Abstracts tagged "palindromic rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 380 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
In Palindromic Rheumatism, Older Age, Shorter Interval Between Attacks and Positive Anti-CCP Antibodies May Predict Progression to RA
Masatoshi Hayashi^1,2, Jackie L. Nam³, Laura Hunt³, Elizabeth Hensor³, Toshihisa Kanamono⁴, Toshihisa Kojima⁵, Naoki Ishiguro⁵ and Paul Emery⁶, ¹NIHR-Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit and Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds., Leeds, United Kingdom, ²5-22-1 Wakasato, Nagano Red Cross Hospital, Nagano, Japan, ³NIHR-Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit and Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴Departments of Orthopedic surgery and Rheumatology, Nagano Red Cross Hospital, Nagano, Japan, ⁵Orthopaedic Surgery and Rheumatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, ⁶NIHR-Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit and Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds., United Kingdom, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose Palindromic rheumatism (PR) is a clinical syndrome characterised by episodes of joint swelling that settle spontaneously. A proportion of patients with PR progress and…