B O O K - American College of Rheumatology

ACR/ARHP Poster Session C
1890. Correlation of Serum BAFF and Markers of B-Cell Activation
with Systemic Involvement Assessed by the EULAR Sjögren’s
Syndrome Disease Activity Index: Results from the ASSESS
Prospective Cohort. Jacques-Eric Gottenberg 16 , Raphaele
Seror 2 , Joelle Benessiano 3 , Karine Inamo 2 , Philippe Dieude 3 ,
Jean-Jacques Dubost 5 , Anne-Laure Fauchais 11 , Eric Hachulla 10 ,
Claire Larroche 1 , Veronique Le Guern 6 , Jacques Morel 12 , Aleth
Perdriger 14 , Xavier Puéchal 9 , Stéphanie Rist 13 , Alain Saraux 4 ,
Damien Sene 7 , Jean Sibilia 16 , Olivier Vittecoq 15 , Charles
Zarnitsky 8 , Philippe Ravaud 3 and Xavier Mariette 2 , 1 Avicenne
Hospital, 2 Bicetre Hospital, 3 Bichat Hospital, 4 Brest Hospital,
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Clermont-Ferrand Hospital, 6 Cochin Hospital, 7 La Pitié Hospital,
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Le Havre Hospital, 9 Le Mans Hospital, 10 Lille Hospital, 11 Limoges
Hospital, 12 Montpellier Hospital, 13 Orleans Hospital, 14 Rennes
Hospital, 15 Rouen Hospital, 16 Strasbourg Hospital.
1891. Detection of HTLV-1 p19 Protein in Labial Salivary Glands
from Patients with Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Distinct Clinical
Subgroup? Sung-Ji Lee 1 , Seong-Rye Seo 1 , Tae-Jong Kim 1 , Yong-
Wook Park 1 and Shin-Seok Lee 2 , 1 Chonnam National University
Medical School, 2 Chonnam Natl Univ Med School, Gwangju,
Korea, Republic of.
1892. Effect of Rituximab Treatment on BAFF Levels in Patients with
Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Placebo-Controlled Clinical
Trial. Rodney Pollard 2 , Wayel Abdulahad 2 , Jiska Meijer 2 , Frans
Kroese 2 , Fred Spijkervet 2 , Cees Kallenberg 1 , Arjan Vissink 2 and
Hendrika Bootsma 2 , 1 Univer Med Center Groningen, Groningen,
The Netherlands, 2 Univer Med Center Groningen.
1893. Efficacy of Rituximab in Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome with
Peripheral Nervous System Involvement: Results from the
French AIR Registry. Arsene Mekinian 6 , Eric Hachulla 9 , Claire
Larroche 2 , Jean Leone 11 , Bruno Gomberg 7 , Mohamed Hamidou 8 ,
Alain G. Cantagrel 5 , Christian Marcelli 4 , Stephanie Rist 10 , Maxime
A. Breban 1 , Olivier Fain 6 , Jacques E. Gottenberg 12 and Xavier
Mariette 3 , 1 Courbevoie, France, 2 Avicenne Hospital, 3 Bicetre
Hospital/Paris Univ, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France, 4 Caen Hospital,
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Hopital Purpan, Toulouse, France, 6 Jean Verdier Hospital, 7 La
Rochelle Hospital, 8 Nantes Hospital, 9 National Scleroderma
Centre, Lille Cedex, France, 10 Orleans Hospital, 11 Reims Hospital,
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Strasbourg Hospitals, Strasbourg, France.
1894. Efficacy of Rituximab in Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome with
Central Nervous System Involvement: Results from the
French AIR Registry. Arsene Mekinian 4 , Claire Larroche 1 , Eric
Hachulla 7 , Bruno Gomberg 6 , Claire Blanchard-Delaunay 8 , Alain
G. Cantagrel 3 , Olivier Fain 5 , Jean Sibilia 9 , Jacques E. Gottenberg 10
and Xavier Mariette 2 , 1 Avicenne Hospital, 2 Bicetre Hospital/Paris
Univ, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France, 3 Hopital Purpan, Toulouse,
France, 4 Jean Verdier Hospital, 5 Jean Verdier Hospital, 6 La
Rochelle Hospital, 7 National Scleroderma Centre, Lille Cedex,
France, 8 Niort Hospital, 9 Strasbourg Hospital, 10 Strasbourg
Hospitals, Strasbourg, France.
