Abstracts tagged "risk factors"

Abstract Number: 0207 • ACR Convergence 2024
Investigation of Delays in Cancer Screening in RA
Rebecca Brooks¹, Cassondra Hulshizer², Andrew C. Hanson³, Vanessa Kronzer¹, John Davis¹, Elena Myasoedova¹ and Cynthia Crowson¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Utica, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Background/Purpose: Recent studies have shown that RA patients have increased mortality due to cancer. Despite the increased mortality, few studies have investigated the completion of…
Abstract Number: 0802 • ACR Convergence 2024
Disease Activity Is Strongly Associated with RA-related Lung Disease and Interstitial Lung Disease in Early RA: Results from a Multicenter, Prospective Cohort Study
Gregory McDermott¹, Ritu Gill², Suzanne Byrne³, Staci Gagne³, Xiaosong Wang⁴, Misti Paudel⁵, Emily Kowalski³, Grace Qian⁴, Katarina Bade³, Kevin Mueller³, Alene Saavedra³, Kathleen Vanni³, Caleb Bolden⁶, Tina Mahajan⁷, Erica Mulcaire-Jones⁸, Neda Kortam⁸, Pierre-Antoine Juge⁹, Tracy J Doyle¹⁰, Zachary Wallace¹¹, Marcy Bolster⁶, Kevin Deane¹², Dinesh Khanna⁸, Bryant England⁷ and Jeffrey Sparks¹³, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Boston, MA, ⁶Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹Departement of Rheumatology, AP-HP, Bichat Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁰Brigham and Women's Hospital, West Roxbury, MA, ¹¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ¹²University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, ¹³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: RA is associated with several forms of lung disease including interstitial lung disease (ILD), bronchiectasis, and emphysema. Risk factors for the development and progression…
Abstract Number: 1151 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical Characterization and Recurrence Prediction Model for Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
Beibei Cui¹, Hongjiang Liu², Geng Yin³ and Qibing Xie⁴, ¹Rheumatology and Immunology, Chengdu, China (People's Republic), ²West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (People's Republic), ³Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, chengdu, China (People's Republic), ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Background/Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to comprehensively analyze the clinical characteristics of immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) and develop a reliable recurrence prediction…
Abstract Number: 2069 • ACR Convergence 2024
Cancer Risk and Screening Effectiveness in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy: Validating IMACS Guidelines in a Retrospective Indian Cohort
Lovely Kumari¹, VISHNU KONERU², subin Philip¹, sai Kumar Dunga³, Mamatha gorijavulu⁴, Aishwarya Gopal⁵, Christina Mariaselvam⁶, Molly Thabah⁷, Vir Singh Negi⁸ and Chengappa Kavadichanda⁹, ¹JIPMER,PUDUCHERRY, PUDUCHERRY, Puducherry, India, ²JIPMER,PUDUCHERRY, PUDUCHERRY, India, ³JIPMER,PUDUCHERRY, VIZAG, Andhra Pradesh, India, ⁴JIPMER,PUDUCHERRY, HYDERABAD, Andhra Pradesh, India, ⁵Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, Puducherry, India, ⁶JIPMER, Puducherry, Puducherry, India, ⁷Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, Puducherry, India, ⁸AIIMS BILASPUR, BILASPUR, Himachal Pradesh, India, ⁹Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, pondicherry, Puducherry, India
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) carries an elevated cancer risk. The International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group (IMACS) has issued evidence-based guidelines for cancer…
Abstract Number: 2592 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Effects of Early Life Trauma and Socioeconomic Position on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Risk in Adulthood
Jennifer Woo¹ and Dale Sandler², ¹Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, ²Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
Background/Purpose: Early life trauma (ELT) and neighborhood deprivation (ND)—a measure of socioeconomic position (SEP)—represent two aspects of the early life social environment that can be…
Abstract Number: 0215 • ACR Convergence 2024
BP Connect Improves Follow-up of High Blood Pressure in Urban Rheumatology and Non-Rheumatology Clinics
Alexa Figueroa Baiges¹, David Gazeley², Monica Messina¹, Bret Hanlon³, Edmond Ramly⁴, Ann Rosenthal⁵, Laura Stewart⁶, Makeba Williams⁷, Heidi W. Brown⁸ and Christie Bartels⁹, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI, ³Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁴Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN, ⁵Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁶Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁷Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁸Division of Health Services Research & Implementation Science, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA, ⁹University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Hypertension accounts for >54% of modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and although 49% of US outpatient visits occur in specialty clinics, only 10% of…
