Professor of Rheumatology at Southend University Hospital, passionate music and arts lover. life long interest in PMR and GCA
Southend, England
Joined June 2016
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Great privilege to talk to the faculty of JIPMER my Alma Mater on standards that MUST underpin care of GCA PMR and Large vessel vasculitis. Any guidelines that suggest less imaging may not be fit for purpose @PMRGCAuk
From my talk this afternoon at tje Vasculitis course of the Spanish Society for Rheumatology
En su ponencia sobre "la estratificación de la enfermedad en GCA y PMR: estado del conocimiento y perspectivas futuras", el @profbdasgupta concluye como próximos pasos:
✅El marco del GPSD podría ampliarse en el futuro para incluir la arteritis de Takayasu (TAK).
✅La TAK difiere del GPSD en términos patológicos, demográficos y de presentación clínica, pero sus enfoques diagnósticos y terapéuticos comparten muchos puntos en común con los del GPSD.
✅Evaluación de las imágenes vasculares en diferentes grupos geográficos.
✅Esta fusión puede mejorar la eficiencia diagnóstica y facilitar una diferenciación fenotípica más matizada, lo que respalda un enfoque más integrado y eficaz para el manejo y la investigación de la enfermedad.
Bhaskar Dasgupta retweeted
Thanks to @profbdasgupta's insightful JIPMER talk! Stratifying the GCA/PMR spectrum-Stop one size fits all, use of HAS-GCA for headache in older patients:the fast-track pathway, watch for LVV signs in PMR are key takeaways.
#GCAPMR
#MedTwitter #Vasculitis
Bhaskar Dasgupta retweeted
Announcing a unique event - A Southend POCRUS (Point of care rheumatology ultrasound ) workshop on GCA PMR
LVV spectrum and application to other rheumatological
Conditions. Lots of Hands-on time with great illustrative cases!! @Orca_Medical
Rummaging among old papers came across this one which with Corkill et al on gold induction in RA would have initiated the now popular i.m. depomedrone injections to control active rheumatological disease - a historical test passed!
Announcing a unique event - A Southend POCRUS (Point of care rheumatology ultrasound ) workshop on GCA PMR
LVV spectrum and application to other rheumatological
Conditions. Lots of Hands-on time with great illustrative cases!! @Orca_Medical
Bhaskar Dasgupta retweeted
Research Article
Symptom Severity and Glucocorticoid Dosing in Patients With Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Obesity
📖 jrheum.org/cgi/content/full/…
@CrowsonCindy @profbdasgupta @DCamellino
#glucocorticoids #obesity #polymyalgiarheumatica
Thanks to everyone for their support to recognise a neglected twin condition - the GCA PMR spectrum diseases (GPSD). Thanks to my patients who taught me much. Thanks to trainees and fellows who executed the work @PMRGCAuk @MSEssex_ICS
Thank you for your post. We will be starting a Delphi survey for consensus building on GPSD very soon. Please let me know if you are interested in participating.
The spectrum of GCA and PMR by Prof @profbdasgupta
🔹Phenotypes: Cranial GCA, ischemic GCA, LV-GCA, PMR
🔹Phenotypes aren’t mutually exclusive
🔹PMR with subclinical GCA ➡️ low relapse-free survival
🔹Axillary artery USG screening: a great tool
#APLAR24
An accurate article on long term suffering of undiagnosed large vessel vasculitis masquerading as relapsing PMR - a classic example of our concepts of the GCA PMR SPECTRUM! Let’s hope this stimulates interest in such a neglected disease.
Good news for people struggling with long term steroid side effects my story in Daily Mail Good Health today …. I had chronic pain, then became dependent on steroids. But I have hope dailymail.co.uk/health/artic…
A new concept of applying rheumatology ultrasound as part of the clinical algorithm - POCRUS. Integrating point of care ultrasound into rheumatology practice - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3907…
Bhaskar Dasgupta retweeted
How to detect subclinical #GCA in a patient with #PMR to avoid relapse after discontinuing or tapering #glucocorticoids? With Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta (@profbdasgupta):
mcmastertextbook.com/intervi…
#rheumatology #MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMEd
@MacDeptMed @machealthsci @HEI_mcmaster @PMRGCAuk
Please attend this hybrid event - promises to be a landmark meeting
NEW EVENT - GCA PMR Spectrum - moving on after 65 years .
An exciting new event to be held BMA House London ,24 May 2024 .@profbdasgupta @Orca_Medical
To book: [email protected] ;01174285774
Bhaskar Dasgupta retweeted
For all clinicians, sufferers, researchers, stake holders in PMR GCA - this is a key meeting. Hybrid too to enable online participation. @PMRGCAuk @TheLancetRheum @RheumatologyUK @Niels_vd_Geest @tomelleri_a @alwinuk @ChristianDejaco @asimkd1 @Sarah_L_Mackie
NEW EVENT - GCA PMR Spectrum - moving on after 65 years .
An exciting new event to be held BMA House London ,24 May 2024 .@profbdasgupta @Orca_Medical
To book: [email protected] ;01174285774
Here is the link to the Healio news story about our recently published HAS GCA score - a predictive tool for GCA sequentially applying the Southend GCA probability score and ultrasonography (Halo count)@GoHealio @alwinuk @Niels_vd_Geest @tomelleri_a
healio.com/news/rheumatology…
Bhaskar Dasgupta retweeted
Improvement of a giant cell arteritis prediction model
Linked Comment by Zandra E Walton & @NaomiRheumMD @MGHrheumatology thelancet.com/journals/lanrh…
This easily implementable prediction tool the HAS GCA score should significantly improve the rapid diagnosis or exclusion of GCA in fast track clinics
NEW RESEARCH—A prospective multicentre study proposes a new prediction tool for giant cell arteritis (the HAS-GCA score), combining the Southend Giant Cell Arteritis Probability Score with the ultrasound-based halo count thelancet.com/journals/lanrh… #GCA @alwinuk @profbdasgupta
We will discuss prediction tool for diagnosis of GCA also assessment, imaging, therapies and monitoring of PMR GCA large vessel vasculitis and concept of the GCA PMR spectrum with several illustrative complex challenging cases @RheumatologyUK
For all clinicians, sufferers, researchers, stake holders in PMR GCA - this is a key meeting. Hybrid too to enable online participation. @PMRGCAuk @TheLancetRheum @RheumatologyUK @Niels_vd_Geest @tomelleri_a @alwinuk @ChristianDejaco @asimkd1 @Sarah_L_Mackie
NEW EVENT - GCA PMR Spectrum - moving on after 65 years .
An exciting new event to be held BMA House London ,24 May 2024 .@profbdasgupta @Orca_Medical
To book: [email protected] ;01174285774
Lets hope we can make widespread this essential skill for diagnosis and management of GCA. WE should shortly have in press a predictive tool using this approach
Can #ultrasonography replace biopsy in the diagnosis of giant cell #arteritis (GCA)? With Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta (@profbdasgupta):
empendium.com/mcmtextbook/in…
#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMEd
@MacDeptMed @machealthsci @HEI_mcmaster @McMasterGIM @McMasterIntMed