General Internal Medicine

Immunosuppression

Questions discussed in this category

What is your approach to working up diarrhea in an immunocompromised patient?

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Do you typically adjust or hold immunosuppression in a well-controlled RA patient who is being treated for Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI)?

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How do you manage a patient with severe RA or SLE that worsens after stopping immunosuppressants due to having chronic foot ulceration?

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Do you have a preference between Quantiferon Gold and T-spot TB for screening in patients starting immunosuppressive agents?

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What is your approach to continuing or altering therapy when inheriting a patient with combined biologic immunosuppression that is in excess of guidelines?

How do you approach de-escalation or justify therapy maintenance? Do you have tiers of medications that you attempt to de-escalate first? In one parti...

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Do you recommend chlorhexidine mouth rinse for prophylaxis against oral complications in patients undergoing dental work who are immunosuppressed?

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How do you counsel patients about the malignancy risk associated with azathioprine?

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Papers discussed in this category

J Am Dent Assoc, 2016 Jan 05

Clinical practice guidelines for oral management of Sjögren disease: Dental caries prevention.

Medicine, 2014 Oct

Intravenous immunoglobulin in the therapeutic armamentarium of systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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