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Abstracts tagged "myositis and polymyositis"

  • Abstract Number: 1347 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    A Semi-Quantitative Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging Assessment Tool to Define Musculoskeletal Abnormalities in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

    Sara Faghihi-Kashani1, Lisa G. Rider2, David Bluemke3, Ashkan Malayeri4, Evrim Turkbey4, Joseph Shrader5, John McGrath6, Elizabeth Jones7, Jamie Marco8, Frederick W. Miller9 and Adam Schiffenbauer10, 1Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health, Bethesda, MD, 2Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 3Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 4Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 5Rehabilitation Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 6Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, 7Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, 8Radiology and Imaging Sciences National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 9Environmental Autoimmunity Group, NIEHS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 10NIEHS, NIH, Bethesda, MD

    Background/Purpose: There is a lack of standardized methodology for assessing whole body MRI (WBMRI) in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) patients. This leads to difficulty in…
  • Abstract Number: 2165 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Easily Obtainable Myositis Autoantibody Panel Predictive Factors

    Jason Weiner1, Ryan Jessee2, Amanda M. Eudy3, Robert T. Keenan4, Michael Datto5 and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber6, 1Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 3Duke University Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, 4Rheumatology, NYU-HJD, New York, NY, 5Department of Pathology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 6Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

    Background/Purpose: Myositis autoantibodies have diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic implications, but their utility in clinical practice is unclear.  We aimed to describe our institutionÕs ordering practices…
  • Abstract Number: 2317 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Preliminary Validation of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Inflammatory Scoring System in Adult Myositis

    Nicolo Pipitone1, Antonella Notarnicola2,3, Arnaldo Scardapane4, Lucia Spaggiari5, Gabriele Levrini6, Florenzo Iannone7, Carlo Salvarani8, Giovanni Lapadula9, Ingrid E. Lundberg2, Pierpaolo Pattacini10 and Giulio Zuccoli11, 1Rheumatology, Arcispedale S. M. Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Rheumatology, Bari University, Bari, Italy, 4Radiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, 5Radiology, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 6Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 7Bari University, Rheumatology, Bari, Italy, 8Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 9Rheumatology Unit, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, 10Radiology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 11Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

    Background/Purpose: in patients with active myositis, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) often demonstrates muscle edema thought to represent active inflammation. An MRI-based muscle inflammatory scoring system…
  • Abstract Number: 283 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Altered Serum Fatty Acid Profiles in Patients with Polymyositis or Dermatomyositis Compared to Healthy Individuals and in Relation to Immunosuppressive Treatment

    Joan Raouf1, Helena Idborg1, Petter Olsson2, Per Johan Jakobsson1, Ingrid E. Lundberg1 and Marina Korotkova1, 1Medicine, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet S-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Analytical Chemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

    Background/Purpose: Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are chronic autoimmune diseases, characterized by muscle fatigue. Despite conventional immunosuppressive treatment including high doses of glucocorticoids, only a…
  • Abstract Number: 296 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Different Patterns of Involvement of Thigh Muscles in Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis Using Fat-Suppressed Magnetic Resonance Sequences

    Nicolo Pipitone1, Antonella Notarnicola2, Lucia Spaggiari3, Gabriele Levrini4, Arnaldo Scardapane5, Florenzo Iannone6, Giovanni Lapadula6, Giulio Zuccoli7 and Carlo Salvarani8, 1Unità di Reumatologia, Reggio Emilia, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Bari, Italy, 2Karolinska Hospital, Rheumatology Unit, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Radiology, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 4Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 5Radiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, 6Bari University, Rheumatology, Bari, Italy, 7Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 8Rheumatology, Arcispedale S.Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Background/Purpose: MRI is often used to evaluate muscle inflammation in myositis. Muscle edema on fat-suppressed (short tau inversion recovery, STIR) sequences is thought to represent…
  • Abstract Number: 297 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    How Useful Is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Monitoring Patients with Myositis?

    Nicolo Pipitone1, Antonella Notarnicola2, Arnaldo Scardapane3, Gabriele Levrini4, Lucia Spaggiari5, Florenzo Iannone6, Giovanni Lapadula6, Giulio Zuccoli7 and Carlo Salvarani8, 1Unità di Reumatologia, Reggio Emilia, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Bari, Italy, 2Karolinska Hospital, Rheumatology Unit, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Radiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, 4Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 5Radiology, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 6Bari University, Rheumatology, Bari, Italy, 7Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 8Rheumatology, Arcispedale S.Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Background/Purpose: MRI is commonly used to assess muscle inflammation in myositis. Muscle edema on fat-suppressed sequences is thought to reflect active inflammation. However, it is…
  • Abstract Number: 2373 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Frequency of Antinuclear (ANA), Myositis-Specific (MSA) and Myositis-Associated Antibodies (MAA) in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM) from Mexico, Central and South America Centers: Data from the Panlar Myositis Study Group.   