1895. Epitope Mapping of the Autoantigen Aquaporin-4 Reveals
Linear Epitopes Located in the Intracellular Region of the
Molecule. Eleni I. Kabylafka 1 , John G. Routsias 1 , Haralampos
Alexopoulos 1 and Athanasios G. Tzioufas 2 , 1 Department of
Pathophysiology, Medical School of Athens, Athens, Greece,
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Medical School-Univ of Athens, Athens, Greece.
1896. EULAR Sjögren’s Syndrome Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI):
Development of a Consensus Patient Index for Primary
Sjögren’s Syndrome. Raphaèle Seror 5 , Philippe Ravaud 13 , Xavier
Mariette 4 , Hendrika Bootsma 18 , Elke Theander 9 , Arne Hansen 3 ,
Manel Ramos-Casals 1 , Thomas Dörner 3 , Stefano Bombardieri 20 ,
Eric Hachulla 11 , Johan G. Brun 17 , Aike A. Kruize 19 , Sonja
Praprotnik 14 , Matija Tomsic 14 , Jacques E. Gottenberg 12 , Valerie
Devauchelle 6 , Salvatore Devita 16 , Cristina Vollenweider 8 , Thomas
Mandl 9 , Athanasios G. Tzioufas 10 , Steven E. Carsons 22 , Alain
Saraux 7 , Nurhan Sutcliffe 2 , Claudio Vitali 21 , Simon J. Bowman 15
and The EULAR Sjögren’s Task Force, 1 ”Josep Font”, Hospital
Barcelona, 2 Barts &The Royal London Hospital, 3 Berlin Charité,
University Hospital, 4 Bicetre Hospital/Paris Univ, Le Kremlin
Bicetre, France, 5 Bicetre Hospital/Paris Univ, Le Kremlin Bicetre,
France, 6 CHU de la Cavale Blanche, 7 CHU de la Cavale Blanche,
Brest Cedex, France, 8 German Hospital, Buenos-Aires, 9 Malmö
University Hospital, 10 Medical School-Univ of Athens, Athens,
Greece, 11 National Scleroderma Centre, Lille Cedex, France,
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Strasbourg Hospitals, Strasbourg, France, 13 Université Paris
Descartes, 14 University Clinical Centre of Ljubljana, 15 University
Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation, 16 University Hospital of
Udine, 17 University Hospital, Bergen, 18 University Medical Center
Groningen, 19 University Medical Center Utrecht, 20 University of
Pisa, 21 Villamarina Hospital, 22 Winthrop Univ Hospital, Mineola,
NY.
1897. Evolution of Autoimmune Minor Salivary Gland (MSG) Lesions
in Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS). Efstathia K. Kapsogeorgou 3 ,
Maria I. Christodoulou 4 , Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos 2 ,
Spyros Paikos 1 and Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos 4 , 1 Dental
Department, “Laikon” General Hospital of Athens, Athens,
Greece, 2 Dietetics and Nutrition Dept, Harokopio University of
Athens, 3 Pathophysiology Dept, School of Medicine, National
University of Athens, Athens, Attica, Greece, 4 Pathophysiology
Dept, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, Athens,
Greece.
1898. Extra-Glandular Manifestations of Primary Sjögren’s
Syndrome in the SICCA International Sjögren’s Syndrome
Registry. Arundathi S. Malladi 12 , Kenneth E. Sack 8 , Stephen
Shiboski 10 , Caroline Shiboski 10 , Alan N. Baer 2 , Pekka Helin 7 , Bruce
Kirkham 4 , Hisanori Umehara 3 , Frederick B. Vivino 6 , Cristina
F. Vollenweider 1 , Yan Zhao 5 , John Greenspan 10 , Troy Daniels 9
and Lindsey A. Criswell 11 , 1 German Hospital, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, 2 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 3 Kanazawa
Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan, 4 King’s College London, UK,
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Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, 6 Penn
Presbyt Med Ctr, Philadelphia, PA, 7 Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 8 UCSF, Tiburon, CA, 9 UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 10 UCSF,
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UCSF-Box 0500, San Francisco, CA, 12 University of California at
San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA.
1899. Germinal Center (GC) Formation in Salivary Gland Biopsies at
Diagnosis of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) Is a New and
Strong Predictor of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) during
Follow-Up. Elke Theander 4 , Lilian Vasaitis 3 , Eva Baecklund 5 ,
Gunnel Nordmark 5 , Gunnar Warfvinge 4 , Rolf Liedholm 4 , Karl
Brokstad 1 , Roland Jonsson 1 and Malin V. Jonsson 2 , 1 University of
Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 2 University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway,
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University of Lund, Uppsala, Sweden, 4 University of Lund,
Malmö, Sweden, 5 University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
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