Background: The workload at rheumatology clinics have been growing relentlessly and an audit on new referrals helps to identify referral behavior of primary care doctors improvement can be done by providing further training. Objective: To cases clinic during Covid-19 pandemic 2020 with misdiagnosis for future training purpose. Methods: This was a retrospective study. electronic medical records ...

Background Immune-related adverse events (irAE) are common in cancer patients treated with checkpoint inhibitors. irAE can affect any organs and systems including musculoskeletal. The characteristics of immune-related musculoskeletal disorders (MD) still remain incomplete. Objectives to determine the MD manifested during treatment solid check-point inhibitors case series. Methods We identified ...

Background Inflammation around the tendons of hand interosseous muscles (interosseous tendon inflammation; ITI) was recently identified on MRI in a set RA and arthralgia patients. Objectives However, prevalence ITI at diagnosis is unknown, as its other arthritides relationship with clinical signs. These questions prompted us to perform this large study. Methods 1,205 consecutive patients presen...

Objective : to describe musculoskeletal immune-mediated adverse events (iAEs) associated with the therapy of solid tumors immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs, PD-1/PD-L1 pathway). Patients and methods . 13 patients receiving ICIs iAEs were examined. The average age was 59±10 years. All cases had a histologically verified diagnosis malignant neoplasm: melanoma (n=5), kidney cancer (n=3), bladder ...

Sirs, A 12-year-old female presenting with a onemonth history of painful edema of the hands followed by edema of the feet and legs was admitted to our clinic. She had a history of occasional thrombocytopenia (83,000/mcl) since eleven years of age, without markers of autoimmune diseases. Our physical examination revealed pitting edema of her hands and feet and edema of the pretibial region and o...