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Abstract Number: 697 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Does Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Reflect and Discriminate Flare from Infection in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus? Correlation with Clinical and Laboratory Parameters of Disease Activity
Valentin S. Schäfer¹, Katharina Weiss², Andreas Krause² and Wolfgang A. Schmidt³, ¹Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Center for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, ²Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Medical Center for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Berlin-Buch, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: ESR is applied for monitoring disease activity in SLE. It is known to be influenced by age and infections. We aimed at evaluating how…
Abstract Number: 698 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Selected Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy Changes Are Linked to SLE Onset in a Cohort of Uctd Subjects
Marianna Meroni¹, Carmen Pizzorni², Alberto Sulli¹, Paola Rossi³, Paolo Stobbione³ and Maurizio Cutolo⁴, ¹Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS A.O.U. San Martino-IST, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, Genova, Italy, ²Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS San Martino, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Department - A.O. S.S. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, Alessandria, Italy, ⁴Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS A.O.U. San Martino-IST, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Nailfold capillaroscopy (NVC) is a useful, non-invasive, reproducible and cost-effective diagnostic tool, able to assess the shape of capillaries in the nailfold bed. According…
Abstract Number: 699 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of Anti-RBP Antibodies on Disease Activity and Quality-of-Life in Immunosuppressant Naive Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Rene Bermea¹, Tammy Utset² and Kichul Ko³, ¹Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Medicine, Section of Rheumatology and Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: There is a lack of phenotypic data on SLE patients who have never been on immunosuppressive therapy. Anti-RNA binding protein (anti-RBP) antibodies (anti-Smith, anti-RNP,…
Abstract Number: 700 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Variability in Method of Testing for Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA): A Survey of Participants in the College of American Pathologist’s (CAP) Proficiency Testing Program
Stanley J. Naides¹, Jonathan Genzen², Gyorgy Abel³, Christine Bashleben⁴ and Mohammad Qasim Ansari⁵, ¹Immunology, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, CA, ²ARUP Laboratories Inc, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lahey Clinic Burlington, Burlington, VT, ⁴College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL, ⁵Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Louis Stokes VAMC, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: A 2010 American College of Rheumatology position paper designated indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) on HEp-2 cells the “gold standard” for ANA testing and that…
Abstract Number: 701 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Variability in ICAP (International Consensus on ANA Patterns) Pattern Reporting in Testing for Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA) By Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay (IFA)
Stanley J. Naides¹, Jonathan Genzen², Gyorgy Abel³, Christine Bashleben⁴ and Mohammad Qasim Ansari⁵, ¹Immunology, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, CA, ²ARUP Laboratories Inc, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lahey Clinic Burlington, Burlington, VT, ⁴College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL, ⁵Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Louis Stokes VAMC, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: ANA IFA pattern may guide clinical evaluation by directing specific antibody testing. ICAP has defined consensus ANA IFA patterns and the level of competency…
Abstract Number: 702 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Positive Direct Coombs’ Test in the Absence of Hemolytic Anemia Predicts High Disease Activity and Poor Renal Response in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Hironari Hanaoka, Harunobu Iida, Tomofumi Kiyokawa, Yukiko Takakuwa and Kimito Kawahata, Division of Rheumatology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
Background/Purpose: Direct Coombs' test in the absence of hemolytic anemia was newly included in the immunologic criterion of the SLICC/ACR 2012 criteria for SLE. Since…
Abstract Number: 703 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Value of Autoantibodies for Lupus Myelitis and Its Subtypes: A Systematic Review
Hiroshi Oiwa¹, Akira Kuriyama², Tomoyasu Matsubara³ and Eiji Sugiyama⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hiroshima City Hiroshima Citizens Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, ²General Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan, ³Neurology, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, ⁴Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
Background/Purpose: We conducted a systematic review to investigate the clinical value of clinical characteristics and autoantibodies, especially lupus-specific antibodies, for lupus myelitis and its subtypes.…
Abstract Number: 704 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Detection of dsDNA Antibodies By New Fluoroimmunoassay with Comparable Diagnostic Sensitivity and Specificity to Farr-Ria
