ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1166 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Lee S. Shapiro1,2, Jessica Farrell1,2,3, Roberta Lukasiewicz1,2, Peter A. Merkel4, Douglas Rosing5, Manfred Boehm6, Axia Toledo-Garcia1, Maria Karas7, Maria DeSancho8, Harry McCoy9, Michael Marmulstein10 and Scott Beegle11, 1The Center for Rheumatology, Albany, NY, 2Steffens Scleroderma Center, Albany, NY, 3Pharmacy Practice, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Albany, NY, 4Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MN, 5Cardiovascular Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, Bethesda, MD, 6Center for Molecular Medicine, NHLBI/ NIH, Bethesda, MD, 7Division of Cardiology/Department of Medicine,, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, 8Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, 9Blue Ridge Cancer Care, Blacksburg, VA, 10Albany Associates in Cardiology, Albany, NY, 11Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Background/Purpose: Degos disease (Malignant Atrophic Papulosis) is a thrombotic microvasculopathy of complement activation, endothelial cell injury and progressive microvascular obliteration. Lesions are marked by vascular…