Abstract Number: 0841 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical and Biologic Predictors of Thrombosis in Persistently Antiphospholipid Antibody Positive Patients: Prospective Analysis of the International APS ACTION Clinical Database and Repository (“Registry”)
Jonathan Thaler¹, Michael Parides¹, Danieli Andrade², Diana Paredes-Ruiz³, Maria Tektonidou⁴, Vittorio Pengo⁵, Savino Sciascia⁶, Cecilia Nalli⁷, Guilherme Ramires de Jesús⁸, Paul Fortin⁹, Maria Efthymiou¹⁰, H Michael Belmont¹¹, Michelle Petri¹², Ricard Cervera¹³, Leslie Skeith¹⁴, TATSUYA ATSUMI¹⁵, Chary Lopez-Pedrera¹⁶, Yu Zuo¹⁷, David Branch¹⁸, Rohan Willis¹⁹, Nina Kello²⁰, Zhuoli Zhang²¹, Esther Rodriguez-Almaraz²², Bahar Artim Esen²³, Jose Pardos-Gea²⁴, Guillermo Pons-Estel²⁵, Giulia Pazzola²⁶, Hui Shi¹⁷, Ali Duarte-Garcia²⁷, Medha Barbhaiya¹, Cécile Yelnik²⁸, Pierluigi Meroni²⁹, Robert Roubey³⁰, Maria Laura Bertolaccini³¹, Hannah Cohen³², Jacob Rand³³ and Doruk Erkan¹, and on behalf of APS ACTION, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ³Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit. Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Baracaldo, Spain, ⁴National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁵Thrombosis Research Laboratory, Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁶University of Turin, Torino, Turin, Italy, ⁷ASST SPEDALI CIVILI DI BRESCIA, Brescia, Italy, ⁸Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹⁰University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ¹³Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁴University of Calgary, Calgary, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ¹⁶IMIBIC/Reina Sofia Hospital/University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ¹⁷University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁸University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁹University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²⁰Northwell Health, Brooklyn, NY, ²¹Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China, ²²Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²³Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²⁴Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁵CREAR, Rosario, Argentina, ²⁶Rheumatology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²⁷Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²⁸lille university, Lille, France, ²⁹IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano 100%, Cusano Milanino, Milan, Milan, Italy, ³⁰Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³¹King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³²University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³³Weill Cornell Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: There is a lack of high-quality data to inform risk-stratified long-term thrombosis prevention strategies in patients with persistently positive antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). The APS…
Abstract Number: 1163 • ACR Convergence 2024
Characteristics of Interstitial Lung Disease Progressors in an Antisynthetase Autoantibody-Positive Population
Aurélie Mourot¹, Beatrice Panuta¹, Juliette Charbonneau¹, Ange Mounkam Ngeuleu¹, Caroline Vo², Eric Rich³, Josiane Bourré-Tessier³, Edith Villeneuve³, Hélène Manganas³, Andréanne Gauthier³, Julie Morisset³, Sabrina Anh-Tu Hoa³ and Océane Landon-Cardinal³, ¹University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Hôpital Charles Lemoyne, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Antisynthetase syndrome (ASSD) is characterized by interstitial lung disease (ILD), myositis, polyarthritis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, dermatomyositis-like rash and mechanic’s hands. ILD may present with isolated…
Abstract Number: 2137 • ACR Convergence 2024
Fractures Post Lung Transplant: A Retrospective Cohort Study Conducted at an International Transplant Center
Annmarie Miranda¹, Adil Vural², Chao Zhang³, Jennifer Varley⁴, Walaa Abu Alya⁵, Komal Mushtaq⁶, Marie Budev¹, Abby Abelson¹, Chad Deal⁷ and Sarah Keller¹, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic, Avon, OH, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Heights, OH, ⁴Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Beachwood, OH, ⁵An-najah National University., Westlake, OH, ⁶Cleveland Clinic, Fairview Park, OH, ⁷Cleveland Clinic, Shaker Heights, OH
