Abstract Number: 41 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination, Fibromyalgia and Dysautonomia
Background/Purpose: In a questionnaire-based case series, we described the clinical features of 45 patients who had the onset of a chronic illness soon after HPV…Abstract Number: 1571 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
How Substantive Is Heart Rate Variability As a Predictor of Anti-TNF Treatment Outcome for Inflammatory Arthritis?
Background/Purpose: As rheumatologists search for new targets to improve immunosuppressive outcomes, the autonomic nervous system (ANS) as a co-factor in autoimmune disease expression has gained…Abstract Number: 442 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Use of Adjunctive Neuroregulatory Medication to Improve Etanercept Treatment Response for Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis: A Pilot Study
Background/Purpose: As a proposed inflammatory biomarker for autoimmune disease1,2, the autonomic nervous system (ANS) has been assessed as a predictor of anti-TNF treatment outcome3 and…Abstract Number: 75 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Fibromyalgia and Positional Cervical Cord Compression Differ Only By Autonomic Nervous System Consequences: A Double-Blinded, Prospective Study
Background/Purpose: In 1998, C Muhle and D Resnick proposed a corollary to cervical spinal stenosis caused by intermittent abutment of the cervical spinal cord from…Abstract Number: 71 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Fibromyalgia Dysautonomia and Distress. Correlation Between the Newly Developed Composite Autonomic Symptoms (COMPASS-31) Questionnaire and the Fibromyalgia Polysymptomatic Distress Scale
Background/Purpose: A consistent line of investigation suggests that dysautonomia may explain the multisystem fibromyalgia features, and that fibromyalgia is a sympathetically maintained neuropathic pain syndrome.…Abstract Number: 2068 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Joint Hypermobility Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (HyPOTS)
Background/Purpose Joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS) is a chronically disabling disorder manifested as a widespread musculoskeletal pain and/or fatigue, in the presence of generalized joint hypermobility.…Abstract Number: 1597 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Autonomic Dysfunction In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients With Previous Neuropsychiatric Involvement
Background/Purpose: Autonomic dysfunction has increasingly been described to be associated with central nervous system (CNS) disorders and has been attributed to damage of the central…Abstract Number: 145 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Autonomic Nervous System “Decomplexification” In Fibromyalgia. A Proof Of Concept Study Looking At The Fractality Of Heart Rhythms
Background/Purpose: Prevailing linear-reductionist medical model seems unable to explain complex diseases like fibromyalgia (FM) and similar maladies. As consequence of this divorce, some physicians disparage…Abstract Number: 1218 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genetic Markers of Functional Stress Response in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Stress is recognized as an important risk factor in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is still incompletely understood how the stress…
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