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Strasbourg, France
Joined March 2019
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Check the latest paper 📚 from @CRMR_RESO with @MertzP @PrTmartin_RESO & @Lupusreference ➡️ #Infliximab is an effective #glucocorticoid-sparing #treatment for #Takayasu arteritis: Results of a multicenter open-label prospective study doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.202…
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👍 My take on the current management of #lupus #nephritis (mix of the latest @eular_org & @goKDIGO recommendations). Please RT & comment🙏. I would definitely appreciate some feedback 🔄 from #nephrology colleagues as it was a tough job to assemble this slide!! 🏥 #SLE #renal
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Check this #paper 📄 from our national reference center for auto-immune diseases 🏥 (@CRMR_RESO with @MertzP & @PrTmartin_RESO) about the clinical spectrum and #treatment management 💊 of #autoimmune #myelofibrosis. Most patients had systemic #lupus 🐺 doi.org/10.3324/haematol.202…
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The HISTORY of #lupus 🤓 Check my new video about how, why and when the term "lupus" 🐺 appeared and discover its complex history, overlapping with that of tuberculosis and syphilis until the concepts of cutaneous lupus #CLE and #SLE were well defined. ➡️youtu.be/SIyWAdRiX4w
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🚨 Check the latest paper 📃 from @CRMR_RESO about #world-wide 🌍🌎🌏 mortality of 6 #autoimmune #diseases 🏥: #lupus, #scleroderma, #Sjogren, #myositis, #MCTD and #vasculitis and discover the data 📈 for your own country! 🗺️ Final version at: doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.202…
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🚨 Check the latest paper 📑 of @Lupusreference with @m_scherlinger & @Professeur_geek. Discover the major #inequities in the #mortality of #autoimmune diseases in the #world 🌍🌎🌏 Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.202… #lupus #scleroderma #sjogren #MCTD #Vasculitis #myositis
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Raoult PRE-print: 79 pts w/COVID improve, also receive HCQ 1. Not peer rvwd 2. No control group 3. Incl pts from prior study 4. Migratory/weak endpts 5. Healthy group: 41% only URI & 5% asymptomatic!?! Not confirmatory; not progress. Need. RCTs. PDF: ebrheum.com/twts
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With #coronavirus most meetings are canceled but we can still share knowledge using #twitter 👍. 🆕 Here is my lecture 🗣️ on #interferons & #lupus #SLE planned for #BBI2020. Link to pdf (46Mo): docdro.id/z55p6ls Please leave me a comment 📖 (or RT) if you download it! 🤳
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Among patients with severe antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–associated vasculitis, plasma exchange did not reduce the incidence of death or end-stage kidney disease.

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Read our latest #article on #Psout, combining psoriasis/PsA and gout, published with in @ClinRheumatol 🥰 >> rdcu.be/b1KI0
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Vasculitis & Ulcerative Colitis Overlap: How rare is this condition, and how do we diagnose it? acr.tw/2RzOEov
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PEXIVAS fact-RCT, PLEX v PLBO & ⬆️ or ⬇️ steroid (60% less) taper in AAV w/renal or pulm dx, @NEJM Re:death/ESRD: no benefit to PLEX (28% vs 31%, NS and NNT ~38) Reduced taper noninferior to standard (HR ~ 1) & fewer infxns! (27% vs 33%, NNT ~17) Less PLEX; less steroid
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Syndrome papulo-purpurique en gants🧤et chaussettes 🧦 1️⃣Parvovirus B19 2️⃣Rougeole 3️⃣Rubeole 4️⃣HBV 5️⃣HIV 6️⃣HHV6 7️⃣HHV7 8️⃣CMV, EBV, Cocsackie 9️⃣ Bactéries 🔟 Médicaments 📕Source: Saurat JH. Dermatologie et IST
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Image Challenge: A 53-year-old man presented to the ED with a 1-month history of relapsing fevers, dyspnea, and rapidly progressive skin lesions. What is the most likely diagnosis? nej.md/2Ku5WxD

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The 2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Classification Criteria for IgG4‐Related Disease acr.tw/2uoXgVT
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Systemic Inflammation and Myelofibrosis in a Patient with Takenouchi-Kosaki Syndrome due to CDC42 Tyr64Cys Mutation (outside the C-terminal domain). Tribute to a unique patient. Thank you ⁦⁦@stutangye⁩ lab. Thanks to all! link.springer.com/article/10…
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SAVE THE DATE La 3ème édition de la #WINTERSCHOOL des maladies #autoimmunes et inflammatoires du #RESO STRASBOURG se déroulera les 26 et 27 novembre 2020!
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NEJM Case Challenge: A 44-year-old man was evaluated because of diarrhea and progressive weight loss, plus an episode of culture-negative meningitis. What is the most likely diagnosis? #casechallenge #NEJMCases nej.md/3a8E0wl

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