Abstracts tagged "SLE and coronary artery disease"

Abstract Number: 1798 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Progression of Noncalcified and Calcified Coronary Plaque (by CT Angiography) in SLE
Michelle Petri¹, Armin Zadeh¹, Adnan Kiani¹ and Laurence S Magder², ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Accelerated atherosclerosis leading to premature coronary artery disease remains the major cause of late death in SLE. Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a late…
Abstract Number: 1810 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
A Five-Year Follow-up of Microvascular Dysfunction and Coronary Artery Disease in SLE: Results from a Community-Based Lupus Cohort
Vaneet K. Sandhu¹, Mariko L. Ishimori¹, Janet Wei², Louise Thomson², Daniel Berman², Jay Schapira², Noel Bairey Merz², Daniel Wallace³ and Michael Weisman³, ¹Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: To investigate serial changes in the prevalence of coronary microvascular dysfunction and coronary artery disease (CAD) by cardiac imaging in a cohort of SLE…