B O O K - American College of Rheumatology

ACR/ARHP Poster Session B
1280. Association of VEGF, NOS2, IL6, CCL2 and IL1RN
Polymorphisms and Haplotypes with Susceptibility to Giant
Cell Arteritis. A Simultaneous Study of 130 Potentially
Functional SNPs in 14 Candiadte Genes. Anna Enjuanes 4 ,
Yolanda Benavente 8 , Jose Hernandez-Rodriguez 6 , Carme
Queralt 6 , Jordi Yagüe 1 , Pedro Jares 5 , Silvia de Sanjose 7 , Elias
Campo 3 and Maria C. Cid 2 , 1 Department of Immunology,
Barcelona, Spain, 2 Departmentof Systemic Autoimmune
Diseases, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, 3 Hematopathology
Section, Department of Anatomic Pathology, Barcelona, Spain,
4
Hematopathology Section, Department of Anatomic Pathology,
Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, 5 Hematopatholoy Section,
Department of Anatomic Pathology, Barcelona, Spain, 6 Systemic
Autoimmune Diseases, Barcelona, Spain, 7 Unit of Infection
and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research, Catalan Institute
of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain, 8 Unit of Infection and Cancer.
Cancer Epidemiology Research. Catalan Institute of Oncology.
1281. Behcet’s Disease and the Major Histocompatibility Complex:
Looking beyond HLA-B51. Michael J. Ombrello 2 , Yohei Kirino 2 ,
Fulya Cosan 1 , Ahmet Gul 1 , Daniel L. Kastner 2 and Elaine
F. Remmers 2 , 1 Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department
of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul
University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2 Laboratory of Clinical Investigation,
NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
1282. Circulating Adipokine, Ghrelin and Acylated Ghrelin Levels
in Patients with Takayasu’s Arteritis. Hatice Yilmaz 1 , Vedat
Gerdan 3 , Didem Kozaci 4 , Servet Akar 3 , Gercek Can 3 , Aytac Gulcu 2 ,
Volkan Cakir 2 , Yigit Goktay 2 , Merih Birlik 3 , Nurullah Akkoc 3 and
Fatos Onen 3 , 1 Internal Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty
of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, 2 Radiology, Dokuz Eylul University
Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, 3 Rheumatology, Dokuz
Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, 4 Science,
Technology Research and Aplication Center, Aydin, Turkey.
1283. Circulating Endothelial Cells and Endothelial Progenitor Cells in
Takayasu Arteritis. Serkan Dogan 2 , Dilek Solmaz 4 , Ozden Piskin 1 ,
Servet Akar 4 , Aytac Gulcu 3 , Faize Yuksel 1 , Volkan Cakir 3 , Gercek
Can 4 , Yigit Goktay 3 , Merih Birlik 4 , Nurullah Akkoc 4 and Fatos
Onen 4 , 1 Hematology, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine,
Izmir, Turkey, 2 Internal Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty
of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, 3 Radiology, Dokuz Eylul University
Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, 4 Rheumatology, Dokuz Eylul
University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.
1284. Clinical Characteristics, Treatment and Ethnic/Racial
Differences in the Manifestations of 518 Behcet’s Syndrome
Patients in the United States. Yusuf Yazici, Maria T. Filopoulos,
Elizabeth Schimmel, Andy McCraken and Christopher
Swearingen, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
1285. Clinical Features of Behçet’s Disease with Vascular
Involvement. Hirotoshi Kikuchi 2 , Kurumi Asako 1 , Maki
Takayama 1 , Hajime Kono 1 , Shunsei Hirohata 4 and Yasuo Ono 3 ,
1
Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School
of Medicine, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo,
Japan, 3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo
University School of Medicine, 4 Department of Rheumatology
and Infectious Disease, Kitasato University School of Medicine,
Kanagawa, Japan.
