Abstracts tagged "Diagnostic criteria"

Abstract Number: 1921 • ACR Convergence 2021
Axial Psoriatic Arthritis: Correlation Between Whole Spine MRI Abnormalities and Clinical Findings
Pamela Diaz¹, Iris Eshed², Joy Feld³ and Lihi Eder¹, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, ³Carmel and Zvulun Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) typically affects peripheral joints, but in some patients the disease can involve the spine. While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an…
Abstract Number: 1922 • ACR Convergence 2021
Early and Accurate Diagnosis of Patient with Axial Spondyloarthritis Using Machine Learning: A Predictive Analysis from Electronic Health Records in United Kingdom
Raj Sengupta¹, Shruti Narasimham², Borja Mato³, Matic Meglic³, Chiara Perella³, Paula Pamies⁴ and Paul Emery⁵, ¹The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom, ²Novartis Ireland Ltd, Dublin, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, ³Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁴Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd, London, UK, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and Leeds NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: On an average, there is a delay of 6.7 years between symptom onset and diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA)1. Since traditional approaches to improving…
Abstract Number: 0163 • ACR Convergence 2021
Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis in Spain: Data from the ARTESER Registry
Eugenio De Miguel¹, Jesús T. Sánchez-Costa², Javier Narvaez³, Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay⁴, Noemí Garrido-Puñal⁵, Paula V. Estrada-Alarcon⁶, Iñigo Hernández-Rodríguez⁷, Elisa Fernández-Fernández⁸, María T. Silva-Diaz⁹, Jesús A. Valero-Jaimes¹⁰, Ismael González-Fernández¹¹, Julio Sánchez¹², Judit Lluch¹³, Eva Galindez-Agirregoikoa¹⁴, Javier Mendizábal-Mateos¹⁵, Luis Rodriguez Rodriguez¹⁶, Javier Loricera García¹⁷, Alejandro Muñoz¹⁸, Santos Castañeda¹⁹, Patricia Moya²⁰, Patricia Morán-Álvarez²¹, Vanessa A. Navarro-Angeles⁶, Joan Calvet-Fontova²², Ivette Casafont²³, Francisco Ortiz-Sanjuán²⁴, Selene Labrada-Arrabal²⁵, Cristina Campos-Fernández²⁶, María Alcalde-Villar²⁷, Antonio Juan-Mas²⁸ and Ricardo Blanco²⁹, ¹Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ²Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ³Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; School of Medicine, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁵Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain, ⁶Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi. Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, ⁸Rheumatology department, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ⁹Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de La Coruña, Coruña, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitario Donostia, Donostia-San Sebasti, Spain, ¹¹Hospital Universitario de León, León, Spain, ¹²Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitari Bellvitge, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ¹⁵H. Navarra, Navarra, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevial, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ²¹Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²²Hospital Universitari Parc Tauli, Sabadell, Spain, ²³Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Badalona, Spain, ²⁴H. La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ²⁵Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁶Consorci Hospital General Universitari de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ²⁷Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa, Leganés, Spain, ²⁸Hospital Universitario Son Llàtzer, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, ²⁹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: To standardize research studies different classification systems are used. Currently, the ACR Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) 19901 classification criteria is probably the most widely…
Abstract Number: 0425 • ACR Convergence 2021
Diagnostic Accuracy of Muscle MRI for Muscular Vasculitis in Anti-neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-associated Vasculitis: A Pilot Study
Ryuta Inaba, Daisuke Waki, Keisuke Nishimura, Tomohiro Yoshida, Kaoru Mizukawa, Shintaro Yamamoto, Osamu Iri, Kohei Yo and Hiroyuki Murabe, Department of Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan
Background/Purpose: Histopathologic confirmation is the golden standard for diagnosis of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), but sometimes can be difficult because of its invasion (e.g.…
Abstract Number: 0568 • ACR Convergence 2021
Construction of the Veterans Affairs National Rheumatoid Arthritis Database (VANRAD)
Amy Joseph¹, Jodi Yanagida¹, Xinliang Huang¹, Prabha Ranganathan¹, Melissa Laurie², Hong Xian¹ and Seth Eisen¹, ¹VA St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, MO, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: The Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) provides comprehensive medical care at minimal or no cost to 9 million veterans annually through 170 medical centers…
Abstract Number: 0651 • ACR Convergence 2021
Diagnostic Approach to Identifying Small Fiber Neuropathy in Patients with Sarcoidosis
Bassel Bou Dargham¹, Nima Madanchi², Kelsey Satkowiak¹, Huzaefah Syed¹ and Kelly Gwathmey³, ¹Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, RICHMOND, VA, ²Virginia CommonHealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, ³Virginia Commonwealth University Health system, Richmond, VA
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease that can affect the nervous system in about 5% of patients. Sarcoidosis associated small fiber neuropathy (SSFN) presents…
Abstract Number: 0943 • ACR Convergence 2020
Reliability and Validity Issues in Fibromyalgia Diagnosis
Frederick Wolfe¹, Johannes Rasker² and Brian Walitt³, ¹FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases & University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, KS, ²Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, Enschede, Netherlands, ³National Institute of Nursing Research, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a widely recognized and commonly diagnosed disorder that has also been the subject of thousands of research studies. There is no…
