ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2146 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Kaiwen Wang1, Jangfeng Zhao1, Zhiwei Chen1, Ting Li1, Xiaoming Tan2, Yu Zheng2, Liyang Gu1, Li Guo1, Fangfang Sun1, Haiting Wang1, Jiajie Li1, Xiaodong Wang1, Gabriela Riemekasten3 and Shuang Ye4, 1Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital South Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 2Department of Pulmonology, Renji Hospital South Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 3University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Luebeck, Germany, 4Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital South Campus, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Background/Purpose: The clinical and mechanistic relevance of peripheral CD4+CXCR4+ T cells in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM)-associated interstitial lung disease (IIM-ILD) is not known. Methods: Patients…