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Abstract Number: 2974 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
An Outcome Survey of 100 Patients with Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Due to Behcet’s Syndrome Followed up at a Single, Dedicated Center
Enes Ali Kurt¹, Naci Kocer², Yesim Ozguler¹, Didar Ucar³, Ugur Uygunoglu⁴, Civan Islak⁵, Sebahattin Saip⁴, Melike Melikoglu¹, Vedat Hamuryudan¹, Yilmaz Ozyazgan³, Sebahattin Yurdakul¹, Aksel Siva⁴, Hasan Yazici¹ and Emire Seyahi¹, ¹Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Department of Neuroradiology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Neuroradiology, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Department of Neurology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Department of Neuroradiology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Methods: We identified 100 (81 M/19 F) patients with BS who were diagnosed as having CVST. All contacted were called back to the…
Abstract Number: 2975 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increase of Sacroiliitis By Follow-up and Routine CT in Patients with Behcet’s Disease
Qianqian Chen¹, Junxia Li¹, Chong Gao², Hongyan Wen³ and Xiaofeng Li³, ¹The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, ²Department of Pathology, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA, ³Rheumatology, The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
Background/Purpose: Widely various frequencies of sacroiliitis or spondylitis have been reported in different regions of patients with Behcet’s Disease (BD). Although BD is also called…
Abstract Number: 2976 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Disease Flares and Persistent Low-Level of Disease: Long-Term Outcome in a Cohort of Patients with BehçEt’s Disease
Elena Elefante¹, Rosaria Talarico¹, Anna d'Ascanio², Rossella Neri¹, Chiara Stagnaro², Chiara Tani², Chiara Baldini² and Marta Mosca², ¹RHEUMATOLOGY UNIT, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Behçet's disease (BD) is a multisystemic, chronic relapsing inflammatory disease classified among the vasculitis. Neurological and eye involvement are two of the most serious…
Abstract Number: 2977 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Treatment of Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis with Sofosbuvir in Four Combination Protocols
Mohamed Tharwat Hegazy¹, Mohamed A Hussein¹, Luca Quartuccio², Mary Fawzy¹, Naguib Zoheir³, Mona I. Ellawindi⁴, Milena Bond², Cesare Mazzaro⁵, Ahmed El Ray⁶, Maissa El Said El Raziky^7,8, Magdy El Serafy⁹, Wahid Doss⁹, Patrice Cacoub¹⁰, Loïc Guillevin¹¹, Salvatore De Vita², Sherif El Khamisy¹² and Gaafar Ragab¹, ¹Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Department, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ²Rheumatology Clinic, DSMB, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, Udine, Italy, ³Clinical and Chemical Pathology Department, Clinical and Chemical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ⁴Community Medicine, Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ⁵Internal Medicine, Pordenone Hospital, Italy, pordenone, Italy, ⁶Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ⁷Fatimid Cairo hospital, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ⁸Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, cairo, Egypt, ⁹Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ¹⁰Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital “Pitié-Salpêtrière”, “Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI” University, Paris, France, ¹¹Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, ¹²Zewail city of Science and Technology, Egypt, Giza, Egypt
Background/Purpose: Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis (CV) is a systemic vasculitis affecting small and medium-sized vessels. Following emergence of direct acting antiviral drugs, which paved the way to…
Abstract Number: 2978 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Psychiatric Involvement and Behcet’S Syndrome: Does Bipolar Disorder Represent a Clinical Feature of the Disease?
