Abstracts tagged "Capillaroscopy"

Abstract Number: 2004 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Simplified Assessment in Capillaroscopy
Virginia Durigan¹, Anastasia Secco², Felix Enrique Romanini³, Virginia Ortiz³, Marta Mamani³ and Leticia Sormani de Fonseca³, ¹Reumatology, Hospital Bernardino Rivadavia, CABA, Argentina, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Hospital Bernardino Rivadavia, CABA, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Nailfold Capillaroscopy is a non-invasive diagnostic technique designed to evaluate small vessels of the microcirculation. The most important indication for capillaroscopy is Raynaud’s phenomenon.…
Abstract Number: 2007 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Disturbances of the Acral Perfusion Detected By Fluorescence Optical Imaging Are Associated with the Development of Ischemic Complications in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Stefanie Friedrich^1,2, Susanne Lueders³, Stephanie Werner^3,4, Anne-Marie Glimm⁵, Gabriela Schmittat⁵, Gerd R. Burmester⁶, Gabriela Riemekasten⁷, Marina Backhaus⁸ and Sarah Ohrndorf⁹, ¹Department of of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin; Germany, Berlin, Germany, ²Department of Radiology, Department of Radiology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin; Germany, Berlin, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin; Germany, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Helios St. Johannes Clinic, Duisburg, Germany, ⁵Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Free University and Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Universitatsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Lubeck, Germany, ⁸Rheumatology, Park-Klinik Weissensee, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a condition causing impaired microcirculation with the risk of ischemic complications such as digital ulcers and pitting scars (DU/PS). Fluorescence…
Abstract Number: 2096 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Nailfold Capillaroscopy Is an Opportunity for Telerheumatology
Jacob R. Stever¹, Nicholas Lebedoff², Tracy M. Frech³, Lesley A. Saketkoo⁴ and Marcus Snow⁵, ¹Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Rheumatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, ⁵Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: The 2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis (SSc) provide 2 points (towards a 9 point diagnosis) for patients who have abnormal capillaroscopy. In the…
Abstract Number: 1389 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Alterations in Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The Role of Disease Activity in a Prospective Study
Nadia E Aikawa¹, Luiz Sousa², Mariana O Perez³, Ana Paula Luppino-Assad⁴, Rosa M R Pereira⁵ and Maria Teresa Caleiro², ¹Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Rheumatology Division, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ³Rheumatology Divison, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of São Paulo, sao paulo, Brazil, ⁵Rheumatology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: The association between disease activity and nailfold capillaroscopy (NC) alterations has been described in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, data on longitudinal assessment of…
Abstract Number: 1874 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Low Rate of Progression in Cases of Isolated Raynaud’s Phenomenon Screened By Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy and Antinuclear Antibody Status Supports Negative Predictive Value of These Tests
Louise Parker¹, Kevin Howell², Voon H. Ong³ and Christopher P.Denton⁴, ¹Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Diseases, UCL Medical School and Royal Free Hosp, London, United Kingdom, ²Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, University College London, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom, ³Rheumatology, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Centre of Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Raynaud’s phenomenon is common but can progress to definite connective tissue disease. We have observed long term follow up of an unselected consecutive…
Abstract Number: 1885 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Can Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy Images be Interpreted Reliably By Different Observers? Results of an Inter-Reader and Intra-Reader Exercise Among Rheumatologists with Different Experience in This Field
Tatiana Sofia Rodriguez-Reyna¹, Chiara Bertolazzi², Angelica Vargas Guerrero³, Marwin Gutierrez⁴, Gabriela Hernandez-Molina⁵, Marcelo Audisio⁶, Susana Roverano⁷, Margarita González de Urizar⁸, José Francisco Díaz Coto⁹, Blanca Herrera Velasco¹⁰, Mijahil Cornejo Ortega¹¹, Ana María Sapag Durán¹², Janeth Villegas Guzmán¹³, Luìs Fernando Medina Quintero¹⁴, Mirtha Sabelli¹⁵, Carlos Velasquez¹⁶, Sandy Sapag Durán¹⁷, Oscar Sedano¹⁸, Martín Zapata Zúñiga¹⁹, Maria Fonseca²⁰, Maurizio Cutolo²¹ and PANLAR Capillaroscopy Group, ¹Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico, Mexico, ⁵Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁶Servicio de Reumatología del Hospital Nacional de Clínicas, Córdoba, Argentina, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Jose Maria Cullen, Santa Fe, Argentina, ⁸Rheumatology, Hospital San Ramón, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, ⁹Rheumatology, Hospital Clínica Bíblica, San José, Costa Rica, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Universidad de San Fancisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Sucre, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), ¹¹Rheumatology, Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Lima, Peru, ¹²Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Japonés, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), ¹³Rheumatology, Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, Lima, Peru, ¹⁴Internal Medicine, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, ¹⁵Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Fundacion PM Catoggio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁶Clínica Universitaria Bolivariana, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia, ¹⁷Reumatología, Instituto de Investigación en Reumatología Sapag & Sapag, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), ¹⁸Rheumatology, Hospital Marino Molina Scippa ESSALUD, Lima, Peru, ¹⁹Rheumatology, Hospitl General Jerez, Jerez, Mexico, ²⁰Rheumatology, Hospital Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²¹Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Nailfold videocapillaroscopy (VCP) has become an established method to assess the microcirculation in patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon and connective tissue diseases. The 2013 Systemic…
