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Abstract Number: PP02 • ACR Convergence 2024
Living Well with a Rare Rheumatic Disease – Becoming a “Precision” Patient on the Horizon of Precision Medicine
Ida Hakkarinen, self, Greenbelt, MD
Background/Purpose: My journey with a rare, chronic, relapsing rheumatic disease began in November 2010 with a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms: migrating joint pain, night…
Abstract Number: PP10 • ACR Convergence 2024
Walking Away from Arthritis Pain: Exercise Helped Me Manage Sarcoidosis and Osteoarthritis Physically and Emotionally
Bridget Kelly, Hospital for Special Surgery, Rockville Centre, NY
Background/Purpose: In 2004, we moved to a new home with 2 small children, when I started experiencing terrible joint pain. For 2 years I was…
Abstract Number: PP05 • ACR Convergence 2024
Reunion with Forgotten Relationships and Memories
Noriko Okochi¹, Eiji Oishi², Kaoru Mitsuyama³, Emi Sorimachi³, Shiho Bando⁴, Yuka Hirama⁵, Nobuyuki Yajima⁶ and Masaaki Mori⁷, ¹Rheumatic Disease and Vasculitis Support Network Japan, Tokyo, Japan, ²Rheumatic Disease and Vasculitis Support Network Japan, Yamaguchi, Japan, ³Institute of Neuropsychiatry, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Ota-ku Children and Families Support Center, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Asada Ladies Clinic, Shinagawa, Japan, Tokyo, Japan, ⁶Showa-Universtiy of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Paediatric rheumatic diseases are complex experiences for children. For children whose language skills are still undeveloped, it is difficult for them to put their…
Abstract Number: 2489 • ACR Convergence 2024
Avacopan for Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA) and Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA) in a Real-World Setting
Naomi Patel¹, Ana Fernandes¹, Andrew King¹, Shruthi Srivatsan¹, Colebrook Johnson¹, Zachary Williams¹, Madison Negron¹, Caleb Bolden¹, Miao Lin¹, Bohang Jiang¹, Sam Oh², Darcy Trimpe², Sushmitha Inguva² and Zachary Wallace³, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Avacopan is approved in the US for use in adults with severe active GPA or MPA alongside background immunosuppression. Efficacy and safety data on…
Abstract Number: 2625 • ACR Convergence 2024
Brain Injury Markers Correlate with Impaired Executive Function and Disease Activity in Children with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Oscar Mwizerwa¹, Justine Ledochowski², Tala El Tal³, Ganesh Ramanathan², Sarah Mossad⁴, Ibrahim Mohamed⁵, Joanna Law⁶, Lawrence Ng², Paris Moaf², Asha Jeyanathan¹, Adrienne Davis⁷, Ann Yeh², Linda Hiraki², Deborah Levy², Zahi Touma⁸, Joan Wither⁹, Busi Zapparoli¹⁰, Ashley Danguecan¹¹ and Andrea Knight¹², ¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Neurosciences and Mental Health, Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³The Hospital For Sick Children & Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵The Hospital for Sick Children, Brampton, ON, Canada, ⁶The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰The Hospital for Sick Children, Etobicoke, ON, Canada, ¹¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Neurosciences and Mental Health, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) commonly experience impaired executive function (EF), and attribution to neuropsychiatric lupus (NPSLE) is challenging. Serum markers of…
Abstract Number: 2500 • ACR Convergence 2024
Description of Patients with Refractory Kawasaki Disease at a Large Tertiary Center
Jessica Nguyen¹, Danielle Guffey², Andrea Ramirez¹, Jamie Lai³, Tiphanie Vogel¹, S. Kristen Sexson Tejtel¹, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner⁴ and Marietta DeGuzman¹, ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, ³Baylor College of Medicine, The Woodlands, TX, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in developed countries due to the development of coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs). Intravenous…
Abstract Number: PP15 • ACR Convergence 2024
Breathing Mindfully and How to Control Anxiety in Lupus Patients
Amanda Greene, Lupus Research Alliance, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: For over four decades, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus has impacted my Quality of Life.. I was diagnosed in 1983- my entire life was changed. I…
Abstract Number: 2684 • ACR Convergence 2024
Assessment of Skin in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis Using High Frequency Ultrasound : A Comparative Study with Histology and Clinical Parameters of Skin Disease
Ruhani Desai¹, Filemon Tan², Minghua Wu³, Jefferey Browning⁴, Samuel Theodore³, Meng Zhang³, Brian Skaug³, Maureen Mayes³ and Shervin Assassi³, ¹UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, DeLand, FL, ²University of Texas at Houston McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ³UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ⁴Boston Univeristy, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The extent of skin involvement and its rate of progression can provide prognostic information for systemic sclerosis (SSc)-related morbidity and mortality. Moreover, skin assessment…
Abstract Number: 2628 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical Features, Treatments, and Outcomes of a Large International Cohort of Childhood-onset Takayasu Arteritis: A PedVas Study
James Bistolarides¹, Vidya Sivaraman², Else Bosman³, Linda Wagner-Weiner⁴, Kimberly Morishita⁵, James Nocton¹, Melodee Liegl¹, Amy Pan¹ and David Cabral⁶, and PedVas Investigators Network, ¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²Nationwide Children's Hospital/ The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ³UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁵University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶BC Children's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is a rare systemic vasculitis. It occurs most commonly in patients aged < 40 years (y), and 32% of patients present…
