Abstracts tagged "Clinical practice"

Abstract Number: 2155 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis in the United Kingdom: An Observational Study Using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink
Alicia Gayle¹, Nils Schoof², Margarida Alves², Deborah Clarke³, Chris Poole¹, Christina Raabe², Prithwiraj Das¹ and Toby Maher⁴, ¹Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd., Bracknell, United Kingdom, ²Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany, ³Department of Medical Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd., Bracknell, United Kingdom, ⁴University College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease that is characterised by fibroblast dysfunction and excess extracellular matrix deposition that leads to skin thickening and…
Abstract Number: 2348 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prescriber Attitudes and Beliefs about Triple Therapy for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Knowledge Exchange in Internet Forums and Social Media
Maria A. Lopez-Olivo¹, Jude K. A. des Bordes¹, Gregory Pratt² and Maria Suarez-Almazor¹, ¹Section of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ²Research Medical Library, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Several forums on the internet serve as repositories of personal experiences and exchange of health information. Online discussions among healthcare providers about management of…
Abstract Number: 2516 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Long-Term Maintenance of Response in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Certolizumab Pegol
Alain Saraux¹, René-Marc Flipo², Francis Fagnani³, Gabrielle Cukierman⁴, Isabelle Bru⁴, Jean-Michel Joubert⁴, Jan-Christof Schuller⁵, Jacques Massol⁶ and Bernard Combe⁷, ¹CHU La Cavale Blanche, Brest, France, ²Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille, France, ³Cemka-Eval, Bourg-la-Reine, France, ⁴UCB Pharma, Colombes, France, ⁵UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium, ⁶CHU de Besançon, Besançon, France, ⁷CHU Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France
Background/Purpose: The safety and efficacy of certolizumab pegol (CZP) for treating patients (pts) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are well-established in a clinical trial setting.1,2 However,…
Abstract Number: 2589 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Profile of Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Who Initiated Secukinumab and Other Biologics: Results from the Corrona Psoriatic Arthritis/Spondyloarthritis (PsA/SpA) Registry
Alexis Ogdie¹, Mei Liu², Sabrina Rebello³, Meghan Glynn², Peter Hur⁴ and Philip J. Mease⁵, ¹Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Corrona, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³Corrona, LLC, Southborough, MA, ⁴Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey, USA, East Hanover, NJ, ⁵Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Few real-world studies have characterized patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who initiate secukinumab. This study described characteristics of patients who initiated secukinumab and other…
Abstract Number: 2609 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Survival of Disease-Modifying Drugs in Patients with Recent Diagnosis of Psoriatic Arthritis in Daily Clinical Practice
Dalifer Freites Núñez¹, Zulema Rosales Rosado^1,2, Judit Font Urgelles², Isabel Hernández-Rodríguez², Leticia Leon¹, Gloria Candelas Rodriguez², Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez¹, Benjamín Fernández-Gutiérrez^1,2, Juan A Jover Jover² and Lydia A Alcazar¹, ¹Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that benefits from DMARDs, in this regard knowing more about these therapies is a great step…
Abstract Number: 2633 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Disease Activity, Organ Damage and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Swedish Patients with Recent-Onset SLE
Rebecca Heijke¹, Mathilda Björk¹, Martina Frodlund¹, Laura McDonald², Evo Alemao³ and Christopher Sjöwall¹, ¹Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb, Uxbridge, United Kingdom, ³Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: Patient (pt)-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are important to inform shared decision-making between pts with SLE and physicians.1 Established measures of disease activity and organ…
Abstract Number: 2752 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tocilizumab in Giant Cell Arteritis. National Multicenter Study of 134 Patients of Clinical Practice
