Abstracts tagged "biopsy"

Abstract Number: 738 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Systemic Sclerosis Myocarditis Has Unique Clinical, Histological and Prognostic Features: Comparative Analysis Between Patients with Endomyocardial Biopsy-proven Myocarditis
Giacomo De Luca¹, Silvia Bosello ², Corrado Campochiaro ¹, Silvia Sartorelli ³, Giovanni Peretto ⁴, Simone Sala ⁵, Giovanni Canestrari ², Gaetano Thiene ⁶, Cristina Basso ⁶, Paolo Della Bella ⁴, Elisa Gremese ⁷ and Lorenzo Dagna ¹, ¹Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases (UnIRAR), IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy, ²Rheumathology Division, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy, ³Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy, ⁴Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmology, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy, ⁵Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmology, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Mialn, Italy, ⁶Cardiovascular Pathology Unit, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University and Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy, ⁷Division of Rheumatology - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Background/Purpose: Myocarditis is a life-threatening inflammatory disease increasingly reported in Systemic Sclerosis(SSc); the histological, clinical and prognostic features of SSc-myocardits have not been elucidated yet.…
Abstract Number: 2688 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Comparisons of Strategies for Diagnostic Assessment in Giant Cell Arteritis: Results from an International Observational Cohort
K Bates Gribbons¹, Cristina Ponte ², Anthea Craven ³, Joanna Robson ⁴, Ravi Suppiah ⁵, Raashid Luqmani ³, Richard Watts ⁶, Peter Merkel ⁷ and Peter C. Grayson ⁸, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ³University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁶Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Diagnostic assessment in giant cell arteritis (GCA) is rapidly changing as large-vessel (LV) involvement becomes increasingly recognized and non-invasive vascular imaging techniques become more…