ACR Meeting Abstracts
ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 782 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Alison Clifford*1, Pauline Funchain*2,3,4, Lisa Lystad5, Charissa Peterson4, Jessica Altemus4, Gary S. Hoffman1 and Charis Eng2,3,4,6, 1Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 2Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 3Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 4Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, 5Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 6Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Whether infectious agents play a part in giant cell arteritis (GCA) remains controversial. We have performed the first microbiome study of snap-frozen temporal arteries,…