Abstracts tagged "activity score and polymyalgia rheumatica"

Abstract Number: 882 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Polymyalgia Rheumatica Activity Score without C-Reactive Protein
Valerie Devauchelle^1,2, Lea Saraux³, Jean-Marie Berthelot⁴, Divi Cornec⁵, Thierry Marhadour⁶, Sandrine Jousse-Joulin⁷, Michel De Bandt⁸, Maelenn Gouillou⁹ and Alain Saraux¹⁰, ¹Rheumatology, Brest university medical school, EA 2216, Lab Ex, INSERM, IGO,UBO and CHU de la Cavale Blanche,, Brest, France, ²Service de Rhumatologie, Department of Rheumatology, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France, Brest, France, ³Rheumatology, CHU Brest, Brest, France, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, ⁵Department of rheumatology, Brest Occidentale University, Brest, France, ⁶Rheumatology, CHU La Cavale Blanche, Brest, France, ⁷Rheumatology, CHu La cavle Blanche, Brest, France, ⁸CHU Fort de France, Fort de France, France, ⁹Clinical Investigation Centre (CIC) 1412, CHU Cavale Blanche- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Brest, France, ¹⁰Department of rheumatology and unit of immunology (EA 2216), CHU Brest et Université Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
Background/Purpose: Disease activity of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) (1, 2) may be evaluated using the PMR activity score (PMR-AS). For patients without measure of CRP, or patients…
Abstract Number: 2382 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Plasma Fibrinogen is an Accurate Marker of Disease Activity in Patients with Polymyalgia Rheumatica
E.M. McCarthy¹, Paul A. MacMullan¹, S. Al-Mudhaffer¹, Anne M. Madigan¹, S. Donnelly¹, C. J. McCarthy¹, Dermot Kenny², Eamonn Molloy³ and G M. McCarthy¹, ¹Rheumatology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 7, Ireland, ²Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, RCSI, Dublin 2, Ireland, ³Rheumatology, Dublin Academic Medical Centre, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Accurate determination of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica(PMR) is challenging due to the subjective nature of symptoms and concurrent musculoskeletal complaints in an elderly…