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This Guidelines in Practice webinar featured:
Dr James Galloway
Senior Lecturer at King’s College London
Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology at King’s College Hospital
Ms Julie Begum
Specialist Nurse Lead
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital
Click on the individual chapters below to view the section of the recorded webinar:
- Introduction to methotrexate
- Methotrexate in combination
- Case study
- Methotrexate symptoms
- Rheumatoid arthritis lung fibrosis and drug induced lung fibrosis
- Methotrexate and low haemoglobin
- Methotrexate and liver toxicity
- Summary from James Galloway
- Question and discussion: After the first line of treatment for RA, PSA, what criteria would you consider when adding a second DMARD or moving to biologics?
- Question and discussion: Would you expect the monitoring frequency to be continued at this level, going forward, whatever the ‘new’ normal turns out to be?
- Methotrexate is an anchor drug for rheumatoid arthritis and background therapy
- Guidance in rheumatoid arthritis
- Early diagnosis
- Oral versus subcutaneous
- Concomitant medication
- Methotrexate and surgery
- Methotrexate and shared care
- Luton shared care
- Methotrexate and GP assistance
- Methotrexate devices
- Blood tests
- Question and discussion: When we see a patient with multiple joint pains and we suspect RA, should we arrange multiple x-rays?
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Feedback from live attendees:
- Thank you for the very useful webinar!
- Very enjoyable and educational
- Well organised and time compliant. Have joined webinar for the first time so would be looking forward to joining other teaching webinars.
- Best talks for a while, well done and thank you.
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Date of preparation: September 2021