Abstract Number: 0094 • ACR Convergence 2020
Validation Study of Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Sympathetic Joint Effusion
Background/Purpose: Sympathetic joint effusion (SJE) is a rarely diagnosed rheumatologic entity characterized by painful yet non-inflammatory range synovial effusion. The condition was originally described in…Abstract Number: 0159 • ACR Convergence 2020
Patient-Reported Data Show the Impact of Time to Diagnosis in RA
Background/Purpose: Time from diagnosis to treatment has been well established to correlate with better outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Treatment delays are often associated with…Abstract Number: 0445 • ACR Convergence 2020
Dual-Energy CT in Gout Patients: Do All Color-Coded Lesions Actually Represent Monosodium Urate Crystals?
Background/Purpose: Dual-Energy CT (DECT) can acknowledge differences in tissue compositions and can color-code tissues with specific features including monosodium urate (MSU) crystals. However, when evaluating…Abstract Number: 0519 • ACR Convergence 2020
Thrombotic and Obstetric Associations of Non-Criteria Antiphospholipid Immunoassays That Detect Antibodies to Neutral and Negatively-Charged Phospholipid
Background/Purpose: Criteria antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies that identify antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) patients, anticardiolipin (aCL) and anti-β2glycoprotein-I (anti-β2GPI), have demonstrated inconsistent specificity and sensitivity in this regard…Abstract Number: 0943 • ACR Convergence 2020
Reliability and Validity Issues in Fibromyalgia Diagnosis
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
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
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
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: 135 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Added Clinical Utility of Testing for Extra-Criteria Antibodies Specificities Beyond Sapporo and Sydney Criteria Recommendations
Background/Purpose: The laboratory diagnostics of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) takes into account the persistent positivity for anticardiolipin (aCL) and/or anti-β2glycoprotein I (anti-β2GPI) antibodies and/or the presence…Abstract Number: 1443 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ultrasonographic Criteria for the Diagnosis of Erosive Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Using Osteoarthritic Patients As Controls Compared to Validated Radiographic Criteria
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most prevalent chronic inflammatory joint disease (1,2) responsible for structural damage. Radiography (RX) is considered as the gold standard…Abstract Number: 1813 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Non-Aphthous Beginning As an Independent Risk Factor for the Course of Behçet’s Disease
Background/Purpose: Behçet disease (BD) is a multisystem inflammatory disorder characterized by recurrent manifestations in mucocutaneous tissues, eyes, joints, blood vessels, intestines and brain. Since there…Abstract Number: 1836 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Fibromyalgia Diagnosis and Biased Assessment: Sex, Prevalence, Biology and Bias
Background/Purpose: Multiple clinical and epidemiological studies have provided estimates of fibromyalgia prevalence and sex ratio, but different criteria sets and methodology, as well as bias,…Abstract Number: 877 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Modification of the Classification Criteria for Primary Sjögren Syndrome: An International Vignette Survey
Background/Purpose: The common classification criteria sets of primary Sjogren syndrome, did not considered the ultrasonography (US) of the major salivary glands as a useful item.…Abstract Number: 2048 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
the Impact of Diagnostic Misregistration of Rheumatoid Arthritis on the Establishment of a Value Based Healthcare System
Background/Purpose: Value based health care has gained worldwide attention due to the refocusing vision of creating value around and for patients. The latter is obtained…Abstract Number: 2556 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Were Moll and Wright Right?
Background/Purpose: In 1973 Moll and Wright published the first paper on the classification criteria for Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA). In their pioneering work, these authors additionally…
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