Abstracts tagged "biopsies"

Abstract Number: 513 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diagnostic Value Of Labial Minor Salivary Gland Biopsy For Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Raquel Altoe¹, Valeria Valim², Maria Carmem S. Santos³, Erica V. Serrano¹ and Samira T. Miyamoto⁴, ¹Reumatologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, ²Clínica Médica - Reumatologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, ³Farmacologia, Universidade de Vila Velha, Vitória, Brazil, ⁴Educação Integrada em Saúde - Reumatologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil
Background/Purpose: The presence of lymphocytic infiltrate with ≥ 1 focus score/4mm2 in minor salivary gland is a useful tool for the diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome…
Abstract Number: 388 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Vitamin D Levels and Inflammation In The Aortic Wall Of Patients With Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease and Coronary Artery Disease
Ingvild Oma¹, Jacqueline Kirsti Andersen², Torstein Lyberg³, Øyvind Molberg⁴, Jon Elling Whist¹, Ingjerd Lien Kvelstad¹, Terje Veel⁵, Morten Fagerland⁶, Sven M. Almdahl⁷, Knut Mikkelsen⁸ and Ivana Hollan⁹, ¹Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway, ²Gjøvik University College, Gjøvik, Norway, ³Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, ⁵Feiringklinikken, Feiring, Norway, ⁶Department of Biostatistics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁷Cardiothoracic surgery, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, ⁸Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway, ⁹Rheumatology, Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway
Background/Purpose: Vitamin D is involved in immune reactions, and vitamin D deficiency is associated with autoimmune diseases and with cardiovascular diseases. In Feiring Heart Biopsy…
Abstract Number: 371 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Inflammatory Cell Infiltrates In The Heart Of Patients With Coronary Artery Disease With and Without Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease: A Biopsy Study
Jacqueline Kirsti Andersen¹, Ingvild Oma², Ingjerd Lien Kveldstad², Knut Mikkelsen³, Terje Veel⁴, Sven M. Almdahl⁵, Matthew H. Liang⁶, Øystein T. Førre⁷, Morten Fagerland⁸ and Ivana Hollan⁹, ¹Gjøvik University College, Gjøvik, Norway, ²Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway, ³Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway, ⁴Feiringklinikken, Feiring, Norway, ⁵Cardiothoracic surgery, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, ⁶Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁸Department of Biostatistics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁹Rheumatology, Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway
Background/Purpose: Systemic rheumatic diseases (SRDs) are associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity due to accelerated atherosclerosis. However, SRDs are associated also with cardiac vasculitis that…
Abstract Number: 218 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Role Of Salivary GLAND Ultrasound In Sjogren Syndrome: A Single Center Experience
Giuseppe Germanò¹, Niccolò Possemato², Olga Addimanda¹, Pierluigi Macchioni¹ and Carlo Salvarani³, ¹Rheumatology Service, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²S.C. Reumatologia, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, I.R.C.C.S., Reggio Emilia, Italy, ³Rheumatology, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Background/Purpose: There is increasingly scientific evidence of salivary gland ultrasonography accuracy and usefulness in diagnosing Sjogren Syndrome. [1-2] Methods: 82 patients with suspected Sjogren Syndrome…

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