Abstracts tagged "Central retinal vascular occlusive events"

Abstract Number: 0505 • ACR Convergence 2021
Risk of Venous and Arterial Thromboembolism in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis And/or Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Veterans Health Administration Population-Based Study in the United States
Despina Michailidou¹, Tianyu Zhang², Pavlos Stamatis³ and Bernard Ng⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ⁴Rheumatology Section, VA Puget Sound HCS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are two chronic systemic inflammatory diseases that primarily affect elderly women. Both diseases can be complicated…