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LEAP – Winter 2021: Flashes of Insight

LEAP – Winter 2021: Flashes of Insight

This is an unusual time, and this year’s LEAP reflects it well: we start with Covid-19’s very sickest patients, and a Hopkins-wide team’s groundbreaking efforts to illuminate an unusual response in their immune system.

We end with a remarkable patient with a rare autoimmune disease: the legendary musician, Peter Frampton, who is not only raising awareness and research funding, but changing medical advice about how to preserve muscle function.

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with ANCA vasculitis

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with ANCA vasculitis

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to ANCA vasculitis patient care, but these patients are not at higher risk for COVID-19 than the general population, despite receiving immunosuppressive therapy.

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Hot spots in Topo protein drive shared autoimmune responses in scleroderma patients

Hot spots in Topo protein drive shared autoimmune responses in scleroderma patients

Researchers at Johns Hopkins identified “hot spots” in the Topo protein that are targeted by the immune system in scleroderma patients with different genetic backgrounds, which may help us understand why the immune system attacks healthy tissues in this autoimmune disease.

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Scleroderma

LEAP Rounds – Spring 2020

LEAP Rounds – Spring 2020

Corticosteroids (prednisone) are the mainstay of therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Prednisone works: it has anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive actions in SLE. This is why doctors who treat lupus patients […]

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LEAP – Winter 2020: Wisdom of the Crowd

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Any builder will tell you that strength lies in the crosspieces, where framework or walls intersect.

This issue of LEAP celebrates intersections: between clinicians and biological scientists, between both of those groups and information scientists, between specialists of different disciplines.

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Muscle involvement more pronounced in dermatomyositis patients with anti-Mi2 antibodies

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Hopkins researchers found that dermatomyositis patients with anti-Mi2 antibodies have more severe muscle disease but demonstrate improvement in muscle strength after treatment.

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Dermatomyositis

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