Newer Diagnostic And Therapeutic Modalities For Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Journal Title: BMH Medical Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
There is refinement of classification criteria for various rheumatic diseases like Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), vasculitis, Sjogren's syndrome etc. in the last few years which help the clinician in establishing early diagnosis and therapy. In case of uncertainties in the diagnosis, clinicians need to carefully interpret the result of autoantibody tests in the background of the clinical context. A growing number of autoantibodies have specificity for particular clinical phenotypes. They can also offer prognostic information and sometimes diagnostic certainty. Early use of Disease Modifying Anti Rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biological agents to attain no or low disease activity measured by primary complex indices markedly changed the outcome in most of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
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Jog Antony, Reeta James, Binoy J Paul
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