the use of precision medicine in autoimmune diseases. Dr. Alarcón-Riquelme provides a great introduction to precision medicine and current techniques, before moving on to discuss use in future clinical practice.

Dr Mike Backhouse asks Aimie Patience (Glasgow, UK) about her systematic review, which evaluates the methodology and reporting quality of ultrasound studies of Achilles enthesitis in people with psoriatic arthritis.