American College of Rheumatology
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR), based in Atlanta, is a not-for-profit association of medical professionals consisting of rheumatologists and other physicians. It was founded in 1934. Until 1985 the association was called the American Rheumatism Association (ARA).
The Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP) is a sub-organization primarily for non-medical employees in the health sector, i.e. physiotherapists, health and nurses , psychologists , occupational therapists , social workers , epidemiologists , MTAs or MFAs , clinical students , scientists and research coordinators as well as other institutions with a Specialization or a relation to rheumatology .
It is important to create catalogs of criteria (ACR criteria) for the division, classification and diagnosis of rheumatic diseases, which are used in everyday clinical practice around the world.
The classification for the following diseases from the rheumatic group was created by the ACR, partly together with the EULAR :
- Systemic sclerosis
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Fibromyalgia
- Giant cell arteritis
- gout
- IgA vasculitis
- Hypersensitivity vasculitis
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Osteoarthritis (arthrosis)
- Arthrosis of the hand (finger joint arthrosis)
- Hip arthrosis
- Osteoarthritis of the knee
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Scleroderma
- SLE
- Takayasu arteritis
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
The journals Arthritis & Rheumatology and Arthritis Care & Research are official media of the ACR.
Web links
- American College of Rheumatology website
- Rheumatology Research Foundation , ACR research facility
- Arthritis & Rheumatology , journal of the ACR
- Arthritis Care & Research , journal of the ARHP
Individual evidence
- ^ ACR: Classification Criteria for Rheumatic Diseases . In: American College of Rheumatology . Retrieved March 17, 2014.