ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1555 • ACR Convergence 2021
Ikwinder Kaur1, Mohsin Mughal2, Abdul Asbeutah3, Mili Kakadia2, Reem Alhashemi4, Hasan Mirza5, Harjot Jagdey6, Rasha Alhashimi7, vishakha sirpal2, Punit Jariwala2 and Eugenio Capitle8, 1Monmouth Medical Center, an affiliate of Rutgers health system, Long Branch, NJ, 2Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, 3University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 4Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, 5Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA, 6BronxCare Hospital, Bronx, NY, 7BIDMC, Havard, Boston, MA, 8Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Background/Purpose: COVID-19 has been implicated in an exaggerated inflammatory response by activating both innate and adaptive immune responses. Rheumatic disease patients are a vulnerable population…