Abstracts tagged "salivary gland and remission"

Abstract Number: 2432 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) as a Biomarker of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) and Related Lymphoma: Results in Independent Cohorts
Saviana Gandolfo¹, Cinzia Fabro ¹, Serena Colafrancesco ², Francesco Carubbi ³, Francesco Ferro ⁴, Elena Bartoloni ⁵, Efstathia Kapsogeorgou ⁶, Andreas Goules ⁶, Luca Quartuccio ¹, Roberta Priori ², Alessia Alunno ⁵, Guido Valesini ², Roberto Giacomelli ³, Roberto Gerli ⁵, Chiara Baldini ⁴, Athanasios Tzioufas ⁶ and Salvatore De Vita ¹, ¹Rheumatology Clinic, Udine University Hospital, Department of Medical Area, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, Udine, Italy, ²Rheumatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Roma, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, L'Aquila, Italy, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, Perugia, Italy, ⁶Department of Pathophysiology, Athens School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) has been implicated in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) and related B-cell lymphoproliferation / lymphoma (NHL) by tissue studies on salivary…