Abstracts tagged "biomarkers and dermatomyositis"

Abstract Number: 2370 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Characteristics of Anti-MDA5 (+) Dermatomyositis Patients in North America
Siamak Moghadam-Kia¹, Chester V. Oddis², Shinji Sato³, Masataka Kuwana⁴ and Rohit Aggarwal⁵, ¹Medicine-Myositis Center and Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Rheum/Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Rheumatology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Medicine / Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) patients have the classic rash (es) of DM but no objective proximal muscle weakness. Asian studies report a unique clinical phenotype in anti-MDA5…