PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vinod Chandran
AU  - Dafna D. Gladman
AU  - Philip S. Helliwell
AU  - Björn Gudbjörnsson
TI  - Arthritis Mutilans: A Report from the GRAPPA 2012 Annual Meeting
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.130453
DP  - 2013 Aug 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - 1419--1422
VI  - 40
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/40/8/1419.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/40/8/1419.full
SO  - J Rheumatol2013 Aug 01; 40
AB  - Arthritis mutilans is often described as the most severe form of psoriatic arthritis. However, a widely agreed on definition of the disease has not been developed. At the 2012 annual meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA), members hoped to agree on a definition of arthritis mutilans and thus facilitate clinical and molecular epidemiological research into the disease. Members discussed the clinical features of arthritis mutilans and definitions used by researchers to date; reviewed data from the ClASsification for Psoriatic ARthritis study, the Nordic psoriatic arthritis mutilans study, and the results of a premeeting survey; and participated in breakout group discussions. Through this exercise, GRAPPA members developed a broad consensus on the features of arthritis mutilans, which will help us develop a GRAPPA-endorsed definition of arthritis mutilans.