Katja Lakota^1,2, Tanja Kveder², Tinka Svec², Polona Žigon², Ales Ambrozic³, Borut Božič^2,4, Matija Tomšič^2,5, Saša Čučnik^2,4 and Snezna Sodin Semrl^1,2, ¹Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Science and Information Technology, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia, ²Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, ⁴Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ⁵University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Background/Purpose: Antibodies against double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (anti-dsDNA) are a useful and valuable serological marker for diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Studies suggest strong correlation…
Abstract Number: 705 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Optimization of a Cost-Effective Diagnostic ANA Algorithm
Mathieu Cauchie¹, Bert Vander Cruyssen², Stefanie Van den Bremt³, Muriel Stubbe⁴, Xavier Bossuyt⁵ and Lieve Van Hoovels³, ¹OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ²Rheumatology, OLV hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ³Laboratory medicine, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ⁴Rheumatology, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium, ⁵Laboratory medicine, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Due to the poor specificity of the anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) assay, enhanced by the huge increase in ANA requests by non-rheumatologists,…
Abstract Number: 706 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Elevated Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Among Obese Patients with SLE- Not Always a Marker of Disease Activity
George Stojan¹, Erik Barr² and Michelle Petri³, ¹Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Medicine (Rheumatology), Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD, USA, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Obesity is more common in patients with SLE compared to the general population. The prevalence of obesity among SLE patients is between 28 and…
Abstract Number: 707 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Distinctive Features of Positive Anti-Cell Antibody Tests on HEp-2 Cells (HEp-2-ANA) in Patients with Non-Autoimmune Diseases
Renan Agustinelli¹, Sílvia H. Rodrigues², Mônica Prado³, Henrique Mariz⁴ and Luis Eduardo C. Andrade^5,6, ¹Rheumatology Division, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Rheumatology Division, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ³Rheumatology Division, Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Internal Medicine Department, Hospital das Clínicas - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ⁵Rheumatology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁶Immunology Division, Fleury Medicine and Health, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: The indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) test for anti-cell or antinuclear (ANA) antibodies on HEp-2 cells (HEp-2-ANA) is considered the gold standard method for ANA detection.…
Abstract Number: 708 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-RNP/Sm Antibodies Plus Lupus Anticoagulant As Risk Factor for Thrombosis in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Mari Carmen Zamora-Medina¹, Andrea Hinojosa-Azaola², Carlos Núñez-Álvarez³ and Juanita Romero-Diaz⁴, ¹Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion S.Z., Mexico City, Mexico, ²Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion S.Z., Mexico city, Mexico, ⁴Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico city, Mexico
Background/Purpose: In a previous study, we identify a potential role of anti-RNP/Sm in combination with LA as risk factor for thrombosis. We aimed to validate…
Abstract Number: 709 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Characteristics of Cardiac Diseases in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Risk Factors of Different Echocardiographic Features
Nevin Hammam^1,2, Mona H EL zohri³ and Alaa A A Mohamed¹, ¹Rheumatology, Rehabilitation and Physical medicine, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut, Egypt, ²Department of Physical therapy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Internal medicine department, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut, Egypt
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by involvement of different organs in the body. The cardiovascular (CVD) involvement in SLE is…
Abstract Number: 710 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
D-Dimer As an Early Marker in Patients with Lupus Mesenteric Vasculitis
Xiaolei Ma¹, Bingzhu Hua¹, Hong Wang¹, Yun Zhu¹, Zhiyong Chen¹ and Lingyun Sun², ¹Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China, ²Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, nanjing, China
Background/Purpose: No early serum marker of accurate diagnosis of lupus mesenteric vasculitis (LMV) contributes to the treatment decision-making process. The study was undertaken to evaluate…
Abstract Number: 711 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Depressive Disorders in Chinese Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Chi Chiu Mok¹, Yan Tung Lilian Lo², Chi Wai Cheng² and Kam Shan Poon², ¹Medicine, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ²Psychiatry, Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Background/Purpose: Depression is common in SLE but most previous studies utilized self-rated scales for evaluation. Formal diagnosis of depression was not established by psychiatric interviews.…

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