Abstracts tagged "Diagnostic criteria"

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…
Abstract Number: 1893 • ACR Convergence 2020
Predictors of Response in Secukinumab-treated Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: Logistic Regression and Machine Learning Analyses
Corinne Miceli-Richard¹, Denis Poddubnyy², Atul Deodhar³, Weibin Bao⁴, Craig Parman⁵, Brian Porter⁶ and Effie Pournara⁵, ¹Paris Descartes University, Department of Rheumatology - Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ²Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁴Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hannover, ⁵Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁶Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ
Background/Purpose: Predicting outcomes early in the disease course in patients (pts) with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is challenging, owing to heterogeneity of symptoms, varying disease severity,…
Abstract Number: 1939 • ACR Convergence 2020
Definitions and Reliability Assessment of Chronic Ultrasound Lesions of the Axillary Artery in Giant Cell Arteritis: A Study from the OMERACT Large Vessel Vasculitis Ultrasound Working Group
Valentin Schaefer¹, Stavros Chrysidis², Greta Carrara³, Wolfgang Schmidt⁴, George A. Bruyn⁵, Bhaskar Dasgupta⁶, Eugenio De Miguel⁷, Andreas Diamantopoulos⁸, Christina Duftner⁹, Ulrich Fredberg¹⁰, Berit Nielsen¹¹, Wolfgang Hartung¹², Alojzija Hocevar¹³, Annamaria Iagnocco¹⁴, Aaron Juche⁴, Tanaz Kermani¹⁵, Tove Lorenzen¹⁶, Pierluigi Macchioni¹⁷, Marcin Milchert¹⁸, Uffe Døhn¹⁹, Sara Monti²⁰, Chetan Mukhtyar²¹, Cristina Ponte²², Carlo Scire²³, Lene Terslev²⁴, Luca Seitz²⁵ and Christian Dejaco²⁶, ¹Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Department of Oncology, Hematology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ²Sydvestjysk Sygehus Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark, ³Epidemiology Unit, Italian Society for Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, ⁴Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin Buch, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Rheumatology, Reumakliniek Lelystad, Lelystad, Netherlands, ⁶Rheumatology, Mid and South Essex University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Southend University Hospital, United Kingdom, Westcliff on sea, England, United Kingdom, ⁷Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Martina Hansens Hospital, Baerum, Norway, ⁹Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ¹⁰Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Silkeborg, Denmark, ¹¹Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ¹²Asklepios Klinik Bad Abbach, Bad Abbacg, Germany, ¹³University Medical Center, Rheumatology, Ljubljana, LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, ¹⁴Università degli Studi di Torino, Academic Rheumatology Centre, Turin, Italy, ¹⁵David Geffen School of Medicine / University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁶Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁷Unità Operativa di Reumatologia/Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ¹⁸Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland, ¹⁹Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseasesand COPECARE, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁰Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ²¹Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom, ²²Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal, ²³University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, ²⁴Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup., Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁵Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology, University of Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland, ²⁶South Tyrol Health Trust, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
Background/Purpose: The OMERACT Ultrasound (US) large vessel vasculitis task force has recently defined the US appearance of normal axillary arteries (AA) and the key elementary…
Abstract Number: 0026 • ACR Convergence 2020
A Modified Version of the 2016 ACR Fibromyalgia Criteria Cognitive Items Results in Stronger Correlation Between Subjective and Objective Measures of Cognitive Impairment
Valerie Aloush¹, Chen Yaalon², Sheer Raev², Noy Sobol², Jacob Ablin¹, Ran Shorer³ and Odelia Elkana², ¹Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ²Academic College Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Background/Purpose: In a previous study, we showed that the subjective item assessing cognitive impairment (SSS-Cog) for fibromyalgia (FM) did not correlate with objective cognitive measures.…
Abstract Number: 2019 • ACR Convergence 2020
Preliminary Definition of a Positive MRI for Active Lesions in the Sacroiliac Joints Typical of Axial Spondyloarthritis
Walter Maksymowych¹, Xenofon Baraliakos², Ulrich Weber³, Pedro M Machado⁴, Susanne J Pedersen⁵, Joachim Sieper⁶, Stephanie Wichuk¹, Denis Poddubnyy⁷, Martin Rudwaleit⁸, Désirée van der Heijde⁹, Robert Landewé¹⁰, Joel Paschke¹¹, Mikkel Østergaard¹² and Robert G Lambert¹³, ¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, ³University of South Denmark, Odense, Denmark, ⁴University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Rigshospitalet University, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁶Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Klinikum Bielefeld, Germany, ⁹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ¹⁰Amsterdam University Medical Center & Zuyderland Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹¹CARE Arthritis, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ¹²Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹³University of Alberta and CARE Arthritis, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: The ASAS definition of a positive MRI for inflammation (ASAS-MRI+) is intended for classification of patients as having axSpA but is often misused for…
