Abstracts tagged "Diagnosis and rheumatic disease"

Abstract Number: 247 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Fibromyalgia Patients Often Receive Several Rheumatic Disease Diagnoses
Robert S. Katz¹ and Jessica L. Polyak², ¹Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ²Rheumatology Associates S.C., Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: In a written office questionnaire, we asked patients the number of rheumatic disease diagnoses they had been given. We also asked about the length…
Abstract Number: 1023 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
The Autoimmune Discovery Ichip Distinguishes Healthy Individuals (HC) from Those with SLE, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Scleroderma (SSc), Sjogren’s Syndrome (SS), and the Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome (APS)
Chaim Putterman¹, Armando Gabrielli², Alexandra Balbir-Gurman³, Pennina Safer⁴, Keren Jakobi-Brook⁴, Rachel Sorek⁴, Ilana Gluzman⁴, Steve Wallace⁵ and Irun R. Cohen^4,6, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, Bronx, NY, ²Istituto di Clinica Medica dell'Università di Ancona, Ancona, Italy, Ancona, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Haifa, Israel, ⁴ImmunArray Ltd., Rehovot, Israel, Rehovot, Israel, ⁵ImmunArray Inc., VA, USA, Richmond, VA, ⁶Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Rehovot, Israel
Background/Purpose: Current serological tests are not sufficiently accurate in differentiating between HC and those with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. We developed the iCHIP antigen microarray to…
Abstract Number: 2063 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Detection of Inflammatory Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Conditions in a First Nations Community: Results of an Onsite Screening Program
Cheryl Barnabe¹, Carrissa Low Horn², Margaret Kargard², Stephen Mintsioulis², Sharon Leclercq³, Dianne P. Mosher⁴, Hani S. El-Gabalawy⁵, Tyler White² and Marvin J. Fritzler⁶, ¹Medicine, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Siksika Health Services, Siksika, AB, Canada, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Med, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁵Arthritis Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁶Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: RA and SLE are more severe and at least twice as prevalent in the First Nations population of Canada compared to the Caucasian population.…