Monica Calderón Goercke¹, Javier Loricera², Diana Prieto Peña¹, Vicente Aldasoro³, Santos Castañeda⁴, Ignacio Villa-Blanco⁵, Alicia Humbría⁶, Clara Moriano Morales⁷, Susana Romero-Yuste⁸, Francisco Javier Narváez⁹, Catalina Gómez-Arango¹⁰, Eva Perez Pampín¹¹, Rafael Melero¹², Elena Becerra-Fernández¹³, Marcelino Revenga Martínez¹⁴, Noelia Álvarez-Rivas¹⁵, Carlos Galisteo¹⁶, Francisca Sivera¹⁷, Alejandro Olivé-Marqués¹⁸, Maria Concepcion Alvarez de Buergo¹⁹, Luisa Marena Rojas Vargas²⁰, Carlos Fernandez-Lopez²¹, Francisco Navarro²², Enrique Raya Álvarez²³, Eva Galindez-Agirregoikoa²⁴, Beatriz Arca²⁵, Roser Solans²⁶, Arantxa Conesa²⁷, Cristina Hidalgo-Calleja²⁸, Carlos Vázquez²⁹, Francisco Ortiz-Sanjuán³⁰, Pau Lluch³¹, Sara Manrique-Arija³², Paloma Vela³³, Eugenio De Miguel³⁴, Carmen Torres-Martín³⁵, Juan Carlos Nieto³⁶, Carmen Ordas-Calvo³⁷, Eva Salgado-Pérez³⁸, María Varela-García³⁹, Cristina Luna Gómez⁴⁰, Francisco J. Toyos Sáenz de Miera⁴¹, Nagore Fernandez-Llanio Cornella⁴², Jose Andrés Román Ivorra⁴³, Antonio García⁴⁴, Natalia Palmou-Fontana⁴⁵, Vanesa Calvo-Río⁴⁵, José Luis Martín-Varillas⁴⁵, Belén Atienza-Mateo⁴⁵, Carmen González-Vela⁴⁶, Alfonso Corrales⁴⁵, Elena Aurrecoechea⁴⁷, Raquel Dos Santos⁴⁸, Angel García-Manzanares¹³, Norberto Ortego Centeno⁴⁹, Sabela Fernández⁵⁰, Montserrat Corteguera³⁵, Miguel Angel González-Gay², José Luis Hernández² and Ricardo Blanco⁴⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Rheumatology. Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital Alto Deba. Mondragón. Spain, Mondragon, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario la Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Hospital de Sierrallana. Torrelavega. Spain, Torrelavega, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital La Princesa. Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León. León. Spain, León, Spain, ⁸Hospital de Pontevedra. Spain, Pontevedra, Spain, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Bellvitge. Barcelona. Spain, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragón. Spain, Mondragón, Spain, ¹¹Rheumatology Division. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ¹²Rheumatology, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo. Spain, Vigo, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitario de Torrevieja, Alicante. Spain, Alicante, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Lugo. Spain, Lugo, Spain, ¹⁶Rheumatology, Hospital Parc-Taulí, Sabadell, Spain, ¹⁷Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario de Elda. Comunidad Valenciana. Spain, Elda, Spain, ¹⁸Rheumatology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ¹⁹Rheumatology, Hospital Río Carrión. Palencia. Spain, Palencia, Spain, ²⁰Rheumatology Department, Hospital General La Mancha Centro, Alcázar de San Juan, Spain, ²¹Servicio de Reumatología, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), A Coruña. España, A Coruña, Spain, ²²Hospital General Universitario de Elche, Alicante. Spain, Alicante, Spain, ²³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio. Granada. Spain, Granada, Spain, ²⁴Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ²⁵Hospital Universitario San Agustín, Avilés. Spain, Avilés, Spain, ²⁶Autoimmune Systemic Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. Spain, Valencia, Spain, ²⁸Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca. Spain, Salamanca, Spain, ²⁹Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza. Spain, Zaragoza, Spain, ³⁰Rheumatology, Hospital La Fe. Valencia. Spain, Valencia, Spain, ³¹Rheumatology, Hospital Mateu Orfila. Menorca. Spain, Menorca, Spain, ³²Medicine, University of Málaga, MÁLAGA, Spain, ³³Reumatología, Hospital General Universitario Alicante, Alicante, Spain, ³⁴Rheumatology, University Hospital La Paz, IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ³⁵Complejo Asistencial de Ávila, Ávila. Spain, Ávila, Spain, ³⁶Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ³⁷Hospital Cabueñes, Gijón. Spain, Gijón, Spain, ³⁸Rheumatology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Ourense, Ourense. Spain, Ourense, Spain, ³⁹Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain, ⁴⁰Rheumatology, University Hospital Ntra. Sra. de La Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ⁴¹Hospital Virgen de La Macarena. Sevilla. Spain, Sevilla, Spain, ⁴²Rheumatology Section. Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Valencia, Spain, ⁴³Hospital La Fe. Valencia. Spain, Valencia, Spain, ⁴⁴Hospital Unviersitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada. Spain, Granada, Spain, ⁴⁵Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ⁴⁶Pathology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ⁴⁷Rheumatology, Hospital de Sierrallana. Torrelavega. Spain, Torrelavega, Spain, ⁴⁸Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago. Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁴⁹Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio. Granada. Spain, Granada, Spain, ⁵⁰Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario San Agustín, Avilés. Spain, Avilés, Spain
Background/Purpose: Tocilizumab (TCZ) has showed efficacy in randomized clinical trials in Giant cell arteritis (GCA). Data were of selected patients including many GCA of recent…
Abstract Number: 2756 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Multicenter Series of Giant Cell Arteritis Patients from Clinical Practice in Treatmet with Tocilizumab Compared with Giacta Trial
