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Do you combine methotrexate and leflunomide for the treatment of RA?

What is your approach to transitioning an SLE patient from a pregnancy incompatible regimen to pregnancy compatible regimen?

For example, when switching from MMF to azathioprine, do you overlap the treatments as you lower the dose of one and add the other?

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How often do you monitor labs in patients taking methotrexate?

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How do you counsel patients regarding alcohol intake when prescribing DMARDs other than methotrexate?

Such as Leflunomide, Sulfasalazine, Mycophenolate or Azathioprine, since all of these medications have potential to cause liver enzyme elevation and i...

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How long do you expect gastrointestinal side effects of leflunomide to persist after stopping treatment?

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How do you manage nausea in the setting of hydroxychloroquine use?

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Papers discussed in this category

Support Care Cancer, 2019 Dec 13

Effects of ginger adjunct to the standard prophylaxis on reducing carboplatin and paclitaxel-induced nausea vomiting: a randomized controlled study.

BMJ, 2023 May 30

Risk stratified monitoring for methotrexate toxicity in immune mediated inflammatory diseases: prognostic model development and validation using primary care data from the UK.

BMJ, 2023 May 30

Monitoring methotrexate toxicity: Are we being over-vigilant?

Current opinion in rheumatology, 2014-03

Systemic lupus erythematosus and pregnancy outcomes: an update and review of the literature.

Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2013 Feb 04

Low risk of renal flares and negative outcomes in women with lupus nephritis conceiving after switching from mycophenolate mofetil to azathioprine.

BMC public health, 2008 Jan 21

The SMILE study: a study of medical information and lifestyles in Eindhoven, the rationale and contents of a large prospective dynamic cohort study.

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