Background/Purpose: The incidence of fractures due to osteoporosis (OP) is increased in patients with end-stage lung disease and fractures are a well-known complication of lung…
Abstract Number: 2640 • ACR Convergence 2024
Comparative Safety and Use of Non-conventional Combination Targeted Therapy in Adults with Psoriatic Arthritis
Alexander Wu¹, Arianna Zhang², Yujia Guo¹, Jialing Liu¹, Donghan Yang¹, Lourdes Perez Chada³, Alexis Ogdie⁴, Jose Scher⁵ and Joseph Merola⁶, ¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Harvard Medical School, Wayland, MA, ⁴Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶UT Southwestern Medical Center, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder with significant impacts on health and life quality. Achieving good disease control in psoriatic arthritis (PsA)…
Abstract Number: 0304 • ACR Convergence 2024
Severe Infection in COVID-19 Vaccinated Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases on B Cell Targeted Therapies: Association with Neutrophil-lymphocyte Ratio
doryan Garcia Olivas¹, Judith Hernández Sánchez¹, luis Bausá Gimeno¹, Javier Nóvoa Medina¹, Sergio Machín¹, Maria Ángeles Acosta-Mérida¹, Diana Botello-Corzo¹, daniel Batista Perdomo¹, José Ángel Hernández Beriain² and Beatriz Tejera Segura¹, ¹Rheumatology Department. Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria, las Palmas, Spain, ²Rheumatology Department. Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran C, Spain
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk of general infection due to the presence of comorbidities, underlying disease activity, and…
Abstract Number: 0842 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Incident Risk and Predictors of Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease (SARD) Development in Persistently Antiphospholipid Antibody Positive Patients Without SARDs: Prospective Results from the APS ACTION Clinical Database and Repository (“Registry”)
Reyhan Kose Cobanoglu¹, Rohan Willis², Diana Paredes-Ruiz³, Maria G Tektonidou⁴, Vittorio Pengo⁵, Savino Sciascia⁶, Cecilia Nalli⁷, Flavio Victor Signorelli⁸, Paul Fortin⁹, Maria Efthymiou¹⁰, H Michael Belmont¹¹, Michelle Petri¹², Ricard Cervera¹³, Megan Barber¹⁴, TATSUYA ATSUMI¹⁵, Chary Lopez-Pedrera¹⁶, Jason Knight¹⁷, David Branch¹⁸, Nina Kello¹⁹, Lanlan Ji²⁰, Esther Rodriguez-Almaraz²¹, Bahar Artim Esen²², Jose Pardos Gea²³, Rosana Quintana²⁴, Giulia Pazzola²⁵, Hui Shi²⁶, Ali Duarte-Garcia²⁷, Pierluigi Meroni²⁸, Robert Roubey²⁹, Maria Laura Bertolaccini³⁰, Hannah Cohen³¹, Danieli Andrade³² and Doruk Erkan³³, and on behalf of APS ACTION, ¹Aydin Adnan Menderes University School of Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, NY, USA, Aydin, Turkey, ²University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ³Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Bizkaia, Spain, ⁴National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁵Thrombosis Research Laboratory, Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁶University of Turin, Torino, Turin, Italy, ⁷ASST SPEDALI CIVILI DI BRESCIA, Brescia, Italy, ⁸Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹⁰University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ¹³Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ¹⁶IMIBIC/Reina Sofia Hospital/University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ¹⁷University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁸University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁹Northwell Health, Brooklyn, NY, ²⁰Peking University First Hospital, Peking, China (People's Republic), ²¹Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²²Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²³Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁴Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ²⁵Rheumatology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²⁶Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ²⁷Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²⁸IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano 100%, Cusano Milanino, Milan, Milan, Italy, ²⁹Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³⁰King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³¹University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³²University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ³³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: APS ACTION “Registry” was created to study the natural course of disease in persistently antiphospholipid antibody (aPL)-positive patients with/without other systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases…
Abstract Number: 1345 • ACR Convergence 2024
Long-term Changes in Coronary Calcium Score Levels Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cohort Study
Cristina Corrales Selaya¹, Nuria Vegas Revenga², Carmen Secada Gómez³, Jose Antonio parra-Blanco⁴, Virginia Portilla-González⁴, Ricardo Blanco-Alonso⁵, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Gay⁶, ivan Ferraz-Amaro⁷ and alfonso Corrales-Martínez⁸, ¹Rheumatology, Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital. IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ²Hospital Galdakao- Usansolo, Galdakao, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Immunopathology group, Santander, Spain, ⁶University of Cantabria, Fundación Jimenez Díaz, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have an increased risk of subclinical cardiovascular (CV) disease and, consequently, a higher incidence of CV events, compared to the…
Abstract Number: 2138 • ACR Convergence 2024
DXA-derived 3D Parameters of the Hip Discriminate Prevalent Fragility Fractures in Individuals with Axial Spondyloarthritis
Edgar Wiebe¹, Elisa Schilling², Dörte Huscher², Zhivana Boydzhieva³, andriko Palmowski⁴, Sandra Hermann⁵, burkhard Muche⁵, Gerhard Krönke⁵ and FRANK HARTMUT DR. BUTTGEREIT¹, ¹Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Charité Universittsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Charité - Universittsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Rheumatology, Charité, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is associated with osteoporosis and fragility fracture risk that may not be reflected by areal bone mineral density (aBMD) measurements alone.…
Abstract Number: 2652 • ACR Convergence 2024
Characteristics of Relapse and Therapeutic Management in Giant Cell Arteritis in Modern Era, NEWTON Study
Geoffroy Peyrac¹, Natalie Lomba Goncalves¹, Aïcha Kante², Patrice Cacoub³, Karim Sacré⁴, David Saadoun⁵, Thomas Papo⁴, Jean-François Alexandra⁶, Valentin Pagis⁷, Venceslas Bourdin¹, Pascal Richette⁸, Arnaud Vanjak⁹, Augustin Latourte¹⁰, Dikélélé Elessa⁷, William Bigot¹, Ruxandra burlacu⁷, Karine Champion¹, Blanca Amador Borrero⁷, Amanda Lopes¹, Audrey Depond⁷, Peggy Reiner¹¹, Homa Adle-Biassette¹², Aude Couturier¹³, Philippe Bonnin¹⁴, Alexandre Boutigny¹⁵, Frédéric Paycha¹⁶, Anne Couvelard¹⁷, Alexis Régent¹⁸, Benjamin Chaigne¹⁹, Yann Nguyen²⁰, Agnès lefort²⁰, Olivier Bory²¹, Elisabeth Aslangul²², stephane mouly¹, Damien Sène¹, Viet-Thi Tran²³ and Cloé Comarmond¹, and Groupe d'étude français de l'artérite à cellules géantes (GEFA), ¹Department of internal medicine, Centre de Compétence Maladies Rares autoimmunes et inflammatoires, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ²Department of internal medicine, Centre de Compétence Maladies Rares autoimmunes et inflammatoires, Université Paris Cité, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ³Sorbonne Université, Paris, ⁴Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ⁵Department of internal medicine, Centre de Référence Maladies Rares autoimmunes et inflammatoires, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ⁶INSERM U959, Immunology-Immunopathology-Immunotherapy, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ⁷Department of internal medicine, Centre de Compétence Maladies Rares autoimmunes et inflammatoires, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ⁸Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France, ⁹Department of Rheumatoloy, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹⁰AP-HP, Paris, France, ¹¹Department of Neurology, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹²Department of Pathology, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹³Department of ophthalmology, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹⁴Department of physiology, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ¹⁵Department of physiology, Lariboisière Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹⁶Department of nuclear medicine, Saint-Louis Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ¹⁷Department of Pathology, Bichat Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ¹⁸National Referral Center For Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris, France, ¹⁹Service de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence Maladies Systémiques Autoimmunes et Autoinflammatoires Rares d'Ile de France de l’Est et de l’Ouest, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ²⁰Department of Internal medicine, Beaujon Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Clichy, France, ²¹Department of internal medicine, Louis Mourier Hospital, Université Paris Cité, Colombes, France, ²²Service de Médecine interne, Hôpital Louis Mourier, AP-HP, Colombes, France, ²³Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS) and Centre d'Epidémiologie Clinique, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Background/Purpose: The management of giant cell arteritis (GCA) has evolved with the arrival of tocilizumab (TCZ) and the use of PET/CT. In modern era, a…

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