Abstract Number: 973 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Characterization of Patients with World Health Organization Group 2 Pulmonary Hypertension in the Pulmonary Hypertension Assessment and Recognition of Outcomes in Scleroderma Cohort
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a leading cause of death in patients (pts) with Systemic Sclerosis (SSc). The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies PH into…Abstract Number: 1238 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Assessment of Mortality and Healthcare Costs Associated with Systemic Sclerosis with and without Lung Involvement
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) are at high risk of developing interstitial lung disease (ILD) and/or pulmonary hypertension (PH). These two lung manifestations are…Abstract Number: 1344 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Characteristics, Treatment and Outcome of Severe Pulmonary Hemorrhage Related to Systemic Disease: French Multicentric Study
Background/Purpose: pulmonary hemorrhage (PH) may complicate systemic disease. The main objective of this study was to describe characteristics, treatment and outcome of patients presenting severe…Abstract Number: 1491 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
M-Ficolin and MAp44 As Potential Markers of Subclinical Cardiovascular Comorbidity; Cardiac Evaluation By Coronary Computer Tomography and Myocardial Deformation of Left Ventricle in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Background/Purpose: 79 DMARD-naïve RA patients with a disease duration < 6 months were included from an inception cohort. Clinical variables, plasma- and serum-M-ficolin and MAp44…Abstract Number: 1896 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Specific Drugs Combination Therapy in Survival of Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated with Systemic Sclerosis and Other Connective Tissue Diseases
Background/Purpose: Survival of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with connective tissue disease (CTD), especially systemic sclerosis (SSc), is poorer than that of patients…Abstract Number: 109 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Association of HLA-G and Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-like Receptor A3 Polymorphisms with the Susceptibility to Pulmonary Hyterpention in Systemic Sclerosis
Background/Purpose: Human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a non-classical class I molecule expressed in the immune cells, the spleen, and the lungs, and plays a key…Abstract Number: 203 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rescue of Copa Syndrome Cellular Phenotype By Autophagy Modifying Drugs
Background/Purpose: Autoimmunity is a diverse group of complex conditions that can include certain congenital genetic defects leading to loss of self-tolerance with subsequent imbalances of…Abstract Number: 2374 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Patients with Anti-PM-Scl Antibody
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) may be a disease manifestation of patients with anti-PM-Scl antibody (PM-Scl). In the 2014 ACR annual meeting we reported significantly…Abstract Number: 2973 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Exercise Intolerance Evaluated By Invasive Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Connective Tissue Disease: Beyond Pulmonary Hypertension
Background/Purpose: Exercise intolerance is common in patients with connective tissue disease (CTD) and may be related to pulmonary hypertension (PH). However, determining the exact etiology…Abstract Number: 2990 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Assessment of NT-Pro BNP As a Potential Marker for Pulmonary Hypertension in Systemic Sclerosis: Data from a Large, Prospective and Unselected Patient Cohort
Background/Purpose: In Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is often diagnosed at an advanced stage. Serum levels of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are…Abstract Number: 2751 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
18F-FDG PET/CT in Vascular Disease Due to Behçet’s Syndrome
Background/Purpose 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/CT is considered as a useful tool in assessing active vascular inflammation in large vessel vasculitis. Lower extremity vein…Abstract Number: 2727 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
T Cells Trigger Interstitial Pneumonia in Polymyositis
Background/Purpose: The lung is frequently affected in connective tissue diseases (CTDs). Polymyositis (PM) is a major CTD characterized by idiopathic inflammatory lesions of muscle and…Abstract Number: 2701 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Relevance of the 6-Minute Walking Test in Assessing the Severity and Outcome of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated with Systemic Sclerosis, without Extensive Interstitial Lung Disease
Background/Purpose In pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with systemic sclerosis (SSc), no study has yet evaluated the correlation between the 6-minute walking test (6MWT) distance…Abstract Number: 2698 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Survival in Systemic Sclerosis-Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension By Serum Autoantibody Status
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have shown that anticentromere (AC) and isolated nucleolar (NUC) antibodies are the most common autoantibodies in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and…Abstract Number: 2169 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Targeting ITGAM+ Cells Successfully Treats a Model of Anti-RNP-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
Background/Purpose: Aggressive immunotherapy has shown modest effectiveness for pulmonary hypertension in anti-RNP Autoimmunity, but with high morbidity. We studied the ability of an ITGAM-targeted therapy…