Abstracts tagged "epidemiologic methods and human leukocyte antigens (HLA)"

Abstract Number: 1975 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Behcet’s Disease Lies in the “B” Holder. New Associations in Disease Susceptibility and Manifestations
Mohanad Elfishawi^1,2, Sally Elfishawi³, Ghada Mossallam³, Paul Norman⁴, Jill Hollenbach⁵, Maneesh Misra⁵, Gonzalo Montero Martin⁶, Helma de Bruin⁷, Leos Van de Pasch⁷, Erik Rozemuller⁷, Marcelo Fernandiz-Vina⁶, Adriana Abrudescu⁸ and Khaled Zaky⁹, ¹Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Queens Hospital Center, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Kasr Alainy Hospital, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, ³Clinical pathology and Immunology laboatory, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, ⁴Division of Personalized Medicine and Department of Immunology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, ⁵Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Department of Pathology, Stanford University,School of medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷GenDx, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁸Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Queens Hospital center, NYC, NY, ⁹Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Background/Purpose: Behçet’s disease is a multisystem disease affecting young adults with variable vessel vasculitis as its underlying pathology. Previous studies in Behçet’s disease linked it…