RheumMadness Podcast

The RheumMadness podcast is part of a rheumatology learning initiative sponsored by the Rheumatology Research Foundation Clinician Scholar Educator (CSE) Award. Go to https://sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/ to learn more. RheumMadness is created by David Leverenz, MD, who is the recipient of the CSE award. Dr. Leverenz has also received grant funding from Pfizer for quality improvement work unrelated to RheumMadness.

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6. VEXAS, FAST, and PEXIVAS

January 26, 2021 • RheumMadness • Season 1 • Episode 6

In this episode we welcome Dr. Didem Saygin, a rheumatology fellow from the University of Chicago, to the podcast. We are also joined by Dr. Guy Katz, a rheumatology fellow from MGH. We discuss three more topics that would be excellent teams in the upcoming RheumMadness tournament: the newly discovered VEXAS autoinflammatory syndrome, the FAST trial on cardiovascular safety of urate-lowering therapies, and the PEXIVAS trial in ANCA vasculitis.

New RheumMadness website!
https://sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/

References:
VEXAS: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2026834
FAST: https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)32234-0/fulltext
PEXIVAS: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1803537

RheumMadness Music Attribution: Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/