Abstracts tagged "Clinical practice guidelines and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 1489 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Peripheral Neuropathy: A Complication of Systemic Sclerosis
Melissa Reily¹, Tracy M. Frech², Maureen Murtaugh³, Jason Penrod⁴ and Barry M. Stults⁵, ¹Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Internal Medicine-Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, SLC, UT, ³Internal Medicine-Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, SLC, UT, ⁴Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Internal Medicine, Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: We performed bedside testing for peripheral neuropathy in our Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) population to determine whether foot care guidelines should be developed for SSc. …