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ACR Poster Session A
316. The New EULAR/ACR Classification ACPA Cutoff Levels
Are Markers of Poor Radiological Outcome in Early
Rheumatoid Arthritis. Jose Alfredo Gomez Puerta 1 , Virginia
Ruiz Esquide 1 , M. V. Hernandez 1 , Eduard Graell 2 , Sonia
Cabrera 3 , M. J. Gómara 4 , Juan D. Cañete 5 , Isabel Haro 4 and
R. Sanmarti 1 , 1 Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,
2
Hospital Parc Tauli, Sabadell, Spain, 3 Hospital Clinic of
Barcelona., Barcelona, Spain, 4 IQAC-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain,
5
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
317. Very High Specificity of Anti-Citrullinated Peptide
Antiboldies (ACPA) in a Tertiary Medical Center. Meriem
Ridene 1 , Jeremie Dion 2 , Makoto Miyara 3 and Bruno Fautrel 4 ,
1
TUNIS MEDECINE UNIVERSITY, Tunis, Tunisia, 2 Faculté paris
7 Dénis-Diderot, Paris, France, 3 Université Pierre et Marie
Curie - Paris 6 , Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris,
France, 4 Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 - Pitie
Salpetriere University Hospital, Paris, France
318. Evaluation of the Patients with Early Arthritis by 2010
RA Criteria in Conjunction with MRI of Wrists and Finger
Joints. Mami Tamai 1 , Kazuhiko Arima 1 , Masataka Uetani 1 ,
Naoki Iwamoto 1 , Junko Kita 1 , Akitomo Okada 1 , Tomohiro
Koga 2 , Shin-ya Kawashiri 1 , Kunihiro Ichinose 1 , Satoshi
Yamasaki 1 , Hideki Nakamura 1 , Hiroaki Ida 3 , Tomoki Origuchi 1 ,
Kiyoshi Aoyagi 1 , Katsumi Eguchi 4 and Atsushi Kawakami 1 ,
1
Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, 2 Nagasaki University School of
Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan, 3 Kurume University School of
Medicine, Kurume, Japan, 4 Sasebo City General Hospital,
Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
319. Comparison of the 1987 and 2010 Classificatioh Criteria for
Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Population of Patients with Early
Arthritis. Ana M. Ortiz Garcia, Ana M. Fernández-Ortiz, Silvia
Pérez-Esteban, Rosario Garcia-Vicuña and Isidoro González-
Alvaro, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa. IIS Princesa,
Madrid, Spain
320. New Index to Assess the Improvement From the Worst
Rheumatoid Arthritis Activity without Formal Joint
Count. Naoto Yokogawa, Kota Shimada, Yoshiki Nagai,
Takahiro Nunokawa, Shinichi Inada and Shoji Sugii, Tokyo
Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
321. Benefits of the Implementation of Specialized Clinics
in Rheumatoid Arthritis for Rule Out False Positives
of Disease and Osteoarthritis As a Frequent Cause of
Misdiagnosis. Pedro Santos-Moreno 1 , Felipe Gonzalez-
Malaver 2 , Luisa Fernanda Amador 1 , Claudia Guzman-Saltis 2 ,
Maria F. Cubides 1 , Ana Milena Arbelaez 1 and Rafael Valle-
Onate 2 , 1 Biomab IPS, Bogota, Colombia, 2 Universidad Militar,
Bogota, Colombia
322. Rheumatoid Arthritis Case Validation Strategies in Large
Research Databases: The Women’s Health Initiative
Experience. Brian T. Walitt 1 , Rachel Mackey 2 , Lewis Kuller 2 ,
Kevin D. Deane 3 , William Robinson 4 , V. Michael Holers 5 ,
Russell Tracey 6 , Yuefang Chang 2 and Larry W. Moreland 2 ,
1
Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, 2 University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 3 University of Colorado School
of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 4 Stanford Univ School of Med,
Stanford, CA, 5 Univ of Colorado School of Med, Aurora, CO,
6
Colchester, VT
323. Evaluation of Definitions of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Remission by Assessing Radiographic Progression in
the Leiden Early Arthritis Cohort. Annette H.M. van der
Helm-van Mil 1 , Rachel Knevel 1 , Ferhan Qureshi 2 , William
C. Manning 2 , Guy Cavet 2 , T.W.J. Huizinga 3 and Douglas
J. Haney 2 , 1 Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden,
Netherlands, 2 Crescendo Bioscience, Inc., South San
Francisco, CA, 3 Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden,
Netherlands
324. TNF-Like Ligand 1A Is a Promising Biomarker of Disease
Activity In Rheumatoid Arthritis. Yoo Jin Hong, Yun Jong
Lee, Kichul Shin, Byoung Youg Choi, Hye Won Kim, Sung Hae
Chang, In Ah Choi, Eun Young Lee, Eun Bong Lee and Yeong
Wook Song, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South
Korea
325. Prevalence of Remission in Early RA – A Comparison of
New Remission Criteria to Established Criteria. Bindee
Kuriya 1 , Ye Sun 2 , Gilles Boire 3 , Boulos Haraoui 4 , Carol
A. Hitchon 5 , Janet E. Pope 6 , J. Carter Thorne 7 , Edward
Keystone 2 , Diane S. Ferland 8 and Vivian Bykerk 9 , 1 University
of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 2 Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON,
3
CHUS - Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, QC, 4 Institut
de Rhumatologie, Montreal, QC, 5 University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MB, 6 St. Joseph’s Health Care, University of
Western Ontario, London, ON, 7 Newmarket, ON, 8 LaSalle,
QC, 9 Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
326. Factors Associated with Relapse of Remission in
Rheumatoid Arthritis. Leslie R. Harrold 1 , George Reed 1 ,
David H. Collier 2 , Grace S. Park 2 , Hong Chang 3 , Andrew S.
Koenig 4 , Katherine C. Saunders 5 , Debra J. Zack 6 , Joel M.
Kremer 7 and Jeffrey D. Greenberg 8 , 1 UMass Medical School,
Worcester, MA, 2 Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, 3 Tufts
Medical Center, Boston, MA, 4 Pfizer Inc., Collegeville, PA,
5
CORRONA, Inc., Southborough, MA, 6 Amgen Inc, Thousand
Oaks, CA, 7 Albany Medical College and The Center for
Rheumatology, Albany, NY, 8 New York University School of
Medicine, New York, NY
327. Current Smoking and Hypertension Are Associated with
Synovitis As Measured by Ultrasonography in Therapy-
Naive Patients with Recent Onset Arthritis: Results
from an Early Arthritis Cohort. Gisela Westhoff 1 , Georg
Schett 2 , Edmund Edelmann 3 , Matthias Schneider 4 , Angela
Zink 5 and Marina Backhaus 6 , 1 German Rheumatism
Research Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2 Department of
Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany,
3
Rheumatologische Gemeinschaftspraxis, Berufsverband
Deutscher Rheumatologen e.V, Bad Aibling, Germany,
4
Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany,
5
Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum and Charité
University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, 6 Charite University
Hospital, Berlin, Germany
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