Abstracts tagged "pathogenesis and Sjogren’s syndrome"

Abstract Number: 1464 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
The Oral Microbiome as a Risk Factor for Benign or Pathologic Autoimmunity Associated with Anti-SSA/Ro Positivity and Mimicry for Von Willebrand Factor Type a Domain Protein (vWFA) of L. Mirabilis
Robert Clancy¹, Miranda Marion ², Peter Izmirly ¹, Hannah Ainsworth ³, Timothy Howard ³, Mala Masson ¹, Jill Buyon ¹ and Carl Langefeld ³, ¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, ²Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ³Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem
Background/Purpose: Autoantibody production precedes SLE or SS by years, including anti-Ro. Anti-Ro+ mothers of children with congenital heart block (CHB) are a unique population at…