Abstract Number: 2639 • ACR Convergence 2024
Exploring Weight Trends in Psoriatic Arthritis: Unraveling Effects of Drugs
Pankti Mehta¹, Fadi Kharouf², Shangyi Gao³, Dafna Gladman⁴ and Vinod Chandran¹, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have reported weight gain in Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) with biologics like TNF inhibitors (i). In contrast, no significant increase in body weight…
Abstract Number: 2533 • ACR Convergence 2024
Genome-wide Association of Rheumatoid Arthritis in the African Ancestry Identifies HLA Amino Acid Polymorphisms of Risk
Harrison Zhang¹, Saori Sakaue², Daniel Posner³, Jing Cui⁴, Dorris Yang⁵, Ashley Budu-Aggrey⁶, Yuk-Lam Ho³, Lauren Costa³, Rachael Matty³, Selena Huang¹, Paul Monach⁷, Kazuyoshi Ishaigaki⁸, Monika Maripuri⁷, Connor Melley⁷, Vidisha Tanukonda⁷, Rahul Sangar³, Gregory McDermott⁹, Mary Jeffway¹, Vincent Laufer¹⁰, Yukinori Okada¹¹, Ian Scott¹², S. Louis Bridges¹³, Kelly Cho³, Chuan Hong¹⁴, Jennifer E. Huffman¹⁵, Tianxi Cai¹⁶, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹ and Katherine Liao¹, and the VA Million Veteran Program, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA, ³U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, ⁶Bristol Medical School, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁷VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, ⁸Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ¹⁰Michigan Medicine, Birmingham, AL, ¹¹Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ¹²School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ¹⁴Duke University, Durham, NC, ¹⁵VA Boston Healthcare System, Palo Alto, ¹⁶Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The association between RA and the MHC is largely explained by five amino acid (AA) positions: DRB1 positions 11, 13, 71, and 74, HLA-B…
Abstract Number: 2658 • ACR Convergence 2024
Hypovitaminosis D in Lupus Nephitis
Alicia Yupe¹, Emma Puron Gonzalez², Esteban Salatino³, Jessica Santana⁴, Montserrat Ochoa⁴, Rosa Elena Cervantes-Ramirez⁵, Eli Marisol Saldaña⁶, gabriel Calderon⁷, Brissia Ceniceros⁸, Ulices de la Cruz⁹, Monica Meza¹⁰ and Sergio Cerpa Cruz⁶, ¹Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala., Guatemala, Guatemala, ²UDEM/ITESM, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, ³Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala., Guatemala, GU, ⁴Hospital Civil "Fray Antonio Alcalde", Guadalajara, Mexico, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación "Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra", Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ⁶Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, ⁷Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁸Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, ⁹Hospital Civil "Fray Antonio Alcalde", Guadalajara, ¹⁰Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la SAlud, Guadalajara
Background/Purpose: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is higher in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared to the healthy population, and recent studies have…
Abstract Number: 2542 • ACR Convergence 2024
Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Aggravates Development of Inflammatory Arthritis
Anders Nguyen¹, Miriam Bollmann¹, Agnieszka Lastowska², Anna-Karin Hultgård Ekwall¹, Dietmar Zaiss³, Gary Firestein⁴ and Mattias Svensson⁵, ¹University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden, ²University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden, ³University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, ⁴University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, ⁵University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Activation of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) by immune cells drives inflammation and joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Hence, understanding factors that induce destructive behaviors…
Abstract Number: 2553 • ACR Convergence 2024
Predictors of Biologic and Targeted Synthetic DMARD Initiation for Rheumatoid Arthritis Across Underserved Patient Groups: Insights from a National Cohort Study
Mark Russell¹, Mark Gibson², Benjamin Zuckerman¹, Kanta Kumar³, Shirish Dubey⁴, Maryam Adas², Edward Alveyn², Samir Patel¹, Zijing Yang¹, Katie Bechman², Elizabeth Price⁵, Sarah Gallagher⁶, Andrew Cope², Sam Norton¹ and James Galloway⁷, ¹King's College London, London, England, United Kingdom, ²King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁵Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, ⁶British Society for Rheumatology, London, United Kingdom, ⁷Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Quantifying healthcare inequality is essential to addressing the imbalance in outcomes attributable to age, gender, ethnicity and multimorbidity. In this study, we analysed differences…
Abstract Number: 0360 • ACR Convergence 2024
What Happens in Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Adherence, Two Years After the Introduction of Targeted Therapy? Results from the STRATEGE2 Study
Cécile Gaujoux-Viala¹, Emmanuelle Dernis², Eric Senbel³ and René-Marc Flipo⁴, ¹CHU Nîmes, Nïmes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, ²CH LE MANS, LE MANS, Pays de la Loire, France, ³Cabinet de Rhumatologie, Marseille, France, ⁴Hôpital Roger Salengro, France, Lille, France
Background/Purpose: Treatment adherence is a major challenge in chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with adherence rates ranging from 30 to 80%. Given…

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