Abstracts tagged "Diagnostic criteria"

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: 0946 • ACR Convergence 2021
Distinct Lipidomic Signatures in Synovium and Synovial Fluid of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis versus Psoriatic Arthritis
Beatriz Rocha¹, Berta Cillero-Pastor², Anna Illiano³, Valentina Calamia¹, Gabriella Pinto⁴, Angela Amoresano⁴, Cristina Ruiz-Romero⁵, Juan D Cañete⁶, Ron MA Heeren² and Francisco Blanco-García⁷, ¹Unidad de Proteómica. Grupo de Investigación de Reumatología (GIR). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). C/ As Xubias de Arriba 84, 15006 A Coruña, España., A Coruña, Spain, ²The Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4I), Division of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Maastricht University, The Netherlands., Maastricht, Netherlands, ³CEINGE - Advanced Biotecnology, 80145 Napoli, Italy. Instituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi (INBB), Rome, Italy., Naples, Italy, ⁴Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy. Instituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi (INBB), Rome, Italy, ⁵Unidad de Proteómica. Grupo de Investigación de Reumatología (GIR). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). C/ As Xubias de Arriba 84, 15006, A Coruña, España.Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN). Av. Monforte de Lemos, 3-5. Pabellón 11, 28029, Madrid, España., A Coruña, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷Unidad de Proteómica. Grupo de Investigación de Reumatología (GIR). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). C/ As Xubias de Arriba 84, 15006, A Coruña, España.Universidade da Coruña (UDC), Grupo de Investigación de Reumatología y Salud (GIR-S). Departamento de Fisioterapia, Medicina y Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Fisioterapia, Campus de Oza, 15008, A Coruña, España., A Coruña, Spain
Background/Purpose: The differential diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is often difficult due to the similarity of symptoms and the unavailability of…
Abstract Number: 1086 • ACR Convergence 2021
Lack of Effect of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination on Cell Bound Complement Activation Products (CB-CAPs), Multianalyte Assay Panel (MAP) with Algorithm, and Inflammatory Biomarkers
Mark Rudolph, Anja Kammensheidt and Roberta Alexander, Exagen Inc., Vista, CA
Background/Purpose: SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to severe inflammation including increased complement activation (Ma, Kulkarni 2021) and the production of several proinflammatory cytokines. The rapid deployment…
Abstract Number: 1098 • ACR Convergence 2021
Does Cancer Masquerade as Sarcoidosis?
Daniel Albert, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Etna, NH
Background/Purpose: Several case reports have suggested that cancer can present occultly as a granulomatous inflammatory disease consistent with sarcoidosis. These cases illustrate a problem of…
Abstract Number: 1109 • ACR Convergence 2021
Comparison of Diagnostic Criteria in Behçet’s Disease and Sensitivity in Diagnosing Severe Manifestations
Carmen Álvarez-Reguera¹, Alba Herrero-Morant¹, Lara Sánchez-Bilbao¹, David Martinez-Lopez¹, José Luis Martin-Varillas², Guillermo Suárez-Amorin¹, Maria Cristina Mata-Arnaiz³, Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay⁴ and Ricardo Blanco⁵, ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ³Hospital de Laredo, Spain, 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 Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Behçet disease (BD) is characterized by painful recurrent oral aphthosis genital ulcers and skin lesions. Nevertheless, the major causes of morbidity result from ocular,…
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…
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…

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