treatment and ultrasound Archives - ACR Meeting Abstracts

Abstract Number: 411 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Factors That Drive Treatment Recommendation during Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient´s Follow-up, Differ According to Physician Experience
César Sifuentes-Cantú¹, Irazu Contreras-Yañez², Lina Saldarriaga Rivera³, Ana Cecilia Lozada⁴, Marwin Gutierrez⁵ and Virginia Pascual-Ramos¹, ¹Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico, ³Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico, Mexico, ⁴Division of musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁵Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: The management plan for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) might be a relatively simple task if only disease activity is considered but might become more complex…
Abstract Number: 1392 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Effect Size Comparison of Ultrasound Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Veena K. Ranganath¹, David Elashoff², Jenny Brook³, Ami Ben-Artzi⁴, Geraldine Navarro⁵, Lynnette Avedikian-Tatosyan⁶, George Karpouzas⁷, William Martin⁵, Tanaz A. Kermani⁵, Soo Choi⁵ and Gurjit S. Kaeley⁸, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²David Geffen School of Medicine,, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Medicine, Cedars, Beverly Hills, CA, ⁵Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Healthcare Partners, Los Angeles, CA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ⁸Rheumatology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Background/Purpose: Currently there are several outcome metrics used for the assessment and quantification of musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound inflammatory burden in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This study…
Abstract Number: 2013 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Physician Experience and Patient´s Disease Activity Affect the Impact of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound on the Treatment Decision in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
César Sifuentes-Cantú¹, Irazu Contreras-Yañez², Marwin Gutierrez³ and Virginia Pascual-Ramos⁴, ¹Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico, ³Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: In a real clinical setting of RA outpatients, we previously showed that musculoskeletal ultrasound (MUS) added to clinical evaluation impacted the treatment decision in…
Abstract Number: 2967 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Adding Ultrasound to the Treat-to-Target Strategy Shows No Benefit in Achievement of Remission: Results from the Biodam Cohort
Alexandre Sepriano¹, Sofia Ramiro², Robert B.M. Landewé³, Désirée van der Heijde¹, Sarah Ohrndorf⁴, Oliver FitzGerald⁵, Marina Backhaus⁶, Maggie Larche⁷, Joanne Homik⁸, Alain Saraux⁹, Hilde B. Hammer¹⁰, Lene Terslev¹¹, Mikkel Østergaard¹¹, Gerd R. Burmester¹², Bernard Combe¹³, Maxime Dougados¹⁴, Carol A Hitchon¹⁵, Gilles Boire¹⁶, Robert G. Lambert⁸, Rana Dadashova¹⁷, Joel Paschke¹⁸, Edna Hutchings¹⁷ and Walter P. Maksymowych¹⁷, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands, ³University of Amsterdam and Atrium Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵ASRI, Dublin, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, ⁶Rheumatology/Immunology, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Rheumatology Department, CHU de la Cavale Blanche, Brest, France, Brest Cedex, France, ¹⁰Dept. of Rheumtology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ¹¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹²Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunolgy, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ¹³Rheumatology, Lapeyronie Hospital, Montpellier I university, Montpellier, France, ¹⁴Paris-Descartes University,, Paris, France, ¹⁵University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ¹⁶Rheumatology Division, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke and Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ¹⁷CaRE Arthritis, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ¹⁸CARE Arthritis, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: While, a Treat-to-Target strategy (T2T), treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) towards a certain target (eg. clinical remission; T2T-REM), is highly recommended, several patients…
Abstract Number: 100 • Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium 2017
Improvement of Salivary Gland Ultrasound Findings in Juvenile Sjögren’s Syndrome after Systemic Corticosteroid Treatment
Akaluck Thatayatikom¹, Renee F Modica², Daniel S. Hammenfors³, Natalie Jane Shiff¹ and Melissa E Elder², ¹Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³Department of Rheumatology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Background/Purpose: Juvenile Sjögren’sSyndrome (jSS) is a rare systemic autoimmune disease affecting predominantly salivary glands (SG) in children who do not meet criteria for SLE or MCTD. Currently, no specific criteria for…
Abstract Number: 1977 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Impact of Ultrasound in Treatment Decision of Rheumatoid Arthritis Assessed in Routine Clinical Practice
César Sifuentes-Cantú¹, Lina Saldarriaga-Rivera², Ana Cecilia Lozada², Irazu Contreras-Yañez³, Marwin Gutierrez⁴ and Virginia Pascual-Ramos⁵, ¹Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Division of musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico, ⁴Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico, Mexico, ⁵Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Remission or low disease activity is the therapeutic target for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). There is a consistent body of evidence supporting the value of…
Abstract Number: 1446 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Utility of Ultrasound in the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Emergency Rheumatology Clinic: Survey of Clinical Effectiveness
Kuljeet Bhamra¹, Catherine Swales¹, Matthew Seymour¹, Catherine McClinton¹ and Peter C. Taylor², ¹Nuffield Department of orthopaedics,rheumatology and musculosketal sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²NDORMS, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose The aim of the survey was to evaluate the impact of clinic-based musculoskeletal ultrasonography (MSUS) on diagnosis and management of cases seen in the…
Abstract Number: 798 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Targeting Ultrasound Remission In Early Rheumatoid Arthritis – Results Of The Taser Study
James Dale¹, Anne Stirling², Iain B. McInnes¹ and Duncan Porter³, ¹Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ³Rheumatology, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The TaSER study (NCT00920478) is an open label randomized clinical trial with blinded assessments of outcome. It was designed to test whether the efficacy…
Abstract Number: 808 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Power Doppler Is Predictive of Treatment Failure in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A One Year Follow-up Study
Karine R. Luz¹, Rita N.V. Furtado¹, Marcelo M. Pinheiro², Giovanna S. Petterle¹ and Jamil Natour¹, ¹Rheumatology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritis, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: It is known that ultrasound (US) is a useful test to monitor rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. However, to date, no study has shown the…

Abstracts tagged "treatment and ultrasound"