Abstract Number: 1046 • ACR Convergence 2020
Risk Factors Associated with Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients with RA: Findings from a Retrospective Healthcare Database Analysis
Joe Zhuo¹, Qisu Zhang², Keith Knapp³, Yuexi Wang⁴, Cynthia Gutierrez⁴, Ding He⁴, Lin Xie⁴, Sonie Lama¹ and Gary Craig⁵, ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, ²STATinMED Research (at time of analysis), Ann Arbor, MI, ³Discus Analytics LLC, Spokane, WA, ⁴STATinMED Research, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁵Arthritis Northwest, PLLC, Spokane, WA
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a frequent complication of RA and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.1 Previous studies have shown variability in…
Abstract Number: 1172 • ACR Convergence 2020
Cardiovascular involvement as a clue for diagnosis of Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis sine scleroderma
Gloria Lanzoni¹, Giorgia Martini¹, Alessandra Meneghel¹, Fabio Vittadello², Biagio Castaldi¹, Elisabetta Zanatta³ and Francesco Zulian¹, ¹Department of Woman's and Child's Health, University of Padova, Padua, Italy, ²Centro Studi Statistici Explora, Padua, Italy, ³Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis (JSSc) is a rare condition in childhood and its variety with no skin involvement, systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma (JSSSS) is anecdotal…
Abstract Number: 1309 • ACR Convergence 2020
Prevalence of Undiagnosed Axial Spondyloarthritis Among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Secondary Care Cross-Sectional Study
Chong Seng Edwin Lim¹, Mark Tremelling¹, Louise Hamilton¹, Alexander MacGregor¹, Tom Turmezei¹, Matthew Kim¹ and Karl Gaffney², ¹Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom, ²Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is closely related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), however contemporary data on the burden of hidden disease in the IBD population…
Abstract Number: 1481 • ACR Convergence 2020
A Systematic Review to Quantify the Extent of Pharmaceutical Company Involvement in Rheumatology Consensus-Based Recommendations
Dominique Feterman Jimenez¹, Garret Duron², Ali Duarte-Garcia³, Paul Sufka⁴, Samuel Whittle⁵, Philip Robinson⁶, Larry Prokop³ and Michael Putman⁷, ¹UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, ²HCA Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah, GA, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Healthpartners, St Paul, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Springfield, South Australia, Australia, ⁶University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia, ⁷Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Consensus-based recommendations guide standards of care for clinical practice. Pharmaceutical-industry involvement in producing such recommendations may undermine their objectivity. We performed a systematic review…
Abstract Number: 1619 • ACR Convergence 2020
Immunoglobulin G Subclass Ordering Patterns for IgG4-Related Disease at an Academic Medical Center
Lena Eder¹ and David Leverenz², ¹Duke University Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Duke University, DURHAM, NC
Background/Purpose: We have noticed an increasing number of serum IgG4 levels ordered over the last several years at our institution. This study was performed to…
Abstract Number: 1863 • ACR Convergence 2020
Clinical History as Tool for Diagnosis and Classification of Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis (Axial Spondyloarthritis): Evidence from a 35-Year Follow-up Family Study of a Swiss Cohort
Sjef van der Linden¹, Zhixiu Li², Matthew Brown³, Peter Villiger⁴, Heinz Baumberger⁵, Hermine Zandwijk⁶ and Muhammad Khan⁷, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology, University of Bern, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland, Mortroux, Belgium, ²Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Translational Genomics Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, ³Guy's and St Thomas, NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology, University of Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland, ⁵Retired, Flims, Tajikistan, ⁶Retired, Mortroux, Belgium, ⁷Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, Westlake, OH
Background/Purpose: Lack of sensitivity or specificity of symptoms may induce uncertainty in diagnosis and classification of AS/axSpA. We investigated if balanced sensitivity and specificity of…
Abstract Number: 1876 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Role of HLA B27 in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Prevalence and Performance as a Marker in an Argentinian Cohort
Rodrigo Garcia Salinas¹, Santiago Ruta¹, Einer Sanchez Prado¹, Jessica Torres Chichande¹, Alvaro Ruta¹, Facundo Salvatori¹ and Sebastian Magri¹, ¹Hospital Italiano La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Background/Purpose: HLA B27 prevalence in Latin America are heterogeneous and timeless, we propose to estimate the prevalence of HLA B27 in an Argentinian cohort of…
Abstract Number: 1877 • ACR Convergence 2020
Diagnosis of Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Primary Unmet Educational Need for Rheumatologists Is Interpretation of MRI
Walter Maksymowych¹, Liron Caplan², Atul Deodhar³, Soha Dolatabadi⁴, Mark Hwang⁵, Adam Carlson⁶, Kelly Steed⁷, Amanda Carapellucci⁸, Joel Paschke⁸ and Lianne Gensler⁹, ¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Aurora, CO, ³Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁴Soha Dolatabadi, MD, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁶University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ⁷James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ⁸CARE Arthritis, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is challenging because of absent physical findings in early disease and the limited diagnostic performance of laboratory markers. Considerable…

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