ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 834 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Joana Caetano1, Svetlana Nihtyanova2, Jennifer Harvey3, Christopher P.Denton4 and Voon H. Ong5, 1Department of Medicine IV, Systemic Immunomediated Diseases Unit, Fernando Fonseca Hospital, Amadora, Portugal, 2Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London Medical School, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 3Clinical Immunology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 4Centre of Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 5Rheumatology, UCL Division of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Although anti-centromere antibodies (ACA) typically associate with limited cutaneous subset of systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) this reactivity is also seen in some cases with diffuse…