ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2371 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Féline Kroon1, Ruth Wittoek2, Wing-Yee Kwok1, Klaus Bobacz3, Dirk Elewaut2, Marta Favero4, Tom Huizinga5, Josef Smolen3, Bert Vander Cruyssen2, Ron Wolterbeek6, Leonardo Punzi7, Gust Verbruggen2, Margreet Kloppenburg8 and Roberta Ramonda7, 1Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 2Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, 3Internal Medicine III, Div. of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 4Rheumatology Unit,Department of Medicine–DIMED, University of Padova, Rheumatology Unit,University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 5Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 6Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 7Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine DIMED, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 8Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Erosive hand osteoarthritis (OA) is a hand OA subset with high disease burden, although effective therapies are still lacking and clinical trials are scarce.…