ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2074 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Bryant R. England1, Ted R. Mikuls2, Fenglong Xie3, Shuo Yang3, Lang Chen3 and Jeffrey Curtis4, 1Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 2Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 4Division Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Antigenic triggers initiating granulomatous inflammation in giant cell arteritis (GCA) have yet to be elucidated. Recently, histopathological studies of temporal arteries from GCA patients…