Abstract Number: 868 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Baseline Troponin Levels Are Associated with Mortality in a Cohort of Patients with Inflammatory Polyarthritis: Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register
Background/Purpose: Serum troponin is used in clinical practice in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. Recent studies have found that high sensitivity assays can predict…Abstract Number: 2148 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Recruitment of Circulating Monocytes By TNF/IL-6-Induced Expression of Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 (VCAM-1) Drives Valvular Inflammation in K/B/g7 Mice
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular (CV) comorbidity is common in rheumatic diseases and includes accelerated atherosclerosis and inflammatory valvular heart disease (iVHD). KRN T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic…