Abstracts tagged "phenotypes and systemic vasculitides"

Abstract Number: 2651 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Are There Phenotypic Overlaps Between Giant Cell Arteritis Subgroups?
Berkan Armagan ¹, Abdullah Yildirim ², Alper Sarı ³, Bayram Farisoğulları ³, Emre Bilgin ³, Levent Kilic ⁴, Umut Kalyoncu ⁵, Şule Apras Bilgen ⁴ and Omer Karadag⁶, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey., Ankara, Turkey, ²Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ³Hacettepe University Vasculitis Centre, Ankara, Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, ⁴Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ankara, Turkey, ⁵Hacettepe University Department of Rheumatology, Ankara, Turkey, ⁶Hacettepe University Vasculitis Centre, Ankara, Turkey / Vasculitis and Lupus Clinic, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK, Ankara, Turkey
Background/Purpose: In parallel to the improvements in imaging, increasing data is accumulated regarding phenotypes of primary vasculitides. Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a large vessel…