ACR Meeting Abstracts

ACR Meeting Abstracts

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  • Abstract Number: 1177 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017

    Airway Findings in Patients with Relapsing Polychondritis

    Marcela A. Ferrada1, James D. Katz2, Keith A. Sikora3, Allen Clint4, Jeff Kim4, Wendy Goodspeed4, Robert Colbert5, Marcus Chen6, Arlene Sirajuddin4 and Peter C. Grayson2, 1NIAMS, National Institues of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, 3Pediatric Translational Research Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 4National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 5NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 6NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

    Background/Purpose: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare multiorgan disease. Involvement of the upper and lower airways is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Isolated airway…

  • Abstract Number: 2100 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017

    An International Consensus Exercise to Develop Candidate Items for Classification Criteria in Relapsing Polychondritis

    Marcela A. Ferrada1, Peter A. Merkel2, Keith A. Sikora3, Robert Colbert4, Chikashi Terao5, Hajime Yoshifuji6, Toshiki Nakajima7, Aman Sharma8, Shirish Sangle9, Dax Rumsey10, Christian Pagnoux11, Larry Young12, Colleen K. Correll13, Fabien Maldonado14, Robert Lebovics15, Alexander Gelbard14, Philip Zapata16, Allen Clint17, Otis Rickman14, Nitin Seam17, Guillaume Moulis18, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau19, Clement J. Michet Jr.20, James D. Katz21 and Peter C. Grayson21, 1NIAMS, National Institues of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MN, 3Pediatric Translational Research Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 4National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 5Departments of Genetics and Rheumatology, Brigham and Women'’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 6Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 7Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, 8Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, 9Louise Coote Lupus Unit, Rheumatology and Lupus, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, 10Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 11Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 12Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 13University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 14Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 15Mt. Sinai St. Luke's Hospitals, New York, NY, 16The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, 17National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 18CIC 1436, Toiulouse, France, 19Service de médecine interne Pôle médecine, Hôpital Cochin, Centre de référence maladies auto-immunes et systémiques rares de l’île de France, Paris, France, 20Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 21National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD

    Background/Purpose: There are no validated classification criteria for relapsing polychondritis (RP). Given that some manifestations of RP are organ- or life-threatening, it is imperative that…