Abstracts tagged "inflammatory myositis and interstitial lung disease"

Abstract Number: 2135 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
ADAM-17 Is Expressed in the Inflammatory Myopathy, and Is Involved with Interstitial Lung Disease
Airi Nishimi, Takeo Isozaki, Shinichiro Nishimi, Sho Ishii, Takahiro Tokunaga, Hidekazu Furuya, Kuninobu Wakabayashi and Tsuyoshi Kasama, Div of Rheumatology, Showa University School of Med, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: A disintegrin and metalloprotesase (ADAM) family is protease that is thought to have an important role in tissue destruction and inflammatory reaction. ADAMs are…
Abstract Number: 2175 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Novel Assessment of Interstitial Lung Disease Using the “Computer-Aided Lung Informatics for Pathology Evaluation and Rating” Software System in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
Patompong Ungprasert¹, Katelynn Wilton², Floranne C. Ernste³, Sanjay Kalra⁴, Cynthia S. Crowson⁵, Srinivasan Rajagopalan⁶ and Brian Bartholmai⁷, ¹Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, ⁴Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ⁶Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷Thoracic Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are often associated with interstitial lung diseases (ILD). Yet, pulmonary function testing (PFT) results can be confounded by patient…
Abstract Number: 1266 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Anti-MDA5 Is Associated with Rapidly-Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease and Poor Survival in U.S. Patients with Amyopathic and Myopathic Dermatomyositis
Siamak Moghadam-Kia¹, Chester V. Oddis², Shinji Sato³, Masataka Kuwana⁴ and Rohit Aggarwal¹, ¹Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Rheum/Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose : Clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) is a subset of dermatomyositis (DM) presenting with the characteristic rash(es) of DM without objective muscle weakness. Asian studies…