Abstracts tagged "coronary artery disease and rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 500 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Impact of Inflammation and Biologic Treatments on Generation and Progression to Advanced Calcified Coronary Plaques in Rheumatoid Arthritis
George Karpouzas¹, Sarah Ormseth², Elizabeth Hernandez² and Matthew Budoff³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ²Rheumatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ³Cardiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Background/Purpose: In early atherogenesis inflammation drives and co-localizes with intimal calcification. In chronic, advanced plaques inflammation and calcification are inversely correlated and spatially distinct; advanced…