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Abstracts tagged "giant cell arteritis and patient-reported outcome measures"

  • Abstract Number: 789 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017

    Markers of Inflammation and Patient-Reported Measures As Predictors of Relapse in Giant Cell Arteritis

    Tanaz A. Kermani1, Antoine G. Sreih2, Gunnar Tomasson3, David Cuthbertson4, Renee Borchin5, Simon Carette6, Lindsy J. Forbess7, Nader A. Khalidi8, Curry L. Koening9, Carol A. McAlear10, Paul A. Monach11, Larry W. Moreland12, Christian Pagnoux6, Philip Seo13, Robert F. Spiera14, Kenneth J. Warrington15, Steven R. Ytterberg15, Carol A. Langford16 and Peter A. Merkel17,18, 1Rheumatology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3University of Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavik, IS, 4Biostatistics and Informatics, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 5University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 6Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 7Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 8Rheumatology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 9Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 10University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 11Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 12Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 13Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 14Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, 15Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 16Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 17Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 18Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    Background/Purpose: The significance of increasing erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in clinically asymptomatic individuals with giant cell arteritis (GCA) is controversial. Patient-reported…

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