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Abstract Number: 1699 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Neutropenia After Rituximab in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Autoimmune Diseases Is a Rare Events : Date From the Autoimmunity and Rituximab Registry
Jean Hugues Salmon¹, Patrice Cacoub², Bernard G. Combe³, Jean Sibilia⁴, Beatrice Pallot Prades⁵, Olivier Fain⁶, Alain G. Cantagrel⁷, Maxime Dougados⁸, Olivier Meyer⁹, Philippe Carli¹⁰, Edouard Pertuiset¹¹, Isabelle Pane¹², Philippe Ravaud¹³, Xavier Mariette¹⁴ and Jacques-Eric Gottenberg¹⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Reims, France, ²Internal Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hopital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France, ³Rhumatologie, Hopital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France, ⁴Rheumatology, CHU Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France, ⁵Rheumatology department, Saint Etienne university hospital, Saint Etienne, France, ⁶Internal Medicine, Jean Verdier Hospital, Bondy, France, ⁷Rheumatology, Place du Docteur Baylac, Toulouse, France, ⁸Rheumatology B Department, Paris-Descartes University, APHP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ⁹Rheumatology, Hopital Bichat, Paris, France, ¹⁰HIA sainte Anne, Toulon, France, ¹¹Rheumatology, Ch Rene Dubos, Pontoise, France, ¹²Hotel Dieu University Hospital Paris, Hotel Dieu University Hospital Paris, Paris, France, ¹³Epidemiology, Hopital Hotel Dieu, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France, ¹⁴Rheumatology, Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Background/Purpose: Limited data are available regarding the proportion and severity of late onset neutropenia after RTX in large and unselected populations of patients with various…
Abstract Number: 1700 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence of Spondyloarthritis in Anterior Uveitis Patients: The Sentinel Study
Miguel Cordero Coma¹ and Xavier Juanola², ¹Department of Ophthalmology, Unidad de Uveítis. Hospital Universitario de León, León, Spain, ²Rheumatology, University Hospital Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Anterior uveitis (AU) is the most common form of uveitis in western countries with an annual incidence rate of about eight new cases for…
Abstract Number: 1701 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Validation of the New ASAS Criteria for Classification of Early Spondyloarthritis in the Esperanza Cohort
Eva Tomero¹, Loreto Carmona², Juan Mulero³, Eugenio De Miguel⁴, Milena Gobbo⁵, Carmen Martínez⁶, Miguel A. Descalzo⁶, Pedro Zarco⁷, Eduardo Collantes-Estevez⁸ and Esperanza Group⁹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa. IIS La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ²Health Sciences School, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Research Unit, Spanish Society of Rheumatology., Madrid, Spain, ⁶Research Unit, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Unit Rheumatology, Fundación Hospital Alcorcon, Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Depatamento de Medicina, IMIBIC-Reina Sofia Hospital, Cordoba 14012, Spain, ⁹Madrid
Background/Purpose: To validate the new axial and peripheral ASAS criteria in patients with early spondyloarthritis (SpA) and the full spectrum of clinical manifestations under clinical…
Abstract Number: 1702 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tumor Necrosis Factor Blocking Agents Inhibit the Progression of Preclinical Atherosclerosis in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Alper M. van Sijl¹, Izhar C. van Eijk², Mike J.L. Peters³, Erik H. Serne³, Yvo M. Smulders⁴ and Mike T. Nurmohamed¹, ¹Rheumatology, Jan van Breemen Research Institute | Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Internal medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is associated with an increased cardiovascular (CV) risk that might be due to the chronic underlying inflammatory process. It is still…
Abstract Number: 1703 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Relationship Between Tobacco Smoking and Radiographic Spinal Progression in Axial Spondyloarthritis: The Role of Inflammatory Activity
Denis Poddubnyy¹, Hildrun Haibel², Joachim Listing³, Elisabeth Märker-Hermann⁴, Henning Zeidler⁵, Jürgen Braun⁶, Martin Rudwaleit⁷ and Joachim Sieper⁸, ¹Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Medical Department I, Rheumatology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, ³German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany, ⁵Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany, ⁶PsAID taskforce, EULAR, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁷Endokrinologikum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Medical Department I, Rheumatology, Charité Universitätesmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Cigarette smoking is associated with functional impairment [1, 2] and radiographic severity of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) [3, 4]. Moreover, smoking status at baseline was…
Abstract Number: 1704 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
New Threshold Values for Spinal Mobility Measures Based On a Large Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults Ages 20-69 Years
Shervin Assassi¹, Michael H. Weisman², Zhongxue Chen³, Mohammad Rahbar³ and John D. Reveille⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Univ of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ²Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³Univ of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁴Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, Univ of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Spinal mobility measures are widely utilized for diagnosis and assessment of disease severity in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis. The previously proposed threshold values for…
Abstract Number: 1705 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effect of Certolizumab Pegol On Inflammation of Spine and Sacroiliac Joints in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: 12 Week Magnetic Resonance Imaging results of a Phase 3 Double Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study
