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How would you manage a patient with Crohn's disease on a biologic and presents with non-bloody diarrhea, normal-appearing mucosa on sigmoidoscopy but severe colitis on biopsy with a positive CMV stain?

Would you send a CMV DNA PCR in blood, and if you elect to treat with anti-CMV medication, how long would you treat and what parameters would you use,...

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How do you approach a patient on anti-TNF with positive Quantiferon (previously negative) with negative chest x-ray and no symptoms?

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Do you consider anti-viral prophylaxis in patients taking JAK inhibitors who have recurrent uncomplicated Zoster infection, but would prefer not changing therapy?

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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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Is there a role for regular hepatitis and TB screening in patients on chronic immunosuppressive therapy in the absence of new risk factors or exposures?

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Would you hold all immunosuppressive medications for the first month of LTBI treatment, or just biologics?

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Do you avoid any specific biologic therapies in HIV positive patients?

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Papers discussed in this category

Arthritis care & research, 2017-03

Rates of Serious Infections in HIV-Infected Patients Receiving Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Therapy for Concomitant Autoimmune Diseases.

Clin Exp Dermatol, 2018 May 24

Treatment of psoriasis with ustekinumab in a patient with HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma.

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

The Safety and Immunogenicity of Live Zoster Vaccination in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Before Starting Tofacitinib: A Randomized Phase II Trial.

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