ACR Meeting Abstracts
ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2923 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
K Bates Gribbons1, Cristina Ponte 2, Anthea Craven 3, Joanna Robson 4, Ravi Suppiah 5, Richard Watts 6, Raashid Luqmani 3, Peter Merkel 7 and Peter C. Grayson 8, 1National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, 3University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom, 5Department of Rheumatology, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, 6Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, 7University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 8National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a clinically heterogeneous disease. Disease subsets based upon cranial versus extracranial artery involvement have been proposed. The study objective…