BOSTON — Although nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and calcium supplements are often used to treat patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, physicians — and rheumatologists specifically — should be mindful of the potential complications and complexities that sometimes accompany them, a presenter warned at the 2018 Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Summit.
“I want you to think about the lupus patient in total,” Michelle A. Petri, MD, MPH, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said. “They are on so many drugs, and I have learned that some of
Original Article: NSAIDS, calcium supplements may exacerbate SLE comorbidities