Abstracts tagged "mycophenolate mofetil and pediatric rheumatology"

Abstract Number: 1394 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Pilot Study of Consensus Treatment Plans for Induction Therapy in Childhood Proliferative Lupus Nephritis
Jennifer C. Cooper¹, B. Anne Eberhard², Marilynn Punaro³, Stacy P. Ardoin⁴, Hermine I. Brunner⁵, Joyce Hsu⁶, Linda Wagner-Weiner⁷, Kelly Rouster-Stevens⁸, Laura E. Schanberg⁹, Marisa Klein-Gitelman¹⁰, Emily von Scheven¹¹ and CARRA Registry Investigators, ¹Pediatrics, Divison of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York, New Hyde Park, NY, ³Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, TX, ⁴Pediatric & Adult Rheumatology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁶Pediatric Rheumatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL, ⁸Pediatric Rheumatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ⁹Pediatrics, Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematous (cSLE) patients are at higher risk for renal disease than those with adult-onset disease. Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and intravenous…
Abstract Number: 1307 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Monitoring of Mid-Interval Plasma Levels of Mycophenolic Acid in Pediatric Lupus Nephritis Patients
Joyce S Hui-Yuen¹, Kristi Truong², Liza Mariel Bermudez-Santiago¹, Amy J. Starr³, Andrew Eichenfield⁴, Lisa F. Imundo⁵ and Anca Askanase³, ¹Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Doctor of Pharmacy degree program, St John's University, Queens, NY, ³Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁴Div of Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hosp of New York, New York, NY, ⁵Assoociate Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine - Rheumatoology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is often used to treat lupus nephritis (LN) and extra-renal lupus in children with SLE. Plasma levels of mycophenolic acid (MPA)…