Rheumatology   

Solid tumor patients, other hematologic malignancies, patients with autoimmune diseases on immunosuppressive therapy? Do you consider workup if they a...

Especially in an inpatient setting when EMG is not immediately available.

For example, is captopril dialyzable? 

Vasculitis involving aorta, subclavian, common carotid, SMA, IMA, renal artery, and celiac artery.

 When do you decide to hospitalize?

Patient became acutely flushed, developed severe and prolonged hypotension with brief loss of consciousness, dizziness, nausea, dry heaves and headach...

How would you treat?  Would you view tocilizumab as an option in the future? 

Would you proceed with CABG procedure or treat the aortitis first?

In the absence of rhabdomyolysis is there still a need to protect the kidneys when patients with inflammatory myositis have CK over 5000 or 10000?

e.g. DITP from eptifibatide after a cardiac intervention

Would you discontinue Methotrexate and TNF inhibitors even if previously no side effects from these medications, and would you consider Cyclophosphami...

What factors go into choosing the right patient and determining length of therapy?

Especially in a triple-positive patient with an acute ischemic stroke who may have urgency for anticoagulation with high bleeding risk and severe thro...

Current guidelines do not support its use, but the EMPACTA trial suggests it may be effective in a subpopulation of patients.