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Abstract Number: 0559 • ACR Convergence 2024
Predicting Disease Flares in Axial Spondyloarthritis Using Machine Learning in the METEOR-SpA Registry
Diego Benavent¹, Victor Fanjul², Sytske Anne Bergstra³, Floris van Gaalen⁴, Maxime Dougados⁵, Umut Kalyoncu⁶, Denis Poddubnyy⁷, Clementina López Medina⁸, Konstantinos Parperis⁹, David Vega-Morales¹⁰, Desiree van der Heijde¹¹ and Victoria Navarro Compán¹², ¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, CAMBRILS, Spain, ²Savana Research, Madrid, ³LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴LUMC, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Cochin Hospital and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Paris, INSERM (U1153), Paris, France, ⁶Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ankara, Turkey, ⁷Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁸Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, ⁹University of Cyprus Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus, ¹⁰Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Monterrey, México, Monterrey, Mexico, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Meerssen, Netherlands, ¹²La Paz University Hospital, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) frequently experience unforeseen disease flares that impact their quality of life. Identification of patients with high risk of flares…
Abstract Number: 1109 • ACR Convergence 2024
Differences Between Correlation and Causal Inference in Detecting Predictors of Undefined Crystal Arthropathy in Women
Laura Scagnellato¹, Antonio Collesei², Sonia farah³, Carlomaurizio Montecucco⁴, Francesca Oliviero⁵, Bernd raffeiner⁶, Marta favero⁵, Amelia Damasco⁵, doria Andrea⁵, Fausto Salaffi³ and Roberta Ramonda⁷, and SIR Study Group on Crystal Arthropaties, ¹Rheumatology Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ²IRCCS Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV, Padova, Italy, ³Polytechnic University of Marche, Jesi (AN), Italy, ⁴IRCCS policlinico S. Matteo foundation, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ⁵University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁶General Hospital of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, ⁷Rheumatology Unit, University of Padova, Italy, Padova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Crystal arthropaties, including gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPPD), are prevalent and burdensome conditions. The ALLSTAR model allows the identification of reliable causal,…
Abstract Number: 1368 • ACR Convergence 2024
Do CsDMARDs Still Play a Significant Role in Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis in the Current Biologic/JAKI Era? A Prospective Observational Study to Estimate the Extent of Response to Conventional Synthetic DMARDs in RA– Experience from a Tertiary Care Center in South India
Prabhu Vasanth¹, John Mathew² and Divya K³, ¹Christian Medical college , Vellore , India, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, ²Christian Medical college , Vellore , India, Vellore, India, ³Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Background/Purpose: Conventional synthetic DMARDs remained the mainstay of treatment of RA for decades. However, their use has decreased recently due to the emergence of biological…
Abstract Number: 1632 • ACR Convergence 2024
Multi-vessel Intimal Medial Thickness in Takayasu Arteritis: A Potential Marker for Disease Modification?
Augustine Jose¹, Molly Thabah², Chengappa Kavadichanda³, Jagan K L², Christina Mariaselvam⁴ and Vir Singh Negi⁵, ¹Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India, ²Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, Puducherry, India, ³Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, pondicherry, Puducherry, India, ⁴JIPMER, Puducherry, Puducherry, India, ⁵AIIMS, Bilaspur, Puducherry, Puducherry, India
Background/Purpose: Ultrasonography can measure vascular intimal-medial thickness (IMT) and delineate the degrees of stenosis in Takayasu arteritis (TAK). Further, higher IMT has been reported in…
Abstract Number: 1581 • ACR Convergence 2024
Neutrophil-to- lymphocyte Ratio: A Possible Biomarker for Clinical Response After Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
shiri keret¹, Lisa Kaly², Georg Schett³, Christina Bergmann⁴, Joerg Henes⁵, Gleb Slobodin² and Doron Rimar², ¹Rheumatology unit, Bnai-Zion medical center and the faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel., Atlit, Israel, ²Rheumatology unit, Bnai-Zion medical center and the faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel., Haifa, Israel, ³Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Department Internal Medicine III, Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nurnber, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Baseline high Neutrophil- to- lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (higher than 2.95) is associated with severe progressive skin and lung disease and with reduced 5-year survival…
Abstract Number: 1613 • ACR Convergence 2024
