Abstracts tagged "ACPA and palindromic rheumatism"

Abstract Number: 445 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Differing Specificities of Anticitrullinated Peptide/Protein Antibodies in Palindromic Rheumatism and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case-Control Study
Sonia Cabrera-Villalba¹, María José Gomara², Julio Ramirez¹, Georgina Salvador³, Virginia Ruiz-Esquide¹, M. Victoria Hernández¹, José Inciarte-Mundo¹, Andrea Cuervo¹, Celia Saura¹, Juan D. Cañete¹, Isabel Haro² and Raimon Sanmarti¹, ¹Arthritis Unit. Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Unit of Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Peptides, IQAC-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario Mutua Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Palindromic rheumatism (PR) may evolve to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), particularly in patients with citrullinated peptide/protein antibodies (ACPA), although a significant number of patients do…