Abstracts tagged "pediatric rheumatology and tweak"

Abstract Number: 1566 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
HER2 as a Biomarker of Proliferative Lupus Nephritis in Children
Kathleen Sullivan¹, Jonathan Burnham ², Kathleen O'Neil ³, Laura Schanberg ⁴, Emily von Scheven ⁵, Marisa Klein-Gitelman ⁶ and Patricia Costa Reis ⁷, ¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ³Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁵UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, ⁷Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis is a common feature of SLE and confers a poor prognosis. 20-50% of patients with lupus nephritis ultimately develop chronic kidney disease…