Monica Calderón Goercke¹, Javier Loricera², Diana Prieto Peña¹, Vicente Aldasoro³, Santos Castañeda⁴, Ignacio Villa-Blanco⁵, Alicia Humbría⁶, Clara Moriano Morales⁷, Susana Romero-Yuste⁸, Francisco Javier Narváez⁹, Catalina Gómez-Arango¹⁰, Eva Perez Pampín¹¹, Rafael Melero¹², Elena Becerra-Fernández¹³, Marcelino Revenga Martínez¹⁴, Noelia Álvarez-Rivas¹⁵, Carlos Galisteo¹⁶, Francisca Sivera¹⁷, Alejandro Olivé-Marqués¹⁸, Maria Concepcion Alvarez de Buergo¹⁹, Luisa Marena Rojas Vargas²⁰, Carlos Fernandez-Lopez²¹, Francisco Navarro²², Enrique Raya Álvarez²³, Eva Galindez-Agirregoikoa²⁴, Beatriz Arca²⁵, Roser Solans²⁶, Arantxa Conesa²⁷, Cristina Hidalgo-Calleja²⁸, Carlos Vázquez²⁹, Jose Andrés Román Ivorra³⁰, Pau Lluch³¹, Sara Manrique-Arija³², Paloma Vela³³, Eugenio De Miguel³⁴, Carmen Torres-Martín³⁵, Juan Carlos Nieto³⁶, Carmen Ordas-Calvo³⁷, Eva Salgado-Pérez³⁸, Cristina Luna Gómez³⁹, Francisco J. Toyos Sáenz de Miera⁴⁰, Nagore Fernandez-Llanio Cornella⁴¹, Antonio García⁴², Carmen Larena⁴³, Belén Atienza-Mateo⁴⁴, José Luis Martín-Varillas⁴⁴, Natalia Palmou-Fontana², Vanesa Calvo-Río⁴⁴, Carmen González-Vela⁴⁵, Alfonso Corrales⁴⁴, María Varela-García⁴⁶, Elena Aurrecoechea⁴⁷, Raquel Dos Santos⁴⁸, Angel García-Manzanares¹³, Norberto Ortego Centeno⁴⁹, Sabela Fernández⁵⁰, Francisco Ortiz-Sanjuán⁵¹, Montserrat Corteguera³⁵, Miguel Angel González-Gay², José Luis Hernández² and Ricardo Blanco⁴⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Rheumatology. Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital Alto Deba. Mondragón. Spain, Mondragon, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Hospital de Sierrallana. Torrelavega. Spain, Torrelavega, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital La Princesa. Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León. León. Spain, León, Spain, ⁸Hospital Pontevedra. Pontevedra. Spain., Pontevedra, Spain, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Idibell, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragón. Spain, Mondragón, Spain, ¹¹Rheumatology Division. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ¹²Rheumatology, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo. Spain, Vigo, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitario de Torrevieja, Alicante. Spain, Alicante, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Lugo. Spain, Lugo, Spain, ¹⁶Rheumatology, Hospital Parc-Taulí, Sabadell, Spain, ¹⁷Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario de Elda. Comunidad Valenciana. Spain, Elda, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Trías i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁹Rheumatology, Hospital Río Carrión. Palencia. Spain, Palencia, Spain, ²⁰Rheumatology Department, Hospital General La Mancha Centro, Alcázar de San Juan, Spain, ²¹Servicio de Reumatología, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), A Coruña. España, A Coruña, Spain, ²²Hospital General Universitario de Elche, Alicante. Spain, Alicante, Spain, ²³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio. Granada. Spain, Granada, Spain, ²⁴Rheumatology, University Hospital of Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ²⁵Hospital Universitario San Agustín, Avilés. Spain, Avilés, Spain, ²⁶Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. Spain, Valencia, Spain, ²⁸Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca. Spain, Salamanca, Spain, ²⁹Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza. Spain, Zaragoza, Spain, ³⁰Hospital La Fe. Valencia. Spain, Valencia, Spain, ³¹Rheumatology, Hospital Mateu Orfila. Menorca. Spain, Menorca, Spain, ³²UGC de Reumatología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA) Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain., Málaga, Spain, ³³Reumatología, Hospital General Universitario Alicante, Alicante, Spain, ³⁴Rheumatology, University Hospital La Paz, IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ³⁵Complejo Asistencial de Ávila, Ávila. Spain, Ávila, Spain, ³⁶Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ³⁷Hospital Cabueñes, Gijón. Spain, Gijón, Spain, ³⁸Rheumatology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Ourense, Ourense. Spain, Ourense, Spain, ³⁹Rheumatology, University Hospital Ntra. Sra. de La Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ⁴⁰Hospital Virgen de La Macarena. Sevilla. Spain, Sevilla, Spain, ⁴¹Rheumatology Section. Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Valencia, Spain, ⁴²Hospital Unviersitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada. Spain, Granada, Spain, ⁴³Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ⁴⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ⁴⁵Pathology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, ⁴⁶Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain, ⁴⁷Rheumatology, Hospital de Sierrallana. Torrelavega. Spain, Torrelavega, Spain, ⁴⁸Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago. Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁴⁹Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio. Granada. Spain, Granada, Spain, ⁵⁰Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario San Agustín, Avilés. Spain, Avilés, Spain, ⁵¹Rheumatology, Hospital La Fe. Valencia. Spain, Valencia, Spain
Background/Purpose: GiACTA study is a randomized, phase III controlled clinical trial of tocilizumab (TCZ) in giant cell arteritis (GCA) (1,2). Our aim was to compare…
Abstract Number: 2760 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis Treated with Tocilizumab in Real-World Clinical Practice
