Abstracts tagged "ACPA"

Abstract Number: 1421 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Treatment Responses and Their Predictors Of Abatacept In Biologic naïve Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis; Data Form Abroad Study
Yutaka Kawahito¹, Takao Fujii², Akira Yokota³, Hideo Hashimoto⁴, Kiyoshi Matsui⁵, Kenji Miki⁶, Masayasu Kitano⁵, Naoki Shinmyo⁷, Aihiro Yamamoto¹, Koichiro Ohmura⁸, Takanori Kuroiwa⁹, Toshihiko Hidaka¹⁰, Ichiro Yoshii¹¹, Hideko Nakahara¹², Takashi Fujimoto¹³, Kosaku Murakami¹⁴, Satoshi Morita¹⁵, Masahiro Sekiguchi⁵, Norihiro Nishimoto^16,17, Tsuneyo Mimori⁸ and Hajime Sano⁵, ¹Department of Inflammation and Immunology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ²Department of the Control for Rheumatic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ³Yokota Clinic for Rheumatology, Osaka, Japan, ⁴Dept of Orthopedic Surgery, Rinku Hashimoto Rheumatology Orthopaedics, Osaka, Japan, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya-city, Japan, ⁶Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Amagasaki Central Hospital, Amagasaki, Japan, ⁷Kashiba Asahigaoka Hospital, Kashiba, Japan, ⁸Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Yukioka Hospital, Osaka, Japan, ¹⁰Zenjinkai Shimin-No-Mori Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan, ¹¹Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yoshii Hospital, Shimanto, Japan, ¹²Division of Allergy, Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, NTT West Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Japan, ¹³Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan, ¹⁴Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Osaka, Japan, ¹⁵Graduate School of Medicine & Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa, Japan, ¹⁶Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁷Osaka Rheumatology Clinic, Osaka, Japan
Background/Purpose: The identification of predictors of good response to biologic therapy is needed in the perspective of personalized medicine.　To determine the predicting factors of efficacy…