Abstracts tagged "Infection"

Abstract Number: 1228 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Spine Immobilization and Neurological Complications in Vertebral Osteomyelitis: Results from a Multicenter Prospective Observational Study
Géraldine Bart¹, Guillaume Coiffier², Oriane Merot³, Emmanuel Hoppe⁴, Marion Couderc⁵, Denis Mulleman⁶, Gregoire Cormier⁷, Jean Marc Ziza⁸ and Benoit Le Goff¹, ¹Rheumatology, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, ²Rheumatology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France, ³rheumatology unit, Saint Nazaire Hospital, Saint Nazaire, France, ⁴Angers University Hospital, Angers, France, ⁵Rheumatology, CHU Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ⁶Université François-Rabelais de Tours, CNRS 7292, Tours, France, ⁷Service de Rhumatologie, CHD de la Roche-Sur-Yon, La Roche-Sur-Yon, France, ⁸Medecine Interne-Rhumatologie, Groupe hospitalier Diaconesses-Croix-Saint-Simon, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: In a previous work, we showed that neurological complication can occur in up to 40% of patients with vertebral osteomyelitis (VO). Bed rest and…
Abstract Number: 2717 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Factors Predicting Severe Infections in Patients with Systemic Necrotizing Vasculitides Based on Data from 733 Patients Enrolled in Randomized–Controlled Trials
Lafarge Antoine¹, Christian Pagnoux², Xavier Puéchal³, Maxime Samson⁴, Mohamed Hamidou⁵, Alexandre Karras⁶, Thomas Quémeneur⁷, Matthieu Groh⁸, Luc Mouthon³, Loïc Guillevin³ and Benjamin Terrier⁹, ¹Medecine Interne, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris Cochin, France, Paris, France, ²Division of Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Department of Internal Medicine, INSERM Unité 1016, Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Auto-immunes Rares, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris Cochin, France, Paris, France, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, François-Mitterrand Teaching Hospital, University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon, France, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, CHU de Nantes, France, Nantes, France, ⁶Department of Nephrology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, APHP, Paris, France, Paris, France, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine, CH of Valenciennes, France, Valenciennes, France, ⁸Internal Medicine, Foch, Suresnes, France, ⁹National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris Cochin, France, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Although overall survival of patients with systemic necrotizing vasculitides (SNVs) has improved markedly over the last 20 years, infectious complications remain a major cause…
Abstract Number: 1229 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diagnosing Prosthetic Joint Infections in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis
Serene Z. Mirza¹, Shawn Richardson², Cynthia Kahlenberg², Jason Blevins², Michelle Demetres³, Lily Martin³, Jackie Szymonifka², Peter K. Sculco⁴, Mark P. Figgie⁵ and Susan M. Goodman², ¹Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) are at increased risk of prosthetic joint infections, yet differentiating between septic and aseptic failure is a challenge in…
Abstract Number: 2832 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Multiple Subpopulations of Peripheral Lymphocytes Were Absolutely Decreased in SLE Patients with Infection and Restored By Low-Dose IL-2
Sheng-Xiao Zhang¹, Xiao-Yan Wu², Jing Luo³, Guang-Ying Liu², Chong Gao⁴, Cai-Hong Wang⁵ and Xiao-Feng Li⁵, ¹The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, ²Rheumatology, The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, ³the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, ⁴Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA, ⁵The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical Univerity, Taiyuan, China
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disorder characterized by disturbed cellular and humoral immune responses. Dysregulations of intrinsic or adaptive immune system…
Abstract Number: 1231 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis: Outcome Variables Analysis in a 116 Patients Cohort at a Tertiary Hospital during the Last 8 YEARS
Jorge Juan Fragio Gil¹, Roxana Gonzalez Mazario¹, Francisco Miguel Ortiz-Sanjuán¹, Jose Ivorra Cortes¹, Elena Grau Garcia¹, Karla Arevalo¹, Isabel Martinez Cordellat¹, Inmaculada Chalmeta Verdejo¹, Jose Eloy Oller Rodriguez¹, Luis Gonzalez Puig¹, Marta De la Rubia Navarro¹, Rosa Negueroles Albuixech¹, Cristina Alcañiz Escandell², Elvira Vicens Bernabeu¹, Eva Calabuig³, Maria Tasias Pitarch³, Miguel Salavert Lleti³ and Jose Andres Roman Ivorra¹, ¹Rheumatology Department. Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ²IIS La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ³Infectious Diseases Unit. Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Background/Purpose: Vertebral Osteomyelitis is an infectious disease of the vertebral body which could involve the intervertebral space (spondylodiscitis). Early diagnosis and treatment are essential in…
Abstract Number: 2858 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gaps in Patient Safety Performance before Treatment with Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs or Tofacitinib in a Large Academic Healthcare System
Sarah L. Patterson¹, Michael Evans², Ishita Aggarwal³, Zara Izadi⁴, Milena Gianfrancesco⁵, Gabriela Schmajuk⁶ and Jinoos Yazdany⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA, ⁴Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁷University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Treatment with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and tofacitinib confer increased risk of life-threatening infections, including reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), hepatitis B…
