Abstracts tagged "biomarkers and collagen"

Abstract Number: 592 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Two Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers of Cartilage Degradation and Connective Tissue Inflammation Are Predictive of Disease Progression in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Anne C. Bay-Jensen¹, Stephanie Wichuk², Inger Byrjalsen³, Zheng Zhao⁴, Robert GW Lambert⁵, Morten Asser Karsdal⁶ and Walter P. Maksymowych⁷, ¹Cartilage Biomarkers and Research, Nordic Bioscience, Herlev, Denmark, ²Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Research & Development, Nordic Bioscience, Herlev, Denmark, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University of Alberta and PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China, Beijing, AB, China, ⁵Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁶Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev, Denmark, ⁷Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Cartilage degradation and inflammation of synovial and connective tissue are key events in inflammatory arthropathies such as SpA. Presently there are no prognostic tools…