Abstract Number: 1346 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Factors That Influence Therapy in Patients with Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease
Background/Purpose: To compare clinical and immunological characteristics in patients with undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) treated with hydroxycholoroquine (HCQ) in a large academic clinical practice.…Abstract Number: 1347 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: Characteristics, Treatment and Outcome in 251 Cases from the Literature
Background/Purpose: Steroid-responsive encephalopathy and associated autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT) is characterized by encephalopathy and the presence of antithyroid antibodies. We describe the clinical presentation, outcome and…Abstract Number: 1348 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Neuromyelitis Optica: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Patterns Among Rheumatologists Versus Non-Rheumatologists
Background/Purpose: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system that has been associated with systemic autoimmunity often cared for by…Abstract Number: 1349 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Analysis of Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis
Background/Purpose: Hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP) is a rare, chronic and inflammatory disorder. HP is characterized by thickening of the cranial dura mater. The cause of HP…Abstract Number: 1350 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Asymptomatic Coccidioidomycosis in Patients with Rheumatic Disease: 8 Years of Experience
Background/Purpose: Coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) is an endemic fungal infection that typically causes a self-limited pulmonary illness in the Southwestern United States,. Immunosuppressed patients are at…Abstract Number: 1351 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mortality and Prognostic Factors of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases
Background/Purpose: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is one of the severe opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients. PCP is still a leading cause of death in patients with…Abstract Number: 1352 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Predictors of Mortality in Rheumatic Disease Patients with CMV Infection
Background/Purpose: Immunosuppressive therapy, which is frequently used to treat various rheumatic diseases, increases risk of opportunistic infection. However, few reports were available on the prognosis…Abstract Number: 1353 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk Factors of Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium-Comlex (MAC) Disease and the Significance of Anti-MAC Antibody in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary MAC disease is caused by MAC and the incidence is increasing in Japan. It is also becoming a great concern in the field…Abstract Number: 1354 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasound Verified Inflammation and Structural Abnormalities in Patients with Hemochromatosis with and without Associated Arthropathy
Background/Purpose: To study inflammatory and structural ultrasound lesions in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) with and without arthropathy Methods: Cross-sectional study of 50 patients…Abstract Number: 1355 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
ASAH1 Gene Mutations Cause Acid Ceramidase Deficiency (Farber Disease), with Symptoms Including Arthritis and Subcutaneous Nodules. Patients Are Often Misdiagnosed with JIA, and Slowly Progressive Disease May Only be Diagnosed in Adulthood
Background/Purpose: Mutations in the ASAH1 gene cause acid ceramidase deficiency, accumulation of the pro-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic lipid ceramide, and a distinct set of clinical features,…Abstract Number: 1356 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Correlation of Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate with Glycohemoglobin Values and Other Patient Factors
Background/Purpose: The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is a laboratory test commonly used in clinical practice as an assessment of systemic inflammation. The glycohemoglobin (A1c) measures…Abstract Number: 1357 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Description of Patients with Cytoplasmic Discrete Speckles on Indirect Immunofluorescence on HEp-2 Cells in a Universitary Hospital
Background/Purpose: Indirect Immunofluorescence (IIF) shows different nuclear and cytoplasmic fluorescence patterns depending on the antibodies present in the cell. Cytoplasmic patterns are an unusual finding.…Abstract Number: 1358 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Response of Hidradenitis Suppurativa to Biologic Therapy
Response of Hidradenitis Suppurativa to Biologic Therapy Background/Purpose: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, debilitating inflammatory disease of apocrine sweat glands, characterized by recurrent abscessing…Abstract Number: 1359 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
New Markers for Celiac Disease: Anti-Neo-Epitope Human and Microbial Transglutaminases
Background/Purpose: Microbial transglutaminase (mTg) and human tissue Tg (tTg) complexed to gliadin peptides present neo-epitopes. Antibodies against these complexes are called tTg neo-epitope and mTg…Abstract Number: 1360 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Discontinuation Causes of Biological Therapies: Over a Five-Year Period. Biobadasar
Background/Purpose: To analyze discontinuation causes of biologics therapies (bDMARDs) in patients who are registered in the database BIOBADASAR. Methods: Database included demographics of patients, type…
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