Désirée van der Heijde¹, Walter P. Maksymowych², Robert B. M. Landewé³, Christian Stach⁴, Bengt Hoepken⁴, Andreas Fichtner⁴, Danuta Kielar⁵ and Jürgen Braun⁶, ¹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam & Atrium Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴UCB Pharma, Monheim am Rheim, Germany, ⁵UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium, ⁶Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) includes both ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and non-radiographic axSpA (nr-axSpA) and is defined by the ASAS criteria.1 It is characterized by bone…
Abstract Number: 1706 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Predictive Atherosclerotic Risk Factors At Inception in a Multicentre, Multinational Cohort
Murray B. Urowitz¹, Dominique Ibanez¹, D. D. Gladman² and SLICC³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Toronto Western Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop premature atherosclerosis (AS). This study examines predictive factors at inception for atherosclerotic vascular events (AVE) over…
Abstract Number: 1707 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Association of Serum Biomarkers and Metabolic Syndrome with Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Controlled Analysis in Patients with No Clinical Disease Activity
Semra Ertan-Demir¹, Ahmet Yasar Cizgici², Gaye Erten³, Bahar Artim-Esen⁴, Yasemin Sahinkaya⁴, Özlem Pehlivan⁴, Nilüfer Alpay-Kanitez⁴, Kadri Atay¹, Huseyin Oflaz², Gunnur Deniz³ and Murat Inanc⁴, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Cardiology Department, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Department of Immunology, Istanbul University, Institute of Experimental Medicine (DETAE), Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Division, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an increased risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). In addition to traditional CVD risk factors or…
Abstract Number: 1708 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cardiovascular Risk Equation
Michelle Petri¹ and Laurence S. Magder², ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Accelerated atherosclerosis remains the major late cause of death in SLE. Yet, the "traditional" cardiovascular risk equations (Framingham, Reynolds, SCORE) consistently underestimate the risk. …
Abstract Number: 1709 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Biomarkers of Atherosclerosis Are Associated with Progression of Non-Cardiovascular Damage in Patients with SLE
Sarah J. Kim¹, Jennifer M. Grossman², Brian Skaggs³, Elaine Lourenco³, Lori Sahakian⁴, John FitzGerald⁵, Nagesh Ragavendra⁶, Christina Charles-Schoeman⁷, Alan H. Gorn⁸, Bevra H. Hahn⁸ and Maureen A. McMahon⁹, ¹UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Div of Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Medicine/Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine,, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Medicine-Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Radiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁷University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Studies have shown that even after taking traditional cardiac risk factors into account, SLE patients have up to 50-fold higher risk of developing atherosclerotic…
Abstract Number: 1710 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increase in Vitamin D Improves Disease Activity and Systolic Blood Pressure in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Kayode J. Bello¹, Hong Fang², Laurence S. Magder³ and Michelle Petri², ¹Div of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Vitamin D deficiency has also been associated with different chronic conditions including cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease, cardiac failure and hypertension. In…
Abstract Number: 1711 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Association of Vascular Calcification and Perivascular Adipose Tissue of the Descending Aorta with Cardiovascular Events in SLE
Kelly J. Shields¹, Emma Barinas-Mitchell², Amy H. Kao³, Susan Manzi⁴ and Kim Sutton-Tyrrell², ¹Medicine, Lupus Center of Excellence / Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Lupus Center of Excellence, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We have shown that clinically CVD-free women with SLE have…
Abstract Number: 1712 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Submaximal Heart and Pulmonary Evaluation: A Novel Noninvasive Test to Identify Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Elana J. Bernstein¹, Jessica K. Gordon², Robert F. Spiera², Lisa A. Mandl² and Evelyn M. Horn³, ¹Rheumatology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary hypertension (PH), defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) ≥ 25 mmHg on right heart catheterization (RHC), is a leading cause of…
Abstract Number: 1713 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Developing an Index for Disease Activity and Therapeutic Response in Connective Tissue Disease Related Interstitial Lung Disease: Results From A Delphi Exercise: Delivering A Consensus On Domains
Lesley Ann Saketkoo¹, Dörte Huscher², Dinesh Khanna³, Paul F. Dellaripa⁴, Kevin Flaherty⁵, Chester V. Oddis⁶, Kristine Phillips⁷, Athol U. Wells⁸, Christopher P. Denton⁹, Oliver Distler¹⁰, Otylia M. Kowal-Bielecka¹¹, Romy Christmann¹², Nora Sandorfi¹³, David Pittrow¹⁴, Vibeke Strand¹⁵, James R. Seibold¹⁶, Kevin K. Brown¹⁷ and Eric L. Matteson¹⁸, ¹LSU Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, New Orleans, LA, ²German Rheumatism Research Centre and Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶Rheum/Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁸Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Radiology, London, United Kingdom, ⁹Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, UCL Medical School, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology and Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Medical University in Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ¹²Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Thomas Jefferson Univ Med Coll, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁴Institute of Clinical Pharmacology - University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany, ¹⁵Adjunct, Division of Immunology / Rheumatology, Stanford University, Portola Valley, CA, ¹⁶Scleroderma Research Consultants LLC, Avon, CT, ¹⁷Autoimmune Lung Center, National Jewish Hospital, Denver, CO, ¹⁸Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Lack of reliable and valid measures of disease activity and clinical response in patients with connective tissue disease (CTD)-related interstitial lung disease (ILD) makes…

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