Articles By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
Topical therapies take centre stage
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
04 June 2022
Topical treatments have so often been the low level “sure you can try this” option. However there are exciting data that these approaches may become part of our main armamentarium.
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A Big Leap in Modulating Rheumatoid Disease
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
01 June 2022
Intervention in individuals predisposed to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with a holy grail of prevention of RA, has long been a hot topic. It is well known that seropositivity for rheumatoid factor and antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptides (ACPA) can precede RA disease by many years. Many, but by no means all, patients also seem to go through a pre-RA arthalgia phase of varying duration characterised by the presence of increasing joint pain without frank arthritis.
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Giant Cell Arteritis Novel Treatment Options
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
29 November 2021
Giant cell arteritis is associated with significant treatment related morbidity due to the dependence on glucocorticoids as a treatment option. After sixty years of therapeutic stagnation, these are exciting times in the management of GCA. At this year's ACR Convergence meeting, encouraging data will be presented on options for GCA.
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The Influence of Obesity on Choice of Biologic in Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
23 November 2021
In rheumatoid arthritis we have a wide range of options available to us when we progress to a biologic treatment option. We have little to differentiate between these agents based on the clinical trials.
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The Need for Comparative Treatment Trials in Psoriatic Arthritis
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
09 November 2021
Psoriatic arthritis is currently experiencing a burgeoning selection of treatment options. While this is a very welcome development in a disease which has had less treatment options compared to RA, it leaves us with a difficult conundrum: which agent to choose for an individual patient.
Read ArticleThe Influence of Obesity on Choice of Biologic Agent in Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
07 November 2021
In rheumatoid arthritis we have a wide range of options available to us when we progress to a biologic treatment option. We have little to differentiate between these agents based on the clinical trials.
Read ArticleNovel treatment options for Giant Cell Arteritis
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
06 November 2021
Giant cell arteritis is associated with significant treatment related morbidity due to the dependence on glucocorticoids as a treatment option. After sixty years of therapeutic stagnation, these are exciting times in the management of GCA. At this year's ACR Convergence meeting, encouraging data will be presented on options for GCA.
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RA ILD: Stepping out of the shadows
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
09 June 2021
Despite being relatively common and frequently severe, RA-ILD has been a neglected area of research and indeed of clinical management in RA. In recent years we finally seem to have started making some progress in this area and this momentum has continued with a several interesting abstracts at EULAR 2021. Here are four selected for review.
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Turning the Corner on CV Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
03 June 2021
Cardiovascular (CV) disease remains the leading cause of mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A number of studies progressed our knowledge in the session Rheumatoid arthritis - comorbidity and clinical aspects – I on Thursday at EULAR 2021.
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The tantalising prospect of glucocorticoid-free treatments for systemic vasculitis
By Richard Conway, MBBChBAO, PhD
30 November 2020
Glucocorticoids are a highly effective treatment in systemic vasculitis but are also a significant cause of long-term harm in the form of treatment related adverse events.
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