Abstracts tagged "Biomarkers and takayasu arteritis"

Abstract Number: 3055 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Evaluation of Plasma Pentraxin-3 Level in Patients with Takayasu’s Arteritis
Fatma Alibaz-Oner^1,2, Kenan Aksu³, P.Sibel Yentür⁴, Gokhan Keser⁵, Guher Saruhan-Direskeneli⁶ and Haner Direskeneli⁷, ¹Rheumatology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Department Rheumatology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Dept. Of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ege University, Dept. Of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, ⁴Physiology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Rheumatology, Ege University Medical Faculty, Izmir, Turkey, ⁶Department of Physiology, Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁷Rheumatology, Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Assessment of disease activity is one of the major difficulties in patients with TAK during follow-up. To date, no biomarker is universally accepted to…