by RNSAdmin | Jun 5, 2018 | Education, Lupus
“SLE IS LIKE A GREY WOLF LURKING AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, WAITING PATIENTLY TO ATTACK AN INDIVIDUAL’S BLOODSTREAM WHEN IT IDENTIFIES AN OPPORTUNITY…” Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) has been called “The Great Imposter.” A sneaky disease that...
by RNSAdmin | May 29, 2018 | Education, Lupus
When I met JP, she had just turned 22 years old. She had been living with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) since the age of 13, suffering through many ups and downs.As with every other young lupus patient I see, JP had extremely aggressive disease. Since being...
by RNSAdmin | May 22, 2018 | Education, Lupus
I work in a university-based rheumatology practice that includes an inpatient team that sees patients on the rheumatology service or consults on patients admitted to other services within our system.Three years ago, our team was called in for a consult on SJ, a...
by RNSAdmin | May 15, 2018 | Education
One of our office’s most interesting and complicated juvenile spondyloarthritis (SpA) cases involved AZ, who presented to us as a 13-year-old male with a 3-year history of bilateral hip pain and approximately 6 months after bilateral hip pinning for slipped capital...
by RNSAdmin | May 8, 2018 | Education
GV is a 28-year-old female social worker who presented to my clinic in January as a new patient. During our initial conversation, she said she suffered from regular joint pain since her late teens, with her hips often bothering her so much at night that she slept with...
