Ocular symptoms can be the dominant clinical manifestation of rheumatic disease in some cases and knowledge of these relationships can improve the care of both the eye and the joint disease.
A multidisciplinary group of clinicians has developed evidence-based clinical guidelines regarding the vaccination of individuals exposed to immunosuppressive therapies.
Researchers assessed the safety, biologic, and clinical effects of low-dose interleukin-2 across 11 individual diseases chosen to represent the whole spectrum of autoimmune or inflammatory chronic diseases.
Using a validated claims-based algorithm, study authors identified pregnancies among women 15-54 years of age from the US Sentinel System between January 1 2004 and September 30 2015.