ACR Meeting Abstracts

ACR Meeting Abstracts

Abstracts tagged "statin-induced myopathies and treatment"

  • Abstract Number: 388 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019

    Treating Statin-induced Anti-HMGCR Myopathy with Normal Muscle Strength: A New Window of Opportunity

    Alain Meyer1, Yves Troyanov 2, Julie Drouin 3, Josiane Bourre-Tessier 4, Genevieve Oligny-Longpre 5, Océane Landon-Cardinal 6, Baptiste Hervier 7, Sabrina Hoa 8, Anne-Marie Mansour 9, Eric Rich 4, Jean-Richard Goulet 4, Sandra Chartrand 10, Marie Hudson 11, Jessica Nehme 9, Jean-Paul Makhzoum 12, Farah Zarka 9, Sara Hussein 13, Vincent Morin 14, Edith Villeneuve 15, Jean-Pierre Raynauld 16, Marianne Landry 17, Erin O'Ferrall 18, Jose Ferreira 19, Benjamin Ellezam 20, Jason Karamchandani 18, Sandrine Larue 21, Rami Massie 18, Catherine Isabelle 21, isabelle Deschênes 5, Valérie Leclair 22, Helene Couture 23, Ira Targoff 24, Marvin Fritzler 25 and Jean-Luc Senecal 4, 1Centre de Reference des Maladies Autoimmunes Rares, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 2Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Hôpital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 3Centre hospitalier regional de Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada, 4Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 5Hôpital du Haut-Richelieu, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, 6Division of Rheumatology, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal; Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 7Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France, 8University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 9Hôpital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 10Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, QC, Canada, 11Jewish General Hospital, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 12Vasculitis Clinic, Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 13Centre hospitalier regional de Lanaudiere, Saint-Charles-Borromée, QC, Canada, 14Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, 15Institut de Recherche en Rhumatologie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 16Institut de Rhumatologie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 17Hôpital LaSalle, Montreal, QC, Canada, 18Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada, 19Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, QC, Canada, 20Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montreal, QC, Canada, 21Hôpital Charles-Le Moyne, Greenfield Park, QC, Canada, 22Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital; Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Montreal, QC, Canada, 23Hôpital Enfant-Jesus, Quebec, QC, Canada, 24University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 25Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Background/Purpose: Anti-HMGCR myopathy has recently been defined as a subset of immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies characterized by proximal muscle weakness, elevated CK levels and the presence…

  • Abstract Number: 948 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015

    Autoimmune Myopathies: Effects of Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy on Muscle Strength and Predictors of Response

    Arash Lahoutiharahdashti1, Iago Pinal-Fernandez2, Jemima Albayda1, Julie J. Paik3, Sonye K. Danoff4, Andrew Mammen5 and Lisa Christopher-Stine6, 1Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Autoimmune Systemic Diseases Unit, Vall D’Hebron University Hospital, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 3Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 4Medicine/Pulmonary, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 5Center Tower Ste 5300, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 6Ste 4100 Rm 409, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Background/Purpose: There is a variable response rate to Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in patients with autoimmune myopathies. The aim of this study was to determine whether…