Adherence to Dietary Recommendations and the Risk of Developing Giant Cell Arteritis; A Nested Case-Control Study
Poi Kwanyuen¹, Karin Wadström¹, Emily Sonestedt¹, Charlotta Fors¹, Rebecka Bäcklund¹, Aladdin Mohammad², Lennart TH Jacobsson¹ and Carl Turesson¹, ¹Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, ²Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) affects large and medium-sized vessels in elderly individuals. Previous studies have reported associations with lower body mass index and lower…
Abstract Number: 1628 • ACR Convergence 2024
Tocilizumab for Giant Cell Arteritis in Japan over 2 Years: A Multicenter Retrospective Study
Nobuhiro Oda¹, Sho Fukui², Toshihiro Yamaguchi³, Fumika Nagase⁴, Takanori Ito⁵, Mitsuru Watanabe⁵, Yoichiro Haji⁴, Yasuhiro Suyama⁶, Atsushi Nomura⁷, Eishi Uechi⁸, Masei Suda³, Naoho Takizawa⁴, Ryo Rokutanda⁹ and Hiromichi Tamaki¹⁰, ¹Kameda medical center, Department of Rheumatology, Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, Japan, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ³Suwa Central Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Nagano, Japan, ⁴Chubu Rosai Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Aichi, Japan, ⁵Daido Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Aichi, Japan, ⁶NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷Ushiku Aiwa General Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Ibaraki, Japan, ⁸Yuai Medical Center, Department of Rheumatology, Okinawa, Japan, ⁹Kameda medical center, Department of Rheumatology, Chiba, Japan, ¹⁰St. Luke’s International Hospital, Immuno-Rheumatology Center, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: The GiACTA trial, a phase III global trial of tocilizumab (TCZ) for giant cell arteritis (GCA), did not involve Japanese patients, and real-world data…
Abstract Number: 1523 • ACR Convergence 2024
Trend Analysis of Lupus Nephritis Flares, Mortality, and Disparities: 2016-2020
Husam El Sharu, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Background/Purpose: Introduction: In the past decade, the incidence of Lupus Nephritis (LN) flares linked to mortality has generally decreased, though an upward trend has emerged…
Abstract Number: 1592 • ACR Convergence 2024
Overlapping Forms of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis and Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: Presentation, Management and Outcomes
Federica Pallotti¹, Camille Mettler², Roberto Padoan³, Francesca Regola⁴, Franco Franceschini⁵, Sergey Moiseev⁶, Pavel Novikov⁷, Mario Andrea Piga⁸, Gianluca Moroncini⁹, Silke Brix¹⁰, Abdul Hadi Kafagi¹¹, Samuel Deshayes¹², Achille Aouba¹², Julien Campagne¹³, Paolo Delvino¹⁴, Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert¹⁵, Luisa Brussino¹⁶, Martin Michaud¹⁷, Nils Venhoff¹⁸, Federico Alberici¹⁹, Claudia Iannone²⁰, Sophie Rosenstingl²¹, Marin Moutel²², Jean-Marc Galempoix²³, Vincent Cottin²⁴, Clara Jaccard²⁵, Diane Riehl²⁶, Paul Legendre²⁷, Anne-Claire Billet²⁸, Paola Parronchi²⁹, Luca Quartuccio³⁰, Vítor Silvestre Teixeira³¹, Allyson Egan³², David Jayne³², Enrico Tombetti³³, Marco Caminati³⁴, Christian Pagnoux³⁵, Alexis Régent³⁶, Marc Ruivard³⁷, Loïc Guillevin³⁸, Xavier Puéchal³⁶ and Benjamin Terrier³⁹, and the French Vasculities Study Group and European EGPA Study Group, ¹Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen, France, ²Département de Médecine Interne, Centre de Référence National pour les maladies auto-immunes systémiques rares, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France, ³Department of Medicine DIMED, Division of Rheumatology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, ⁴Unit of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, ASST Spedali Civili Brescia and University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ⁵Scleroderma Unit, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, ERN ReCONNET, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy, Brescia, Italy, ⁶Tareev Clinic of Internal Diseases, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, ⁷Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, ⁸Postgraduate School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, ⁹Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University & Department of Internal Medicine, Marche University Hospital, Ancona, Italy, ¹⁰Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹¹Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹²Service d'immunologie clinique-médecine interne, CHU de Caen Normandie, Caen, France, ¹³Hôpital Robert Schuman - Competence center for autoimmune diseases, Internal Medicine, Metz, France, ¹⁴University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Milan, Italy, ¹⁵University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, ¹⁶SSDDU Immunologia Clinica ed Allergologia, AO Mauriziano, Turin, Italy, ¹⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Clinique Saint-Exupery, Toulouse, France., Toulouse, France, ¹⁸Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Internal Medicine, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Freiburg, Germany, ¹⁹Nephrology