Abstracts tagged "diagnostic criteria and macrophage activation syndrome"

Abstract Number: 1310 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Predicting Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients at Diagnosis
Maya Gerstein¹, Roberto Ezequiel Borgia², Brian Feldman¹, Deborah M. Levy³, Sharon Sukhdeo⁴, Susanne M. Benseler⁵, Lawrence W.K. Ng¹, Mohamed Abdelhaleem⁶, Earl D. Silverman² and Linda T Hiraki⁷, ¹Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology, The Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Rheumatology, Alberta Children's Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁶Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Division of Haematopathology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose It can be difficult to differentiate macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) from active pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE). However, this differentiation is in determining correct…

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