Abstracts tagged "classification criteria and inflammation"

Abstract Number: 468 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical and Ultrasonographic Inflammation in DMARD-Naïve Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – Impact of the 2010 ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria Versus the 1987 ACR Classification Criteria
Maria K. Jonsson^1,2,3, Siri Lillegraven², Lena B. Nordberg², Anna-Birgitte Aga², Hilde B. Hammer⁴, Inge C Olsen², Bjørg-Tilde Fevang^1,5, Tore K. Kvien², Espen A. Haavardsholm² and the ARCTIC Study Group, ¹Dept. of Rheumatology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, ²Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Dept. of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁵Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Background/Purpose: ACR and EULAR published new classification criteria for RA in 2010, aiming for early identification of patients at risk of developing persistent and erosive…