Abstracts tagged "human leukocyte antigens (HLA) and neonatal lupus"

Abstract Number: 2101 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
HLA Associations in Mothers of Children with Cardiac Manifestations of Neonatal Lupus
Hannah C. Ainsworth¹, Carl D. Langefeld¹, Miranda C. Marion², Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau³, Antonio Brucato⁴, Jill P. Buyon⁵ and Robert M. Clancy⁵, ¹Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ²Biostatistical Sciences and Center for Public Health Genomics, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, ³Internal Medicine Department, Cochin Hospital, “René-Descartes Paris V” University, Paris, France, ⁴Internal Medicine, Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy, ⁵Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus, comprising atrioventricular conduction defects and cardiomyopathy, occur in fetuses exposed to anti-Ro/SSA antibodies, and carry substantial mortality. There is…