ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2268 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Chelsie Fleischer1, Marie Feser 2, Elizabeth Bemis 3, Christopher Striebich 4, LauraKay Moss 4, Vasilisa Kormendi 5, Sharon White 5, V. Michael Holers 6, Mark Harrison 7 and Kevin Deane 2, 1University of Colorado Denver, Division of Rheumatology, Aurora, CO USA, Aurora, 2University of Colorado Denver, Division of Rheumatology, Aurora, CO, USA, Aurora, CO, 3University of Colorado Denver, School of Public Health, Aurora, CO USA, Aurora, 4University of Colorado Denver, Division of Rheumatology, Aurora, CO USA, Aurora, CO, 5University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO USA, Aurora, CO, 6University of Colorado Denver, Division of Rheumatology, Aurora, CO, USA, Denver, 7The University of British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: In rheumatoid arthritis (RA) development, autoantibodies to citrullinated protein antigens (ACPA) are elevated in the blood before clinically-apparent synovitis develops. These findings underpin the…