Abstracts tagged "flow cytometry and glomerulonephritis"

Abstract Number: 970 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
New-onset ANCA-associated Vasculitis Is Associated with Significant Phenotypic B Cell Dysfunction
Emilie Chan¹, Susan Hartzell ², Lisa Anderson ², Chiara Cantarelli ², Chiara Guglielmo ², Ioannis Tassiulas ³, Sofia Andrighetto ², Andrea Angeletti ⁴, Joaquin Manrique Escola ⁵ and Paolo Cravedi ², ¹Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, ²Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, ³Icahn School of Medicine, New York, ⁴Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy, ⁵Complejo Hospital de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Background/Purpose: ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) is characterized by the production of auto-antibodies and can be treated with rituximab, a B cell-depleting agent. Despite this, limited data…