Abstracts tagged "diagnosis and polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM)"

Abstract Number: 1938 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012

A New Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay System for Detecting Autoantibodies to Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases: Clinical Usefulness in Myositis and Interstitial Pneumonia

Ran Nakashima¹, Yoshitaka Imura², Minae Seto³, Akihiro Murakami³, Yuji Hosono⁴, Kizuku Watanabe⁵, Tomohiro Handa⁵, Michiaki Mishima⁵, Michito Hirakata⁶, Tsutomu Takeuchi⁷, Keishi Fujio⁸, Kazuhiko Yamamoto⁹, Hitoshi Kohsaka¹⁰, Yoshinari Takasaki¹¹, Noriyuki Enomoto¹², Kingo Chida¹², Toshihiro Nukiwa¹³ and Tsuneyo Mimori¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ²Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ³Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Ina, Japan, ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ⁵Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto, Japan, ⁶Internal Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁸Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ⁹Department of Allergy & Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁰Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹²Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, ¹³Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan