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Abstracts tagged "scleroderma and ulcers"

  • Abstract Number: 2706 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018

    Discriminant Validity and Reliability of World Scleroderma Foundation (WSF) Definition of Skin Ulcers in Systemic Sclerosis

    Yossra A Suliman1, Cosimo Bruni2, Sindhu Johnson3, Suzanne Kafaja4, Emanuela Praino5, Dinesh Khanna6, Yannick Allanore7, Murray Baron8, Jonathan Grotts9, Thomas Krieg10, Ariane L. Herrick11, Christopher P. Denton12, Marco Matucci-Cerinic13 and Daniel E. Furst14, 1Rheumatology and Rehabilitation dept., Rheumatology and Rehabilitation dept. Assiut university hospital, Assiut Egypt, Assiut, Egypt, 2Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, 3Toronto Scleroderma Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 5DIM, Rheumatology Unit - D.E.T.O. - University of Bari (ITALY), Bari, Italy, 6Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 7Service de Rhumatologie A, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, 8Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, 9Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 10Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany, 11Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 12UCL Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom, 13Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, 14Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

    Background/Purpose: To date, there is lack of a uniform definition of systemic sclerosis related skin ulcer (SSc-skin ulcer) for use in clinical trials. Our group…
  • Abstract Number: 1871 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

    Predicting Vascular Complications in Systemic Sclerosis: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Christopher A. Mecoli1, Ami A. Shah2, Francesco Boin3, Fredrick M. Wigley4 and Laura K. Hummers1, 1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 3Rheumatology, University California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 4Rheum Div/Mason F Lord, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Background/Purpose: Vascular disease is of fundamental importance in the pathogenesis of scleroderma. Two major vascular complications in scleroderma patients that cause substantial morbidity and mortality…

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