Abstracts tagged "juvenile myositis and prognostic factors"

Abstract Number: 1317 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-p155/140 Autoantibodies and Selected Features at Illness Onset Are Associated with a Chronic Course of Illness in the Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
G. Esther A. Habers¹, Adam M. Huber², Gulnara Mamyrova³, Ira Targoff⁴, Chantal Boonacker⁵, Marco van Brussel¹, Frederick W. Miller⁶, Lisa G. Rider⁶ and Annet van Royen-Kerkhof⁷, ¹Child Development and Exercise Center, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ²IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Rheumatology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁶Environmental Autoimmunity Group, NIEHS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷Paediatric Immunology and Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Utrecht - Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose : Three types of disease courses can be distinguished in patients with juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (JIIM), namely monocyclic (M), polycyclic (P), and chronic…