Abstract Number: 218 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk of Serious Infection Associated with TNF Inhibitor Versus Triple Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Yinzhu Jin¹, Eun Ha Kang², Rishi J. Desai³, Angela Tong¹ and Seoyoung C. Kim^4,5, ¹Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of (South), ³Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconimics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmocoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Treatment with tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) with methotrexate or triple therapy (MTX, sulfasalazine, and sulfasalazine) is considered in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…
Abstract Number: 1233 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rituximab Safety in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. an Eleven-Year Follow-up Observational Study
Raul Castellanos-Moreira Sr.¹, Sebastian C Rodriguez-Garcia¹, M. Victoria Hernández², Virginia Ruiz-Esquide³, Oscar Camacho Sr.¹, Andrea Cuervo¹, Julio Ramírez³, Juan Cañete¹, Jose Gomez Puerta¹ and Raimon Sanmarti¹, ¹Rheumatology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic. Barcelona. Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rituximab (RTX) is a chimeric monoclonal antibody approved for the treatment rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who failed to respond to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors.…
Abstract Number: 227 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Abatacept, Rituximab and Tocilizumab in Denmark and Sweden: Risk of Serious Infections
Kathrine Lederballe Grøn¹, Elizabeth V. Arkema², Bente Glintborg¹, Frank Mehnert³, Mikkel Østergaard⁴, Lene Dreyer⁵, Mette Nørgaard³, Niels Steen Krogh⁶, Johan Askling⁷ and Merete Lund Hetland⁸, ¹The DANBIO registry and the Danish Departments of Rheumatology, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Aarhus University Hospital, Clinical Epidemiological Department, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁴The DANBIO registry and the Danish Departments of Rheumatology, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁵Departments of Rheumatology and Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University Hospital and Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark, ⁶ZiteLab ApS, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁷Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁸DANBIO Registry, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Safety concerns have been raised regarding the risk of serious infections (SI) with the different available biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs). Little is known…
Abstract Number: 1234 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incidence of Conversion of Screening Tests for M. Tuberculosis (PPD, GIF-release assay) in a Metropolitan Cohort of Patients Treated with TNF-α Inhibitors
Hung Trinh and Darren Tabechian, Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors are used to reduce the inflammatory process in many autoimmune diseases. Due to the risk of reactivation of…
Abstract Number: 1967 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Strongyloides Screening in Immunocompromised Immigrant Rheumatology Patients
Sahitya Mallipeddi¹, Christina Coyle² and Beverly Johnson¹, ¹Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Strongyloides Stercoralis is a helminthic infection that is usually chronic and asymptomatic and may persist undiagnosed for decades. Patients from strongyloides endemic areas (tropics…
Abstract Number: 1972 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Causes of Death in 350 Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Juan Gabriel Ovalles-Bonilla^1,2, Olaia Fernández-Berrizbeitia³, Julia Martínez-Barrio¹, Larissa Valor¹, Diana Hernández¹, Iustina Janta¹, Belen Serrano¹, Claudia Saez¹, Roberto Gonzalez¹, María Correyero¹, Leticia García¹, Ana López-Cerón¹, Alicia Silva¹, Juan Carlos Nieto¹, Carlos González^1,4, Indalecio Monteagudo¹ and Francisco Javier López Longo^1,4, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Basurto, Bilbao, Spain, ⁴Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: The major SARD have an increased mortality compared to the general population. It is well known that the main causes of death in Systemic…
Abstract Number: 2082 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Presentation, Management, and Prognosis of Pseudogout in Prosthetic Joint Implant Patients: A Retrospective Study
Merit P. George¹, Floranne C. Ernste², Aaron J. Tande³, Douglas R. Osmon³, Tad M. Mabry⁴ and Elie F. Berbari³, ¹Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, ²Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, ⁴Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: The prevalence of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) has risen considerably in the U.S. There has been a relative lack…
Abstract Number: 271 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Trend of Incidence Rate, Frequency and HLA Phenotype of Reactive Arthritis and Uveitis in Japanese Patients with Bladder Cancer Following Intravesical BCG Therapy: A 20-Year, Two-Center Retrospective Study
Yoshinori Taniguchi¹, Satoshi Inotani², Hirofumi Nishikawa², Kosuke Inoue³, Taro Horino², Takashi Karashima⁴, Yasuhiko Yoshinaga⁵ and Yoshio Terada³, ¹Endocrinology, Metabolism,Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan, ²Endocrinology, Metabolism, Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan, ³Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan, ⁴Urology, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan, ⁵Kurashiki Medical Center, Kurashiki, Japan
Background/Purpose: Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (iBCG) is used as an effective immunotherapy of bladder cancer. However it may have, as adverse event, a reactive…
Abstract Number: 2140 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Infections and Medications Associated with Onset of Myositis in Myovision, a National Myositis Patient Registry
Lisa G Rider¹, Payam Noroozi Farhadi¹, Nastaran Bayat¹, Jesse Wilkerson², Abdullah Faiq¹, John McGrath², Hermine I. Brunner³, Bob Goldberg⁴ and Frederick W Miller¹, ¹Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, ³Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴The Myositis Association, Alexandria, VA
Background/Purpose: Myositis is a rare systemic autoimmune disease with suspected environmental and genetic risk factors, but little is known about specific infections and medications that…

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