Abstracts tagged "B cells and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 962 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
The Presence of Circulating CD19+CD21lo cells Predicts the Presence of Interstitial Lung Disease in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Erin Wilfong¹, Jennifer Young-Glazer ², Elise Rizzi ³, Rosemarie Dudenhofer ², Leslie Crofford ¹ and Peggy Kendall ², ¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a severe systemic disease characterized by fibrosis of the skin and visceral organs. While protein biomarkers of lung damage, e.g.…