Abstracts tagged "activity score and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 2992 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Identification of a New Set of Activity Criteria for Systemic Sclerosis. Preliminary Report
Gabriele Valentini¹, Michele Iudici², Veronika K. Jaeger³, Christopher P. Denton⁴, Oliver Distler⁵, Otylia M. Kowal-Bielecka⁶, Ulf Müller-Ladner⁷, Gabriela Riemekasten⁸, Ulrich A. Walker³, Suzana Jordan⁵, Elise Siegert⁸, Serena Vettori² and Yannick Allanore⁹, ¹Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Rheumatology Unit, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy, ²Department of Internal and Experimental Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ⁴Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁶Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Medical University in Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ⁷Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Kerckhoff-Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ⁸Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité – University Hospital, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, University Paris Descartes and Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The European Scleroderma Study Group (EScSG) Activity Index developed in 2001 has some limitations due to the procedure underlying its development and the inclusion…