Sebastian H. Unizony¹, Jinglan Pei², Páris N. Sidiropoulos², Jennie H. Best², Christine Birchwood² and John H. Stone³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ³Rheumatology (Medicine), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Previously, the GiACTA study demonstrated the superiority of subcutaneous (SC) tocilizumab (TCZ) plus prednisone vs prednisone alone in achieving sustained glucocorticoid (GC)-free remission in…
Abstract Number: 2774 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Treatment with Methotrexate and Risk of Ischemic Relapses in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis in Clinical Practice
Judit Font Urgelles¹, Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez², Zulema Rosales Rosado^1,2, Dalifer Freites Núñez², Leticia Leon², Inmaculada Morado¹, Esperanza Pato Cour¹, Juan A Jover Jover¹, Benjamín Fernández-Gutiérrez¹ and Lydia A Alcazar², ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Clinical trials have shown the efficacy of Methotrexate (MTX) in giant cell arteritis (GCA) but it is necessary to corroborate these results in real…
Abstract Number: 2870 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Thresholds for Disease Activity Measures DAS28, CDAI, and RAPID3 Do Not Align with Clinical Practice Patterns of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Disease Management Decisions
Brian C. Sauer¹, Chia-Chen Teng, MS¹, Neil A. Accortt², David H. Collier², Tzu-Chieh Lin² and Grant W. Cannon¹, ¹Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
Background/Purpose: Treatment guidelines recommend using disease activity measures (DAMs) to guide RA therapy, but DAM use in real-world treatment decisions is not defined. We…
Abstract Number: 524 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Course of Interstitial Lung Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Clinical Practice
Cristina Vadillo Font¹, María A Nieto², Dalifer Freites Núñez³, Zulema Rosales Rosado^1,3, Leticia Leon³, Judit Font Urgelles¹, Juan A Jover Jover¹ and Lydia A Alcazar³, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ²Chest diseases, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ³Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the extra-articular manifestation that most frequently worsens the course of Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease. Purpose: To describe the characteristics…
Abstract Number: 2872 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Variation in Predictors of Patient and Physician Defined Flares in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Anna O'Connor¹, Joshua Baker², Bryant R. England³, Brian C. Sauer⁴, Grant W. Cannon⁵ and J. Steuart Richards⁶, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Philadelphia VA Medical Center and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Rheumatology, VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System & University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁶Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: The identification of risk factors associated with flares in RA is challenging because of the use of different composite disease activity scores and a…
Abstract Number: 621 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Practical Optimization of Methotrexate Dose Improves Disease Control of Rheumatoid Arthritis Despite Reduction or Discontinuation of Oral Glucocorticoids
Shintaro Hirata¹, Kei Araki¹, Hiroki Kohno¹, Kazutoshi Yukawa¹, Tadahiro Tokunaga¹, Tatsuomi Kuranobu¹, Katsuhiro Oi¹, Yusuke Yoshida¹, Tomohiro Sugimoto¹, Keisuke Oda^1,2, Takaki Nojima^1,3 and Eiji Sugiyama¹, ¹Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, ²Hiroshima Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan, ³Nojima Internal Medicine Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan
Background/Purpose: Short-term glucocorticoids (GCs) along with methotrexate (MTX) has been recommended for newly onset patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in EULAR recommendation 2016. However, it…
Abstract Number: 2890 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effect of Tapering of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor on Achieving Inactive Disease in Axial Spondyloarthritis Based on the ‘Treat-to-Target’ Strategy: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study
Jun Won Park¹, Min Jung Kim¹, Hyoun-Ah Kim², Kichul Shin³, Yong-Beom Park⁴, Yeong Wook Song⁵ and Eun Young Lee¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ²Department of Rheumatology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea, Republic of (South), ³Kyungnam villa #102, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁴Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁵Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, and College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Background/Purpose: Although recent treatment guideline of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) by the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommended that tapering of tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi)…

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