Gastroenterology

General Rheumatology   

Questions discussed in this category


Do you generally recommend anti-diarrheals, dietary modifications, or consider this an unacceptable side effect and move to other therapies? 

For example, in patients who are HbSAg negative, anti-HBc positive and HbSAb negative, does vaccination reduce reactivation risk?

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...

Would the etiology of the thrombocytosis play a role in your decision-making?

When it seems fairly certain that this is a drug effect is it something that can just be monitored or requires a change in approach?


Papers discussed in this category


Arthritis Rheumatol, 2016 Jan

Arthritis care & research, 2017-03

Clin Exp Dermatol, 2018 May 24

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2015-06

Neth J Med,

Medicine (Baltimore),

Autoimmun Rev, 2012 Nov 30

Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983), 2002-11-15

Journal for scientific research. Medical sciences, 2001 Apr

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2017-10

Therapeutic drug monitoring, 2022 Jun 01

The Journal of infection, 2011-11

Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 2006 Nov 15

Journal of tropical medicine, 2017 Feb 26