Abstracts tagged "adalimumab and anti-citrullinated protein/peptide antibodies (ACPA)"

Abstract Number: 1515 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
The Impact on Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibody Isotypes and Epitope Fine Specificity in Patients with Early RA Treated with Abatacept and Methotrexate
T W J Huizinga¹, S E Connolly², Daniel E. Furst³, Vivian P. Bykerk⁴, Gerd Burmester⁵, B G Combe⁶, C S Karyekar², D Wong², L Trouw¹, R E M Toes⁷ and P Emery⁸, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ³University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ⁵Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France, ⁷Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁸University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) are a marker of RA and may contribute to disease progression.1,2 ACPA analysis in patients offers the opportunity to estimate…