Rosaria Talarico¹, Elena Elefante², Laura Palagini³, Anna d'Ascanio⁴, Chiara Stagnaro⁴, Chiara Tani⁴, Chiara Baldini⁴, Rossella Neri¹ and Marta Mosca⁴, ¹Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, PISA, Italy, ²RHEUMATOLOGY UNIT, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³Psychiatric Unit, University, PISA, Italy, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Frequency of psychiatric disorders in Behçet’s syndrome (BS) is a debated issue: while some experts attribute their presence to the chronicity of the illness,…
Abstract Number: 2979 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
a Systematic Literature Review on the Treatment of Skin, Mucosa and Joint Involvement of BehçEt’s Syndrome Informing the Eular Recommendations for the Management of BehçEt’s Syndrome
Pietro Leccese¹, Yesim Ozguler², Robin Christensen³, Sinem Nihal Esatoglu⁴, Dongsik Bang⁵, Bahram Bodaghi⁶, Aykut Ferhat Celik⁷, Farida Fortune⁸, Julien Gaudric⁹, Ahmet Gul¹⁰, Ina Kotter¹¹, Alfred Mahr¹², Robert J Moots¹³, Ignazio Olivieri¹⁴, Jutta Richter¹⁵, David Saadoun¹⁶, Carlo Salvarani¹⁷, Frances Scuderi¹⁸, PETROS P SFIKAKIS¹⁹, Aksel Siva²⁰, Miles Stanford²¹, Ilknur Tugal-tutkun²², Richard West²³, Sebahattin Yurdakul², Hasan Yazici² and Gulen Hatemi², ¹Rheumatology, Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Matera, Italy, Matera, Italy, ²Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ³The Parker instutute, RC, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Severance Hospital, Cutaneous Biology Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Seoul, Korea, The Democratic People's Republic of, ⁶Ophthalmology, Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 Paris, France, Paris, France, ⁷Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁸Dental Institute, Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, ⁹Department of Vascular surgery GHPS, Paris, France, ¹⁰Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹¹Internal Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany, ¹²Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris, France, ¹³Academic Rheumatology Unit, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ¹⁴U.O. Reumatologia, A.O. Ospedale San Carlo, Potenza, Italy, ¹⁵Tubingen University, Tubingen, Germany, ¹⁶Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ¹⁷Rheumatology Unit, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ¹⁸Patient partner, Catania, Italy, ¹⁹First Department of Propedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, ²⁰Department of Neurology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²¹Ophthalmology, Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²²Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ²³Patient partner, London, United Kingdom
A Systematic Literature Review on the Treatment of Skin, Mucosa and Joint Involvement of Behçet’s Syndrome Informing the Eular Recommendations for the Management of Behçet’s…
Abstract Number: 2980 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Inflammation As an Under-Recognized Cause of Ascending Aortic Aneurysms: A Single-Center Clinical and Pathological Study of 53 Cases over 6 Years
Tariq Al-Araimi¹ and Arthur Bookman², ¹Department of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: This study is aimed at estimating the prevalence of inflammatory ascending aneurysms, describing clinical and histopathological findings, and assessing whether appropriate follow-up was arranged…
Abstract Number: 2981 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prospective Cohort of Surgically-Diagnosed Aortitis at the Ottawa Hospital
Kyle Walker¹, Munir Boodhwani² and Nataliya Milman³, ¹University of Ottawa Department of Medicine, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³University of Ottawa Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Division of Rheumatology, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic Aortitis (IA) is poorly defined, with no specific criteria for its classification or diagnosis, except for presence of aortic inflammation and the absence…
Abstract Number: 2982 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors and the Risk of Malignancy in the Treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Timothy Beukelman¹, Fenglong Xie², Lang Chen², Daniel Horton³, James D. Lewis⁴, Ronac Mamtani⁴, Melissa Mannion⁵, Kenneth G. Saag⁶, Jie Zhang⁷ and Jeffrey R. Curtis⁶, ¹Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Division Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Epidemilogy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The possible association between tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and an increased risk of malignancy remains…
Abstract Number: 2983 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Tofacitinib, an Oral Janus Kinase Inhibitor, or Adalimumab in Patients with Active Psoriatic Arthritis and an Inadequate Response to Conventional Synthetic Dmards: A Randomized, Placebo‑Controlled, Phase 3 Trial
