Abstracts tagged "complement and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 511 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Complement C3 and C4 Levels and Its Correlation with Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Julia Sosa¹, Silvia Beatriz Papasidero², María Alejandra Medina¹, Diana Klajn³, Rafael Chaparro del Moral², José Angel Caracciolo⁴, Luciana Casalla⁵, Lucía Zárate⁵, Nieves Capozzi⁵, Josefina Marcos⁶, Mercedes Argentina García⁶, Ana Quinteros⁷, Maria Olga Leal⁷, Dora Lia Vásquez⁷, María Inés Stancich⁸, Analia Alvarez⁹, Carolina Sanchez Andía⁹, Karin Kirmayr¹⁰, María de los Ángeles Correa¹¹ and A. Constantino¹², ¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital General de Agudos Dr. Enrique Tornú, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Rheumatology Department, Rheumatology Unit, Hospital General de Agudos Dr. E. Tornú, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Research Committee, Research Committee, Hospital General de Agudos Dr. E. Tornú, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴Rhematology Department, Hospital General de Agudos Dr. Enrique Tornú, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵Rheumatology Section, Hospital Posadas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁶Rheumatology Unit, HIGA San Martín La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ⁷Centro Integral De Reumatologia, Tucumán, Argentina, ⁸Rheumatology Department, Hospital Nacional De Clínicas, Córdoba, Argentina, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Penna, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁰Rheumatology Department, Sanatorio San Carlos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹¹Rheumatology Department, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹²Hospital Nacional De Clínicas, Córdoba, Argentina
COMPLEMENT C3 AND C4 LEVELS AND ITS CORRELATION WITH DISEASE ACTIVITY IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS Background/Purpose: Cytokines play a major role in the pathogenesis…