Abstract Number: 968 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mononuclear Phagocytes Mediate Systemic Autoimmune Disease-Related Valvular Heart Disease Via Inflammatory Cytokine Production and Recruitment of Tissue-Reparative macrophages
Background/Purpose:Cardiovascular comorbidity is significant in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus . T cell receptor transgenic K/B.g7 mice develop…