Abstracts tagged "rheumatic disease and risk assessment"

Abstract Number: 203 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Intensive Care Unit Admissions Among Patients with Rheumatic Diseases at a Tertiary Care Center
Ali Al-Marzooq¹, Mohammed Al-Charakh¹, Sumediah Nzuonkwelle², Bikash Bhattarai³, Mark McPherson² and Konstantinos Parperis⁴, ¹Internal Medicine, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, ²Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, ³Research, Maricopa Integrated Health System, phoenix, AZ, ⁴Rheumatology, Maricopa Integrated Health System and University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus, phoenix, AZ
Background/Purpose: Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases have higher risk of developing organ failure and may require admission to intensive care unit (ICU), however there are…
Abstract Number: 1468 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Increased Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation Among Mexican Mestizo Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado¹, Jose Ramon Azpiri-Lopez², Iris J. Colunga-Pedraza¹, Rosa I. Arvizu-Rivera³, Adrian Martinez-Moreno⁴, Luis E. Gonzalez-Carrillo⁴, Miguel A. Ramos-Guzman⁴, Filiberto Hervert-Cavazos⁴, Alberto Cardenas-de La Garza¹, Raymundo Vera-Pineda⁵, Mario Alberto Garza-Elizondo¹ and Mario Alberto Benavides-González⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico, ²Cardiology, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁴Cardiology, Hospital Universitario UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁵Cardiology., Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is chronic, systemic, inflammatory, multifactorial disease that mainly affects synovial joints. RA-patients have an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and…
Abstract Number: 912 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Secondary Preventive Pharmacotherapy and Longterm Outcomes Following Acute Coronary Events in Patients with Prevalent Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ängla Mantel¹, Marie Holmqvist¹, Tomas Jernberg², Solveig Wållberg-Jonsson³ and Johan Askling^4,5, ¹Dept of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Dept of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Section of Cardiology, Department of medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Rheumatology, Institution of Public health and clinical medicine/ Rheumatology, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Suboptimal use of secondary preventive pharmacotherapies after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been suggested to contribute to an…