Abstracts tagged "myositis and pediatrics"

Abstract Number: 1318 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Illness Onset Features and Misdiagnosis in Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (JIIM) Differ Among Clinical and Autoantibody (Ab) Subgroups
Gulnara Mamyrova¹, Lan Wu², Adam Huber³, Ira N. Targoff⁴, Frederick W. Miller² and Lisa G. Rider², ¹Rheumatology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, ²Environmental Autoimmunity Group, NIEHS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁴Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: To evaluate features of JIIM clinical and Ab subgroups at illness onset. Methods: Physician-completed questionnaires illness onset features were reviewed in 465 JIIM pts…