ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 982 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Ruth Napier1, Emily Vance 1, James O'Dell 2, Jill Poole 3, Bryant England 4, Michael Duryee 3, Ted Mikuls 2, Holly Rosenzweig 5 and Geoffrey Thiele 2, 1Oregon Health & Science University and Portland VA Hospital, Portland, OR, 2VA Nebraska-Western IA Health Care System & University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 4VA Nebraska-Western IA Health Care System & University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, 5Oregon Health & Science University and Portland VA Hospital, Oregon
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory disease that manifests in a chronic and debilitating polyarthritis. Although the etiology of RA is unknown pathogenic…