Abstract Number: 135 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Added Clinical Utility of Testing for Extra-Criteria Antibodies Specificities Beyond Sapporo and Sydney Criteria Recommendations
Savino Sciascia¹, Irene Cecchi ², Massimo Radin ², Elena Rubini ², Silvia Grazietta Foddai ², Dario Roccatello ², Chelsea Bentow ³, Andrea Seaman ³, Carlos Ramirez ³ and Michael Mahler ³, ¹Center of Research of Immunopathology and Rare Diseases- Coordinating Center of Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta Network for Rare Diseases, Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Torino, Italy, ²University of Turin, Turin, Italy, ³Inova Diagnostics, San Diego, CA
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
Camille Roux¹, Frédérique Gandjbakhch², Audrey Pierreisnard³, Marion Couderc⁴, Cédric Lukas⁵, Racha Masri¹, Jean-Philippe Sommier¹, Isabelle Clerc-Urmès⁶, Cedric Baumann⁷, Isabelle Chary-Valckenaere⁸ and Damien Loeuille⁹, ¹Rheumatology, CHRU Nancy, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France, ²UPMC University Paris 06, Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, Paris, France, ³APHP, Paris, France, ⁴Rheumatology, CHU Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ⁵Rheumatology, Lapeyronie Hospital and EA2415 Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ⁶CHRU Nancy, Nancy, France, ⁷CHRU Nancy, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France, ⁸Rheumatology, CHRU Nancy, Vandoeuvres les Nancy, France, ⁹Rheumatology, University Hospital of Nancy, NANCY, France
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
Muhammed Aydin¹, Bahar Artim-Esen¹, Murat Inanc², Lale Ocal¹ and Ahmet Gül¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey
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
Brian Walitt¹, Frederick Wolfe², serge Perrot³, Johannes Rasker⁴ and Winfried Häuser⁵, ¹National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, Bethesda, MD, ²FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ³Pain Clinic, Cochin-Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Paris, France, ⁴5Faculty of Behavioral Management & Social sciences, Psychology, Health & Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, Enschede, Netherlands, ⁵Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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
Sandrine Jousse-Joulin¹, Florence Gatineau², Chiara Baldini³, Alan N. Baer⁴, Francesca Barone⁵, Hendrika Bootsma⁶, Simon Bowman⁷, Pilar Brito Zeron⁸, Divi Cornec⁹, Thomas Doerner¹⁰, Salvatore De Vita¹¹, Benjamin Fisher¹², Daniel S. Hammenfors¹³, Malin V. Jonsson¹⁴, Xavier Mariette¹⁵, Vera Milic¹⁶, Hideki Nakamura¹⁷, Wan-Fai Ng¹⁸, Emmanuel Nowak², Manuel Ralos-Casals¹⁹, Astrid Rasmussen²⁰, Raphaèle Seror²¹, Caroline Shiboski²², Takashi Nakamura²³, Arjan Vissink²⁴, Alain Saraux²⁵ and Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec¹, ¹Rheumatology, Brest university medical school, EA 2216, UBO and CHU de la Cavale Blanche,, Brest, France, ²INSERM CIC 1412, Brest Medical University Hospital, Brest, France, ³Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁴Medicine (Rheumatology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Institute of Inflammation and Ageing (IIA), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁶Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁸Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital CIMA-Sanitas, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹CHU Brest, Brest, France, ¹⁰Charité Universitätmedizin Berlin and DRFZ, Berlin, Germany, ¹¹Rheumatology Clinic, Academic Hospital S. M. della Misericordia, Medical Area Department, University of Udine, Italy, Udine, Italy, ¹²Rheumatology Research Group, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ¹³Broegelmann Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Bergen, Norway, ¹⁴Section for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Bergen, Norway, ¹⁵Université Paris Sud, Paris, France, ¹⁶Institute of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, ¹⁷Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ¹⁸Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ¹⁹Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelone, Spain, ²⁰Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²¹Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Hôpitaux universitaires Paris Sud, Université Paris Sud, kremlin bicetre, France, ²²Department of Orofacial Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, ²³Department of Radiology and Cancer Biology, Nagasaki University School of Dentistry, Nagasaki, Japan, ²⁴Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²⁵Rheumatology Department, Rheumatology Department, CHU de la Cavale Blanche, Brest, France, Brest Cedex, France
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
Nienke Conijn^1,2, Deirisa Lopes Barreto¹, Martijn Kuijper¹, Matthijs van der Steen³, Jaco van der Kooij⁴, Angelique Weel^2,5, J.M.W. Hazes² and Marc R Kok¹, ¹Rheumatology, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Business Intelligence, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Planning and Control, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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?
Sergio Schwartzman¹, Madeline Epsten², Jackie Szymonifka², Stephen A. Paget³ and Lisa A. Mandl¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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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