Abstracts tagged "muscle biopsy and vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 2944 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Use of Muscle Biopsies for the Diagnosis of Systemic Vasculitis in a Rheumatology Service
Samantha Rodriguez-Muguruza^1,2, Juana Sanint³, Xavier Saenz-Sarda⁴, Agueda Prior², Yaiza Garcia⁵, Maria Lourdes Mateo⁶, Susana Holgado⁶, Jeronima Cañellas², Melania Martínez-Morillo⁷, Xavier Tena⁶ and Alejandro Olivé¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁴Anathomy Pathology, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Systemic vasculitis comprises a group of diseases characterized by non-infectious inflammation of vessels in various organs. Histopathological confirmation of systemic vasculitis is required for…
Abstract Number: 1762 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
The Muscle Biopsy Is a Useful and Noninvasive Procedure in Diagnosing Systemic Vasculitis Affecting Small-to-Medium-Sized Vessels: A Prospective Evaluation
Takahiro Nunokawa¹, Takayasu Kise¹, Naoto Yokogawa², Kota Shimada¹ and Shoji Sugii², ¹Department of Rheumatic diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, ²Department of Rheumatic Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Histopathological confirmation is required for the diagnosis of systemic vasculitis. However, patients suspected of vasculitis often only have lesions with a low diagnostic yield…