Diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) is based on typical clinical, histologic, and laboratory features. Ultrasonographic imaging in PMR with assessment especially of subdeltoid bursitis can…
Corticosteroids are a mainstay of therapy for severe organ-threatening systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus nephritis and central nervous system (CNS) lupus remain two of the most debilitating and potentially life-threatening manifestations…
Corticosteroids are the mainstay of treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus, with most patients receiving them at some point in the course of their disease. Corticosteroid use is associated with significant…
Glucocorticoids (GCs) were discovered in the 1940s and were administered for the first time to patients with rheumatoid arthritis in 1948. However, side effects were subsequently reported. In the last…
Glucocorticoids are primary stress hormones that regulate a variety of physiologic processes and are essential for life. The actions of glucocorticoids are predominantly mediated through the classic glucocorticoid receptor (GR)….
Philip Hench, Edward Kendall, and Tadeus Reichstein received the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1950 for their “investigations of the hormones of the adrenal cortex.” Hench and Kendall…
Marcy B. Bolster, MD, Editor Corticosteroids have been a mainstay of treatment employed by rheumatologists since the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of cortisone in 1950 by Drs Hench, Kendall, and Reichstein….
Michael H. Weisman, MD, Consulting Editor Nowhere is there more controversy in rheumatic diseases than the role of corticosteroids, and that is the reason for the development of this issue….
PROMIS, the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, is opening new possibilities to explore and learn how patient (or proxy) self-report of core symptoms and health-related quality of life can meaningfully…
Use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROs) in rheumatology research is widespread, but use of PRO data to evaluate the quality of rheumatologic care delivered is less well established. This article…
