Abstracts tagged "biomarkers and histopathologic"

Abstract Number: 684 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Clinical Biomarkers at Renal Flare Are Associated with Histologic Changes in Repeat Renal Biopsy in Patients with Biopsy-proven Lupus Nephritis
Min Jung Kim¹, Hajeong Lee ¹, Yeong-Wook Song ¹ and Eun Bong Lee ², ¹Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, seoul
Background/Purpose: Renal flares are common during treatment of biopsy-proven lupus nephritis (LN). However, it is unknown whether biopsy should be repeated in the event of…
Abstract Number: 1577 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
An Investigation of Translocator Protein As a Tissue and Peripheral Blood Biomarker of Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Nehal Narayan¹, Francesco Carlucci² and Peter C. Taylor³, ¹Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²The Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, oxford, United Kingdom, ³Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Translocator protein (TSPO) is a mitochondrial cholesterol transporter, utilised in diseases as a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging marker of macrophage infiltration. Recent observations…