Abstracts tagged "rheumatic disease and viruses"

Abstract Number: 1319 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Chikungunya Fever in Patients on Biological and on Conventional Dmards Therapy – Results from the Brazilian Register Biobadabrasil
Aline Ranzolin¹, Angela Duarte², Claudia Marques³, Laurindo Rocha Jr⁴, Samia Araujo de Souza Studart⁵, José Caetano Macieira⁶, Monica Valeria Siqueira S de Vechi⁶, Lina Oliveira de Carvalho⁶, Ines Guimarães da Silveira⁷, Ieda Maria Magalhães Laurindo⁸ and BiobadaBrasil, ¹Rheumatology, Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira, Recife, Brazil, ²Internal Medicine, Hospital das Clínicas - UFPE, Recife, Brazil, ³Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil, ⁴Rheumatology, Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira - IMIP, Recife, Brazil, ⁵Reumatologia, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil, ⁶Reumatologia, Hospital Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil, ⁷Reumatologia, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁸Internal Medicine - Rheumatology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Nove de Julho, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Chikungunya fever (CHIKF) is a systemic arboviral disease manifesting with fever, acute arthritis and rash. The acute symptoms can last for days but…
Abstract Number: 1357 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infections in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: Experience of a Referral Center
Yusuf Ziya Sener¹, Burak Yasin Aktas¹, Abdulsamet Erden², Levent Kilic², Berkan Armagan², Ahmet Cagkan Inkaya³, Omer Karadag², Sule Apras Bilgen² and Sedat Kiraz², ¹Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ²Rheumatology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ³Infection Disease, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Background/Purpose: CMV is a ubiquitous herpes virus associated with significant immunosuppression. Immunosuppressive treatments and ageing is well known risk factors for CMV reactivation. There are…