Unit, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ²⁰Department of Rheumatology, University of Milan, and Rheumatology Department, ASST Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy, ²¹Service Médecine Interne, Centre hospitalier intercommunal Compiègne Noyon, Compiègne Noyon, France, ²²Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Clinical Immunology, Reims University Hospital, Reims, France, ²³J.M. Galempoix, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Nord Ardennes Hospital, Charleville-Mézières, France, ²⁴Hôpital Louis Pradel, Centre de Référence des Maladies Pulmonaires Rares, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France, Lyon, France, ²⁵Gaston Bourret Hospital, Nouméa, New Caledonia, ²⁶Centre hospitalier intercommunal Toulon- La Seyne Sur Mer, Toulon, France, ²⁷Service Médecine Interne et Polyvalente, Centre Hospitaliers Le Mans, Le Mans, France, ²⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Édouard Herriot Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, ²⁹University of Florence, Florence, Florence, Italy, ³⁰Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, ³¹Department of Rheumatology, Faro Hospital, Algarve, Portugal, ³²University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ³³Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Sacco and Fatebenefratelli Hospitals, Milan, Italy, Milan, Italy, ³⁴Department of Medicine, Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Section, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, ³⁵Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³⁶National Referral Center For Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris, France, ³⁷Internal Medicine Department, Estaing University Hospital, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermonnt-Ferrand, Italy, ³⁸National Referral Center For Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ³⁹Service de Médecine interne, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Background/Purpose: ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) include granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis, and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). Although these entities are often easily distinguished in…
Abstract Number: 1509 • ACR Convergence 2024
Validation of a Score for the Prediction of Serious Infection in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Data from a Latin American Lupus Cohort
Rosana Quintana¹, Guillermo Pons-Estel², Karen Roberts³, Erika S. Palacios Santillan³, Íñigo Rúa-Figueroa⁴, José María Pego-Reigosa⁵, Pablo Ibañez⁶, Leonel Ariel Berbotto⁷, Maria Constanza Bertolaccini⁸, Marina Laura Micelli⁹, Cecilia Pisoni¹⁰, Vitalina De Souza Barbosa¹¹, Henrique de Ataíde Mariz¹², Francinne Machado Ribeiro¹³, Luciana Parente¹⁴, Emília Sato¹⁵, Milena Mimica Davet¹⁶, Gustavo Aroca Martínez¹⁷, Fabio Bonilla-Abadía¹⁸, Gerardo Quintana López¹⁹, Reyna E. Sánchez Briones²⁰, Mario Pérez Cristóbal²¹, Luis H. Silveira Torre²², Ignacio García De La Torre²³, Ivan Morales Avendaño²⁴, Pablo Gamez-Siller²⁵, Astrid Paats²⁶, Jorge N. Cieza Calderón²⁷, Andy Armando Mendoza Maldonado²⁸, Martin Rebella²⁹, Gonzalo Silveira³⁰, John Fredy Jaramillo³¹, Monica Sanchez³², Urbano Sbarigia³³, Ashley Orillion³⁴, Federico Zazzetti³⁵, Graciela Alarcon³⁶ and Bernardo Pons-Estel³⁷, and Grupo Latino Americano de Estudio del Lupus (GLADEL), ¹Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ²Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ROSARIO, Santa Fe, Argentina, ³Sección Reumatología, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas GC, Spain, ⁵Galicia Health Service (SERGAS), Vigo, Spain, ⁶Servicio de Reumatología del HIGA San Martín, La Planta, Argentina, ⁷Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes, Hospital Escuela Eva Perón, Granadero Baigorria, Argentina, Granadero Baigorria, Argentina, ⁸Servicio de Reumatologia - Hospital Angel C. Padilla, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, ⁹Hospital General de Agudos Dr Ramos Mejia, CABA, Argentina, ¹⁰CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹¹Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Goias, Goias, Brazil, Goiânia, Brazil, ¹²Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ¹³Hospital Universitario Pedro Ernesto, UERJ, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ¹⁴Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ¹⁵Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ¹⁶Facultad de Medicina y Ciencia, Universidad, San Sebastián, Chile, ¹⁷Universidad Simón Bolivar, Barranquilla, Colombia, Barranquilla, Colombia, ¹⁸Fundación Valle del Lili, Unidad de Reumatología, Cali, Colombia, ¹⁹Universidad de Los Andes, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, ²⁰División de Investigación en Salud, Hospital de Especialidades Dr. Antonio Fraga Mouret, CMN La Raza, IMSS, CDMX, Mexico, ²¹Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, CDMX, Mexico, IMMS, Mexico, ²²Department of Rheumatology , Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez., Mexico City, Mexico, ²³Depto. de Inmunología y Reumatología; Centro de Estudios de Investigación Básica y Clínica, Guadalajara, Mexico, ²⁴Hospital Central Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto, Potosi, Mexico, ²⁵Servicio de Reumatologia del Hospital Universitario, "Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez", Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, ²⁶Hospital de Clínicas I, Asunción, Paraguay, ²⁷Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliatti Martins, Lima, Perú, Lima, Peru, ²⁸Hospital Cayetano Heredia. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, ²⁹Unidad Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistemicas, Clinica Medica C-Hospital de Clinicas, UDELAR Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, ³⁰Grupo de Investigación de EAIS y Reumatológicas, Montevideo, Uruguay, ³¹Centro de Referencia en Osteoporosis & Reumatología, Bogotá, Colombia, ³²Unidad Nefrologia,Hospital fernandez, CABA, Argentina, ³³Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, ³⁴Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Spring House, PA, PA, ³⁵Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Horsham, PA, PA, ³⁶The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oakland, CA, ³⁷Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at increased risk of serious infections, which in turn, are associated with morbidity and mortality. The Systemic…
Abstract Number: 1624 • ACR Convergence 2024
Prognostic Value of Baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT Scan in Giant Cell Arteritis with Large Vessel Involvement
Julio Sánchez-Martín¹, Javier Loricera², Isabel Martinez-Rodriguez³, ivan Ferraz-Amaro⁴, Nestor Martinez-Amador⁵, Remedios Quirce-Pisano⁵, Fernando Lopez-Gutierrez⁶ and Ricardo Blanco-Alonso⁷, ¹Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ³Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla,IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, ⁵Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Molecular Imaging Group, IDIVAL, Santander., Santander, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Immunopathology group, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) scan has become a very useful diagnostic tool in patients with GCA with large vessel involvement. However,…
Abstract Number: 1520 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Influence of Trauma on Features of Type 2 SLE
Jennifer Rogers¹, Megan Clowse², David Pisetsky³, Jayanth Doss⁴, Mithu Maheswaranathan⁵, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber⁵, Rebecca Sadun⁴, Kai Sun⁴ and Amanda Eudy⁶, ¹Duke, Durham, NC, ²Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁴Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁵Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁶Duke University, Raleigh, NC
Background/Purpose: Type 2 SLE symptoms of fatigue, widespread pain, sleep and cognitive dysfunction occur commonly in SLE although their etiology is unknown. Since trauma has…
Abstract Number: 1626 • ACR Convergence 2024
Intracranial Giant Cell Arteritis: A Comprehensive Systematic Review
Sagar Patel¹, Iva Okaj², Jessica Scott³, Sukhreet Atwal³, Colin Stark³, Rabia Tahir³, Nader Khalidi² and Mats Junek², ¹McMaster University, Brampton, ON, Canada, ²McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis is being increasingly recognized to occur in intracranial vessels. The clinical significance of intracranial GCA (ICGCA) is unknown; previous cases have…
Abstract Number: 1594 • ACR Convergence 2024
Response to Mepolizumab Therapy in a Single-center Cohort of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Patients: Characterization of Cytokine/Chemokine Pattern and Phenotypic Stratification
Michele Moretti¹, Francesco Ferro², Irene Martelli³, Francesca Pistone³, Giulia Greco³, Federica Di Cianni⁴, Nazzareno Italiano⁵, ROSARIA TALARICO⁴, Veronica Seccia⁶, Chiara Baldini⁷, Ilaria Puxeddu³ and Marta Mosca⁷, ¹University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁴University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁵University of Pisa, Rovigo, Italy, ⁶Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁷University of Pisa, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine - Rheumatology Unit, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: The introduction of Mepolizumab treatment has revolutionized the therapy of EGPA and has promoted the search for biomarkers predictive of response to treatment. However,…
Abstract Number: 1529 • ACR Convergence 2024
Systemic Lupus Erythematous and Neuromyelitis Optica Overlap and Risk of Infection in Hospitalized Patients
Elizabeth Fagin¹, Wei Chapman², fares Saliba³ and Eugenio Capitle⁴, ¹Staten Island University Hospital, Teaneck, ²Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, ³Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY, ⁴University Hospital, Newark
Background/Purpose: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder that can coexist with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE). Given the immunosuppressive nature of SLE, it is…

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