Abstract Number: 2913 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Four Year Effects of Combined Bosentan and Iloprost Treatment on Nailfold Absolute Capillary Number, Fingertip Blood Perfusion and Clinical Status, in Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Amelia Chiara Trombetta¹, Carmen Pizzorni², Barbara Ruaro³, Sabrina Paolino³, Alberto Sulli², Vanessa Smith⁴ and Maurizio Cutolo³, ¹Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, Genova, Italy, ²Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS A.O.U. San Martino-IST, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, Genova, Italy, ³Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS A.O.U. San Martino-IST, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Italy, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: In systemic sclerosis (SSc), microvascular damage progresses from capillary dilation to capillary loss and reactive angiogenesis, as detectable by nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) [1]. The…
Abstract Number: 193 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Going Back to Basics – Redefining the Normal Pattern in Nailfold Capillaroscopy in a Large Healthy Population: Results of the German “Rheuma-Truck” Cohort
Moritz Schröder, Department of Rheumatology and Hiller Research Institute, Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: Capillaroscopy is as a useful diagnostic tool in various connective tissue diseases characterized by microangiopathy and vasculitis. Different pathological patterns especially for systemic sclerosis…
Abstract Number: 273 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Progression Predictive Factors in Patients with Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease: A Cohort Study
Maria Garcia-Gonzalez, Esmeralda Delgado-Frias, Sagrario Bustabad, Ivan Ferraz-Amaro and Beatriz Rodriguez-Lozano, Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Background/Purpose: In recent years there has been a growing interest in establishing the concept of Undifferentiated CTD (UCTD) and defining its clinical evolution. Remarkable are…
Abstract Number: 1925 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Interleukin-35 Is Upregulated in Systemic Sclerosis and Its Serum Levels Are Increased in Early Disease
Michal Tomcík¹, Pawel Zerr², Katrin Palumbo-Zerr², Hana Storkanova¹, Hana Hulejova³, Maja Spiritovic⁴, Ondrej Kodet⁵, Jiri Stork⁵, Radim Becvar¹, Jiri Vencovsky¹, Karel Pavelka⁶, Maria Filkova⁷, Jorg HW Distler² and Ladislav Senolt⁸, ¹Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ³Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁵Department of Dermatology and Venereology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁶Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁷Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁸Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Background/Purpose: Interleukin-35 (IL-35) is the most recent addition to the IL-12 family, which also comprises IL-12, IL-23 and IL-27. IL-35 consists of two chains, p35/IL-12a…
Abstract Number: 2255 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Capillaroscopic Patterns in a Healthy Population
Génessis Maldonado¹, Christian Ferro², Carlos Ríos³ and Karla Ríos¹, ¹Universidad Espíritu Santo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, ²Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador, ³Centro de Reumatología y Rehabilitación CERER, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Background/Purpose: Capillaroscopy is a noninvasive and safe method that allows visualization of the capillaries in the finger nailfold, it is useful in the evaluation of…
Abstract Number: 2971 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Raynaud Phenomenon Subjects with Abnormal Capillary Dilations Show a Risk Threshold Diameter Value for the Transition to the Capillaroscopic Early� Scleroderma Pattern: A Case Control Study
Maurizio Cutolo¹, Carmen Pizzorni², Marianna Meroni², Vanessa Smith³, Sabrina Paolino², Barbara Ruaro², Alberto Sulli², Bruno Seriolo² and Amelia Chiara Trombetta², ¹Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy, Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy, ²Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy, ³Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Nailfold Video Capillaroscopy (NVC) is a reliable method to qualitatively differentiate Primary (PRP) from Secondary Raynaud Phenomenon (SRP) through diagnosis of the “early scleroderma…
Abstract Number: 2710 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The New ACR-EULAR 2013 Systemic Sclerosis Classification Criteria Show Good Performance in a Capillaroscopy Clinic
Patricia E. Carreira¹, M Jesus Garcia de Yebenes², Beatriz E. Joven^1,3, Estibaliz Loza² and Loreto Carmona², ¹Rheumatology Department. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Salud Musculoesqueletica, Madrid, Spain, ³Rheumatology, HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: To analyze the validity of the new 2013 ACR-EULAR Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) classification criteria versus SSc clinical diagnosis in patients from a capillaroscopy clinic…
Abstract Number: 1926 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy Patterns Associated with Calcinosis and Acro-Osteolysis in Systemic Sclerosis
Jerome Avouac¹, Laetitia Morardet², Maya Sammour³, Andre Kahan², Antoine Feydy³ and Yannick Allanore¹, ¹Paris Descartes University, Rheumatology A Department and INSERM U1016, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ²Paris Descartes University, Rheumatology A department, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ³Paris Descartes University, Radiology B department, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Calcinosis and acro-osteolysis are frequent in systemic sclerosis (SSc). They may be related to digital vasculopathy, which can be assessed by nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC).…
Abstract Number: 2583 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Long-Term Treatment With Endothelin Receptor Antagonist Increases Peripheral Blood Perfusion In Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Maurizio Cutolo¹, Barbara Ruaro², Elena Bernero², Francesca Ravera³, Giuseppe Zampogna³, Elisa Alessandri², Vanessa Smith⁴ and Alberto Sulli³, ¹Internal medicine, Research Laboratory and Academic Unit of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, ²Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, ³Research Laboratory and Academic Unit of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by progressive impairment of the microvascular system and decrease of peripheral blood perfusion (PBP) (1-3). The vasoactive peptide endothelin-1…

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