1286. Clinical Spectrum, Angiographic Findings and Outcome in
Takayasu Arteritis, Using the Disease Extent Index for Takayasu
Arteritis (DEI.TAK). Sivakumar M. Rajappa, Cerebrovascular and
Vasculitis Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
1287. Cluster Analysis of Vascular Involvement in Takayasu Arteritis:
Extension of the Lesions Is Contiguous in the Aorta and
Symmetric in Paired Arterial Beds. Laurent Arnaud 1 , Julien
Haroche 1 , Dan Toledano 2 , Patrice Cacoub 1 , Nathalie Costedoat-
Chalumeau 1 , Du Le Thi Huong-Boutin 1 , Philippe Cluzel 2 and
Zahir Amoura 1 , 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Groupe
Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtriere, UPMC Univ Paris 6 , AP-HP, 47-83 bd
de l’Hôpital, Paris, France, 2 Department of Radiology, Groupe
Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, UPMC Univ Paris 6 , AP-HP, 47-83 bd
de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France..
1288. Colchicine Does Not Decrease the Need for
Immunosuppressive Use at Long Term in Behçet’s Syndrome.
Vedat Hamuryudan 3 , Gülen Hatemi 3 , Sebahattin Yurdakul 3 , Cem
Mat 1 , Koray Tascilar 3 , Yilmaz Ozyazgan 2 , Emire Seyahi 3 , Serdal
Ugurlu 3 and Hasan Yazici 3 , 1 Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa
Medical School, Dermatology, 2 Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa
Medical School, Ophthalmology, 3 Istanbul University,
Cerrahpasa Medical School, Rheumatology.
1289. Diagnostic Value of Pathergy Phenomenon in Behcet’s Disease.
Fereydoun Davatchi, Cheyda Chams-Davatchi, Farhad Shahram,
Bahar Sadeghi Abdollahi, Abdolhadi Nadji, Massoomeh
Akhlaghi, Tahereh Faezi and Roghieh Larimi, Rheumatology
Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,
Islamic Republic of Iran.
1290. Disease Activity Assessment in Large Vessel Vasculitis. Luca
Magnani 1 , Annibale Versari 1 , Diana Salvo 1 , Massimiliano Casali 1 ,
Giuseppe Germanò 1 , Riccardo Meliconi 3 , Lia Pulsatelli 2 , Debora
Formisano 1 , Gianluigi Bajocchi 1 , Nicolò Pipitone 1 , Luigi Boiardi 1
and Carlo Salvarani 1 , 1 Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, Reggio
Emilia, Italy, 2 Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Bologna, Italy,
3
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
1291. Disease Assessment in Takayasu’s Arteritis: Data from a
Literature Search and a Survey of Expert Opinion. Haner
Direskeneli 3 , Sibel Z. Aydin 3 , Peter A. Merkel 2 and Turkish
Takayasu Study Group 1 , 1 Istanbul, Turkey, 2 Boston University
School of Medicine, West Newton, MA, 3 Marmara University,
School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
1292. Effect of Glucocorticoids on Gelatinase (MMP-2 and MMP-
9) Expression in Giant-Cell Arteritis (GCA) Using an Ex-Vivo
Temporal Artery Culture Model. Marc Corbera-Bellalta, Ana
García-Martínez, Ester Planas-Rigol, Ester Lozano, Marta
Segarra, Georgina Espígol-Frigolé, José Hernández-Rodríguez,
Itziar Tavera and Maria C. Cid, Department of Systemic
Autoimmune Diseases. Hospital Clínic. University of Barcelona,
IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
1293. Efficacy of Cerebrospinal Fluid Testing and Magnetic
Resonance Imaging for Diagnosis of Neuro-Behcet’s Disease:
A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis. Shunsei Hirohata 3 ,
Hirotoshi Kikuchi 5 , Tetsuji Sawada 6 , Hiroko Nagafuchi 4 , Masataka
Kuwana 2 , Mitsuhiro Takeno 1 and Yoshiaki Ishigatsubo 7 ,
1
Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology,
Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, 2 Keio
University School of Med, Tokyo, Japan, 3 Kitasato Univ School of
Med, Kanagawa, Japan, 4 St Marianna University School of Med,
5
Teikyo Univ School of Med, 6 Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku
Tokyo, Japan, 7 Yokohama City Grad Sch of Med, Yokohama,
Japan.
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