INFO - Lowering the thermostat in patient with inflammatory diseases such as RA and SLE

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Hospital for Special Surgery

August 11, 2003

" Lower the Thermostat - the Heat is Too High: Winning the Battle and the

War "

Musings

A. Paget, MD, FACP, FACR

Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Division of Rheumatology

Hospital for Special Surgery

The ph P. Routh Professor of Medicine

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Excerpt:

" Unless we as rheumatologists learn to and how to " turn and keep down the

heat " related to the inflammatory processes that burden our patients, we

relegate them to the cumulative, attendant types of collateral damage to

which they are subject. Years of unopposed, uncontrolled active

inflammation, at any level, is detrimental and begets many life-shortening

and life-altering effects. The point of therapeutic opportunity is at the

beginning of the disease process. "

http://www.hss.edu/Professionals/Conditions/Rheumatoid-Arthritis/Winning-The-Bat\

tle-And-The-War

Not an MD

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org