    Yelitza Gonzalez-Bello1,2, Daniel Garcia-Cerda3, Gabriel Medrano-Ramírez4, José E. Navarro-Zarza5, Lilia Andrade-Ortega6, Marco Maradiaga-Ceceña7, Alicia Cardenas-Anaya8, Arnulfo H. Nava-Zavala3,9, Gerardo Orozco-Barocio8, Armando Rojo-Mejia10, Esthela Loyo11, Paola Gottschalk11, Graciela Gómez12, Marvin J. Fritzler13 and Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre8, 1Immunology and Rheumatlogy, Universidad de Guadalajara, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, 2Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Secretaria de Salud Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 3Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Secretaria de Salud Jalisco, Zapopan, Jal., Mexico, 4Rheumatology, Hospital General de Mexico, Secretaria de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico, 5Medicine, Hospital General Raymundo Abarca Alarcón, Chilpancingo, Mexico, 6Rheumatology, Centro Medico Nacional 20 de Noviembre, ISSSTE, Mexico City, Mexico, 7Rheumatology, Hospital General de Culiacan de la Secretaría de Salud, Culiacan, Sin., Mexico, 8Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Secretaria de Salud Jalisco, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, 9UMAE, Hospital de Especialidades Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente, IMSS, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 10Rheumatology, Clinica San Pablo, Lima, Peru, 11Rheumatology, Hospital Regional Universitario, Santiago, Dominican Republic, 12Rheumatology, Instituto de Investigaciones Medicas Alfredo Lanari, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Background/Purpose: Dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM) are forms of IIM that involve skeletal muscle as well as many other organs. As in other systemic rheumatic…
  • Abstract Number: 2380 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Jo-1 Positive Myositis Patients Tend to Have More Severe Muscle and Lung Involvement Than PM-Scl Positive Patients

    Julie J. Paik1, Arash Lahoutiharahdashti2, Andrew Mammen3 and Lisa Christopher-Stine4, 1Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 3Center Tower Ste 5300, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 4Ste 4100 Rm 409, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Jo-1 positive myositis patients tend to have more severe muscle and lung involvement than PM-Scl positive patients Background/Purpose: Jo-1 and PM-Scl positive myositis patients share…
  • Abstract Number: 2220 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Overexpression of Ankyrin Repeat Domain Containing Protein 1 Gene (ANKRD1) in Polymyositis Muscle Biopsies Is Correlated to Hypoxia

    Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo1, Sueli Mieko Oba-Shinjo2, Miyuki Uno2 and Suely Kazue Nagahashi Marie2, 1Rheumatology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2Neurology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Background/Purpose: ANKRD1 codes for ankyrin repeat domain containing protein 1, which belongs to the muscle ankyrin repeat protein family involved in a mechano-signaling pathway that…
  • Abstract Number: 912 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    A Consensus Hybrid Definition Using a Conjoint Analysis Is the Proposed As Response Criteria for Minimal and Moderate Improvement for Adult Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis Clincal Trials

    Rohit Aggarwal1, Lisa G. Rider2, Nicolino Ruperto3, Nastaran Bayat2, Brian Erman4, Brian M. Feldman5, Adam M. Huber6, Chester V. Oddis7, Ingrid E. Lundberg8, Anthony A. Amato, MD9,10, Robert G. Cooper, MD, FRCP11, Hector Chinoy12, Maryam Dastmalchi13, David Fiorentino14, David Isenberg15, James D. Katz16, Andrew L. Mammen17, Marianne de Visser18, Steven R. Ytterberg19, Katalin Danko20, Luca Villa21, Mariangela Rinaldi21, Howard Rockette22, Peter A. Lachenbruch2, Frederick W. Miller2 and Jiri Vencovsky, MD, DSc23, 1Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Environmental Autoimmunity Group, NIEHS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 3Pediatria II,, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, 4Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, 5Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 6IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, 7Rheum/Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 8Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 9Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 10Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 11MRC/ARUK Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 12Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 13Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 14Dermatology, Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, 15Centre for Rheumatology Research, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 16NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 17Neurology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 18Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19Rheumatology Division, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 20Institute of Rheumatology, University of Debrecen, Hungary, Debrecen, Hungary, 21Pediatria II, Reumatologia, PRINTO, IRCCS Istituto G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy, 22University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 23Institute of Rheumatology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Background/Purpose: To develop consensus on definitions of improvement (DOIs) for minimal and moderate improvement (and draft preliminary criteria for major improvement) in adult dermatomyositis (DM)…
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