Abstracts tagged "Glucocorticoids and polymyalgia rheumatica"

Abstract Number: 2197 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Steroid Bolus Leads to a Negative 18f-FDG PET/CT Scan in Large Vessel Vasculitis. Data from a Multicenter Giant Cell Arteritis Cohort Database
Paula Estrada¹, Patricia Moya², Hector Corominas³, Delia Reina⁴, Dacia Cerdà⁴, Daniel Roig Vilaseca⁴, Vanessa Navarro⁴, Sergi Heredia⁴ and Francisco Javier Narváez⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Moisès Broggi-Hospital General de L´Hospitalet. Consorci Sanitari Integral, Barcelona, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitari de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Moisès Broggi-Hospital General de L´Hospitalet. Consorci Sanitari Integral,, barcelona, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Bellvitge. Barcelona. Spain, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymialgia rheumatica (PMR) are overlapping inflammatory diseases. Large Vessel Vasculitis (LVV) is frequently present in any of the two…
Abstract Number: 2768 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Comorbidity Accrual and Mortality in an Inception Cohort of Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Single-Center, Observational Long-Term Study
Elisheva Pokroy-Shapira¹, Ariela Dortort-Lazar^2,3 and Yair Molad^4,5, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Petach Tikva, Israel, ²Rheumatology Unit, Beilinson hospital Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel, ³Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv university, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikva, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
Background/Purpose: Patients with giant-cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are treated with high cumulative glucocorticoid (GC) dose during their disease course. We sought to…
Abstract Number: 1176 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Randomized, Open-Label, Dose-Ranging Study of Oral Delayed Release Prednisone in Patients with Untreated Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Jasvinder A. Singh¹ and Lee S. Simon², ¹Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, AL, ²SDG LLC Consulting, West Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common condition of unknown etiology with a lifetime risk of 2.43% in women and 1.66% in men.1 PMR is…