Abstracts tagged "spondylarthropathy and tuberculosis"

Abstract Number: 2006 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tuberculosis Incidence in Ankylosing Spondylitis, Psoriatic Arthritis, and Other Spondyloarthropathies in Sweden: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Mirjam K. de Vries¹, Elizabeth V. Arkema¹, Jerker Jonsson², Judith Bruchfeld³, Lennart TH Jacobsson⁴ and Johan Askling^1,5, ¹Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Infectious Diseases Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, The Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at a well-documented increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) compared to the general population, both with and without treatment…
Abstract Number: 1626 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Frequent Conversion of Tuberculosis Screening Tests During Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Chrisoula Hatzara¹, Emilia Hadziyannis², Anna Kandili¹, Stamatoula Tsikrika¹, Martha Minopetrou¹, Georgios Georgiopoulos¹ and Dimitrios Vassilopoulos¹, ¹2nd Department of Medicine, Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, ²2nd Department of Medicine and Laboratory of Clinical Immunology-Rheumatology, Hippokration General Hospital, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: The most recent ACR Recommendations suggest annual screening for latent tuberculosis (TB) with standard tuberculin skin test (TST) or the newer interferon-gamma release assays…

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