Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity and histopathologic"

Abstract Number: 1918 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Urine CD163 Significantly Discriminates Active Lupus Nephritis and Strongly Correlates with Proliferative Glomerulonephritis
Ting Zhang¹, Ramesh Saxena ², Chi Chiu Mok ³, Michelle Petri ⁴ and Chandra Mohan ⁵, ¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, ²UTSW, Dallas, ³Department of Medicine, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong, China (People's Republic), ⁴Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵University of Houston, Houston
Background/Purpose: CD163 is a marker for alternatively activated M2 macrophages, which have been implicated in the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis (LN). The potential of urine…