Philip J Mease¹, Stephen Hall², Oliver FitzGerald³, Désirée van der Heijde⁴, Joseph F Merola⁵, Francisco Avila-Zapata⁶, Dorata Cieślak⁷, Daniela Graham⁸, Cunshan Wang⁹, Sujatha Menon⁹, Thijs Hendrikx⁸ and Keith Kanik⁹, ¹Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Cabrini Health and Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, ³Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent’s University Hospital and Conway Institute, University College, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Centro Multidisciplinario para el Desarrollo Especializado de la Investigacion Clinica en Yucatan S.C.P., Yucatán, Mexico, ⁷Poznan University, Poznan, Poland, ⁸Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, ⁹Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor under investigation for treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). This study evaluated tofacitinib efficacy and safety vs placebo…
Abstract Number: 2984 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Novel Anti-Malarial Drug Derivative Inhibited Type I Interferon Production and Autoimmune Inflammation through Inhibition of CGAS-Sting Pathway in Trex1-/- Mouse
Jie An¹, Joshua Woodward², Mark Minie³, Xizhang Sun⁴, Lena Tanaka¹, Yufeng Peng¹, Jessica Snyder⁴, Tomikazu Sasaki⁵ and Keith B. Elkon⁶, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁵Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁶Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Type I interferon, (IFN-I) is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of SLE as well as rare monogenic ‘interferonopathies’ such as Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome (AGS) caused…
Abstract Number: 2985 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Practice-Level Variation in Quality of Care in the Acr’s Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry
Jinoos Yazdany¹, Nick Bansback², Megan E. B. Clowse³, Deborah Collier⁴, Karen Law⁵, Katherine Liao⁶, Kaleb Michaud⁷, Esi Morgan⁸, Jim Oates⁹, Catalina Orozco¹⁰, Andreas Reimold¹¹, Julia F Simard¹², Rachel Myslinski¹³, Tracy Johansson¹⁴ and Salahuddin Kazi¹⁵, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Rheumatology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁴Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ⁶Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁸Pediatric rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁹Medicine/Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁰Rheumatology Associates, Dallas, TX, ¹¹Hospital of Southern Norway, Kristiansand, Norway, ¹²Division of Epidemiology, Health Research and Policy Department, and Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ¹³Governance & Ethics Specialist, Amer College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁴Practice, Advocacy & Quality, American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁵Rheumatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 has put into place an aggressive timeline for a Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)…
Abstract Number: 2986 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Trends and Determinants of Osteoporosis Prevention and Management in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared to Osteoarthritis
Gulsen Ozen^1,2, Diane L. Kamen³, Ted R Mikuls², Frederick Wolfe⁴ and Kaleb Michaud^2,4, ¹Rheumatology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³Medicine/Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁴National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS
Background/Purpose: Despite more aggressive treatment strategies and new biologic DMARDs, the prevalence of osteoporosis (OP) leading to fracture in RA remains high. It is unknown…
Abstract Number: 2987 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Certolizumab Pegol Versus Adalimumab: 2 Year Efficacy and Safety Results from a Superiority, Investigator-Blind, Head-to-Head Study
Roy Fleischmann¹, Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester², Bernard Combe³, Jeffrey R. Curtis⁴, Stephen Hall⁵, Boulos Haraoui⁶, Ronald van Vollenhoven⁷, Christopher Cioffi⁸, Cécile Ecoffet⁹, Lucian Ionescu⁹, Leon Gervitz¹⁰, Luke Peterson⁸ and Josef Smolen¹¹, ¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX, ²Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Cabrini Medical Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁶Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁷Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center (ARC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁸UCB Pharma, Raleigh, NC, ⁹UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium, ¹⁰RA Patient Value Mission, UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium, ¹¹Medical University of Vienna and Hietzing Hospital, Vienna, Austria
Background/Purpose: Head-to-head comparisons of biological (b)DMARDs in the treatment of RA should provide rigorous evidence on the comparative efficacy of different treatments. Although there are…
Abstract Number: 2988 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cigarette Smoking Increases the Risk of Anti-Double-Stranded DNA Positive SLE Among Women in the Nurses’ Health Studies
Medha Barbhaiya¹, Sara Tedeschi², Bing Lu¹, Susan Malspeis³, Jeffrey A. Sparks³, Elizabeth W. Karlson¹ and Karen H. Costenbader¹, ¹Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: SLE is heterogeneous with subtypes characterized by different systemic manifestations and autoantibodies. Past studies suggest that smoking may be a risk factor for SLE,…

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