Abstracts tagged "classification criteria"

Abstract Number: 302 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Accuracy of Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Classiffication Criteria Applied to Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Marìa M. Katsicas¹, Ezequiel Borgia², Ileana Villarroel² and Ricardo Russo³, ¹Service of Immunology & Rheumatology. Hospital de Pediatrìa Prof Dr.Juan.P. Garrahan, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Service of Immunology & Rheumatology. Hospital de Pediatrìa Prof Dr.Juan.P. Garrahan, MD, Caba, Argentina, ³Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO), Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototype autoimmune disease. The most widely used classification criteria for SLE were those developed by the American College…
Abstract Number: L3 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Classification Criteria for Systemic Sclerosis: Preliminary Results
Janet E. Pope¹, Dinesh Khanna², Jaap Fransen³, Sindhu R. Johnson⁴, Murray Baron⁵, Alan G. Tyndall⁶, Marco Matucci-Cerinic⁷, Raymond P. Naden⁸, Frank H.J. van den Hoogen⁹ and ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria for Systemic Sclerosis¹⁰, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, St. Joseph Health Care London, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁴Dept of Rheumatology, Toronto Western and Mt. Sinai Hospitals, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Pavillion A, Rm 216, Lady David Institute for Medical Research and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Rheumatology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ⁷Department of Biomedicine & Division of Rheumatology AOUC, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ⁸Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, Austria, ⁹Rheumatology, Rheumatology Centre Sint Maartenskliniek and Radboud university medical center, Ubbergen (Nijmegen), Netherlands, ¹⁰Janet Pope, London, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The existing 1980 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis (SSc) are suboptimal for patients with early SSc and some patients with limited cutaneous SSc (lcSSc)…

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