Abstracts tagged "infection and meta-analysis"

Abstract Number: 970 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Risk of Developing Antiphospholipid Syndrome Following Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies
Noha Abdel-Wahab^1,2, Maria A. Lopez-Olivo³, Saurabh Talathi⁴ and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor¹, ¹The Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ²Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Department, Assiut University Hospital, Assiut, Egypt, ³Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁴The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Infection has been increasingly reported in the literature as an environmental trigger inducing the development of anti-phospholipid antibodies or antiphospholipid syndrome in genetically predisposed…