ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1652 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Nina van Leeuwen1, Jaap Bakker 1, Annette Grummels 1, Corrie Wortel 1, Suzana Jordan 2, Oliver Distler 3, Håvard Fretheim 4, Anna Maria Hoffmann-Vold 5, Hans Ulrich Scherer 6, René Toes 1, Thomas Huizinga 1 and Jeska de Vries-Bouwstra 1, 1Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 2Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, 3Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich, Switzerland, 4University Hospital Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 5Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, 6Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Although some studies suggest a possible association between clinical characteristics and isotypes of anticentromere antibodies (ACA) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), characteristics of…